Still, the artists seem to cluster around certain themes or stylistic trends, suggesting a commonality of experience, along with shared concerns and beliefs.
That's a commonality of experience that exists beneath conscious political affiliation -- it's closer to a gut instinct than a rational choice -- but if you meet enough Democrats who share that experience, sooner or later you start carrying the card yourself.
We who seek your vote understand this commonality of experience and the willingness to engage; it will sit at the heart of our manifesto, be designed into all our policies, not designed out, and made real through a set of practical changes to which we are deeply committed.
Focus group discussions were carried out using homogeneous groups to allow the development of an analysis based on commonality of experience and to reduce problems of organizational hierarchy or status factors inhibiting discussions.
Similarly, there might exist an interesting commonality of experiences across mystical traditions, most plausibly theistic ones, despite conceptual disparity.
Roger's interest in rivers, smallholdings, woodlands and vernacular buildings took him across the world, enabling him to seek out the commonalities of human experience, as well as the cultural and topographical differences.
In an increasingly connected, increasingly alienated world, we need more stories about the commonalities of unique experiences.
They also conducted much of their discussion in Arabic, especially when sharing the commonalities of their experiences--he as an Iraqi refugee, and my husband as a Palestinian refugee.
There is not, nor can there ever be, a single word nor sign to describe us; despite the commonalities of our experiences, it is our different ways of seeing queerness that sustain us.
A gay man who is not trans – "cis", as it is called – has some commonalities in experience, of course: both deviate from what is "supposed" to be the gender norm; both suffer prejudice; often (but not always) from the same sorts of people; both risk internalising the prejudice and oppression directed at them, leaving them at risk of mental distress.
