Sentence examples for commonplace detail from inspiring English sources

Yet his gift for the acutely observed commonplace detail is neither strong nor original enough to transform the movie into something comparable to so many similar, better films.

Asquith manages to be just as chillingly entertaining while also giving you horror in capsule form she is a master, for instance, at pointing out how that seemingly commonplace detail of your everyday life might be the horror waiting to destroy you, if only you'd stop and notice it properly such that her terrors continue to dissolve into your bloodstream long after you've read a given story.

There are also many photographs of commonplace details: a bucket of cleaning supplies, his television remote on a silver tray, a bunch of overripe bananas.

In this book, Sheeler reports on the wrenching and commonplace details of "casualty notification" — the moments that Spielberg's film leaves to the imagination.

Begun in 1530, it was inspired by the works of Cranach and Dürer, but also renewed the genre by combining commonplace details with an undertone of approaching disaster.

As destructive wildfires become commonplace, design details from water tanks to biodegradable flame retardants help people protect their homes.

The result is a high-density genetic map that has the potential to facilitate the assembly of the forthcoming sunflower genome (Kane et al. 2011) and to empower analyses that go far beyond what has been possible with the much lower-density genetic maps that have become commonplace, including detailed comparative genomic analyses.

Richard Estes: Working within the formula of bits of commonplace streets photographically detailed (right down to the menu posted in a restaurant window), he makes expert adjustments to create, in "Helene's Florist," a real picture that only superficially falls within the dry reproductive manner that threatens to become an unwelcome subdivision of the new realism.

It is essential that Labor reconsider our support for government policy because over the last two years we have been confronted with report after report from credible sources that detail the commonplace violence, assaults, abuse and rapes suffered by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.

Yet he did so with a comic eye for detail, elevating the commonplace to the plane of mythic metaphor.

Created by taking detail shots of commonplace objects and materials, they are captivating in their use of light, color, and scale.