Their urgency lies rather in the psychological realism Doyle brings to his characters' responses to their commonplace dramas, the sympathetic warmth with which he paints their unexceptional lives.
And the commonplace dramas that take place there can be soothing, in a city full of people in a rush to get somewhere else.
In the Baroque era the practice of borrowing music from one opera and fitting it with new words for another drama was commonplace.
Such life-or-death dramas are commonplace at the center, which opened on Columbus Avenue in the spring after the Wild Bird Fund was based for years inside the apartment of a co-founder, Rita McMahon.
FOR a few chaotic hours last weekend, Ecuador was gripped by the kind of tragi-comic political drama that was commonplace in Latin America a generation ago, but that many hoped lay in the past.
In fact, snapping a nuisance vampire's neck has become commonplace on its long-running drama "The Vampire Diaries" and its spinoff "The Originals".
Ultimately, "Parade's End" seems quite concerned with disguising the fact that the drama hinges on commonplace love triangle among a noble man, his rebellious wife and her virginal competition (a wan suffragette played by Adelaide Clemens).
International co-productions of high-quality TV dramas are now commonplace and made with a global audience in mind.
His photographs revealed the drama hidden in the commonplace.
More beautiful music, less effective drama: it's a commonplace operatic dilemma.
Rather, he provides illustrations of a visual vernacular of framing, costume, design, light, gesture, and performance that reduce the world of movies to their lowest common denominator, the stylization and falsification of commonplace activities in the interest of narrative drama.
