Sentence examples for commonplace elements from inspiring English sources

It is surrounded by commonplace elements of the city — traffic, baby carriages, row houses — yet there is no denying that the tiny patch evokes an entirely different locale.

Hanna's simple machines take commonplace elements of our world things we can't or don't notice and make them visible by changing our perspective on them.

Secondly, Shenmue refined the quick-time event, a maligned yet depressingly commonplace element of action games ever since.

The musicians argued there were no more than "commonplace musical elements" between the two songs.

"But there are no similarities between plaintiffs' composition and those the claimants allege they own, other than commonplace musical elements," states the lawsuit.

Ferrara testified that from a musicological standpoint, perceived similarities between the two songs are "absolutely meaningless," and only reflect "commonplace" musical elements used for hundreds of years. .

If, as our data indicate, transcriptional activity of these elements is commonplace and widespread, the lack of insertional activity and genome expansion in contemporary hybrids is intriguing and suggests mechanisms of transposable element repression acting posttranscriptionally, such as RNAi (Slotkin and Martienssen 2007; Lisch 2009).

These stories blend darkly phantasmagoric elements with humorously commonplace ones, and Eminem makes a perfectly good avatar for that kind of thinking.

In later years, Angel of Darkness has become noted for utilizing or experimenting with multiple gameplay features that later became commonplace, such as the RPG elements, stamina metre and mixing atmospheric features from different video game genres.

An element of secrecy, commonplace in bars and clubs in New York and L.A., gives guests a sense of pride when they enter.

The new album brushes against electronic elements that have grown commonplace in world music.