Sentence examples for commonplace elements of 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.

Instead, all these cases "contain" certain commonplace elements or cultural motives, which have been encountered in earlier cultural processes.

While the close study of landscape and an emphasis on the spiritual elements of nature were commonplace in contemporary art, his work was too original and personal to be well understood.

BERLIN — The latest bailout in the Greek rescue has all the elements of what is fast becoming almost commonplace European intrigue.

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. .

Protectionist rhetoric is commonplace in public life and it has, if anything, become more widespread since Silvio Berlusconi's government came to power in 2001 on a platform that included strong elements of populism and nationalism.