Sentence examples for commonplace experience from inspiring English sources

His miracle cure was a commonplace experience for many of Cairo's Jews who sometimes called it the "Jewish Lourdes".

At the same time, though, she warns that aging is such a "commonplace experience" that nobody should "behave as though … uniquely afflicted".

What's it worth?" whenever they sought interviews or photographs, a routine that is now said to be a commonplace experience for local reporters today.

And a thoroughly commonplace experience – everywhere, always – so get on with it and don't behave as though you are uniquely afflicted.

Living alone for the first time is a commonplace experience in terms of the realisation, and acceptance, of unopposed selfish- ness.

Mussels on another appetizer plate were slightly overcooked, but the white wine broth was terrific, lacking only better tasting tomatoes (a surprisingly commonplace experience in area restaurants, despite August's being prime tomato time).

He uses familiar devices and situations in order to defamiliarize them; he relies on sketch-like foregrounding of genre characters nearly stock characters in order to make commonplace, banal experiences burst forth like new to convey philosophically rich and politically potent ideas about the state of race relations in America.

Analogous context effects are evident in many commonplace experiences.

His most familiar images, taken on the street, distill the commonplace experiences of a Mexican city into moments pregnant with potential and resonant with mystery.

Such commonplace experiences made it all the more shattering for the students to learn she died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen when she was 15.

Both of these commonplace experiences point to problems caused by a fixed mindset, in which we find it hard to believe that people can change.