A Palestinian state, which had once seemed beyond imagining, became a diplomatic commonplace, a given, a stipulation — everything but a reality.
"Issues of identity, regional, national, personal or sexual, remain commonplace, unsurprisingly, given that most of these countries have only in the past 60 years emerged from centuries of foreign subjugation," said Valentine Willie, a gallery owner who represents many of the artists in the show.
All three tales are terse and volatile; as Haggis pushes toward the climax, he makes the sequences shorter and more urgent, with overlapping thematic and visual motifs, until commonplace reality gives way altogether, and the stories melt into one another.
In the "good-old-days" of hiring employees it used to be commonplace to give someone a chance based on trust, a firm handshake and their word, which was "solid as oak".
Judging by the number of folks walking around Silicon Valley grocery stores with a Jawbone in ear, they haven't had much trouble selling pricey headsets… but those are pretty commonplace items, especially given that some States are requiring them for any calls placed while driving.
As the actors take their seats, in chairs facing front, you may well wonder how much theatrically vigorous material they are likely to find, given the commonplace nature of divorce these days.
(With cordite? Smoke? Blood?) Their gunfire is ear-splittingly, brain-frazzlingly real, and given how commonplace guns and gunfire are in the movies, it is remarkable how rare this is.
The notion that companies are willing to pay a higher price for companies overseas is almost commonplace today among columnists, given the current U.S. policy toward corporate taxes.
"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla). said in a statement.
