What's left unsaid and undone by inarticulate characters is usually far more honest, and moving, than these cozy wrap-ups of loose ends, which give commonplace lives the shapeliness of fairy tales, no matter how grim the subject.
The eruption of life-destroying horror in the commonplace lives of everyday people is a theme common to most of the other plays on the bill, although not one is anywhere near as effective as Mr. LaBute's little shocker.
But when Mr. Pekar died at 70 on July 12 — suddenly it seemed to some, but in painful stages as those closest to him knew — it brought an end to his compulsive chronicling of Cleveland's commonplace lives, including, most frequently, his own.
"This is becoming commonplace, people living in markets," Sergei Shoigu, Russia's emergencies minister, said in a televised interview.
Acts cites many Jews with Greek names, illustrating that this was not only commonplace but also that a degree of assimilation was commonplace for Jews living in the Greek Diaspora.
A visual trek through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with seasoned historian and expert on medieval iconography Chiara Frugoni as guide this book offers a vast array of images and vignettes that depicts the everyday hardships and commonplace pleasures for people living in the Middle Ages...
With belief in pig-faced women commonplace, unscrupulous showmen exhibited living "pig-faced women" at fairs.
While the Stonewall riots brought a wave of progress and gay bars and queer-friendly establishments have become commonplace, we still live in a cultural climate where discrimination and prejudice still exists.
Something in his universe has gone awry". Awry, indeed — and yet "Dinner at the Center of the Earth" is a fable of a time in which the incomprehensible has become commonplace and we live bound by our degradations rather than our dreams.
Anyone who works while actively raising children, which has been commonplace for decades, is technically living a Slash lifestyle.
Experts have long known that active learning like that stimulated by online lectures is much more effective than the passive learning that is commonplace in live lectures.
