Sentence examples for commonplace matters from inspiring English sources

We want, he wrote, "to be the poets of our lives, and first of all in the smallest and most commonplace matters".

Snapshots — small prints with basic compositions, smiling faces and commonplace subject matter — have not traditionally interested professional photographers and art historians.

COMMONPLACE reading matter may be increasingly reduced to pixels on a digital device, but the book as an art form still has its fans.

When The Whitsun Weddings was released Alvarez continued his attacks in a review in The Observer, complaining of the "drab circumspection" of Larkin's "commonplace" subject-matter.

It provided a major basis for the Pop art movement of the 1950s and '60s, which took as its subject matter commonplace objects from popular culture.

A more moderate school of thought, associated with the name of Benedetto Croce (1925), views Machiavelli as simply a "realist" or a "pragmatist" advocating the suspension of commonplace ethics in matters of politics.

Commercialisation is the magic dust that lets blue-sky thinking become commonplace in a matter of years.

Today, it is commonplace and a matter of course for such a lock-step minority systematically to prevent consideration of the clear majority will.