Philistine, commonplace, ignorant minds are always anxiously reminding one another that we want "well-rounded" students, by which they mean safe, non-threatening mediocrity in everything.
The achievement of Mr. Drury's play, and of Mr. Dayan's restrained but compelling interpretation of it, is in how it exposes alienation as a commonplace state of mind.
Although guests may not always be permitted to dine outside (ask when making a reservation), those who like their food prepared a notch above the commonplace won't mind being indoors.
Higher density developments are seldom planned with children in mind and commonplace discourse in New Zealand and elsewhere attests these settings are largely unsuitable for families [ 58- 62].
She could not understand Jude because her mind was too commonplace.
Instead of the single scale factor used in the Sagan Walk, "Powers of Ten" uses a continuous zoom — a visualization technique that seems commonplace today, but which blew the minds of its audience in 1968.
But this is the Balkans, where mind-bending diplomatic complexities are commonplace (think Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo).
International co-productions of high-quality TV dramas are now commonplace and made with a global audience in mind.
The phraseology employed by the author is original by Mesopotamian standards as they are known today: inventive, resourceful, testifying to a fertile mind, and clearly deviating from the commonplace platitudes that mostly characterize the standard accounts of Assyrian kings.
That's when there was pristine air and water, forests tall and vast, bison in mind-numbing herds, wolves and grizzlies commonplace.
