By now it is commonplace to point out that climate change is unfair, that it tends to leave the big "emitter countries" in good shape — think Russia or Canada or, until recently, America — while preying on the low-emitting, the poor, the weak, the African, the tropical.
The Iranians deny this but make no secret of wanting to humble the superpower in Iraq, if only to deter it from attacking them too.It has become a commonplace to point out that America's invasion of Iraq has strengthened Iran.
But amnesiac confusion certainly occurs, and zolpidem's popularity makes misadventures commonplace, to the point that it's hard to use Ambien in a criminal defense.
And, on the other hand, Shakespeare's Shakespeare is immediately accessible to everyone the printed play and therefore a commonplace, to the point of oblivion, that would have its wonder restored through a daringly imaginative, personal staging or filming.
While free shipping is almost commonplace at this point, free gift wrapping, a ship-to-recipient option or gift-card services tend to attract more bids.
Indeed, by the time of Kant's Third Critique and after that for perhaps two centuries, the direct connection of beauty to pleasure is taken as a commonplace, to the point where thinkers are frequently identifying beauty as a certain sort of pleasure.
The government can be difficult to read, as outbursts describing US leaders as "nuclear maniacs" or warning its enemies that they'll be turned into a "sea of fire" are commonplace at this point.
And filtering is the whole point: a commonplace book that contains everything would be as useless as one that didn't exist.
But the broader notion that it expresses, that different cultures organize the world according to meaningfully different categories, is at this point a commonplace.
The music was becoming more derivative, even commonplace -- to the point, in one song, of inadvertently cribbing "Joy to the World," the sort of hackneyed bric-a-brac that clutters everybody's musical memory, crackpot and genius alike.
