Sentence examples for commonplace thing from inspiring English sources

It's just a commonplace thing.

A commonplace thing, accident or loss, it may mean nothing here and everything there".

It would have been a very commonplace thing for her to go to a festival, but nobody knew me then, and she was so nice to me.

Reno is a persuasive and moving narrator because Ms. Kushner allows her the vulnerability and fuzzy-mindedness of youth while rarely allowing her to think or say a commonplace thing.

The most commonplace thing is now imbued with danger -- fearsome bacteria lurk in the salad bar amid croutons, a newly minted carcinogen foments in the fabric softener -- and staying tuned provides the only safety.

What does its narrator, Sal Paradise, say? "* * * The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles.

But how quickly the commonplace things that people do become mysteries when circumstances change.

American poet laureate (2008 10) who wrote punchy, wry verses about commonplace things with consummate craft, humour, and intelligence.

It was not simply a commentary on marriage, loss of personal freedom and the over-richness of even commonplace things.

They show such commonplace things as rural landscapes, a dog, a light bulb, a chair, a bicycle and boxcars.

Its masterly realism—"the faithful representing of commonplace things"—brought to English fiction the same truthful observation of minute detail that John Ruskin was commending in the Pre-Raphaelites.