Sentence examples for commonplace tradition from inspiring English sources

A New York City public school teacher charged with endangering the welfare of a child for punching a student in the arm 13 times for his birthday said yesterday that she was participating along with other students in a commonplace tradition and felt she did the boy no harm.

Such traditions are commonplace in human spaceflight.

This long-ago discredited pedagogical tradition generated a commonplace eloquence among ordinary Americans who knew how to (as they put it) "quote".

They have a pleasing 18th-century vibe and are in the tradition of the "commonplace" books that used to be all the rage, where notable literary types would assemble their favourite quotes and facts.

George Gardner Herrick does both, resurrecting the somewhat obscure literary tradition of the commonplace book.

But in a cultural shift that has swept aside centuries of tradition, credit cards have become commonplace here.

The siesta used to be commonplace in Spanish-speaking countries, but the tradition was already waning as Latin America's economies developed throughout the '80s and '90s.

Now, they want to convert India's textile manufacturers, taking them back to natural dyes on natural fabrics, a tradition that Baid said was commonplace in the country until 40 years ago, when synthetic dyes took off.

Of course all language is a scrim, and by calling attention to that fact, a writer might present a story in a way that not only subverts tradition but transcends its own commonplaces.

The phrase "God was made man so that man could be made God" (Latin: factus est Deus homo, ut homo fieret Deus) is a commonplace among the Christian Fathers, especially in the Eastern tradition.

In many ways it emphasizes tradition so that the departures from what is commonplace are all the more marked.