Sentence examples for commonplace view of from inspiring English sources

This commonplace view of Wharton as the reliable observer of her era's social mores, the recording secretary for a disappearing class, minimizes the complexity of her artistry and leads Mr. Gates to underrate Terence Davies's brilliant accomplishment in his film adaptation of "The House of Mirth".

"Without a doubt the commonplace view of photography ever since its inception... is that it records a moment of reality as it actually appeared," writes Martin Jay, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, in his book "Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in 20th-Century French Thought".

_____ Claim: "We've got to reverse what has become a kind of commonplace view, which is everybody needs to go to college.

Now Occidental is breaking ranks in another way, by upsetting the commonplace view that the days of "easy oil" in the U.S. are over.

Even the commonplace view that Alex Salmond is some kind of titan of politics (he's not, as the foul-up with Donald Trump demonstrates) serves to demonstrate just how unused we are to a major regional political figure.

I seem always to begin with the apprehension of details, as if, among objects in a commonplace view, one or two had begun to glow or resonate with imaginative potential.

The commonplace view is conservative.

That the ascendance of Johns Hopkins transformed American medical schools and medicine in the twentieth century is a now commonplace view.

She explains, "I'd like to see America move toward a more commonplace, pragmatic view of nudity".

Princeton is facing demands for the renaming of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, because the former president (of the university as well as the US) shared then commonplace views that now would be considered racist.

It has no more moral intelligence than the Clint Eastwood action pictures, yet it's an astonishing piece of work, an uneasy mixture of violent pulp and grandiosity, with an enraptured view of common life — poetry of the commonplace.