But if the sort of advice she provided can be criticized as commonplace, as conventional wisdom, nonetheless she must have been the most liberal voice in many of the 1,200 papers that carried her column, a proponent of ideas that would have seemed radical had they appeared on the editorial page.
Some are sketchy or merely busy, but others do what Mr. Orozco has always done best: find the cosmic in the commonplace, sweeten abjection with wisdom and wit.
The allegory in Renaissance drama is often more atmospheric than structural though even Shakespeare writes allegorical romances, such as Cymbeline, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale (and allowed his tragedy of Coriolanus to grow out of the "fable of the belly," which embodies a commonplace of Renaissance political wisdom and is recounted by one of the characters in the play).
What lifts Bennett's diaries out of the ordinary, and what Palin's don't have, is that they are also a kind of commonplace book, home to aphoristic wisdoms on random things.
It ought to be simple, in short, to create a weapons-grade version of the Renaissance phenomenon of the commonplace book – a storehouse of the wisdom of others that has mattered the most to you, as an individual thinker.
His goal was to produce a compact volume of wisdom — a kind of commonplace book — that he could use to pull himself together whenever these upheavals in his life began to seem overwhelming rather than exciting.
It is important to remember that in many cases he's the one who established the conventional wisdom, such as the now-commonplace idea that offensive linemen are highly skilled creatures rather than mindless grunts.
In a signal departure, a handful of stars took what seemed a fail-safe route, bypassing stylists' more commonplace choices and relying instead on the sartorial wisdom of their favorite designers.
"Approximating the Truth" It has become commonplace in the digital world to talk about the wisdom of the crowd-the aggregated opinions of everybody.
Near-hysterical displays of devotion are commonplace; state media routinely run adoring columns praising his wisdom, his benign and selfless devotion to Egyptians' welfare, even the "caressing" sound of his voice.
