And of course, lurking in everyone's mind is the question of how much influence reasonable men of the faith have on their unreasonable brothers.As well as repeating certain familiar commonplaces and negotiating certain familiar taboos, participants in inter-faith gatherings do sometimes run into real questions, that make a difference to the world at large.
Many are crammed with commonplaces or assertions of policy continuity.
He asked a sign-writer to set out on canvas commonplaces about painting in artless capital letters (for example, "There is no end, in fact, to the number of different kinds of pictures").To the persistent question of modern painting's redundancy, Judith Nesbitt of the Whitechapel clearly feels that the show itself is one of the best sorts of answer.
Those of his results that could be simply expressed such as the formulas for the surface area and volume of a sphere became mathematical commonplaces, and one of the bounds he established for π, 22/7, was adopted as the usual approximation to it in antiquity and the Middle Ages.
These instructions reflected the current commonplaces of Christian government that could be found in scores of "Mirrors of Princes" (handbooks of government popular at the time) published in the 16th century and that Philip had made his own.
The legends of the great god Krishna abound in exaggerated fantasies of erotic and physical power; the art of the temples testifies to a sensuality that belies the mystical gestures of renunciation which form the commonplaces of Hindu morality.
Gerhard's strict interpretation of the Bible is evident in the theological system set forth in his nine-volume Loci Theologici (1610 22; "Theological Commonplaces"), the most significant dogmatic work of the era of Lutheran orthodoxy.
Like the painters of the Ashcan School, Hopper painted the commonplaces of urban life.
He returned to Wittenberg in 1553, entered the ministry as the pastor of the church of St. Aegidi, and began to lecture on Melanchthon's Loci communes rerum theologicarum ("Theological Commonplaces"), the first systematic treatise on Reformation theology.
Nor is he a deep thinker, being content to operate with philosophical commonplaces.
To write a novel with close attention to the Freudian or Jungian techniques of analysis does not necessarily produce new prodigies of psychological revelation; Oedipus and Electra complexes have become commonplaces of superficial novels and films.
