Sentence examples for for a commonplace from inspiring English sources

Which, in the end, makes it easy to settle for a commonplace four-burner gas stove.

If they explain their images in any way, it's with oddly peppy title cards ("Enjoy!" "Thanks for watching!") or a series of unsigned quotations, compiled as if for a commonplace book.

It has now become something of a commonplace for commentators to note that Nietzsche did not accept one sort of Calliclean view, namely, the view that "anyone who is to live aright should suffer his appetites to grow to the greatest extent and not check them" (Gorgias, 419e) (cf. Nehamas 1985: 202 203; BGE 188).

The idea for the piece derived from a commonplace expression in the dance world.

The play is a long journey for such a commonplace final vista.

Things were different now, of course; those solitary hours he'd once savored had become a prison for him, a commonplace.

It is on every leader's lips, the key component of "the compromise" required in the leaked details of John Kerry's "framework" for peace; a commonplace at every western diplomatic closed-door roundtable, which includes the quiet complicity of every Arab regime.

Take, for example, a commonplace example of the courtroom and how evidence is used.

This history as a method of atonement is well-trod ground and what used to be interpreted as more or less "contrarian" is now for many a commonplace view: the United States was built in large part by slaves, on top of land stolen from indigenous peoples.

That individuals have a taste for variety is a commonplace assumption, and the demand for variety in other spheres has been shown to be associated with income and education ([Behrman and Deolalikar, 1989]; [Gronau and Hamermesh, 2008]).

These days we take electricity completely for granted as a commonplace necessity.