Sentence examples for for commonplace from inspiring English sources

Many of them come simply for for commonplace needs, like duplicate keys.

His clipped delivery could be taken for contempt (for acting, for commonplace sincerity), and maybe it is, but this movie about the harrowing of a proud soldier shows no trace of arrogance.

Demy's Cherbourg is hardly real or natural; it has a pretty, shabby-chic look, and no film with a princess as perfect as Catherine Deneuve could pass for commonplace.

There is a hypnotic, tinkling air to the melodies that matches the "one foot in front of the other" rhymes of the lyrics, which occasionally make room for commonplace obscenities and naughty references to (ooh-la-la) specific sex acts.

Ezra Pound was both anti-Semitic and proto-fascist, and if you want to let him off the hook because he was probably crazy as well, the same excuse cannot be made for his friend and protégé T. S. Eliot, whose anti-Semitism, it now seems pretty clear, was more than just casual or what passed for commonplace in those days.

In an 1852 entry he describes how he had two notebooks, one for poetry and another for commonplace facts, but he acknowledged the difficulty in keeping them separate, because "the most interesting and beautiful facts are so much the more poetry".

Like Paul Bocuse, Georges Blanc, Michel Bras and other French big-leaguers, he has an undying passion for rustic, commonplace ingredients and for traditional techniques.

But one can't really fault The Atlantic for mistaking commonplaces for intellectual vision.

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

Burgess' humour was based upon the sudden break of ideas: a substitution of the unexpected for the commonplace.

But not everyone's friends and families come up with the same solutions for these commonplace dilemmas.