Sentence examples for for the commonplace from inspiring English sources

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

He is also always on the lookout for the commonplace items — tennis rackets, computer keys, garden hoses — that he uses to build his installations.

They are just more demanding and discerning – and much less likely to settle for the commonplace – as many a high street chain has discovered to its cost.

Of course there's a place for grandiose memorials; but let's not forget that in the aftermath of catastrophe there is also room for the commonplace.

I am disappointed to see Tripathi fall for the commonplace assumption that the Chinese spent three decades doing nothing, or suffering passively the blunders of their erratic chairman.

Coriolanus's bravery, his lack of selfishness, his allegiance to an ideal of nobility are inseparable from his contempt for the commonplace.

He had a sharp eye and even sharper ear for the underlying magic of the commonplace.

It is about the pleasures of the table that so many of us take for granted being extended to people for whom the commonplace is a struggle.

Beebe made an exception for Trader Vic's, writing that there was no other inauthentic Polynesian restaurant in the land with the least bit of that restaurant's "flair for endowing the commonplace with romantic overtones".

Outsider filmmaker Sidney N. Laverents lists Benchley as an influence as well, and James Thurber used Benchley as a reference point, citing Benchley's penchant for presenting "the commonplace as remarkable" in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

A vote for the wren is a vote for the small, the commonplace, the little guy with the big heart – and the big lungs".