Sentence examples for from the commonplace from inspiring English sources
His novel three-corner basket and three-point suspension distinguish his balloons from the commonplace.
The basic outline of this story isn't what elevates "Three Stages of Amazement" from the commonplace.
Green Bay governed from then on, their touchdowns ranging from the commonplace (John Kuhn's 1-yard run) to breathtaking (James Jones's 20-yard reception with limbs fully extended).
With Malraux at his right, the place of honor at the Cabinet table, the General felt "shielded from the commonplace," he wrote.
"In a world of infinite metamorphoses — only a fraction of which we're privy to," Xeno notes, "who can cleanly separate the fantastical from the commonplace?
The phraseology employed by the author is original by Mesopotamian standards as they are known today: inventive, resourceful, testifying to a fertile mind, and clearly deviating from the commonplace platitudes that mostly characterize the standard accounts of Assyrian kings.
Coriolanus's bravery, his lack of selfishness, his allegiance to an ideal of nobility are inseparable from his contempt for the commonplace.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
One ought to refrain from smug judgments on the commonplace biases of prior generations.
At least, in Millican's case, observational material seems to spring from a fascination with the commonplace, and a genuine desire to share it.
A similarly objective approach characterized the work of photographers interested in the artistic ideas embodied in Constructivism; the movement proposed that photographs could be a means to present the commonplace from fresh vantage points and thereby reawaken interest in routine objects and processes.
