Sentence examples for has been a commonplace from inspiring English sources

It has been a commonplace for nearly half a century, and the truth forever, that the personal is political.

The idea that research can be a spiritual discipline — and spirituality the subject of rigorous research — has been a commonplace among theologians at least since Thomas Aquinas.

It was yet another example of a terrible truth, one that has been a commonplace for so long that it is seldom commented upon: insurgents in Afghanistan rarely take any prisoners.

Ever since the tide turned against the style in the 1970s, it has been a commonplace that brutalism is inhumane, monstrous, carbuncular; it is the subject of innumerable attacks as predictably banal as they are convinced of their own startling originality.

But for decades it has been a commonplace to observe that Federal spectrum assets have been grossly underutilized.

As Shakespeare would have well understood, the rape and enslavement of the vulnerable have been a commonplace throughout history when such disasters strike.

Such stories, etched in understated and lyrical details, have been a commonplace of fiction in The New Yorker and best-selling "literary" novels for decades.

The compound noun, 'psychosocial', first emerges in the 1890s — although a metaphysical insistence on a deep and mutually constitutive connection between personality and social life had been a commonplace throughout the nineteenth century.

With "test matches" between the main cricket nations lasting as long as five days, and then often ending in draws, it has been an American commonplace to say that watching a cricket match is as exciting as watching the grass grow.

As these accessories have become commonplace, there has been a parallel shift in prosthetic limbs, away from flesh-toned simulacrums of human body parts.

It would have been a very commonplace thing for her to go to a festival, but nobody knew me then, and she was so nice to me.