Sentence examples for if commonplace from inspiring English sources

(Hailing a Town Car on the street, of course, remains an illegal, if commonplace, practice in the city).

It was a bold, if commonplace, claim, yet policy makers rarely examine their theory that school improvement alone can drive progress in health care, housing and income inequality.

By the same token, the shrimp by themselves are merely a pleasant if commonplace staple of Louisianan cuisine; it is with the spices in the sherry-scallion dipping sauce that they stand apart as a worthwhile and interesting dish in their own right.

Don't you think they're wonderful, don't you love them — Japanese kids?" The Miyako, where about half of the "Sayonara" company was staying, is the most prominent of the so-called Western-style hotels in Kyoto; the majority of its rooms are furnished with sturdy, if commonplace and cumbersome, European chairs and tables, beds and couches.

The theatre was later described by an observer: "... marvellous scene changes, majestic and grand appearances [of the performers] ... and a magnificent flying machine; you see, as if commonplace, glorious heavens, deities, seas, royal palaces, woods, forests ... .....

There will be philosophically significant consequences if the Commonplace Thesis is incorrect, and if ordinary usage is misleading.

The Shostakovich, if more commonplace than the Szymanowski, was a worthy replacement, and Mr. Tetzlaff is generally worth hearing, no matter what he has on his stand.

One of the best-known, if more commonplace, inventions was the safety match, after a Swedish professor developed a non-toxic type of phosphorous, and stuck it on the side of match boxes.

But there is another point which means that the balance between bat and ball may continue to shift, so that the average innings score will creep up to 300, and totals of 400, if not commonplace, will no longer be a rarity.

Weiss also noted that "the press and popular magazines of Germany and Central Europe had fed a steady diet of racial nationalism to the public since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and anti-Semitic stereotypes were nothing if not commonplace in German mass culture".

Marijuana legal reforms are now becoming if not commonplace in Washington, at least solidly within the realm of the conceivable.