"It's a kind of commonplace situation that most people have become familiar with".
_____ Claim: "We've got to reverse what has become a kind of commonplace view, which is everybody needs to go to college.
"Engagement," which Apatow produced and Stoller co-wrote with Segel, is a kind of commonplace contemporary American epic — leisurely, episodic but pungent, densely populated, consistently funny, and, in the Apatovian spirit, foulmouthed yet tenderhearted.
What lifts Bennett's diaries out of the ordinary, and what Palin's don't have, is that they are also a kind of commonplace book, home to aphoristic wisdoms on random things.
He says that Mr. Culhane broke the boundaries of his craft when he worked on the Woody Woodpecker cartoons in the 1940s, going well beyond the kind of commonplace puckishness that supposedly led later animators to stitch frames of a panty-less diva into "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
Blu-ray player launches are getting kind of commonplace.
His goal was to produce a compact volume of wisdom — a kind of commonplace book — that he could use to pull himself together whenever these upheavals in his life began to seem overwhelming rather than exciting.
Despite stories of this kind being commonplace, it seems that only when celebrities are involved in these situations that they are considered newsworthy.
We can bring to bear on this question of impact a surviving manuscript book assembled and partly written by one medical practitioner, who left to his heirs and successors a kind of commonplace book of the remedies he made use of himself and recommended to others.
(Woman came from man, remember?) Its idealogically-sexist offspring has all kinds of commonplace ramifications today: Priests allowed only to have penises, women forcing to cover up lest they be judged as whores, "honor killings," females in Saudi Arabia not being allowed to drive, and on and on and on.
