There's a risk that in using choirs for everything from helping fragmented communities to stress relief, we drag them down to the level of the mundane A dearth of real engineering ambition is holding back the sector.
The problem with tweeting, it would seem, even if one is able to keep the tweets on the level of the mundane, is a lack of editor.
Instead there is bombast, destruction and narrative obfuscation – it's like the whole game is shouting "look over there, a monster!" while sneaking a chain of mundane levels past you.
Okay, so the level of discourse may be mundane in the extreme, but so arguably is that of Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot.
If the shift away from brinkmanship has been most visible at the top, diplomats and international aid workers who have had either long or recently intense exposure to the country say that the changes are even more impressive at the more mundane level of contacts with diplomats and middle-level bureaucrats.
On the mundane level of lived reality, I might glean some otherwise unobtainable information about, say, her bottom-line position in a collegial negotiation between her government and ours, or about what she might be contemplating with respect to the European economy.
More specifically, we may see care as that which tries to bridge the gap between our high objectives and the more mundane level of our day-to-day activities.
But at a more mundane level of language use, there is little doubt that the 'instruction' envisaged will reduce to the ordinary imparting of information — in this case, for example, by indicating that the item referred to in a sentence is a man rather than something else.
Despite the rather mundane level of work, as we ensured that visitors didn't touch the paintings, we were able to look out enormous glass windows to the Canale Grande and spend hours contemplating the differences in Cubist paintings by Braque and Picasso that hung next to each other in Peggy's dining room.
Most individuals are sufficiently versatile to accommodate the mundane level of variability experienced within a lifetime.
