Sentence examples for lost common from inspiring English sources

The place where those camps meet, though — where translation happens, where theory gets hammered out into systemic action, where language matters most — is desolate, because the language of common values has lost common meaning.

His cladistic reconstruction of the doxographical tradition is clearly related to the famous so-called 'Lachmannian' stemma of a group of manuscripts, from later copies to the lost common ancestor, or archetype, the text of which (as scholars believed at the time) may be reconstructed in a virtually mechanical way.

We've lost common ground".

Movements that have lost common cause have lost common purpose, and with it their ability to organize, inform and create meaningful change.

Isn't this a massive area that we need to admit has lost common sense?

That was the problem: lost common sense, following orders to the letter and losing your humanity.

When business people lose common sense, that's a problem,' she says.

And if we each hunker down in some tightly proscribed burg, don't we lose common ground?

You lose common ground, you go into babysitter mode.

We worry that within the field we are losing common ground and we think that a first step towards recapturing common ground would be to reconsider some of the new insights reflected in the expanding argot relative to the foundations of general systems theory.

After a few days in a stuck car, you may begin to lose common sense.