We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
More than a mere journal, the commonplace book can be thought of as a paper-based interface for the social world of letters, in which Enlightenment-era writers continuously added, combined and swapped out snippets of found text gleaned from such new media as newspapers, broadsides and learned journals.
Today, when magazines routinely compile lists of the world's billionaires, and trillion-dollar federal budgets are commonplace, a mere $1 million seems quaint.
With surging stock markets and developing economies, mere millionaires are becoming commonplace.
And, at a time when some investors seethe over far smaller paychecks — a mere eight figures is relatively commonplace for top chief executives these days — Apple's shareholders are hardly up in arms over the magnitude of Mr. Cook's reward.
The murder began to seem commonplace, and the victim became a mere detail in the bewildering tale of gin-drinking, broken gas-jets, etc.
He to whom the most beautiful women and the most exquisite liquors of the Universe would be a commonplace could not be worried now about mere thirst and exhaustion.
When one is young, the mere fact of marriage, having children, buying a house seems commonplace.
Clearly, in contrast to previous assertions [ 5, 22], mere correlation of genes within gene sets and pathways is commonplace, and does not necessarily reflect unique features of the experiment at hand.
As in many other protests across the region, the crowd at the fiery Friday sermon in Cairo numbered in the mere hundreds, in a space where throngs a thousand times bigger have become commonplace.
