Ibsen wrote plays about mostly prosaic and commonplace persons; but from them he elicited insights of devastating directness, great subtlety, and occasional flashes of rare beauty.
Here in the Northeast, checking for ticks after a walk in the woods is fairly commonplace, mostly because of the prevalence of Lyme disease -- a potentially debilitating disease spread to humans by the nefarious deer tick.
The phraseology employed by the author is original by Mesopotamian standards as they are known today: inventive, resourceful, testifying to a fertile mind, and clearly deviating from the commonplace platitudes that mostly characterize the standard accounts of Assyrian kings.
The man, who lives in Mumbai and wished to remain anonymous, stressed that Santhara is not commonplace and is mostly undertaken by "the elderly and the orthodox".
Inquiries are under way in more than 10 countries, mostly in Europe, and raids have become commonplace enough that Coke officials in Spain described them yesterday as "established procedure".
"This book reads just like a collection of commonplaces; a ragbag of thoughts, mostly filed under D for death," objected Harry Mount in the Sunday Telegraph, reviewing Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes.
Mr. Letterman said he used to be a bit of an amateur photographer himself, just before digital camera technology became commonplace, and enjoyed taking pictures that he described as "mostly candid portraits of random people on vacation".
But it bore grim resemblance to the 2010 killing of 15 mostly young people at a soccer party, the kind of violence once commonplace along the border.
Performing live, musicians did away with the choir and string arrangements that had become commonplace on country records in the early 1960's, and singers were usually accompanied by mostly acoustic four- or five-piece bands.
Supports for the rule are mostly seen in groups that have a male-biased SSD [ 37], and exceptions to the rule are commonplace [ 2].
