Sentence examples for mundane exchanges from inspiring English sources

And the bifurcated structure adds a layer of double entendre that sharpens even the more mundane exchanges about the play-within-the-play.

After a start that would have been more appropriate at the opening of a state funeral, with the fans barely responding to a series of mundane exchanges, it turned into the most enthralling dog fight.

Mariam lives in fear of "his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies and sometimes not".

Advancing by way of the most mundane of domestic exchanges ("You got any orange juice?"), "A Hole in the Earth" is, in fact, a thriller of American dysfunction, generating an agonizing suspense not through gunplay (though there is a bit) but by raising the kind of question that families are always asking about their own: will Henry ever grow up?

Web sites or proxy servers created specifically for activists are easy for a government to shut down, Zuckerman says, but around the world, dissidents thrive on sites, like Facebook, that are used primarily for more mundane purposes (like exchanging pictures of cute cats).

These platforms enable hundreds of thousands of people to contribute their time to complete relatively mundane tasks online in exchange for money.

The Princess Switch mimics the films that tricked us into thinking the world was a fun place wherein exchanging our mundane lives for royal and/or European ones was entirely possible if only we went on vacation and met our secret twin or a mysterious celebrity that happened to look exactly like us.

Such mundane rules seem not to apply to stock exchanges.

We watched Tony squirm, Ryan smile, Charlie sweat on behalf of Tony, the Andros exchange Spanish/Portuguese pleasantries and a few other mundane moments of filler as Emily trudged on through Ryan's epic novel.

They exchanged some 50 years of letters filled with everything from mundane life updates to arguments about the relative merits of Communism and capitalism, which sometimes angered my grandmother to no end.

The polar vortex allowed me to break the ice (pun intended!) by taking a mundane topic like the weather and turning it into a humor-tinged, relationship-building exchange.