He called such a character a "politician with a sense of vocation" (Berufspolitiker) who combines a passionate conviction in supra-mundane ideals that politics has to serve and a sober rational calculation of its realizability in this mundane world.
At a more mundane level this exalted ideal showed up in the particulars of his daily life - his conservative dress, his habitually courteous manners.
Everything that was part of life concerned him, from the highest ideals to the most mundane activities.
But there is a penumbra about the Magna Carta, a shadow cast in which its vision of an ideal nearly eclipses the mundane circumstances of its origins.
Nor is Facebook ideal for the more mundane missives of everyday family life – the note that dad will be home at 7 00 pm tonight, or the question from mom asking if everyone wants pizza for dinner, etc.
A distant American illusion implied by formerly banned Western commodities, aspirations and ideals served my generation as a colorful escape from the mundane reality, providing us with a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Of necessity, all of the teams were compelled to imagine some ideal cultural program capable of lifting the project above the mundane.
And these shared views of the ideal white self functioned as seemingly neutral yardsticks against which mundane behaviors, norms, values, and expectations were measured.
Many of them were escaping mundane things such as debt or the police, but some went across for an ideal.
"It's ideal if you find bodily fluid," Dr. Simich said, adding, however, that more mundane clothing can work just as well.
These old-fashioned ideals — honor and discretion — contribute to the reticence surrounding Sullivan's ouster, along with more mundane issues of contractual legalities, politics and embarrassment.
