Sentence examples for mundane realm from inspiring English sources

The carved hardwood stand was meant to raise the stone from the mundane realm to the sacred.

But, indefensibly, the Harmons' tenant, The Wall Street Journal reported last week, toils in the remunerative and mundane realm of executive recruiting.

For Pythagoreans, reality consisted of two parts: on one side were the mind and spirit and the transcendent realm of the gods; on the other side were the body and matter and the mundane realm of the earth.

And yet, as might be expected of this least abstract of writers, Roth counters the allegorical sweep with an earthly comedy unimaginable in the book's divinely focussed predecessor — a wholly mortal, often gorgeously mundane realm that, given the absence of God in even a walk-on role, appears as the only heaven we are likely to get.

The principal benefit of the deal for Grey Global is the means to offer to J. Brown clients like Unilever the ability to oversee all parts of their marketing campaigns, from the big-budget, glitzy TV ads to the promotions like sweepstakes to the once mundane realm of the store aisles.

We are eternal expressions of that unity, momentarily dwelling in this mortal skin and this mundane realm.

He envisions a select lineage of Travelers who can pass from the mundane world (Realm No. 4) into more mysterious places, all for the purpose of bringing back Light with an upper-case L. Their status as elite seekers of wisdom gives them a terrible enemy: the Vast Machine.

The irony of this is that highly advanced science and engineering serves the very mundane and familiar realm of transport.

Assange had taken a personal legal crisis and blown it up into an international incident: he had teleported himself from the mundane into the tragic realm.

If you were to remove all your memories, habits and all the things you identify as you, you could not consider what is left behind because it is no longer within the realm of mundane human understanding and ideas.

The disappointments continue inside, where Mr. Cloepfil demonstrates his practical skills, but none of the virtuosity — a feel for materials and structure, for the play of light across surfaces — that can elevate a design from mundane concerns into the lofty realm of art.