Sentence examples for our commonplace from inspiring English sources

We still need prayer and God's help in making both our commonplace and occasionally extraordinary moral and ethical decisions.

Trains have to be resisted, even if it means more pollution and massive inefficiency and falling ever further behind in the amenities of life — what Olmsted called our "commonplace civilization".

His intelligence and ability to conceptualise weren't lost, even while language progressively eluded him; the possibility strains our commonplace ideas of how thought and language are wrapped up together.

But do we have to be? Isn't it enough that for the brief time we are in our seats we are not our commonplace selves, we submit to unfamiliar emotions, glimpse what we might have been, if not what we actually are or ever will be?

Why bone up on a specialist subject only to find that our learning is arcane and our knowledge commonplace?

For our inaugural podcast, we have Eric Brach, co-author of Conquering the Electron: the Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels who Built our Electronic Age and his thoughts on the wizards who gave us our power (as well as our most commonplace technologies).

If salvation is his goal, his method in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions.

In a world where Amazon Alexa and Siri make talking to our devices more commonplace in our non-work lives, it makes sense that companies are trying to bring that same kind of interaction to work.

Whereas only the elite, who had a learned appreciation for it, would understand the abstract meaning of modernist buildings, everyone could understand Las Vegas's references to "our great commonplaces or old clichés".

London Mayor Boris Johnson said London had been "filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as commonplace on our roads as black cabs and red buses".

The circus haunts our subconscious like some kind of childhood bestiary - filled with fantastical creatures and explosions, danger and allure - all setting our understanding of commonplace reality on its ear.