Sentence examples for out of commonplace from inspiring English sources

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The last days of Grisha and Lera Arsenyev's marriage might have been a story fashioned out of commonplace warnings.

White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager… The last days of Grisha and Lera Arsenyev's marriage might have been a story fashioned out of commonplace warnings.

By Sana Krasikov The last days of Grisha and Lera Arsenyev's marriage might have been a story fashioned out of commonplace warnings.

He says he identifies with MacGyver, the secret agent who made high-tech devices out of commonplace objects like chewing gum in the 1980's television show of the same name.

This is exactly what Griffith (1926, p. 28) had in mind when he suggested that movies "lift [viewers] out of commonplace existence, and bear them … to realms of adventure and romance".

"For its ability thus to lift its patrons out of commonplace existence, and bear them hither and yon on Bagdad [sic] carpets to realms of adventure and romance, the [movie] depends upon pace" (Griffith, 1926, p. 28).

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Out-of-ring altercations, commonplace in boxing, never fail to blur the lines between reality and preconceived theatrics designed to promote a fight.

All of this may seem to come out of an environmental commonplace book, offering a familiar mainstream vision.

But it also came about because he had convinced his audience too well: the rhetoric of sylvan retreat drowned out the larger purpose of commonplace civilization.

"In fact, they were acting out a commonplace version of 'Dangerous Liaisons.' " Nathalie Sorokine, another student of Beauvoir's, was also the child of Russian émigrés.

Novelty treatments — mini-perforations, all-over grommets, laser cuts, swirls of embroidery and patchworks effects — played their parts in lifting leather out of the commonplace and cementing its status as a look for all seasons.

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