In a conversation recently, when I was making the commonplace complaints about religions, a friend remarked that without religions people might go mad from life's mysteries.
But as soon as evidence of real risks arose, the discussion became entrenched in the old commonplace about regulation hurting innovation, and people being overly alarmed.
The commonplace "tell me about yourself" prompt isn't going anywhere, so expect to be asked, and do yourself the service of preparing an intentional response.
Baudouin's work, though repeating all the old commonplaces about the virtues of history, was also a handbook perhaps the first of historical method.
That a gory battlescape could be beautiful in the sublime or awesome or tragic register of the beautiful is a commonplace about images of war made by artists.
The story is based on a horrific crime, but there is something disturbingly mundane and commonplace about the way the film unfolds – the sense similar events may be taking place as we watch, in suburbs we frequent and neighbourhoods in which we live.
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I applaud Fred Dicker, at the Post, for actually calling the Governor's office and asking the question, rather than just mumbling about the commonplace seediness of it, while watching the game on the couch, as I did.
"She is wonderfully curious about the commonplace," wrote Kate Summerscale in the Daily Telegraph, and "her book works best when she ignores the bigger picture and closes in on the sticks, capes, umbrellas and perspective glasses".
