Sentence examples for the commonplace view from inspiring English sources

Even the commonplace view that Alex Salmond is some kind of titan of politics (he's not, as the foul-up with Donald Trump demonstrates) serves to demonstrate just how unused we are to a major regional political figure.

"Without a doubt the commonplace view of photography ever since its inception... is that it records a moment of reality as it actually appeared," writes Martin Jay, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, in his book "Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in 20th-Century French Thought".

The commonplace view is conservative.

Now Occidental is breaking ranks in another way, by upsetting the commonplace view that the days of "easy oil" in the U.S. are over.

Similarly, the commonplace view is that Japan has two but choices: staying with military minimalism or lurching toward militarism -- this even as its neighborhood is becoming more dangerous.

This history as a method of atonement is well-trod ground and what used to be interpreted as more or less "contrarian" is now for many a commonplace view: the United States was built in large part by slaves, on top of land stolen from indigenous peoples.

It's become a commonplace view that the election has primarily been about economics and that's boring.

Two years ago, both Geraldine Ferraro, the first female candidate of a major political party to run for vice president, and Jesse Jackson were quoted as saying that they thought a black man would have a harder time than a white woman getting elected president, a commonplace view at the time.

That the ascendance of Johns Hopkins transformed American medical schools and medicine in the twentieth century is a now commonplace view.

This commonplace view of Wharton as the reliable observer of her era's social mores, the recording secretary for a disappearing class, minimizes the complexity of her artistry and leads Mr. Gates to underrate Terence Davies's brilliant accomplishment in his film adaptation of "The House of Mirth".

I seem always to begin with the apprehension of details, as if, among objects in a commonplace view, one or two had begun to glow or resonate with imaginative potential.