Sentence examples for the commonplace wisdom from inspiring English sources

That's the commonplace wisdom, and to be engaged with the world is no bad thing; it is essential.

Even though Flint is British, she nails with authority the voices, commonplace wisdom and dusty claustrophobia of the borough.

Some are sketchy or merely busy, but others do what Mr. Orozco has always done best: find the cosmic in the commonplace, sweeten abjection with wisdom and wit.

The wisdom of knowing when wisdom is not required, and that the commonplace soothes as the recondite never will, is the wisdom that underpins our constitutional monarchy.

It ought to be simple, in short, to create a weapons-grade version of the Renaissance phenomenon of the commonplace book – a storehouse of the wisdom of others that has mattered the most to you, as an individual thinker.

Your classmates are duly impressed with your desire to pioneer through the frontiers of wisdom and become distressed at the commonplace nature of their own masterpieces.

There the commonplace ends.

The safe, the sound, the commonplace.

Bowlers win matches, the commonplace understanding goes.

They were warned to avoid the commonplace.

The ludicrous has now become the commonplace.