Sentence examples for to the commonplace from inspiring English sources

Sometimes Rembrandt's subjects are too connected to the commonplace world for everyone to like them.

"You have betrayed... the extraordinary to the commonplace," Moses thunders to Aaron, sounding more like a critic than a prophet.

This movement owed much of its international elan to Oldenburg's giant hamburgers, soft telephones and other homages to the commonplace.

And everyone has something sharp to say about this: 'Reverting to the commonplace,' glaciates one admirer as he sees his young boyfriend turning towards the opposite sex.

It's not that it never happened in the past; it's just that the practice seems to have made the leap to the commonplace.

She brings a new flavor to the commonplace meal of mother-daughter unease: "Most mothers in the simple world of fiction... symbolize security -- warm breasts, milk, applecake, uncritical love.

It is a great gift, this ability to make the commonplace both recognizable and wondrous without ever coming close to overwriting.

He wanted, he said, "to make the commonplace unusual", a statement that has reverberated through photographic practice to the present day.

In "Country Girl," O'Brien uses the frame of memory to crop the commonplace out of life.

And then, Foulds has the literary intelligence to turn the commonplace on its head.

Many such proclamations of varying harshness helped to create the commonplace perception of Rousseau as the spiritual godfather of Fascism.