Sentence examples for workaday effort from inspiring English sources
Hugo Blick's thriller, complete with kidnapped children, London spies, Middle East intrigue and Maggie Gyllenhall (left) could have been a workaday effort: in fact, it was stylish, superior, and so much more than the sum of its parts.
Isn't ivy a good houseplant? A. Common English ivy (Hedera helix) seems like one of those workaday plants that could be grown without much effort.
Without him, West Germany might have been more clearly viewed as a plodding, evasive, workaday place – but thanks to the great convulsion of effort behind Grass's first novels it became peopled with erupting, disgusting juxtapositions – eels and horses; gull shit, semen and rust.
Taking his inspiration from the firsthand account of a father who was already a year into such a search, writer-director Richie Mehta has made a film of subdued but mounting panic and grief — an unsentimental portrait of poverty in contemporary India and of a benighted man's efforts to understand the world beyond his workaday struggles.
Workaday routine was reestablished quickly.
The atmosphere is workaday, dispassionate.
Beer, even tinted green, is too workaday.
Workaday boast combined with cheap imagery?
It transports, yet is a workaday task.
In Baghdad, the scenes of desolation are more workaday.
