Sentence examples for workaday material from inspiring English sources

Occasionally he's so retro as to feel second-hand, and his brilliance as a performer isn't always enough to redeem workaday material.

An array of producers including Fraser T Smith (Adele, Sam Smith and Duncan Millss (Jake Bugg) have been tasked with turning Coasts' workaday material into huge feelgood hits, and they have delivered with brutal efficiency.

In a feature that Mr. Mockbee would certainly have appreciated, the colorful striped pattern created by the carpeted walls, right, is a tribute -- part Bob Vila, part Agnes Martin at her most geometric -- to the beauty of workaday materials.

What marks him out is how he maximises the return from workaday raw material, parlaying a beta male personality and a keen eye for the ridiculous into big laughs.

Noah has 45 minutes of material on his upbringing, his feeling about race, and his emigration to the US, and then a tacked-on section with workaday stuff about satnav and funny foreign accents.

The opening of offices and bank branches is workaday stuff.

Simple, workaday stuff is mostly fine, but it's still there: wobbly, weak and winceful.

Workaday as its materials are, this fantasy image is evocative of a peak in, say, a Chinese landscape.

One centers on a plain wooden chair with a white garment draped over its back — the perfect counterpart to Mr. Williams's spare, concise American-modern poetry — while "Painting Materials" takes the workaday painter's vantage, looking down at a gray-brown cluster of brushes, pigments and solvents.

Along with the music for their Magical Mystery Tour TV film, the Yellow Submarine soundtrack was part of a period that author Ian MacDonald later described as the band's "regime of continuous low-intensity recording ... it had a workaday quality about it – an intrinsic lack of tension which was bound to colour the resulting material".

This material is so powerful and suffused with medical gravitas that it dwarfs the book's workaday antics.