Sentence examples for workaday one from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, there was an urge to document a hidden universe of form and feeling; on the other, a fixation on a small and exquisite world that seemed blissfully different from the workaday one in which Bentley, in Vermont, like Cornell, in Queens, found himself.

Although the book contains its share of much rougher stories, it is these seemingly workaday ones that hit hardest.

Amazingly, the costumes — even the workaday ones, for the Gladneys — don't betray the quick-change mechanics that have been built into them, a credit to the designer, Patricia E. Doherty.

But as retail executives place orders for the crucial end-of-year rush, they are anxiously debating how strong and lasting the consumer's revival will be.In the first quarter both fancier retailers such as Gap, Macy's and Saks and workaday ones like Target, Wal-Mart and Home Depot all announced improved results.

Marino Pazzini, a partner of the Ranieris' who runs the well-stocked Wine Emporium next door, has been given a free hand with the list, and his offerings include world champion bottles with three-digit prices alongside such workaday ones as the simple, terrific merlot-cabernet from CK Mondavi, which happened to be the $5-a-glass house wine one night.

The company is housed in a workaday, one-story 30,000-square-foot concrete-block facility a few miles from the sea in Essex, Massachusetts.

She was indeed the leading lady of her day, and the correspondence between them is a stately procession of pain, affection, envy, reproach, and workaday desire: "Dear Madam," one letter begins, "You are stark mad, and therefore the fitter for me to love".

The saxophonist Joe Lovano is always up to something interesting, from record to record, but it's also nice to hear him on a more workaday gig like this one.

One big workaday room, the museum proper displays perhaps 20 life-size models dressed in the clothes of a particular region, with other examples hung on the walls.

In guiding visitors around the new ship, Mr. Snediker stresses that Amistad was a workaday cargo schooner, not one of the infamous Middle Passage slave ships that carried captives from Africa to the Americas.

For lots of New Yorkers in their 20's and 30's, the vanity CD has become the cultural equivalent of the novel in the dresser drawer, a talisman against the workaday pressures to abandon one's creative dreams.