We cannot force high street stores to change every aspect of their décor to reflect the face of the workaday woman: to do so would be to overlook that element, that desire to redefine yourself and to be transformed into a better, more exciting version of "you".
Who else dives into his workaday world to listen to his harassing answering machine, as his character does here, by rolling toward it like a professional tumbler?
A decade later a Xerox researcher, Mark Weiser, came up with a radically different idea — ubiquitous computing — in which tiny computers disappear into virtually every workaday object to add intelligence to the everyday world.
Eclipsing all of that, though, was Dalziel and Pascoe, the detective show that managed to outgrow its impossible-to-pronounce title and uninspired workaday plotting to run for 11 years and become Warren Clarke's defining work.
That pride is part of a bigger shift, an attempt to move beyond beer's workaday roots, to redefine it as something on the same level as wine or fine spirits and to attract people who prefer sidling up to an Italian red rather than an imperial stout.
It's as if our architects, civil engineers and urban planners were summoning us not to the dull confinement of the workaday, but to an exciting mass exodus, one in which we will all become colonists of the future.
Apparently, we've reached the point where all it takes for workaday actors to be labeled "hard-liners" is to request that wealthy producers give them a fair shake at the bargaining table.
So few Facebook users took part in Facebook's last site-governance voting, in which users were asked to approve or disapprove a number of workaday changes to its policy, that it resulted in the eventual shutdown of the site-governance balloting itself.
For example, "bilat," short for "bilateral," is a workaday term to diplomats and journalists when they're referring to a meeting of two sides, but it's unusual to outsiders.
Similarly, future advances in education and health care could reduce the earning power of many highly paid academics and doctors while creating jobs for more workaday tutors to help the laggards, or nurses enabled by technology to do much of the work now reserved for expensive physicians.
