commonplace
معمول
definition
noun
bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there
a usual or ordinary thing.
a notable quotation copied into a commonplace book.
adjective
unemployment was commonplace in his profession
not unusual; ordinary.
example
It's also one that mentions God as a source of inspiration: something that is rarely mentioned so plainly elsewhere but is a 'commonplace' in country songs.
This is a 'commonplace' of life in the poorest neighbourhood in Vancouver.
A vandalised car, all but ignored by passers-by, reflects how 'commonplace' minor crime has become in small towns.
The novelty of the new popular poetry is not its mass appeal; that was a 'commonplace' in American culture in the late nineteenth century.
It has become a 'commonplace' to say of biographies of Plath that they take sides.
So instead politicians almost uniformly retreat to the safety of the platitude and 'commonplace' .
It is a 'commonplace' in the West that governments should be as democratic as possible.
None of the others had noticed the little scene; it was an event too 'commonplace' to mark.
Now 60 years on, the process has been repeated, but reversed, as the 'commonplace' colour of modern films returns to nostalgic black and white.
The loss of a job - a sadly 'commonplace' event in today's turbulent economic climate - is not just a blow to the wallet, but a severe hit to the psyche.
It has become a 'commonplace' for playwrights to require actors to play several different parts, and at times a mere two actors is all that is needed to portray several dozen characters.
It used to be a 'commonplace' that activities aimed at uncovering truth and knowledge set about the relatively simple tasks of making observations and recording results.
In a word, Liz will be quite a 'commonplace' , average girl of the lower working-class…
Sontag acknowledges that she is stating a 'commonplace' when she notes the ‘erotic lure [of] things that are vile and repulsive’.
And before the vote it had been a 'commonplace' to say that it was the most important election of our lifetimes.
After a few more exceedingly 'commonplace' remarks of the same character, she gave me to write down a list of drugs that were to be taken.
Then he makes a characteristic move: you see how he is able to invest the ordinary, the 'commonplace' , with mystery.
In Rome, assassination would have been a relatively 'commonplace' event; especially for people of the higher class.
He soon discovered that death was a 'commonplace' event.
It is also, we must never forget, made from joy and the celebration of simple and ordinary and 'commonplace' things and events.
He insists that what he is doing is to configure the 'commonplace' issues of ordinary life.
These types of self-congratulatory remarks are 'commonplace' and formulaic.
This approach in Chinese cinema, however, was entirely absent from the films screened in Sydney, which were bland and artistically 'commonplace' works.
Partly to reinforce the 'commonplace' argument that there will always be a special cultural relationship between Scotland and England and that independence would not disrupt that.
The argument is in fact a 'commonplace' of political science.
The survey showed committees were far more 'commonplace' where trade unions had representation.
Like it or not, sponsorship deals between companies and the athletic teams are very 'commonplace' not only in the world of pro sports but at SFU as well.
Yet measles, malnutrition and diarrhoea remain tediously 'commonplace' causes of death in all too many parts of it in the first years of the twenty-first century.
The talent of the comic is to make 'commonplace' events remarkable.
He advocated that literature should record the writer's affectionate response to ordinary phenomena and 'commonplace' happenings.
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