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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
Anti-Semitism isn't just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it's routine and commonplace.
Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.
I think it is commonplace for parties to change candidates and reshuffle ministries to bring in new faces.
The abuse on Twitter has become so commonplace and accepted that people have literally made careers out of it.
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.
... And God, who studies each separate soul,
out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.
Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention
In England, gossiping is not as commonplace or even celebrated as much as it is in Latino culture. But it is not as frowned upon as it is in the United States by U.S. Americans.
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.
Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches.
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Look up . . . and see them.
The teaching stars,
beyond worship
and commonplace tongues.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.