How To Use Commonplaceness In A Sentence
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It simply exists in an inoffensive and unexciting realm of commonplaceness that makes it incapable of standing out among the pack of infinitely better racers available for any of its chosen platforms.
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Rewi Alley was a man whose greatness lies in his commonplaceness.
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Dada-ism, we find that the charm of the idea exists mainly in the fact that they wish all things levelled in the mind of man to the degree of commonplaceness which is typical of and peculiar to it.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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My chief recollection of our journey to Berlin was its commonplaceness.
Greenmantle
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Opera however is an old means for achieving togetherness that overcomes commonplaceness and produces happiness.
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In his 1970 collection "American Violence: A Documentary History," Richard Hofstadter wrote of the "extraordinary frequency, [the] sheer commonplaceness" of violence in American history.
The Anatomy of Violence
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She knew that there was nothing heroic or obviously dramatic in it, no magic of rare hours, nor valiant challenge, but it seemed to her that she was of some significance because she was commonplaceness, the ordinary life of the age, made articulate and protesting.
Main Street
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Compared with my upbringing, the angst-laden teenage world I am viewing is almost banal, yet it is exactly this commonplaceness, this exotic pedestrianism, that I did not previously realize how desperately I craved.
Dont You Forget About Me
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It was as a part of all this commonplaceness that she regarded the treatise on village-improvement.
Main Street
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He looks around for secret doors, mystery, is taken aback by the commonplaceness of the room and the men in it, thinks he may have gotten in the wrong place, then sees the signboard on the wall and is reassured.
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In fact, one is more likely to be struck by the absence of literary devices in Beckett's sentences, by the commonplaceness or familiarity of his expressions, than by any colorful or complicated diction.
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The great point to be emphasised at such an initiation is this: that people, especially refined people, are not to judge of Dickens by what they would call the coarseness or commonplaceness of his subject.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
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All the beauty of youth, first discovered when it is passing — and all the commonplaceness of a well-to-do unmarried man encountering a pretty girl at the time when she is slightly weary of her employment and sees no glory ahead nor any man she is glad to serve.
Main Street
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Written in short lengths for newspaper serialization, the autobiography is not a literary masterpiece, but it is the more impressive because of the commonplaceness of much of its material.
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Yet, despite the careworn commonplaceness of her appearance, there was one respect in which she stood out from the ordinary: she had light grey eyes, a feature that was unusual in that part of the country.
Excerpt: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
