How To Use Workaday In A Sentence
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An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
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The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime.
New Fiction
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They are something much more eerie and ethereal, a coming together of cosmic forces and imagination that leaves the workaday world behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a workaday basis, it doesn't matter much, to be honest.
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Like most four-year-old boys, George left his house like a pebble from a slingshot, careening off parked cars, brownstone gates, fences placed to protect young trees (apparently not just from urinating dogs), and pedestrians prickly from too little coffee or too much workaday dread.
Excerpt: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
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But they are vastly outnumbered by packs of a more workaday character.
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Cope, like all the best poets, has the ability to twist the mundane and workaday into something new and enchanting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why Everybody Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay ', explains: "Finance, like other forms of human behaviour, underwent a change in the twentieth century, a shift equivalent to the emergence of modernism in the arts - a break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction and notions that couldn't be explained in workaday English.
Johann Hari: How Goldman Sachs Gambled On Starving the Poor - And Won
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But she also appreciates her surroundings and her community, and looks for her place among the sloping streets and workaday routines.
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His glazed style puts a good shine on a workaday plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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By then, I had done weeks of research and had bought woollen cloth to make my workaday clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both use as starting points the relationships of the protagonists to their personal avatars, iconoclasts who encourage their aversion to the trivial workaday world.
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Assayas seems obsessed by the workaday world of Hong Kong with its mass insouciance as a crossroads of international, interlingual and interracial commerce and industry, which leaves it little time to pause and notice a desperate European woman running for her life," writes
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Reliable as a fine Swiss watch, the St. Gallen, Switzerland-based house can always be counted on to deliver the kind of workaday staples professional women crave, and Sunday's clean-lined collection was no exception.
Luxury Is A La Mode At Celine, Galliano, Givenchy & Akris (PHOTOS)
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They are something much more eerie and ethereal, a coming together of cosmic forces and imagination that leaves the workaday world behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here professionals and housewives discard their workaday images and become hucksters offering the output of their hobbies.
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In those days a whole host of pots could be found in gardens, including long-toms and workaday pots as well as rhubarb and kale-forcing pots, all made from terracotta.
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And there was a rather workaday sticky steamed pudding with a bicarbonate of soda sub-taste which seemed to have lost most of its toffee sauce.
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Whilst there is no such thing as routine access to space Soyuz launches have a "workaday" feel to them rather than the high drama of a shuttle launch followed by a "workaday" inspection of the TPS!
ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch
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Our fear, guilt, and, occasionally, even jealousy over the way the elderly are separated from workaday reality has led us to think about the ‘golden years’ as something that takes place in another realm.
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Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
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Trips to the neighborhood grogshop also figured into the workaday routine.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
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Somehow Ludwig seemed to have succeeded in functioning in the mundane, workaday world and still keep a spiritual perspective on matters.
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Some people think that the idea of a fairy tale romance is unrealistic, that it sets too high a standard and leaves you feeling disappointed in real-life, workaday relationships.
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Believing that the artistic calling was the highest one, he despised workaday employment.
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The interpenetration of the worldly and the otherworldly, the mundane and the spiritual, the workaday and the worshipful, enrich our folklore as well as our classics.
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Before long workaday products were seeking brand images.
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His glazed style puts a good shine on a workaday plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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OK, after all that, all I have left is two videos, the first of which is just the perfect cure for any kind of workaday blues.
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They are something much more eerie and ethereal, a coming together of cosmic forces and imagination that leaves the workaday world behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though in the ordinary, workaday world, you find yourself with not a friend about you, step into the other world, and a universe of friends, this great, glorious brotherhood, will be there for you.
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The old pilgrim paths sometimes beckon to us, teasing us from the routine of workaday lives with promises of spiritual glory and glimmers of the Divine, however we interpret that deeply human need.
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So Steve sends me the review tape of the movie and I get to watch it before the rest of you workaday joes.
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Add to that the joy that comes from finally being in the field after all those hot workaday months spent thinking about it, your pals trash-talking, the hunger-inducing promise of all that tender and fine-grained meat being steadily stuffed into a gamebag, and the sight and smell of barbecue smoke rising in the distance, and the fun tips over into sublime pleasure.
The Culture and Tradition of Southern Dove Hunting
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His glazed style puts a good shine on a workaday plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, alas! for the prosaicness of this workaday world, they had to assume the attitudes of lawyer and client; and discourse of crime instead of love.
The Silent House
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Then there is the stuff of workaday journalism, rather like an ordinary meal one has to plough through, a chore worthwhile only for whatever nutritional value there may be.
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At first glance, shampoo is one of the most functional and workaday elements in your beauty routine.
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First, I had yearned to escape the workaday world where I went about my quotidian tasks and routines and travel to an isolated place filled with natural beauty and silence for my writers retreat.
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A love affair is a story, too: it has a narrative trajectory in a way that real workaday life does not.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He's a product of workaday south London and was a bit of a tearaway in his younger days.
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Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
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The Julie/Julia Project was an entry-by-entry accounting of her offsetting her workaday life by cooking her way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1, which is comprised of 500+ often idiosyncratic recipes like poulet poele a l'estragon (page 249), veau sylvie (page 357), and jambon farci et braise (page 394).
Elissa Altman: Julia, Julie, Judith, and Me
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Cope, like all the best poets, has the ability to twist the mundane and workaday into something new and enchanting.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a modest, workaday coffee we routinely serve at home but sludge it ain't.
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The artefactual memories of pottery, the bodily memories of tattoos, and the spatial memories of lines dividing cultivated fields boast little obvious explanatory power, seeming to survive more as accidental or passive traces of rural women's workaday routines than as conscious records of experience, as "histories" holding remembrance in the needful grip of the present day.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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According to his sociology of the individual as political fetish, the modern state routinizes gender inequalities through a "workaday" bureaucracy located in the mundane structural demands of economic activity; in the civic arena created by official bureaucracy, patriarchal social patterns formalize commercial relations and enforce the domination of a perceived "natural leader" in the home, the marketplace, and the sphere of civic activity.
Notes on 'Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott'
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Her mostly flat set, with its isolated boxy units, is supposed to suggest jewel boxes but more closely recalls workaday storage units.
A Biography in Need of an Editor
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This agency has become the official applier of yellow, smiley-faced stickers on an ugly economy that is stiffing America's workaday majority.
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More than anything, these companies with their workaday products built relationships and brand loyalties that remain.
Times, Sunday Times
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He promised to tackle the workaday matters affecting people's daily lives.
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Peering into their world was a welcome counterpoint to the workaday routine of her own life.
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In these revisions of the still life, he addresses himself to the latencies that everyday objects hold, patiently brings to light the secret lives that their workaday physiognomies disguise.
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In conceptions of social reform generally, whether in the shape of wholesale creation of utopias, or specific workaday policies concerning poverty and welfare, or justifications in city planning and architec - tural mainlines, concepts of happiness often have an immediate place.
HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE
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He promised to tackle the workaday matters affecting people's daily lives.
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Boyd is undoubtedly a substantial writer but this block of journalism confirms the mighty labour of his workaday career, rather than the more memorable flights of fictional transcendence.
Bamboo by William Boyd: Book summary
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First there was that workaday stuff used as the skin for thousands of Outback shearing sheds.
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But as her stand-up became more mainstream, more and more of our daily workaday lives melded themselves into the Becoming Roseanne Connor Family.
Roseanne Archy
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Ready for workaday food, I opted for the beefsteak and egg, with a side order of fried chips.
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Compared to the extravagance and glamour of last winter's clothes, this season's collection look simple, almost workaday.
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Cope, like all the best poets, has the ability to twist the mundane and workaday into something new and enchanting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Around 20 years ago, part of my workaday world was the Old Executive Office Building where I learned first-hand of the perils of perverting power.
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Between workaday ribbon-cutting and medal-pinning, the principal royal purpose is to create national moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet we are also drawn to workaday items such as cowbells, noodle-makers, and a cleverly designed rattrap.
One Hour Out: Bangalore
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Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
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As an example of the simple sandwich's workaday job as the staff of life, this is admittedly extreme.
Times, Sunday Times
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The farmer performs workaday human movement: plain, uneventful, and unaccountably touching.
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The routine, workaday books that keep rolling off printing machines and that one lives and works with today share very little of that quality, or that sensibility.
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Though they share nothing in upbringing, they have already found that they have a workaday attitude to showbiz in common.
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White opened up at a ferocious pace, hitting nicks from all angles, powering balls to the deep court on either hand and slamming in three-wall-nick shots at such regular intervals that it came to look like a common workaday shot.
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Meanwhile, in the workaday world, women receive just 76 cents for every dollar paid to men for comparable jobs.
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Smither's patient way of painting, however - moulding one slow layer over another - served to elevate humble workaday household items - cups, plates - to epic and monumental status.
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They are something much more eerie and ethereal, a coming together of cosmic forces and imagination that leaves the workaday world behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The question is whether we can find secreted in the language of a particular text the bustling, workaday life of the common people.
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Cope, like all the best poets, has the ability to twist the mundane and workaday into something new and enchanting.
Times, Sunday Times
