common run
Example Sentences
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“Cooper’s sophomore film far outshines the common run of contemporary biopics in its artful construction and attention to emotional nuance,” she writes of his efforts in Maestro, the story of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein.
From Slate • Nov. 22, 2023
When you enter their mind-space you pass through an extreme gradient in worldview, a hard ontological shear that separates Singularitarians from the common run of humanity.
From Time • Feb. 10, 2011
It is painted with a high, pale elegance that altogether removes it from the common run of romantic-symbolist cliche.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps it helped him to maintain his chosen stance of lonely, lofty defiance of the "trolls," as he called the common run of men.
From Time Magazine Archive
When we entered Mrs. Bouverie Barton's handsome rooms, we saw a great crowd of people whom even the most unobservant stranger would instantly have recognized as out of the common run.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
