commonplaceness

Example Sentences

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The difference between a "live" person and a "dead" one can be summarized by a great many instances about us, and because of their commonplaceness, we do not observe them.

From Tyranny of God by Lewis, Joseph

"Our experience doesn't leave much of Herrick's idea about the commonplaceness of crime—" "Oh, yes, it does!"

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

A heavy, or sometimes turgid, journalistic commonplaceness sat upon it.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

Yet the fate that grudged him prizes in his lifetime contrived afterwards to spread a veneer of commonplaceness over the success which it could not prevent.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

One who has never seen Rome is thus led to imagine that those of his country-people who have lived here for years have become in a manner purged of all natural commonplaceness.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various