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
But for the common run, this has largely been a time when individuals have identified themselves with groups, classes and movements.
From Time Magazine Archive
To drain the intoxicating cup at the feast of life, such is the divine privilege not of the common run of mortals but only of the elect.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
