common run

“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.

In his 1983 essay Tropes of the Text, Gass wrote that “only the common run of novels expects the one-night stand”.

Mr. Anderson brought a deep understanding of masters like Piero della Francesca, Velázquez, Poussin and Degas to his still lifes, portraits, landscapes and streetscapes, while applying a modern twist that lifted them from the common run of academic realism.

She has adopted all those markers of superiority—the real coffee, the classical music, Proust—to assert at every opportunity that she’s superior to the common run.

She has adopted all those markers of superiority—the real coffee, the classical music, Proust—to assert at every opportunity that she’s superior to the common run.