workaday

“He wanted to present himself as among ‘the best and the brightest,’ not some common plebe who’d held workaday jobs,” Garrow said of Obama’s first run for the presidency.

Based on son Marcelo’s 1983 memoir, the film, marked by stellar performances from Mello, Torres and the rest of the cast, as well as Salles’ keen eye for workaday beauty, becomes a moving chronicle of the 25-year effort to hold the state accountable for Rubens’ killing — and a frightening parable of creeping authoritarianism that transcends national borders.

The dark pantsuit was, with all due respect, rather workaday, and her hair was just her usual superb hair and the jewelry was understated, and in every way Harris looked like she might have looked if she were trying a big case or running a Senate committee hearing.

The boring, workaday tasks of running his career and mindfully negotiating parenthood with Taketa are among the episodic A-plots leading the season.

In the beginning, there was the wharf, the rudimentary, workaday pier built to get goods from here to there.