| 单词 | workaday |
| 例句 | She had also found time to wash and mend my workaday clothing, and patch my tom shoe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was just as in so many civil rights organizations, he mused: the flamboyant male leaders make the speeches while the workaday women, most of them as plain as bread, make it happen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The celebration continued late into the cool August night and trickled into the following day, as the Goble and Kane clans tarried to savor their last moments together before heading back to their workaday lives. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Not the routine, not just the fitting together of things that no one had guessed at fitting, not the making of connections; these are merely the workaday details, the methods of operating. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I simply wrote textbook examples of our workaday narrative, veritable style sheets that Hoagland even used to remind the other analysts of how it ought to be done. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in striking contrast to the messy reality of the workaday world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Swim lore was his vacation talk from the workaday talk of running a zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Several of them describe the war as “a job,” even as an eagerly anticipated adventure by contrast with their workaday lives. “They Shall Not Grow Old,” Reviewed: The Indelible Voices in Peter Jackson’s First World War Documentary 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Other such works followed immediately, all making unorthodox uses of workaday media. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z The underground in Underground is more than a metaphor for the repressed passions of four "ordinary workaday people", it is integral to the plot, and its shadowy locations set the film's tone. Underground depicts a world both far removed and familiar 2013-01-08T16:43:47Z They symbolize the weight of the workaday world, which slowly descends to consume — but also to comfort — Vanya and Sonia in the play’s final moments. | 'Uncle Vanya': Maly Drama Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010-04-08T22:50:00Z Rather, the solution is workaday — a PIN code. In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Dotting its small canals, where workaday motorboats are more common than sightseeing gondolas, are cafes and shops, from trendy boutiques to family-owned gems. 5 Places to Shop in Venice 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Rather than seeing himself as a genius master-composer, you suspect he would have viewed his job more as that of a workaday, gigging musician. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z Inspired by the 1990 indie film “Slacker,” Richard Linklater’s “day in the life” portrait of misfits and eccentrics in Austin, Texas, Smith eyed his own workaday existence as a convenience store clerk. The Not-So-Silent Friendship of Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s comedies, more than dramas, through which we get stories of workaday and family life outside heightened circumstances. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Some discarded passages are surprisingly workaday; others are interesting but lack the drama found in the music that eventually replaced them. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z Bridges over sunken transverse roads allowed carriages to pass above workaday traffic, and dense plantings along the perimeter made the park look endless. Art Review: At Morgan Library, Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man 2010-06-03T21:31:00Z That distinction sets the offense in Minhaj's stand-up inventions apart from the fictional indulgences of workaday stand-up. Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Other effects are incremental: The gods, who begin, like everyone else in the show, as workaday members of the island community, only slowly take on their lordly affect and spectacular regalia. Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z At other times, the screen imagery looked incongruous, while the dancing seemed heartfelt but loose and workaday. Dance performance as a high-tech journey into the esoteric 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z While Delvert’s dark, pared-down production is workaday, with electronic sound effects that feel more like tics, it is a very welcome reintroduction to Sand. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z It's not long ago that they were an essentially workaday indie band, but Staycations shows why the National Trust was happy to be involved. Kotki Dwa: Staycations – review 2012-06-28T20:15:01Z Even a workaday life in New York City is better than living under Communism in Romania, where he grew up in a labor camp watching his parents work long hours on a farm, he said. Character Study: The Nonstop Hairstylist of Astor Place 2013-01-12T03:36:29Z There are visits to the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and a mountain temple, but mostly there is the lively bustle of workaday Beijing. | 'The Karate Kid': Jacket On, Jacket Off in a Remake With Jackie Chan 2010-06-10T23:25:00Z Opera is generally good at taking naturalistic, even workaday, subject matter and heightening it into stylization; this last part of “Proving Up” does the opposite — to, I think, its detriment. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The documentary presents a flattering view of Nash, but rather than indulging in hagiography, it finds its stride when it examines the business of being a workaday musician. ‘Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl’ Review: A Star Who Fell to Earth 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z This is very much inspired by where I am – Rome, or more precisely Testaccio, a wedge-shaped quarter in the south of the city, home to my trusted, workaday market. A peperonata recipe straight from Rome | Kitchen sink tales 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Endowed with the same talents, the same smarts, the same audacity as Frank, Peggy chooses the workaday life that he gave up for a life of crime. Watching “The Irishman” on Netflix Is the Best Way to See It 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Unlike nurses or teachers or others in workaday trades, they no longer seem to be “one of us,” people we can laugh along with. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Much of the special involves raw descriptions of the nitty-gritty of having a baby, whether it’s the workaday sex to try to get pregnant or a pregnant wife’s peculiar resentment of her husband. The Strategic Mind of Ali Wong 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The series marked a critical evolution for an editor whose earlier culinary work seemed intended for well-heeled urban elites rather than diverse and workaday home cooks. She brought us France with Julia Child, but Judith Jones’s culinary legacy also tells an American story 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But its workaday setting, memorable characters, dramatic story lines and tart northern humor made it a hit. Tony Warren, Creator of ‘Coronation Street,’ Dies at 79 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The museum-hotel hybrid presents practical challenges for the museum team, whose members think through workaday situations that a museum designer might never confront. Come for the Guest Rooms. Stay for the Galleries. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Who has been such a folk hero of workaday boredom and 9 to 5 drudgery? Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z These new additions seem only to enhance the area’s workaday character. Five Places to Go in Chicago 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It's workaday stuff with unremarkable 3D and little mythological resonance. Tangled 3D ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:05Z Rumours is McCartney-ish English psychedelia with a rueful lyric about a jealous would-be suitor spreading untruths, lifted out of the workaday by Mark "Teenage Opera" Wirtz's ornate production. Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z His pair of tunes stands out among the gritty, grotty punk anthems: “Crazy Like a Fox” is a folksy protest song about rejecting workaday conformity, more “Eve of Destruction” than “Blitzkrieg Bop.” Punk pioneer Lenny Kaye reflects back on “the original sin of rock ‘n’ roll” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The pier is seen as a workaday place, without charm or grandeur. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z The workaday talk is particularly transporting, both rustic and courtly: “That boar hog vexing you again?” Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z Their home in Grove Terrace, Highgate – workaday Georgian moderated with 1950s wallpapers and furniture – pullulated with life. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z A devoted husband and father, he then entered the workaday professional ranks, doing ordinary duties, even to dubious ends, living in comfort and enjoying professional esteem. Spielberg’s Airtight “Bridge of Spies” 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Mr. McCallum was interested in unpublished source material, the workaday backdrop to the war. Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Elle has a smart spread about reinventing the workaday uniform; ditto a piece at the front about five inspiring retailers/stylists. Thinning Out 2010-03-25T14:24:00Z Good on Sarandon for agreeing to star in this low-budget indie mystery and for making her pills-and-booze-dependent curmudgeon such a smart and memorable workaday creation. Our Level the Playing Field picks: Awards for those Oscar has overlooked 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z On the first level, Consensus Reality, “Tao” has the appearance of a workaday one-man show, with McDermott sharing memories and fondly miming Glass conducting with his hair at the keyboard during early performances. Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The opening scenes of "Intrepido: A Lonely Hero" promise a sharp parable about workaday economic realities. 'Intrepido' takes muddled approach to day laborer's strife 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Together they visit some of Vienna’s famous sites and also some of its workaday cafes and bars. Movie Review: Jem Cohen’s ‘Museum Hours’ Explores Links of Life and Art 2013-06-27T21:18:15Z After the young man in the movie finds an appropriate place for the lost thing, he fades back into workaday life, his sense of wonder eclipsed by mundane experience. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z This melancholic presence, a melding of the spiritual and the workaday, watches in sober silence as his partner mourns him, and eventually moves on. A Ghost Story Chills-and Makes You Wonder 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z But the very point is perhaps that it is humdrum, workaday, embedded in the tatty fabric of everyday life, and just something else to be depressed about. Never Let Me Go - review 2011-02-10T22:46:01Z While the more workaday Ohio city has a flourishing apparel industry, Nashville has more of what a fashion city needs, for good or ill: glamour. We Settle a Big Fashion Rivalry: Nashville vs. Columbus 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Posing as browbeaten housewives or traumatised children, she explored a domestic reality punctuated not by the get-togethers photos normally recorded, but by abuse, rows and workaday grind. Artist of the week 199: Jo Spence 2012-07-19T16:13:17Z Here, as throughout “Happy Hour,” events of an apparently workaday negligibility reveal their transformative force and enduring effect, unleashing an irresistible torrent of new memories on the fly. A Five-Hour Japanese Film Captures the Agonizing Intimacies of Daily Life 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z That Bardem plays a poet, specifically, and not just some workaday novelist, is important: poet, from the Greek poetes, meaning to make or create. The Mythic Maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The book also looked back on the suffering by workaday Germans during World War II, including the Soviet sinking of a ship packed with thousands of German refugees in 1945. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z One is confronted with this fact at the currency-exchange counters at airports, where one’s workaday green stack of bills is traded for a pile of paper art. The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Actually, I do believe that the more workaday it all becomes, the more you are ready. Monsters Unleashed 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The directors also rightfully enjoy little lapses into vulgarity in Steidl's workaday politesse. 'How to Make A Book Like Steidl': delightful, from start to finish 2012-03-08T21:59:09Z Whereas Allen portrays élitists, secret geniuses hidden in workaday circumstances, Lewis, the radical democrat, embodies the unexceptional everyman concealed in the monster. Adam Sandler’s Misused Comedic Art 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z They're dangerous distractions from workaday normalcy or an excuse for aimless kids to break glass or deface property. On TV, protesters are faceless rabble while cops are bestowed with humanity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Sleek and far more expensive than the workaday Weejun, the Gucci version became the ne plus ultra of loafers, a glossy symbol of privilege. | A Brief History of Fashion's Favorite Flat 2012-11-23T20:00:44Z Is that because of the workaday materials he uses? Sleights of Hand With Cards, Coins and a Colander 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The man himself cut an innocuous figure: thin, white-bearded, dark-skinned and usually dressed in trousers and huarache sandals, the workaday attire of fellow indigenous men in Oaxaca. Francisco Toledo Embodied the Activist Soul of Oaxaca 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The day-to-day dramas are pretty much the same, but keeping a network running in the country's more remote areas proves to be far from workaday. TV highlights 19/03/2013 2013-03-19T07:00:03Z Collins said, in an interview, that her cinematic model was Éric Rohmer; like his films, “Losing Ground” presents taut surfaces of dialectical wrangling in workaday situations and reveals the passions roiling beneath them. Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary” Contains an Extraordinary Unmade Movie 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Affleck was also keen to home in on the workaday quality of spy life, especially the way it both connected and frayed its employees and their families. The Carpetbagger: Ben Affleck, Now an Underdog With ‘Argo,’ Is on the Rebound 2013-01-16T22:39:05Z Under Tillim's lens, workaday sights and magnificent vistas meld into a single vision. A contemporary photographic look at Gauguin's Polynesia 2012-02-23T21:29:05Z Synge encountered people who carried themselves with workaday dignity and offered a humble, sincere welcome — exactly what I found on Inishmaan 120 years later. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z What makes it truly shine, however, is its insistence that our workaday world might not be quite as mundane as we think. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z This time, by selecting a low-key veteran such as Shoji, the dress served as a celebration of the workaday traditions and longevity of this country’s garment industry. The flowing diplomacy of the first lady’s dress at the Japan State Dinner 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The Cleavers, the Bunkers, the Huxtables, the Conners: All, in their way, have functioned as workaday avatars for those watching at home. A Very Special Episode, but Maybe Not So Precious 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Linger over dinner, then, late in the evening, stroll the beautiful back streets and embrace the chance to just enjoy a ramshackle, workaday town in the countryside of Portugal. Peeling back layers of history in Evora 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It highlights his professional revelations, such as when he turned to a workaday peacoat as inspiration for a dress. Perspective | Richmond exhibition further cements Yves Saint Laurent’s legacy 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The change in context — from a heightened, lunatic realm of pure thought to a workaday world of mixed-up emotions — leads to some leaden playwriting. SCR's 'Mr. Wolf' sharply provokes, then turns blunt 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The essence of melodrama is the revelation of tragic grandeur in everyday life—and the contrast, even the conflict, between the mighty nobility of everyday people’s emotions and the workaday circumstances of their lives. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Pauline perceives herself as a tragic heroine in spite of her drearily workaday context. 'Bright New Boise' at Chance Theater: Secrets and scandal in the break room of Hobby Lobby 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Last year, Dior presented a gardening-inspired collection, and among the floral embroideries and raffia sun hats were handsome work trousers, chore coats and coverall shorts in workaday gray cotton. Less Posing, More Pruning: Stylish Gardening Clothes Arrive 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z But through habituation, or paucity of talent, or lack of originality, most of us, writing, reach for the most workaday speech-tools, and in this way the world is made dull. Grace Paley, the Saint of Seeing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s a workaday spin-off of three or four better predecessors. 'Destruction of the most satisfying kind': in praise of Netflix's 'skip intro' button 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s totally fine that some art here looks great and some looks workaday. The Renaissance Women Who Painted Against the Odds 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Everything about Maté seems to be based on a workaday, efficient kindness: his message is about understanding, blue-sky thinking and common sense. How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Quantum mechanics is one of science’s most successful theories, superseding Sir Isaac Newton’s “classical” physics, the workaday version taught at school. Nature, the physicist 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The “Make America Great Again” Hat: A workaday cap with a corny slogan rendered in capital letters, this hardly seemed a candidate for iconic-object status when the year began. The Year in Nine Objects 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But it’s very commonplace, it’s very workaday and familiar. The poetry of “Mad Men”: When Matthew Weiner first read Frank O’Hara, “it was just like total time travel” 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The opera opens outside an airfield in Beijing, where a contingent of Chinese army, navy and air force personnel — dressed in Dunya Ramicova’s costumes, which have a touching workaday look — solemnly sing a chorus. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z Although the book contains its share of much rougher stories, it is these seemingly workaday ones that hit hardest. Books of The Times: The Lives Gained by Fleeing Jim Crow 2010-08-30T22:06:00Z In its citation, the judging panel said Finney "finds poetic joy and a political imagination in family wisdom, workaday living and erotic syllables that sing the body of women." 'Salvage the Bones' a National Book Award winner 2011-11-17T18:03:21Z Here, the setting is also fantastical, although at the same time recognizably the workaday urban world in which people toil away in service to the ever-shifting digital future. Review: ‘Golem,’ a Visually Dazzling Fable for the Digital Age 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z That means they give an insider look at how a vehicle operates on a workaday basis. 2010-02-10T21:00:00Z It describes the involved workaday process of manufacturing the weapons and — with Guiteau, Booth and Moore forming a deranged chorus — the absurd ease with which they wreak havoc. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z She generally hangs her crown here on weekends, using it as an escape from her workaday grind at Buckingham Palace. No royal wedding invite? You can still enjoy Great Britain’s palaces and castles 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Compared with Chania, whose pursuit of tourist euros seemed mercenary, Iraklion felt like a real place, a workaday city with a robust cafe society and palm-tree-lined public squares surrounding Turkish and Venetian fountains. In Crete, Henry Miller Found His Muse Amid the Ruins 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z To persuade those unfamiliar with Shakespeare in the Park to attend, I occasionally name-dropped the boldface stars playing workaday roles, unfazed by the rigor, mosquitoes and humidity. When a Corporate Picnic Plus Shakespeare Is Anything but Routine 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z In the more workaday realm, jumpsuits were already a look pre-pandemic. They Splurged on Fancy Clothes Before Quarantine. Now What? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Despite the self-promotional nature of this phenomenon, most of these workaday video protagonists claim altruistic reasons for putting their lives under the microscope. Keeping Up, on Camera, Is No Longer Just for the Kardashians 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection galleries are boxy, white, workaday, with art lined up on the walls, shopping mall style. Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z He’s alert to paradox – for instance, to how kinky sex-play can be a way of “building a paradise of mutual acceptance” — and he pinpoints the problematic gulf between sexual life and workaday life. The gulf between spirited sex and everyday life 2013-01-30T19:32:25Z If you're looking for high-minded musings about the trauma and turmoil of workaday life, look elsewhere. Ringo Starr's purely positive new "EP3" finds the light in a downtrodden world 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The passengers: swarming the decks of the M/V Columbia, thrilling to that landlubber’s hey-we’re-on-a-boat! novelty — the kind that sometimes attracts amused eye rolls from regular, workaday riders of state ferries. Budget cruise from Bellingham to Alaska: one man’s account of his ferry deck adventure 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z So it seems a workaday name for the extraordinary Hotel Viura. Be Square: Spain's New Cubist Hotel 2010-12-16T12:50:00Z While this event clearly had no place in the workaday world, it was something he could embrace as an artist. Artist of the week 176: Raphael Hefti 2012-02-09T13:32:00Z Even still life, once seen as a workaday genre of simple copying, could have the highest philosophical complexity. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z And by that I mean we very purposefully made him a very knockaround, workaday musician in the first season. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z The new Broadway revival of “A View From the Bridge,” opening Thursday, features spartan production design, including a sharply minimalist set and actors in workaday clothes. Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In my opinion, given the anonymity of the character, the workaday nature of the previous instalments and the eight-year gap since the last botched reboot effort, a total reversal of fortunes seems unlikely. Can Star Trek's Chris Pine beam us up a Jack Ryan we care about? 2010-09-21T13:19:00Z In the background, bombs explode at all hours, guerrillas kidnap businessmen, government death squads murder indiscriminately and workaday life somehow manages to grind on. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Among the many joys of urban pedestrianism, they sharpen my understanding of art’s sensory effects while broadening my appreciation of the aesthetic byproducts of more workaday activities. The Art of Summer: Painterly Experiences Where They?re Least Expected 2011-08-24T12:01:01Z She serenades couples who giddily take to the dance floor, three minutes to show off their rhinestone-studded jeans and escape the workaday blandness of their other lives. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z In fact, there is no labor beyond domestic, and workaday tasks are completed with a gauzy sense of fulfillment. Escape Into Cottagecore, Calming Ethos for Our Febrile Moment 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z A wartime showgirl who at 40 took up painting with no formal training, Cook rendered workaday Britons in flat, voluminous splendor — cascading roly-poly retirees and fleshy call girls — a Boterismo for the Blackpool set. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Bodies in motion provide relief from the workaday world of rationalism. 'In Your Arms' a pleasing, sketch-heavy dance-musical at the Old Globe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Payne’s take on the workaday travails and existential anguish of generally humdrum middle-class Americans is insightful and tartly compassionate, although detractors often see his films as mocking or contemptuous. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Each connecting line poses new amorous possibilities; each departing train foreshadows the ending of a passion too intense for the workaday world. Love, trickery and the drama of uncertainty: It's 'Heisenberg' at the Taper 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Raymond Briggs, the children’s author whose cheeky illustrations dignified workaday British life and an audacious breadth of emotions, most prominently in the wordless escapades of “The Snowman,” has died. Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Stuck in the workaday world for money most of my life, I was recently given the gift/nightmare of being laid off just before my 52nd birthday. Do you like my book idea? 2013-02-21T01:00:00Z Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The illustrations accompanying the "Chansons Bas" are a particular delight, as is these quatrains' reminder of the workaday side of Mallarmé's inspiration. The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Peter Manson - review 2012-06-15T21:55:09Z On set, he cut a workaday presence with his close-shaven look under a cap. Matthew Barney, Back in the Game 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z "What a shame, then," he writes, "that the animation is so workaday and the final denouement so damply familiar." 'Home': Rihanna can't make animated adventure sing, early reviews say 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z In the case of Calderon, the workaday Bronx pol of “Storefront Church,” the hurdle is a scene in which he squares off with the church’s preacher over money and meaning. Giancarlo Esposito, an Actor Known for Divergent Roles 2012-06-01T04:30:02Z Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico inland to Lake Shelby and Middle Lake, the park’s snow-white beaches and cool, green pine forests were the perfect remedy for a weary family escaping the workaday, late-for-school world. Trips Under $200 a Night 2011-01-19T18:20:03.080Z What’s inside the sleek machine is ugly and dumb and workaday. The College-Admissions Scandal and the Banality of Scamming 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z We all marvel at the workaday traffic on the Grand Canal. Three generations, a lot of canals and a cat sanctuary: Mastering a family trip to Venice In Kidman’s case, her finest performance may be a cumulative one, far outstripping the workaday job of taking a character from the page to the stage. Nicole Kidman belongs in our pantheon of great actresses 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z That includes the very language in which I’m writing this, our workaday American English. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z His most longstanding interpreter, however, is the Swedish actor Krister Henriksson, whose more phlegmatic, workaday version of the detective has figured in 26 episodes of a Swedish TV series also called “Wallander.” The Detective Kurt Wallander on DVD 2012-05-27T03:41:56Z The closer you get, the stranger it looks: The roughness of its red, worn, workaday surface is at odds with its Victorian pedigree. Atop the Met, a Haunting House 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z And despite all the vintage references, “Sgt. Pepper” situated its songs in the present: sometimes a rushed, workaday world and sometimes a mind-altered escape. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Others were workaday volumes, filled with marginal scribbles. A Grolier Club Tribute to the Printer Aldus Manutius 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z After the generous slab of foie gras that is the Porter score for “Kiss Me, Kate,” the workaday prosody of Tim Rice’s lyrics for “Evita” tastes like a cold hot dog. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z All those works take place in suburban America and have at their centers workaday folks living against the backdrop of sweeping change. Everyday People, Extraordinary Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In the morning we would drive to Nice and return to the workaday world. Back to Provence 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z “Rye loved being a workaday guy,” Walter writes affectionately, and we sense that this determined son of immigrants will survive history’s conflagrations for old-fashioned reasons: rectitude, fidelity, sacrifice. Jess Walter’s New Novel Revisits a Turbulent Era Much Like Our Own 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z These days, workaday refugees from the mercantile bustle of Taipei, the island’s capital, flock here to soak away ailments real and imagined. Journeys: In Taiwan, Steaming Pools of Paradise 2010-03-19T15:29:00Z Mandvi reminded me that “All-American Muslim,” a reality show on the Learning Channel showing the workaday lives of Muslim Americans, had met with similar reactions. “Halal in the Family”: The Sitcom We Need 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z He saw God in workaday things, such as a field lit up by sunlight. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z At a certain point, it changes from color to black and white and back, presumably to contrast the French landscape as seen through a child’s eyes with the grown-up colorless workaday world. ‘My Name Is Hmmm ,’ a French Road Movie 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z They’re a welcome change from the workaday supermarket kale and spinach I rely on in winter. Gnocchi, Leeks, Soupy Greens: What Else Do You Need? 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z They knew that the feat of art was to stand there and look at something — something as innocent and workaday as just another person — and see it so hard that you understood it. Mourning in Paris 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Which is not to say that Highland is all workaday grit and no glamour. Home Grown 2010-08-26T16:02:00Z And, maybe more troubling, was he at risk of becoming one more foreign-born director with a solid but workaday career in Hollywood, an outcome his perfectionist mind couldn't abide? In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z I’d escaped my dreary, workaday legal demons, purging them from my consciousness once and for all. My fancy law firm hell: I set up a Scale of Dismay to measure the degree to which my job was ruining my life 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Despite its workaday subject matter, this volume arrives as if it were grander than the average pop psychology walkabout. 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z And then there is the thorny matter of regrets: the business of what we could have done, if a spouse or kids or just the workaday need to make a living had not intruded. Playhouse finds resonance in Chicago's 'Working' lives 2011-03-03T02:00:12Z A movie like Jacques Audiard’s tough and tender melodrama “Rust and Bone,” with its workaday French setting and its restless hand-held camera. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z For all three, the workaday method, as the old credo has it, is: First simplify, then exaggerate, then repeat. QAnon and the Fear and Loathing of an American Conspiracy Theory 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z For his first two novels—both about painters—Sudoku was Alameddine’s workaday tonic, a way of drawing down the anxiety between sentences. The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Martins’s own choreography is largely workaday and unmemorable. Turmoil continues even after New York City Ballet chief hands in resignation 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Each tells me that the outdoors offers a kind of antidote to their workaday lives. A wilderness survival course leaves a novice camper hungry, cold and triumphant 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z At the same time, it’s a grind for the workaday pros who play thousands upon thousands of hands, many of them drawn to Vegas after the government outlawed high-stakes poker websites. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z And while a shadowy figure does open the act with a strong solo, five dancers in workaday clothing soon appear and usher in a purely dance-driven fugue and variations. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z Here, for instance, is a tiny slice of workaday humiliation. The Secret Actor on auditioning 2013-04-15T06:00:24Z It was one of those summer holiday talks, in which, freed from the confines of workaday worries, the conversation meanders to places rarely visited. Why I never tried to find out who murdered my father 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Many of the poems printed in the book appear on either the CD or DVD too, with "Bubble Muzzle", a lament of the workaday grind, appearing across all three media. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Everything Speaks In Its Own Way by Kate Tempest 2012-07-20T10:42:03Z The Bunker, which is open by appointment, is in a workaday area in West Palm Beach, across the Intracoastal Waterway from Palm Beach. Mar-a-Lago Has a Feisty New Neighbor 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The five large portraits in David R. Ibata’s “I See a Darkness” are linked to workaday life by objects both within and outside the picture frame. Review | In the galleries: At Strathmore, artists illuminate the darkness 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z This means less work for women actors, and fewer opportunities for them to develop their skills via the many workaday parts available to men. Exit the women, stage left 2012-12-10T19:30:42Z The first was a sandwich of loose ground meat on a workaday hamburger bun slathered with melted cheese, ketchup and mustard, served in a drab old building underneath a parking garage. Frugal Traveler: Eating in Iowa: Farm-Fresh, Fried and Frugal 2013-08-14T22:43:34Z And then, miraculously, people who have been silently coming in and out of the office, going about their workaday business, begin to imitate the characters, speaking the lines and even acting them out. Heard Any Good Books Lately, Zelda? 2010-09-30T17:16:00Z It’s the sound of the banal workaday current from which the secret spark is struck—the one that lights the sacred flame of obsession, passion, invention, creation. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z These solitary evening walks are healing, a cleansing of the soul, drawing a line between the workaday world and the night time, the land of stories, relaxation and sleep. Why I love … hill walking 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z It can infuse even the driest of pictures with the illusion of greatness, and price tags this bloated, too, can imbue workaday art with new weight. That $450 Million Leonardo? It’s No Mona Lisa. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z In photographing such workaday items this way, he says, "They actually end up looking different." Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z "It's a workaday world. I like that saying 'Bring the body and the mind will follow.'" At 74, Al Pacino is still chasing that next great role 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The workaday nature of their asks speaks to Republicans’ extremism. Opinion: Let's count the reasons Democrats have no business helping the House GOP elect a speaker 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z He works in technology — thrust, like so many here, from workaday lives into the disorienting role of front-line worker. 'I need to ask God why.' In Israel and Gaza, the scale of death overwhelms the living 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Few voters outside workaday Democratic politics would recognize her name, but Butler is well known inside the party apparatus. California governor chooses labor leader and Democratic insider to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Dark streets and lighted windows conspire to make a familiar kind of magic; it’s a different world when the sun goes down and the workaday world packs it in, quieter, emptier, weirder. 'Still Up' review: Insomniacs text the night away in this sweet rom-com series 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The actors’ union has said it is trying to ensure reasonable wages for workaday members, in particular those making movies or TV shows for streaming services. Streep and Clooney Lead Donation Campaign for Striking Actors 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Until recently, the industry has also been a boon to more workaday businesses. With Hollywood on Strike, a Bright Spot in New York’s Economy Goes Dark 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Both the writers’ and actors’ unions say they are trying to ensure living wages for workaday members, in particular those working for streaming services. Your Friday Briefing 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The beasts are the muscle machines, the workaday haulers chuffing to and fro with the takings of forests and mines, fields and factories. Patt Morrison: Is California about to lose its most beautiful train ride? 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In between are the workaday yarns of aspiring auteurs scratching out a living at the bottom rungs of the movie business. The graphic novel 'Blood of the Virgin' brings ’70s L.A., grindhouse movie biz to gory life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Most of this is workaday stuff that does nothing to advance the suggestion that the FBI had it in for Trump. Column: Why Special Counsel John Durham's report takes so long to say so little 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z That darker truth hidden beneath the mundane humor of workaday parking struggles becomes a pattern in the book. 'Paved Paradise' explains why parking is both a local nuisance and a global blight 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z His coup started out as a workaday assignment: Travel from Paris to a client’s home in northern France to estimate how much their artwork and artifacts would sell for at auction. They thought a painting in their TV room was a fake. It sold for $850K. 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Take, for example, one overcast, workaday Wednesday several weeks ago, when a few high-ranking executives from Seattle City Light strolled into City Hall to give a presentation. Seattle utilities consider massive efforts that could help green our grid 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z These are the workaday tasks banks perform for their customers. Opinion | How one bank’s collapse reflects a broader anxiety in Silicon Valley 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z He observes the workaday churn with a keen eye. Review | From a former museum guard, a meditation on art, time and loss 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z At the same time, his plots — including that of his new novel, “Mr. Breakfast” — depict the abrupt irruption of the uncanny and terrifying into our familiar workaday world. Review | The novel ‘Mr. Breakfast’ asks: What if you could choose your fate? 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The cumulative effect has been to throw normally stoic Britons into a gripping anxiety, not just in perennially downtrodden industrial areas, but also in healthier, workaday cities like Swindon. As U.K. Braces for Painful Budget Cuts, the Mood Is Gloomy 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The cumulative effect has been to throw normally stoic Britons into a gripping anxiety, not just in perennially downtrodden industrial areas but also in healthier, workaday cities like Swindon. As Britain Braces for Painful Budget Cuts, the Mood Is Gloomy 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The president has long used his affinity for cars to burnish his workaday origins and, more recently, to conjure an aura of vitality despite being the oldest president in American history. How Biden Uses His ‘Car Guy’ Persona to Burnish His Everyman Image 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Along with sweeping policy decisions, the legislative body is responsible for an array of workaday responsibilities that help keep the city running, such as approving contracts, making appropriations and weighing in on real estate projects. Friday's L.A. City Council meeting canceled, next steps unclear 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Dense crowds packed the route through the heart of ceremonial London – and thousands more people are lining the more workaday suburban roads the hearse will take on its journey to Windsor. Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral | Live updates 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Rather, this workaday Englishman is the central figure in a thought-provoking, occasionally plodding character study penned by Ian McEwan, the esteemed British author. Ian McEwan’s ‘Lessons’ explores how life is shaped by unforgiving histories 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Raymond Briggs, 88, the children’s author whose cheeky illustrations dignified workaday British life and an audacious breadth of emotions, most prominently in the wordless escapades of “The Snowman,” died Aug. 9 in Brighton, England. This week’s passages 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z And she gives a matter-of-fact account of an average theater artist’s life: a few hits, plenty of flops, workaday stints writing for television and movies. Review | Mary Rodgers’s memoir weighs in on her famous dad and Stephen Sondheim 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Raymond Briggs, 88, the children’s author whose cheeky illustrations dignified workaday British life and an audacious breadth of emotions, most prominently in the wordless escapades of “The Snowman,” died Tuesday in Brighton, England. This week’s passages 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z By painting a painting within a painting — an outdoor leisure scene inside an indoor workaday setting — the artist wanted to show that the line separating reality from illusion was permeable. Perspective | Proving his point When pulled fresh and slightly puffy from a griddle, the tortilla is a workaday object, an ordinary beauty forged from little more than corn, water and salt. Review | The 25 best tacos in the D.C. area As Lugosi stews and weighs his options, a workaday character actor named Boris Karloff sees the dramatic possibilities of the Monster, the pathos of a stitched-together undead man not made for this world. How a father-son battle spawned Hollywood's classic monsters 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z But one of the most potent ways Ms. Shia has found to transcend the workaday has been designing bespoke motorcycles — for herself. Striking a Balance Between Art and Motorcycle Maintenance 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The most memorable Halls ads of the 1990s featured coughing people leaving their workaday world for a Tetris-like liminal space grandly called “the Halls of Medicine,” an alternate universe of candy-colored relief. It’s Been an Interesting Few Years in Cough-Drop Advertising 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z God is in the details, as the saying goes; Ginder is a sharp writer, and even his workaday observations turn up countless small gems. Review | For fans of ‘Veep,’ Grant Ginder’s new novel is just the thing 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He’s more interested in shading in the narrative ellipses and bringing out the workaday texture of his characters’ worlds. Review: Romance and real estate mix in the sweet and sexy 'Paris, 13th District' 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Trading his grimace for a warm smile on his broad, expressive face, he also played men of the cloth and workaday laborers in crisis. Nehemiah Persoff, one of Hollywood’s busiest actors, dies at 102 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z They start with the workaday challenges of getting things done on Capitol Hill, such as clashes of egos, partisan politicking, and Senate rules that can work to complicate even simple matters. As Ukraine conflict rages, Congress struggles to legislate a response 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Zoom became, for the nation, a household word; suddenly your colleagues were arrayed on a screen in front of you like personalized, workaday “Brady Bunch” opening credits. In America, a few days in March 2020 echo two years later 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z By modern standards, many of the photos seem workaday, unremarkable, though I found them endlessly enchanting at the time. David Attenborough’s ‘Trials of Life’: A reference work with the power to transport 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But it’s a foolish reader who fails to seek the flashes of brilliance and insight that glint amid the more workaday pieces. Review | In ‘Burning Questions,’ Margaret Atwood ponders an astonishing array of subjects 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z So if you become irritated at the IRS’s unresponsiveness to your workaday inquires, you should remember that its shortcomings are caused by the actions of lawmakers. Column: Don't blame the IRS for its lousy service. Blame Congress 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Instead he envisions a more cost-efficient and workaday sanctuary for the future, noting that worshipers today are often content to attend services in run-of the-mill settings such as a metal building or gym. For tornado-ravaged churches, rebuilding means rethinking 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z And criticism from Maher, a comedian who despises former President Trump, seems to have more weight than workaday conservative commentators. Bill Maher identifies left’s ‘Achilles heel’ in wide-ranging interview 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Rumors of ghost signers spring every so often, with the signatures of workaday players and superstar athletes like Shaquille O’Neal and Cam Newton sometimes questioned. An Autographed Card Sold for $4.6 Million. Did Luka Doncic Really Sign It? 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z But she and others who stayed said the past week stuck in a fire zone had made their workaday routines more meaningful. An Unsung Pit Crew of California’s Wildfires: Hotel Workers Left Behind 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Holmes initially thought the workaday Noyo Harbor wouldn’t be a tourist destination. The ballad of Captain Dan: A California fisherman sailing the choppy waters of climate change 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z So can it compete in the crowded tourism marketplace and overcome Nottingham's "workaday city" image? Nottingham Castle: How do you market a missing medieval castle? 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z His strength as a fiction writer — on fine display in his previous novel, “Lawn Boy” — is his knack for locating telling depths within small canvases and finding compelling drama in workaday lives. Bainbridge-raised author Jonathan Evison comes home in ‘Legends of the North Cascades’ 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The takeaway from many of these workaday observers: “Everyone tried to distance themselves from what happened and deny any participation.” Review: A chilling 'Final Account' by witnesses and perpetrators of World War II Nazi atrocities 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z And unless a complicated set change demands an extended time out, I’d prefer not to have to return to the workaday world until the play is over. Cut the intermission, please. Why I hope the pandemic ends a theatrical tradition 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z But there are other genres on the rise — from romance and horror to Black superhero reboots and musings on workaday life. Yes, lots of comics were racist. A new generation of Black artists is reinventing them 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He brought with him a background as a civil rights lawyer and a team of private attorneys rather than workaday prosecutors who have close ties to law enforcement. How the Trial Over Floyd’s Death Flipped the Script for Black Victims 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z They testify not only to the danger and desperation that police officers confront daily, but also to the split-second choices and missteps by members of law enforcement that can escalate workaday arrests into fatalities. Throughout Trial Over George Floyd’s Death, Killings by Police Mount 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z They can also turn a workaday story into a substance-free scandal! Defund the media! (Sort of.) Political reporters are hurting America — let's get rid of them 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z And I’m not just saying that because I went to the workaday school on the other side of the Kansas-Missouri border. March Madness 2021: can anyone stop Gonzaga's march to the title? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Sen. Bernard Sanders made an evocative display of noncelebrity status on Inauguration Day when he wore a parka, face mask, oversized hand-knit mittens and workaday pants to the presidential inauguration earlier this month. GOP voters still want Trump in ‘major role’ 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The Vermont independent and self-described democratic socialist appeared at the inauguration of President Biden clad in a parka, plain workaday pants and some heavy knitted mittens. Loyal fans greet Trump in Florida 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Soups and souffles are at home on any table, festive or workaday. Perspective | Energy density is your grandmother’s diet, and it still works 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z I’ve also used it in the way a MacBook Air is really meant to be used: as an everyday computer for workaday tasks. Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: new chip, no problem 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z What is it about our time that is drawing people to Jeep-like vehicles with arguably the least utility in our workaday lives? Putting the Sport Back in S.U.V.s, 2 Jeep Rivals Sell the Off-Grid Life 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Another portrait by Botticelli in London’s National Gallery shows a more workaday youth – someone of Botticelli’s own class, an artisan. The $80m Botticelli: could its auction trigger a Covid-rescue fire sale? 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z For ground-floor retailers reliant on the workaday rhythms of coffee meetings, business lunches and happy hours, though, that timeline spells “devastation,” said Stowell. What will happen to Seattle’s empty office towers when COVID-19 ends? 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The gears of daily life are again beginning to grind; the workaday world is reasserting itself. Far-flung coronavirus outbreaks 'took over the planet' 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z In many cases, the changes will transform workaday offices into fortified sites resembling biohazard labs. When the Office Is Like a Biohazard Lab 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The deeper shock of the Hart Island videos may be the realization that they reveal a workaday event. How Covid-19 Has Forced Us to Look at the Unthinkable 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z But for workaday journalists, the cost of a muted campaign is significant. Reporters Grounded by Pandemic Lose ‘That Window Into the Campaign’ 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z And every line in “Utopia Parkway” holds out that same promise of workaday greatness. Adam Schlesinger loved the suburban strivers he wrote about, no more so than on 'Utopia Parkway' 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Now, not even a workaday player draws an icy stare from his coach for heaving a 40-foot jumper. Stand back LeBron and Serena. Patrick Mahomes is the new face of US sports 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z But despite the workaday setting and the unconcealed artifice, by the third or fourth time I heard the song, I couldn’t help feeling … something. Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Become Holograms. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The focus on job placement meant that Canadian workers were ushered more quickly back into workaday society and thus today seem less entangled in drugs and family breakdown. Opinion | Who Killed the Knapp Family? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z So attired, the royals will pass seamlessly as a couple of workaday “hosers”. Welcome to Canada, Harry and Meghan! Here’s how to fit in with us Canucks | John Semley 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z But then something less workaday: the presence and the protection of not merely celebrity but intellectual and artistic reputation. Never date a poet. They’ll always do the dirty on you | Alex Clark 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z With so much grand talk about “constitutional duties’’ and “respecting the founders” and “honoring oaths,” there is also the mundane and the workaday. Behind the Scenes of Impeachment: Crammed Offices, Late Nights, Cold Pizza 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z He sleeps soundly — nine hours a night, he ballparks — and organizes the self-described “unemployed celebrity” chapter of his life around a series of workaday goals. James Comey Would Like to Help 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The tweaks are a little eerie, but that dynamic works for the movie, where Frank’s sometimes-murderous job is treated with dispassionate, workaday remove. In The Irishman, Scorsese finally takes the glamour out of gangsters 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Some of his most important cases, he said, were low-profile and set no universal legal precedent but related directly to workaday life and injustice in the rural South. James Robertson, federal judge who took stand against warrantless surveillance, dies at 81 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z And it is why, among the tens of thousands of workaday passes completed throughout Europe’s leagues this weekend, somebody, somewhere will try to emulate Scholes in conjuring the impossible. Paul Scholes and the wonderful aesthetic appeal of the perfect pass | Nick Ames 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z I asked Hawk how close he felt Pro Skater was to the workaday reality of skateboarding, and he humored me. Tony Hawk on how his games changed skateboarding 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z But more recently, the fees are being charged at workaday properties, especially in big cities. Marriott and Hilton Sued Over ‘Resort Fees,’ Long a Bane for Travelers 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The content is a fresh mix of expert and workaday advice, from real people all over the world. Card skimmers, old laptop fixes, fingerprint scans, and more: Tech Q&A 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Pack a snack or grab a bite from the food trucks that park along First Street and put the workaday world behind you. The 10 best places in the D.C. area to watch a movie under the stars 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Global banks are boosting tech investments for trade and transaction banking - the workaday business of financing trade, managing cash and facilitating payments - amid growing competition and a shift in cross-border supply chains. HSBC-backed startup aims to become LinkedIn of global trade 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Painted screaming yellow, the workaday world is elevated. MOCA on the rebound? Three strong shows and free entry are welcome signs of change 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z We need more workaday improvements, too, like safe roads and bridges. Editorials from around New York 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The news organizations that employed the best workaday reporters on the Mueller beat are not entirely blameless in this regard. The Media and the Mueller Report’s March Surprise 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z His biting tragicomedies about romance, racism, workaday angst and trying to feel at home in the world keep coming back — as they should. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for April 2019 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In book after book, Mr. McCarry pulled away the curtain to capture the workaday worlds of espionage and high-stakes politics with an uncanny prescience and clear-eyed realism. Charles McCarry, CIA officer who became a preeminent spy novelist, dies at 88 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The emphasis is on workaday procedure, not giant leaps. Review | The Imax documentary ‘Apollo 11’ is a virtual round-trip ticket to the moon 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z If work is ever going to be more than something you do for money, you need to be engaged in something other than the actual workaday business of it. The joy of pettiness: why everyone needs an office nemesis 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s untarnished by the workaday furniture we get for our real homes, the Sears dining tables and cheap Ikea Billy bookcases. Letter of Recommendation: Dollhouses 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z But so did Bourne’s tireless New Adventures company, whether seen as workaday Brits or as menacing embodiments of paranoia. Review: Matthew Bourne's 'Cinderella' dances into WWII with a profound beauty 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The only business on it is the Elephant Car Wash. And the other four blocks have businesses that would rather be aligned with the booming downtown than the workaday street that raised them. From Aurora to Borealis, it’s still the same drive 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z In the throes of personal upheaval and heartbreak – not to mention the workaday grind – Grande has not only found resilience but sought to spread it. Ariana Grande: a beacon of resilience in her worst and biggest year 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s the kind of ingredient you never single out, but if it weren’t there in your workaday tuna salad or minestrone, your tongue would know that something was missing. Three recipes that give celery the star status it deserves 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z A bedtime story requires just enough focus to distract from emails and other workaday stresses to help quiet the mind – but it can’t be too exciting, either. Dream job: the writer paid to send millions to sleep 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Buffalo's workaday ethic runs straight into its cultural and artistic flair in an unlikely spot: Silo City. You’re going where? Buffalo 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z This was a “job stopper,” he told me, a branding of sorts, a vow to remain exiled from the mundane world of workaday jobs and devoted to a life of art. He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z But in fact Anderson has often taken on global events far from the normal purview of a workaday television actor. Pamela Anderson's political activism is no flash in the pan 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Out in the shopping centers where signatures were being gathered last week, however, the issue aroused mainly confusion or apathy or workaday greed. Private-equity money backs an effort to overturn California law intended to help the poor 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Arguably too radical a reimagining for fans of the first film, it’s also likely to be too pretentious for aficionados of workaday horror. Review | ‘Suspiria’ is a beautiful mess and stars Tilda Swinton in three roles and don’t ask us what it means 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z At the shopping centers where signatures were being gathered last week, the issue aroused mainly confusion or apathy or workaday greed. Private-equity firm is pouring money into effort to repeal California’s bail reform - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But in her race for governor she must also defend the record she amassed as a workaday politician. Stacey Abrams, a Daughter of the South, Asks Georgia to Change 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z My favourite walk is a workaday one, from my home in Stockwell – where I both live and work – to Soho, in yet more central London, where I socialise and shop. ‘Would that all journeys were on foot’: writers on the joy of walking 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The word that best describes this jukebox musical might just be “workaday.” Review: The Huey Lewis and the News jukebox musical 'The Heart of Rock & Roll' is more square than hip 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s a sign that the streaming giant, a formidable presence here at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, might be trying to distinguish its workaday product from its prestige fare. ‘Outlaw King’ and ‘Non-Fiction’ bring winds of technological change to Toronto 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Compared to a workaday Civic, the Type R hatchback is a monster. Edmunds offers top picks for performance hatchbacks 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Childhood passes too quickly as it is, and the young will be inculcated into our workaday gloom soon enough. Opinion | Just let the kids sled 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Some suggest the workaday crowd doesn’t want stock because of its volatility and potential to create overexposure to an employer’s performance. Apple, Starbucks Have an Answer for the Tight Job Market: Hand Out Stock 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s a vibrant, contagiously joyful mosaic of street life, parties, Warriors and Raiders fandom and workaday grit. Review | ‘Blindspotting’ is a bracing look at race, class and masculinity. Oh, and it’s funny. 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z That decision prompted Justice Elena Kagan to declare, in a dissent, that the Court was ”weaponizing the First Amendment” and using it as ”a sword . . . against workaday economic and regulatory policy.” Wireless industry using First Amendment as a cudgel in its battle against safety warnings 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Thanks to them, every soldier, sailor or just workaday commuter can unfailingly reach their destination. Review | Remember when we used to get lost? Here’s why we don’t anymore. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Imagine that some workaday facet of your existence gets on everyone else’s nerves. When a Colleague Is Driving You Crazy 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Always a believer in freedom and identity — what he calls “the twin poles of every human being” — Mr. Sharansky, 70, is freeing himself from the workaday world to revel in his newest identity: grandfather. From Jewish Saint, to Israeli Politician, to Diaspora’s Ally 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z How could such remarkable sounds come from this workaday man? A Father’s Lesson: Keep the Spirit Level 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z There's no question that professional football players, like other high-paid celebrities, are in a unique position compared to average, workaday union members. How the NFL players’ union can block the league’s new ban on protests 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But the real damage was done in terse, workaday stories that justified lynching by casting its victims as “fiends,” “brutes,” “born criminals” or, that catchall favorite, “troublesome Negroes.” Opinion | When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Chronos was the normal, steady, workaday flow — what we would call “clock time.” New Sentences: From ‘Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Mr. McCabe’s ascent sometimes rankled the workaday agents who believed he did not pay his dues in the field. Taunted by Trump and Pressured From Above, McCabe Steps Down as F.B.I. Deputy 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The press of other workaday news stories, plus added reports of White House deviltry, overshadow the scandal brewing in the public school system of our nation’s capital. Opinion | D.C. is degrading the value of a school diploma 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s no easy way to say where “Dream Dances” takes you — but it does undeniably lure you and immerse you somewhere far from the workaday world. Kate Wallich + The YC cast a spell in ‘Dream Dances’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s the onslaught of appalled handclapping; maybe it’s the continuing insistence that Trump and his cabinet of the hyperwealthy are just workaday Americans. What If Our Current State of Affairs Is Actually ‘Normal’? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z For a generation, gentrification has been the inexact, politically charged shorthand for the way modest workaday neighborhoods change when new, more affluent residents start to move in. Denver Cafe ‘Happily Gentrifying’? Neighbors Aren’t So Happy 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Political parties without clear principles leave workaday Americans and the rest of the electorate to wonder where to put our trust for the future. Opinion | The two major parties need to return to their roots 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Thus, our protagonist can be exceedingly comical, careening from innermost stream of consciousness to conversations with workaday hospital colleagues to quirky, lovable family and friends. ‘Millard Salter’s Last Day’ is winning novel 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z But what the workaday scenes really aim to do is pull back the curtain on the forces, more thinly veneered than we realize, that impel the human animal. Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund looks at selfless, and selfish, behavior in Cannes prizewinner 'The Square' – LA Times 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z They argue that the mere idea of a flamboyantly rich New York real estate mogul as the champion of workaday lunch buckets in Middle America was silly. The swamp rises around an administration that promised to drain it 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But beyond those workaday diplomatic skills, the vice-president brings a talent that takes him into the realm of ambassadorial greatness. Mike Pence, ambassador to a sceptical world 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z He was drawn to the interstices of African life: worship services, concerts, funerals, civic activities and the workaday world. Victory in the Shadows 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Even workaday cable news appearances run the risk of rousing the First Viewer, especially if adverse weather upends executive tee times in New Jersey. Even on Break, a Congress Weary of Trump Gets No Respite From Him 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Before this trip, I thought my fiancé and I had an understanding that I would go on the trip, have slightly raunchy but responsible fun, come back and resume my regular workaday life. I don’t? Fiancé won’t say what’s bothering him 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Some, in ties or pantsuits, kept up a pretense of workaday seriousness. ‘This is the most D.C. thing – watch a political scandal, at a bar’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s impossible to hold a workaday job and a seat in the General Assembly. Opinion | I’m not running for the Virginia House this year, and it’s really bugging me 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z With dealmaking in Asia sluggish and Chinese investment banks taking market share from global rivals, some foreign banks are ploughing resources into transaction banking, the workaday business of financing trade, managing cash and facilitating payments. Back to basics: global investment banks beef up transaction business in Asia 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z In doing so, he, like his predecessors, steers clear of a definition of “security” that would include the workaday difficulties that actually make Americans insecure. National (in)security: What a Trump presidency really means for Americans at the edge 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In his writings and lectures, Gorsuch offers himself as a “workaday judge,” one wearing “honest, unadorned black polyester” robes from a uniform supply store. Gorsuch seen by many as smart, modest nominee for high court 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z In his writings and lectures , Gorsuch offers himself as a “workaday judge,” one wearing “honest, unadorned black polyester” robes from a uniform supply store. Disarmingly warm Gorsuch loves 'cold neutrality' of law 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Once a certain kind of workaday American would have sided with the actors offering White House protests at an awards show. Once again, the Oscars land in a divided country. But things feel different too ... 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Professor Arrow proved that the economists’ workaday tools of supply-and-demand equations are built on a logically coherent foundation. Kenneth Arrow, Nobel-Winning Economist Whose Influence Spanned Decades, Dies at 95 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z My biggest worry in testing TurboTax was more workaday than an audit. Tax Software: The Basics Work, but Peace of Mind Costs Extra 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s why Odette so often defaults to Father Sam’s workaday encounters with several current parishioners and family members as a way to better mirror his emotional and spiritual states. A haunted Catholic priest questions his past in the slow-moving 'Fall' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The mundane nature of their respectful yet workaday treatment of the body compared with Nate’s earnest searching for meaning amid planetary alignments hits home, of course. Review: David Hyde Pierce puts life into confusing ‘A Life’ 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Her speeches are mostly wonkish and dull, workaday constructions of a politician who appears to view human progress as a series of nudging policy improvements. Hating Hillary 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just that she had swapped out her workaday suits for a faded purple T-shirt and jean shorts with Converse high-tops. Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The process he describes is more workaday than capturing lightning in a bottle. 'I always admired true artists, so I learned from them': The enigmatic Bob Dylan opens up 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z This was not casual, workaday bullying but a carefully planned operation, systematic, meticulous – and one which city authorities have until now largely managed to cover up. Revealed: how raid by Kenyan police drove street children to their deaths 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Nils is focused almost entirely on his workaday duties until he learns his son has died under suspicious circumstances. ‘In Order of Disappearance’: Revenge story aims for laughs amid gory lunacy 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z These caught on with climbers, and soon the Chouinards and their band of friends and metalworkers had turned the old slaughterhouse into a retail store that sold bivy sacks, wool gloves, and other workaday gear. Patagonia’s Philosopher-King 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Brown and most of the executive team will be in the city, along with data scientists and design engineers; workaday functions like procurement, training and supply-chain management will stay in Schaumburg. Corporate chiefs return downtown, though some leave staff behind 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Brown and most of the executive team will be in the city, along with data scientists and design engineers; workaday functions like procurement, training and supply chain management will stay in Schaumburg. Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z At a gym in North Andover, she trains alongside workaday folks of all ages. How an American Took Down Judo 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z People in their boring workaday cars will stare, a mix of wonder and fear in their eyes, like your presumed irresponsibility might spread. It's convertible season, so what are you waiting for? 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z And if it just seems to be a workaday violation of a famous person’s rights, like slapping Reese Witherspoon’s name on jewelry without her permission? Gawker Case Calls Attention to a Go-To Hollywood Lawyer 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z But a brisk walk up two flights brought me into a well-lit, open and welcoming studio that will be a fine alternative to the workaday blues. PilatesProWorks Alexandria set to open in D.C. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Hoover was hamstrung in the rough-and-tumble of workaday Washington. What Happened When a Non-Politician Won the White House 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Don DeLillo’s latest novel toggles between a remote compound in central Asia and the workaday world of New York City. Review: Don DeLillo’s new novel considers life after death 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Sanders is the oldest candidate in the race — yet, politically, he’s the youngest candidate, exuberantly putting forth an FDR-sized vision and agenda to lift up America’s workaday majority. Why Bernie Sanders will, should and must stay in the race 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z So this jacket is great for a workaday commute, but wouldn’t cut it in hurricane conditions. Macintosh Raincoats: A Guy’s Shopping Guide 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z The workaday drudgery that awaits Mr. Christie in New Jersey, however, may not lead him to the same conclusion. Seeing Chris Christie With Donald Trump, New Jersey and Internet Cringe 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The men of "Spotlight" find saviors in workaday journalists. Oscars 2016: Victimhood and justice are major themes in this race, which reveal a lot about us 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In the past 15 years or so, and especially since 2008, it’s been made perfectly clear to the workaday majority of people that the corporate mantra of “income growth” benefitting everyone is a deliberate lie. Trans-Pacific Partnership: Written by and for the rich to further enrich themselves at our expense 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z He fell into the workaday grind and started planning for a future that wasn’t dominated by snowboarding. Professional snowboarder commits to living outside the box 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Here and elsewhere, an entire grocery store—selling more workaday household items, meat and fish—was sectioned off or located in a sub-basement. A Spree Through Tokyo’s Department-Store Food Halls 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The setting is exotic, and the characters are colorful in ordinary, workaday ways. 'Killing Fields' on Discovery follows a real-life detective on a cold case 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z But the Syrians he is in contact with have more workaday concerns, too. Syrian refugees in Scotland: cold weather but warm welcome 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But that just makes it a workaday responsibility of political leaders to make sure this stuff doesn’t get mainstreamed. A leading presidential candidate embracing the fringe? That’s nuts — and new. 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z What grounds them, and their story, are the workaday details of making honey in their hardscrabble corner of Tuscany, far from the touristy romance of hillside estates. Off-center 'The Wonders' finds sweetness in unlikely places 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Venturella is one of the hundreds of talent agents operating on the fringes of Hollywood, where the clients are mostly character actors, fledgling screenwriters, workaday directors, even unknown wannabes. Selling Stardom: A talent agent on Hollywood's fringe, and a trail of unhappy clients 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z For many of its regulars, Swami’s presents a kind of alternate environment from their workaday lives. 'Swami's will never be the same' after two surfers die at famed beach 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Johnson used his unique star power to begin to revitalize Sacramento, a workaday town that was hard-hit by the economic crisis and changes in U.S. manufacturing and agriculture-related businesses. Former lawmaker likely running to succeed Sacramento's basketball star mayor 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Maviglio said Johnson had been "transformational" to the city, a workaday town where politics and agriculture are major businesses that is becoming hip after taking a major hit during the financial crisis. Jockeying begins in race to succeed Sacramento’s NBA star mayor 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Is a workaday version of your favorite thing really better than nothing at all? Why the New Minecraft Game Is a Big Disappointment 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Rather than discuss the workaday functions of the office, Avakian said Tuesday he wants to create jobs and fight climate change. Avakian running for Oregon secretary of state 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The depiction of an artistic protest against a dreary, workaday world recalls any number of animated Eastern European films from the 1970s. 'Annual Animation Show of Shows' finally arrives in theaters, but this really isn't its year 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z He’ll even try something so nutty that it rarely surfaces outside public tennis courts packed with workaday hackers: The full-speed net rush off his opponent’s second serve. How Roger Federer Got Sneaky Good 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Standing among the workaday cycads and orchids, the 5-foot-high Indonesian plant is a freakish, if alluring, anomaly. Corpse flower mania is in full bloom in Denver 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z In fact, the road to creative breakthroughs is paved with mundane, workaday tasks. Looking for a Breakthrough? Study Says to Make Time for Tedium 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Unlike touring pros, who earn their living playing golf, club pros are the workaday instructors, pro shop managers and other employees who are a staple of courses throughout the country. PGA Championship: The Decline of the Club Pro 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z But keen-eyed observers will spot a groovy, oval-mirrored door tucked amid the workaday storefronts, a glass wall with silvery bubble letters bearing the studio’s name and, behind it, dark velvet curtains. Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios Turns 45 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z In the early 20th century, “gig” developed more workaday connotations. ‘Gig’: Once a Word for a Joke, Now for an Economy 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Gehry made a name for himself by adopting the generic, workaday built environment of Los Angeles — its chain link and corrugated metal — as the basis of his architecture. Frank Gehry agreed to make over the L.A. River -- with one big condition 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The group shelled out $5.4 million from January through June for all the workaday line items, from travel to catering to political consulting, that have traditionally been paid for by candidates' campaign committees. Bush not a candidate? Super PAC's spending reveals otherwise 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z What keeps them coming back, they all said, are the fraternity, tradition and the chance to transcend their workaday lives. Tiny Birds, Big Drama: Inside the World of the Birdmen of Queens 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z They began as workaday interactions between the police and the public, often involving minor traffic stops in places like Cincinnati; North Charleston, S.C.; and Waller County, Tex. Through Lens of Video, a Transformed View of Police 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z They began as workaday interactions between the police and the public, often involving minor traffic stops in places like Cincinnati, North Charleston, S.C., and Waller County, Tex. Through Lens of Video, a Transformed View of Police 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Such were the moments in Joyce E. Mitchell’s evolution from a workaday prison employee to a love-struck and fully aware accomplice, as outlined in three statements Ms. Mitchell made last month to investigators. Prison Worker Who Aided Escape Tells of Sexual Favors, Saw Blades and Deceit 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The trends amount to a two-tiered mortgage market that heavily favors the affluent over the masses of workaday borrowers, experts and advocates said. Two-tier system in mortgage market means higher costs for some borrowers 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z For all the amazingness of the results, their brainstorming sessions sound strictly workaday. Penn & Teller aim to work their brand of magic on Broadway 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Bit parts and background work followed – the sort of workaday jobs that allowed for brushes with fame at the edge of the limelight. Aspiring actor buries bodies between movie gigs 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In that sense, “everyday” is a variant of “workaday.” ‘Folk’ Wisdom 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Like any sport, there’s the workaday schedule of the regular season and then there’s the games in which the title is on the line. American Pharoah Won the Triple Crown—Now What? 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Currently, the women’s game relies on jump shots, which translate to lower shooting percentages and a more workaday style. The W.N.B.A. Should Bring the Basket Down, and Fandom Up 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Though the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck last Saturday has now claimed more than 7,000 lives, modern, workaday Kathmandu — the Kathmandu of ring roads and malls — has come through. Hippie-Era Kathmandu Got Destroyed in the Quake 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Graduation is a rite of passage from the comfortable and compelling world of academia to the hard knock life of the workaday world. New Cars For New Grads Under $300/Month 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Do workaday Americans report to work on only alternating Tuesdays and Wednesdays? ‘Folk’ Wisdom 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z More often, his writing captured the workaday travails of single life in the city, with plaintive progress reports that included: “Extra! Extra! Ryan isn’t getting any!” Before Writing for Mayor de Blasio, He Wrote About Love 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Most of the activity along the line was more workaday. Plenty of history behind Squannacook River Rail Trail effort 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z “They’re very workaday classic New York brownstones,” said Tara Kelly, the executive director of Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts. Rebuilding a Block to Greet the Met Museum 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z She readied herself for return to the workaday, removing the ballet slippers and the maiden’s hat; he stowed them in his bag. Free Ballet at Columbus Circle 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z I have loved this job from the first day I assumed it, but I must admit that I find it more workaday than I once did. After more than three decades and 3,000 reviews, a fond farewell “Gaziantep is a workaday city, not a cosmopolitan place, even though it’s prosperous,” a young employee of an American contractor based there told me. ISIS at the Border 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z But the patrols can also ensnare workaday residents simply trying to get home. Housing Patrols Can Mean Safety or Peril to Residents 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Then it was dusk, and, down below, the workaday crowds of lower Manhattan shuffled toward subways through labyrinthine passageways. Call of Duty: My Rejuvenating Killing Spree But nearly as remarkable is the workaday way in which the league encourages players to cripple themselves on the road to eventual retirement. Given the N.F.L.'s Culture of Manliness, an Injured Tony Romo Likely Will Play in London 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, they were in Ottawa to play the Senators, and alongside the workaday topics of wins and losses and line combinations, the Red Wings found themselves talking about Howe. When Red Wings Are on the Ice, Minds Are on Gordie Howe 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Their workaday possessions — computers, files and photographs that put personal touches on a boss’s desk or an assistant’s cubicle — were packed and moved on Friday and through the weekend. First Tenant of 1 World Trade Center Arrives, Highlighting Lower Manhattan’s Renewal 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z A hotel room of one’s own might provide a little bout of perfection, disappearance and luxury amid the workaday madness that passes for our lives. A Hotel Room of One's Own 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z For most Americans the 10 days set aside as federal holidays are nothing more than brief respites from their workaday existence. Dueling holidays obscure nuanced understanding of American history 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In some ways, the workaday violence of this sport is the most disturbing. Reactions to Adrian Peterson Case Ignore Brutality on N.F.L. Fields 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z It is often staged not in a traditional restaurant setting but in a former industrial space or old storefront, celebrating traces of a harder, workaday life that was sweaty, physical and sometimes dangerous. Brunch is a waste of time, money and drunken pleasure that you don't have 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z A particularly quiet and environmentally friendly one, granted, but a workaday four-door nonetheless. How to sneak a Tesla into Russia 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z It will displace Dean Transmissions, one of the last workaday but useful long-standing businesses in Belltown, along a changing boulevard I chronicled last year. The boom and its discontents 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z There are also the duller, more workaday parts of Venice, in which one is introduced to the disquieting idea that the entire city is an occult conspiracy, leading inexorably to death. The top 10 … cities on film 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z It was a typical franchise of the Randall’s grocery chain in Houston, the sort of place where workaday Texans did their weekly shopping. Russians Start Paying the Price For Putin's Ukraine Adventure 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In this corner of the Scottish Highlands - an area with one of the lowest crime rates in the UK - the officers showing up to a relatively workaday disturbance are armed. Britain's first armed police on routine patrol 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Ministry employees still report for work every day in the offices tucked inside the Hejaz station, their workaday desks absorbing a bit of grandeur from stained-glass windows. Once Bustling, Syria’s Fractured Railroad Is a Testament to Shattered Ambitions 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s a fantastic amenity and a convenience to many thousands of people, from the tourist to the workaday commuter heading from Grand Central to an office. Bike Share’s Rough Ride 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z What is missing is the trifecta of irony, overstatement and understatement in workaday conversations. Get thee to an Institute 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z They became highly profitable and circulation-boosting undertakings amid competition from television and criticism that the paper had become too dense for workaday readers. Arthur Gelb, who transformed arts and local coverage at the New York TImes, dies at 90 The proletariat may be a vaunted pillar of Mao’s Communist revolution, but the workaday reality for China’s low-wage army of factory workers long ago eclipsed their hallowed status. Plying Social Media, Chinese Workers Grow Bolder in Exerting Clout 2014-05-03T00:28:43Z Instead, lawmakers will take up the kind of workaday legislation that they have only recently been able to agree on, namely keeping the government’s lights on. Lawmakers Return to Congress With Modest Agenda 2014-04-28T15:17:45Z From bricklayers to lawyers, from the poet Joyce Kilmer to Malcolm Wilson, the former New York governor, they stepped out of the workaday world and entered a silent space of prayer and meditation. Trying to Save a Quiet Place on Staten Island 2014-04-26T05:05:19Z Rabbi Nevins wrote a paper last year saying that such devices violated the spirit of the Sabbath and the holidays, traditionally viewed as a sanctuary from the workaday world. A Question for Seder: What Role for Screens? 2014-04-13T23:59:47Z Even more workaday acts of remote warfare—such as when drone operators shoot missiles or spy on enemies—confound today’s commanders, who are unsure how to rank them alongside acts involving physical risk. Lexington: Medals for drone pilots? 2014-03-27T15:58:21Z Unlike the Consumer Price Index, which tracks workaday items like food, gasoline and electricity, PNC focuses on the quirky, the squawky and the musical. For Gifts of ‘12 Days of Christmas,’ the Swans Really Add Up 2013-12-25T02:29:37Z Practical questions about the legal, workaday drug trade have required reams of rules and regulations to answer: Should it be specifically taxed? In 2 States, Corner Cannabis Store Nears Reality 2013-12-14T03:39:54Z For the guys, that means maybe a button-down shirt and a step above the average workaday jeans and sneakers. Boîte: Tokya: a Japanese-Themed Dance Club 2013-12-11T22:56:18Z In his 1982 short story Burning Chrome, the word cyberspace makes its first appearance as the name of a machine: the “workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the ‘Cyberspace Seven.’” What Is War in the Digital Realm? A Reality Check on the Meaning of "Cyberspace" 2013-11-26T19:45:07.990Z All the puffed-up luxury of a cocktail waitress’s style, or a stripper’s, on top of such a workaday face and body. Alice Munro: “The Bear Came over the Mountain.” 2013-10-14T04:00:00Z Why bring up these stretches of workaday achievement now? Strategies: This Ironman Market Is Still Lacking Respect 2013-08-10T19:07:43Z That keeps the NSA’s surveillance programmes within the letter of the law, but relies on stretching “relevance” far wider than its workaday legal sense. Surveillance: Silence in court 2013-07-11T14:58:10Z Whether you’re wrestling with a career issue, trying to finesse delicate office politics, or are just flummoxed by one of the countless workaday irritations of life on the job, send your questions to workologist@nytimes.com. Have a Workplace Worry? Ask the Workologist 2013-07-06T22:12:24Z The crash was also a setback for the Proton rocket, a workaday booster for the Russian space program used for commercial and military payloads. Russian Rocket Crashes in Kazakhstan 2013-07-02T12:32:14Z In the workaday sermons, you hear King answering the existential questions. On Religion: In Gospel Songs of Yore, Clues to the Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. 2013-06-15T01:12:12Z And the need to recoup costly stadium investments means high ticket prices that exclude workaday soccer fans from enjoying the national sport. Showtime in Brazil but woes sap hopes behind sport extravaganzas 2013-06-12T17:50:39Z Ferguson marshalled United's big men of the 1980s at the Cliff, the workaday Salford training ground where kids could freely hang around pleading for autographs. A Theatre of Dreams built on millions 2013-05-12T09:30:00Z In short, debt became the economic strategy of struggling workaday Americans. Austerity never works: Deficit hawks are amoral — and wrong 2013-05-05T16:00:00Z In this way, the city chips away at one of its workaday gems, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Gotham: Park Deals Chip Away at New York City’s Gems 2013-04-30T01:55:05Z The workaday world is more reluctant to join in. Chess seeks to shake off geeky image as world's best arrive in UK 2013-03-15T18:54:37Z A workaday exclusive by Sun standards, tucked on page nine. No tolerance for the n-word? 2013-03-04T09:00:02Z And there were myriad others: a band of preppy suburbanites with banners announcing themselves—”Soccer Moms Against the War”—musicians, street artists, and workaday New Yorkers. Viewpoint: Why Was the Biggest Protest in World History Ignored? 2013-02-15T13:20:23Z On Monday, the Commons meets at 2.30pm for Communities and Local Government questions - which looks like the highlight of a pretty workaday agenda. Week ahead 2013-02-01T14:48:29Z Most were a blend of his insights, experiences and observations with co-authors providing the workaday prose. Edward I. Koch, 1924-2013: Edward I. Koch, Ex-Mayor of New York, Dies 2013-02-01T11:20:49Z That sense of the commonweal, and of workaday political horse-trading, is near extinct. City Room: Gotham Extra: Christie Takes a Swing at His Party, Possibly Hurting His Political Future 2013-01-03T20:52:16Z And the basement, a workaday space with factory-style fluorescent lights, became a haunt for famous pianists with a recital or a concert on the calendar. Future Is Uncertain for Steinway’s Ornate Home for Pianos 2012-12-07T18:51:03Z Don't their polished yarns improve on reality, by giving the reader a better insight than more workaday and ambiguous "truth" can offer? When travel writing is off the beaten track 2012-11-23T02:13:57Z The procession is slow, stately and not of this world — this unremarkable world of small-town streets, Chevy station wagons and workaday lives. My Story: In a Time of Hidden Crisis, President Visits Main Street 2012-10-16T22:50:02Z What, in more workaday terms, do we need from the rest of the coalition's term? Public sector mutuals: the half-time team talk 2012-10-09T11:33:00Z With the competition so intense, much of the workaday world slides by the wayside. Edgartown Journal: Martha’s Vineyard Crowds Leave, and the Fishing Gets Serious 2012-09-15T17:09:43Z From workaday suburban offices here, across from a Gymboree, these two men are taking on one of the most powerful forces in finance today: high-frequency trading. High-Frequency Trading of Stocks Is Two Critics’ Target 2012-09-08T21:00:09Z Los Angeles in May became the largest city in the nation to ban the workaday plastic bag, which — though recycled by dog walkers everywhere — is an environmental nuisance. In California, Banning Bonfires and Library Napping 2012-09-03T00:07:30Z More workaday concerns soon intruded, such as: How do we keep our young people from moving away? Geithners of Germany on U.S. namesake: ‘We have another mentality’ 2012-08-16T10:30:00Z But the last two games had raised a few concerns: a 1-1 draw at home against the Swiss, and a workaday 2-0 victory in Athens, Sir Alf happy with neither performance. The Joy of Six: classic European Championship matches 2012-06-08T10:02:43Z That is perhaps because so many ground strokes are hit quickly after the bounce, turning workaday forehands and backhands on the baseline into half-volleys, a trend that Andre Agassi began in earnest in the 1990s. Federer’s ‘Squash’ and Radwanska’s ‘Squat’ Among Newer Tennis Shots 2012-06-05T18:54:05Z Let’s focus on the workaday crowd’s options downtown, which I will define as most of Northwest but not the top parts of Wisconsin or Connecticut. Getting a good meal in D.C. requires some ruthless economics 2012-05-25T15:59:55Z The three high school classmates from a workaday section of Queens were trained in bomb-making in the tribal areas of Pakistan, where they received their orders directly from senior members of , prosecutors said. Revelations Expected in Trial of Adis Medunjanin, a Terror Suspect 2012-04-16T02:27:17Z In a busy, workaday world, with its ceaseless nervous and physical strain, it is surely a grateful attribute, a pleasant diversion between the burdens of one day and those of the next! The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z And we have, as has been pointed out, interesting indirect proof as to what manner of life He lived on those workaday levels that we all know so much about. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z This 149-year-old company is best known for workaday automobile and homeowner’s insurance. Insuring Hollywood Against Falls (but Not Flops) 2012-03-24T16:22:52Z His sun-tanned skin and workaday garb seemed at variance with his courteous dignity of manner, which admirably became the resident of so ancient a mansion. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z My outlook was idealistic rather than practical, and to harmonize it with the workaday world caused me much mental anguish and struggle, as it does many a young man, even where affluent fortune has smiled. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z He rarely socialized with them, eschewing both the workaday and after-hours mingling that had long greased the levers of Massachusetts government. The Long Run: Romney?s C.E.O. Style in Massachusetts Could Irk Lawmakers 2012-03-09T20:43:59Z After stepping down and being replaced, she wound up in the grimy Brooklyn Supreme Court building with workaday responsibilities. Ann Pfau, Veteran Judge, Gets a Crash Course on the Bench 2012-03-01T15:46:05Z Still Yarmouth strikes one as an honest, workaday place doing a good trade, and not at all ashamed of it. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Even when the peak load of its traffic is reached—those fearfully hard weeks that immediately precede the Christmas holiday—the workaday routine of Macy's must not be seriously disturbed. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z One might suppose that a theory of finance so different from that of the ordinary workaday world would be surrounded by an air of weirdness or strangeness. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z While she was changing her own workaday clothes for a fresh outfit,—hardly less gorgeous than Eleanor's,—they heard the maid admitting Isadore Braun. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The four and a half blocks east of Lexington are mostly residential, with workaday stores and white-tablecloth restaurants. | 57th Street: 57th Street/Living On - No Commuting Required 2012-01-27T20:30:36Z Mr. Droemer said the gang’s success was more attributable to workaday persistence and willingness to adapt than technical sophistication. Koobface Gang Uses Facebook to Spread Powerful Worm 2012-01-17T00:53:06Z The final justification for all these immense, humdrum, workaday sacrifices must be more and more national well-being. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z As for what is going on in the workaday world of his industry, Rohatyn expressed concern. Scene Last Night: Felix Rohatyn, John Whitehead, Martin Lipton 2012-01-10T16:33:25Z It is true that the empire under which Dante actually lived is dead as the empire of the Caesars and that the empire of Dante's dream was never realized in the workaday world. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The one it can render absolutely useless to the needs of the workaday grind. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z At his Iowa appearances, he sometimes seemed to be chattering in a different language than his workaday supporters. The Myth of the Stature Gap: Could Newt Be the Next FDR? 2011-12-05T12:00:11Z I am not aware that a single authority of note, at least in the world of workaday politics, has ever challenged or disputed them. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Many more perform workaday labors for the party. Gotham: In Queens, Political Center Is in Surrogate?s Court 2011-11-29T02:16:35Z The fans were a mix of neatly dressed military officers and men in workaday suits. Historic rivalry as Japan heads to NKorea 2011-11-14T22:30:14Z The fans were a mix of neatly dressed military officers and men in workaday suits smoking cigarettes. Historic rivalry as Japan heads to North Korea 2011-11-14T17:34:16Z Ordinary, rank and file, workaday Iranians want a nuclear program. Behind Iran's Nuclear Quest: An Ancient Civilization's Pride and Insecurity 2011-11-14T04:50:32Z Were politicians too ill-educated on the real facts of the world, too much absorbed in the rough-and-tumble of workaday politics to change old ideas? The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Even those lazy workaday horses seem to take stock of us, switching their long tails as they do so, in quite a businesslike way. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z But to be content with the mere workaday world and its ways is like travelling perpetually with a grip-sack. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z The one bright spot in its workaday monotony was blurred for him by the orders of his stupid superiors. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z But Acts of Parliament are not omnipotent even in the 20th century; and in the 14th they often represented rather pious aspirations than workaday facts. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Why, bless your workaday heart, Brouillard, nothing is permanent in this shuffling, growing, progressive world of ours—absolutely nothing. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z The big red silo was the last of the old workaday world I remember seeing before my horizon contracted from a quarter of a mile to a scant ten feet. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z She wore the workaday costume: a full, dark-brown skirt, the full white bodice, and a little waistcoat or corset. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z One is detached from all the workaday considerations of life at home. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z It is easy to understand that his thrifty Yankee neighbors failed utterly to comprehend any such attitude toward what they conceived to be a workaday world. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z Scripting a milestone interferes with the workaday pace of baseball. On Baseball: Recalling the Joy of Reaching 3,000 2011-07-07T00:51:03Z It is workaday Thai, with some delicious dishes and some that need help, from a kitchen that at the moment lacks consistency. | Patterson: Inexpensive Thai Fare, With a Sunset View 2011-06-25T01:13:56Z While the world of Graff might seem unaffected by the ups and downs of the workaday economy, it was in fact hurt by the recent slowdown. The King of Really Big Diamonds Heads to China 2011-06-18T13:24:49Z "Thinking of taking that hut?" he repeated, in a voice that seemed to bring a breath of crowded A B C shops, of Tube-lifts and cheerful workaday London generally into that stately French glade. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z It is an archetypal American story, the summer job that helps a teenager save for a car, clothes or college, that provides a first taste of the workaday world and sometimes even a crucial steppingstone. Tales of the Search for a Summer Job 2011-06-13T05:30:32Z Glass towers housing the business school, labs and classrooms will replace workaday brick structures, meatpacking warehouses and even a Studebaker plant. Hamilton Heights: Awaiting a Bounce 2011-06-11T09:00:28Z Besides these workaday axes one may see several with silver heads, and among them one, especially valued, that was presented to Mr. Gladstone in 1884 by the workmen on the Forth Bridge. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z There is no intrinsic prettiness in the common earth or the common water-vessel, in the sole of a worn shoe, or in a workaday gown. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Water this high breaks any workaday routine on the river. Trade Slows as the Mississippi River Floods 2011-05-26T03:01:00Z With every downward step from the hill we sank back into the workaday marsh-meadow of life. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z His imagination, like mine, is stirred by these departures from a workaday world. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z After five days in the prosaic, matter-of-fact, workaday, self-contained little world of school, her week-ends seemed to belong to a different planet. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z And when a guy's workaday uniform is, in fact, a uniform, there is all the more reason to kick things up a notch. Fashion pros help NBA players raise their style game 2011-04-20T16:53:05Z The soil beneath Lower Manhattan teems with bits of past civilizations, but they are generally the most workaday sorts of fragments. City Room: Construction Dig Offers Peek Into New York's Past 2011-04-17T20:08:47Z We think of someone a little … different from the rest of us workaday sorts. Feed Your Mind 2011-04-14T13:15:06.973Z In this workaday world we can live only by taking in the other fellow's adventures. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z How it crept into her heart with the fragrance of those violets—quite the nicest thing that had ever come to her in her care-worn, workaday life! Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z He also appreciates the workaday mentality of junior college players. At Marquette, Grit Trumps Stars 2011-03-25T00:50:18Z Then Cinderella went to bed, and in the morning she awoke to the workaday world that she had left for a single evening. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z It is only in trembling that any human soul can see one they love uplifted to such a height of extravagant joy as that on which Prue now sits queening it over the workaday world. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z She wanted to find some shrine, some divinity, who would accept her worship; some temple lifted high above the sordid workaday earth, in which she might kneel for ever and ever. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z There could be no manner of doubt that the horses and dogs were able to distinguish the Sabbath from the workaday week. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z He still wears leather straps on his workaday trousers; and, though I haven't seen it, I am confident the keen-bladed gully is somewhere about the recesses of his ample pockets. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z The players also seem to have bought into his message, with many echoing his workaday refrain about continuing to put the hammer to the rock. Low Point of Season Was Turning Point 2011-02-19T04:08:08Z The Ghetto was all astir, for it was half-past eight of a workaday morning. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z From this fact signs of the workaday world are for ever thrusting themselves before one. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z But if you want workaday, can-do health information in a nonprofit environment, plug your symptoms into Mayo’s Symptom Checker. The Medium: A Prescription for Fear 2011-02-04T16:00:00Z But my conviction is we haven't often enough taken stock of our faith, and the consequence is it has become detached from and out of sympathy with our workaday lives. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z “I didn’t think I would, but I miss the routine” of workaday restaurant cooking, he said in a recent telephone interview from Pittsburgh before an appearance. New Jersey Dining Tv Chefs: For Cooks Who Compete, the Challenges of Fame 2011-01-28T23:20:13Z Yes, sweet and fair are the forest glades, Where the world’s rude clamours cease; Where no harsh, workaday sound invades The Sabbath rest of the solemn shades; A Paradise of peace! Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z He gave up the final fuddle of slumber grudgingly, his dull mind still piecing the visions of the night, his soul full of loathing for the workaday world of greasy pots and dirty tins. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Square drives provided the bulk of his boundaries, but it was the workaday leg-side nudges off his hips that kept him ticking. Tireless Trott allows Stuart Broad to display his talent with the bat 2010-08-27T20:56:00Z He probably felt a bit embarrassed at his workaday 71 yesterday, his first round with all eyes on him as a major champion. The Open Championship 2010 - day two live coverage 2010-07-16T11:34:00Z Despite a legal requirement that women occupy one in four seats in the new Parliament, the workaday struggles for power here clearly remain the domain of men. Top Iraqis Break Bread, but Not Standoff 2010-05-20T20:58:00Z I was dressed in my usual workaday business suit, smart tie, overcoat and cap — a proper businessman carrying his paper cup of coffee back to his office. Hey, Aren?t You ... ? 2010-04-05T00:29:00Z Iranians in Dubai say they find it increasingly difficult to get credit, even for workaday business dealings. To Pressure Iran, the U.S. Leans on Dubai 2010-04-02T20:30:00Z And not that unusual: "This is pretty workaday stuff for us." FBI Tracks Suspects' Cell Phones Without a Warrant 2010-02-20T02:55:00Z On the music scene, Mr. Stack registered as a workaday bassist, a valuable commodity in a town of frontmen and lead guitars. Acquaintances Saw No Anger in Pilot in I.R.S. Building Crash 2010-02-20T00:39:00Z After high school she attended college briefly, then entered the workaday world. 2010-02-13T20:03:00Z Joe said, thinking how impossible it would be for the girl beside him to fit into the workaday world of the Sage Brush Valley. The Reclaimers He most is in need of a holiday, who, In this workaday world, has no duty to do. Impertinent Poems The subject it would seem is so grave and great as to be incompatibly out of proportion to the affairs and conditions of the individual life about which our workaday thinking goes on. Underground Man She was wearing her workaday Camp Fire costume and had her dark hair braided in two braids with a red band about her forehead. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines In such a conflict, utility speedily becomes the watchword, and if the passenger agent were less of a workaday drudge than his fellows, he was modestly unaware of the fact. A Romance in Transit Ballard came alive upon the professional side of him with a sudden quickening of the workaday faculties. The King of Arcadia He had taken everything for granted, but his acceptance had implied neither strength of faith nor the application of faith to the phenomena of workaday existence. Years of Plenty Both of these stories have a European background; in both a certain remoteness and romantic quality predominates, and both have little in common with this workaday world. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Now, utterly workaday and commonplace as all this was, not a word of it escaped the silent stranger. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Then over the sunshine of her memories came clouds once more, as the stiff, chilling presence of the Lambent sisters intruded itself and changed the aspect of her workaday life. The New Mistress A Tale And all, turning their faces, with daybreak broadening on their cheeks, hastily took up their workaday bundles again and hurried off. The Three Mulla-mulgars He would remember Madame des Aubels and her charm, and, although he was handsome, he was not loved, because of his poverty and his workaday clothes. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels If you have lived long in the north you will have been wondering this while back how our workaday ecclesiastic got his materials into Grouard. Seeds of Pine "A story that compels laughter as well as tears and makes us think better of the workaday world in which we live."—Budget and Beacon. Susanna and Sue |
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