| 单词 | commonness |
| 例句 | The commonness of his name was a consolation, too; there were three Henry Smiths in any given oil field of reasonable size. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But it also increased the commonness of resistant bacteria, that is, bacteria that are impervious to antibiotics and, as a result, difficult to kill. New Books Take You Through the Microscope to the World of Pathogens 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The Michigan native's unfussy appearance—plain black shirt, blue jeans and a headband holding some of his silvery hair in place—mirrored the blue-collar commonness of his first name. Bob Seger full of conviction, energy at United Center 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The miracle of their lives is in their commonness. In images and words of rebirth, a poignant tribute to civil rights giants John Lewis and C.T. Vivian 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The extraordinary commonness of female trauma, especially at the hands of men, can work against a piece of fiction, but in the case of Hanna Halperin’s debut novel, “Something Wild,” it does the opposite. When Adult Daughters Realize Their Mother Is Being Abused 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z His exterior of tanned, floppy commonness conceals a steadfast heart of gold. In praise of "Yellowjackets" hubby Jeff, who elevates the mediocre white man to an art form 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z “It’s not about the design. It’s about practicality, repetition, commonness.” D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. These photos capture the often unseen poetic details. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z It is a tribute to Kate's many qualities and commonness that he was able to survive this tricky period. Digested read ? William & Kate: The Love Story 2011-01-03T21:30:01Z The reason I started sharing stories about my family was because built into those stories was that commonness. The Korean Vegan hopes her 60-second recipes will make you less racist 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Hating on Mounds, however, strikes me as especially odd owing to the commonness of its ingredients. In defense of loving Mounds candy bars 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Really, such a movie would be unlikely to make it into theaters, in spite of the commonness of real-life relationships between older men and younger women. Movie Review: ‘Adore’ Gives Young Lovers to Robin Wright and Naomi Watts 2013-09-05T21:32:42Z "They were visually enticing places that transported you from the commonness of the streets and prepared you for the fantastical world of movies and storytelling that was to come," he says. WM Namjoshi: The man behind Indian cinema that looks like ice cream 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Traditionally, ecologists have measured biodiversity by taking into account both the number of species and their commonness. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Likewise, traits that allow a predator to more efficiently locate and capture its prey will lead to a greater number of offspring and an increase in the commonness of the trait within the population. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Despite Mansfield’s shocking “commonness,” Woolf went on, “when this diminishes, she is so intelligent and inscrutable that she repays friendship.” How Friendship Helps Us Transcend Ourselves 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z I was grateful for that, too, the commonness of my feeling, I felt some stubborn strangeness in me ease, I felt like part of the human race. “The Frog King” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Others have embraced the commonness of casual sex as a sign of social progress. Casual Sex: Everyone Is Doing It 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Evolution has no goal of making faster, bigger, more complex, or even smarter species, despite the commonness of this kind of language in popular discourse. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The commonness of the signal improves the compliance of all the potential predators. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a marvelous thing how a commonness of purpose form among them and how they really do care for each other,” he said. Jesuit Retreat House offers 3 days of silence, rejuvenation 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z I felt like my heart would burst, those were the words for it, the hackneyed phrase, and I was grateful for them, they were a container for what I felt, proof of its commonness. “The Frog King” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But the commonness of his name is sometimes a nuisance for people trying to find him—or people with the same name. Journals to solve ‘John Smith’ common name problem by requiring author IDs 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z That actually, commonness is found more often among the rich and that distinction was found more often among the people who would buy The Daily News.” The Daily News Layoffs and Digital Shift May Signal the Tabloid Era’s End 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Reviewing decades of scientific data on morning sickness and its remedies, Caughey and his colleagues noted that its commonness in early pregnancy may lead women and their obstetricians to minimize its impact. Women Don't Have to Suffer Through Severe Morning Sickness, Experts Say 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z But those usages, despite their commonness, weren’t necessarily inoffensive. When Did 'Shylock' Become a Slur? 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “They seem to be mostly solitary. So people don’t see ribbon seals really anywhere this time of year with any frequency or commonness.” Ribbon seal shows up in Prince William Sound 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “Questions for the Next Million Years,” by Davide Castelvecchi, explores environmental questions such as seismologist Thorne Lay's thoughts on the future commonness of large earthquakes, but several really big issues on the subject are overlooked. Readers Respond to Beyond the Limits of Science 2013-01-04T19:15:00.600Z Nevertheless the great commonness of the double christian name Mary Ann is consequent on the idea that Marian is compounded of both. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z Pera has all that is odious of the Levant: impudence, ostentation, slyness, indelicacy, uproar, a glittering commonness. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z Giordano had an astonishing readiness and facility, in spite of the general commonness and superficiality of his performances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z In its lyric portions his music is almost invariably banal, without distinction, without beauty or restraint—when the modern Italian music-maker dons his singing-robes he becomes clothed with commonness and vulgarity. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z There is nothing so deplorable as a work of art with a leak in its interest; and there is no such leak of interest as through commonness of form. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z What is perhaps new is the commonness of the interrogation among young men, rich and poor, industrious and idle, who have not genius wherewith to clothe and deck their failure to produce the answer. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z But their commonness is precisely why we study them. Salamander Study Enlists New York City Seventh Graders 2011-10-08T01:43:34Z Easy-going commonness is the curse of democracy, even if I, who am a democrat of the democrats, do say it. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z "Tosca," for all its occasional commonness, its melodic banality, is a work of immense vigour and unquestionable individuality. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z However, in view of the commonness of this name, it is perhaps only reasonable to suppose an admixture from A.S. wealcere, a fuller. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z For whatever I had thought before, if I had thought anything, that long union of our eyes had held no meanings of commonness.... The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z After the refining process of the four years in close association with noble things, “commonness” ought to be impossible. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z In the commonness of their work they became as one: he the body, she the soul. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Meant to be more emphatic than lose, but actually less so, because of its commonness. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Never believe this bird connotes Jade whorls of carven commonness: Nor as from ordinary throats Slides his sharp song in ice-strung stress. A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z This is indicated by the use of the Christian name, the insistence on a uniform, and the commonness of contemptuous terms such as “slavey.” Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z Some books nowadays, though written by the cleverest of men, have a commonness of style that is a mere coming down to their inferiors. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z Under the commonness of the means which he employed, and often also of the sentiments and ideas which he expressed, Boucicault hid a sort of subtlety which was born of instinct. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z In these cases the concealment of the light-source and the commonness of bas-relief as compared with intaglio are the causes for the illusion or the error in judgment. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Here his obvious vulgarity and commonness had no opportunity of disguise. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z "If men were judged by their commonness, I would be a chief with plumes in my hat." The Mystery of the Locks 2011-05-29T02:00:08.800Z Excellent, too, is the digression on the comparative commonness of earls in Ireland, where untitled people tend to disappear while earls survive, though they are regarded much as ordinary people. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Notwithstanding the commonness of his attire, there was nothing, either in his countenance or demeanour, that proclaimed him a mere messenger, or servant. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z On the mantle of Helen, which swells into a cloud, Faust is borne back again to his native Germany; its virtue, as he learns, is to lift him above all commonness. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z He always fell back again into his insignificant commonness, like a dog whom one wishes to train to walk upon two legs, but who always falls back upon four again. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z Oh! the lowness, the commonness of such a woman, who will flatter one at any price! Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z For even the commonest mind is forced by grief out of its commonness, and attacks the world-problems, which at other times it has no power or taste to approach. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Still was there about their garments a certain commonness of cut, that proclaimed the wearers to be of the class of small shopkeepers—in modern days miscalled tradesmen. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z He felt that this had the right Pepperian touch of humble commonness. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Up to this time Mrs. Toller had paid no heed to the unique pastime of her three youngest, such pursuits possibly having lost interest from their commonness. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Washington has all of these qualities of the common life: he possesses in high degree what some one has called “great commonness.” Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z “A billion elements go into the making of a boy, but there is one fundamental agent of his greatness or commonness—his mother.” God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z This incident seemed to compromise him finally, to drag him down from the society of Miss Carthew to a degraded status of unutterable commonness. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The commonness of the elements involved might mask what you are looking for. The Year When Stardust Fell Her father is dead and her mother an impossibly common person without any good traits of character, so far as I have been able to discover, which would redeem her commonness. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines The point of the story depends on the familiarity and commonness of the situations in which Don Quixote finds himself, so that the absurdity of his pretensions may be overwhelmingly shown. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII F.—That the grass, or plants, could be grown in England was, therefore, now certain, and indeed that they were, in point of commonness, next to the earth itself. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend Still, it is just possible, that immured Toads may exist, though Mikey of the Chesterfield quarry, in hope of the advance, did brag a little too confidently of the commonness of the occurrence. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series He needs to develop, to embrace business and politics, the commonness of love, and the vital roughness of the world. A Novelist on Novels The sight was to him so "blissful" that it "softened all his sorrow," nor did the commonness of the occurrence abate the charm. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The phrase unrolled a vista of commonness and attrition. Ancestors A Novel He cried out vile insults and mingled words of an unfortunate commonness with others of extreme rarity. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Thus it was removed for the present from the contaminating contact of the "commuter" and all the commonness of suburbanism. Clark's Field I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness Upon the throne and crying about the streets And hanging its paper flowers from post to post, Because it is alone of all things happy. In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age I admit the commonness of the expression, but it is not the less a solecism. Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Macaulay's sympathy with these qualities led to some annoying peculiarities, to a certain brutal insularity, and to a commonness, sometimes a vulgarity, of style which is easily criticised. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Even if he had known that Lady Macbeth was the personification of crime, it would still have seemed to him a profanation to bring her into contact with the plebeian commonness around him. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland There was very little trace of commonness in Milly's good looks. Name and Fame A Novel The common wisdom had had its say to him—that safety in doubt was not action; and perhaps what most helped him was this very commonness. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Take that commonness of mind and tone, which friendly foreign critics, from De Tocqueville to Bryce, have indicated as one of the dangers of our democracy. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures They are born with a certain rhapsodic gift of commonness, a gift which neither improves nor deteriorates. A Great Man A Frolic The woman's task was to keep fresh and unspotted herself, her home, her rooms, like some cool temple hidden away from summer heats and noisy commonness. The Man Who Wins The commonness, the triviality, the immediate meaninglessness of it all drove her to frenzy. The Rainbow Some poems fully within the scope of the book—like Longfellow's "Psalm of Life"—have been omitted because of their exceeding commonness and their accessibility. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul This commonness of mind and tone is often one of the penalties of fellowship. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures The quiet colors, the prescribed unworldliness involved a daily discipline, and infused into the wearer an emotional experience which mere economy and real commonness would never so continuously have effected. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study I have heard it objected against these thrushes, whose extreme commonness renders them less highly esteemed than they would otherwise be, that they find their voices too early in the morning. Birds in the Bush Certainly he spoke now with a commonness of idiom and accent he was usually at pains to conceal. Merry-Garden and Other Stories All training that does not encourage the child to look into the Unseen for his power, not only holds, but draws him to the commonness of the herds. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation The sight loses none of its sadness and pathos by its commonness; only the horror is gone, giving place to apathy and stupor. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Nothing could have been more commonplace than the whole incident, but the commonness was the beauty of it. Change in the Village The cactus, the stunted shrubbery, the painted rocks, seemed all afire with some magic light that had touched their commonness to a new wonder. Brand Blotters I remarked tritely on the commonness of this feeling. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Trade makes the city; congestion makes for commonness and the death of the individual. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Its great commonness and wide distribution have something to do with this fact, but can hardly be said to account for it altogether. The Foot-path Way Henry, Prince of Wales, is a common man, whose commonness props his father, and helps him to conquer. William Shakespeare They combine, with a singular success, commonness and pomp. American Sketches 1908 This is why the greatest commonness is when our guide turns out a vulgar fellow—the angel, as we had supposed him, who has taken us by the hand. Picture and Text 1893 To think that she had been so blind to the coarseness, the commonness that must have been there all along. Stubble The deciding element in fixing the usage in these cases would seem to be the commonness and familiarity of the word or phrase. The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters She produced the lunch box, and for once Bess was too ravenously hungry to protest at the "commonness" of it, and they set to at its delicious contents with a will. Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves The latter had a vein of coarseness, of commonness rather, in his nature; evidenced by his choice of associates and his entire indifference to "the things of the mind." Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman But truly there is a majesty in this lowliness and there is a singularity in this commonness. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It is only when you tack hardness and commonness on them and think ugliness has a real virtue in it. A Little Girl in Old Boston Proofs of the commonness of the habit of circulating literature in manuscript abound. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles They were of different sizes and prices, and their extreme rarity at present, considering the number formerly in use, is only less surprising than the commonness of pocket-watches which have superseded them. Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. They would have been ashamed of it before they came to Roslyn School, but the commonness of the habit had now made them blind or indifferent to its meanness. Eric, or Little by Little The reason may lie in the very commonness of our opportunities. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. Culture may break in upon this "commonness" and destroy it. Personality in Literature She had knowingly suffered such a man as that, whose commonness of soul she had always instinctively felt, to come back into her life, and she could never banish him again. The Coast of Bohemia His imagery is common; and his manner of arranging a trite figure in a rich suit of verbiage, only makes its essential commonness and poverty more apparent. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 All men require bread, but since this interest requires exclusive possession of its objects, its very commonness is a source of suspicion and enmity. The Moral Economy Now, instead of admitting that the commonness of the name of Brown proves its owners to be unromantic, we hold that this is a distinct evidence of the deep-seated romance of the family. Hunting the Lions This commonness of mind and tone," says Mr. Perry, "is often one of the penalties of fellowship. Personality in Literature This very simplicity and commonness has turned many against our treatment. Papers on Health We can see where purity left him and was gradually replaced by vulgarity, and where he began to be cursed by commonness. Pushing to the Front They emphasize the commonness of much that surrounds them, much that blatantly would obscure them if they were not pronouncedly superior. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets For all her commonness and coarseness, he wanted her with a peculiarly urgent desire. The Blood of the Conquerors I wish to go on record for the commonness. Memories and Studies He and his associates believed in another world, beyond the earth and the grave; on the basis of the poverty and commonness of the world before the grave—that is, in despair of the case. The Argonauts It is a lofty ideal that redeems the life from the curse of commonness and imparts a touch of nobility to the personality. Pushing to the Front In her acceptance would lie the Queen's touch, redeeming him from all commonness. The Lovely Lady Either her senses were holden by her fondness for Maxwell, or else she was trying to hoodwink her mother by an effect of indifference; but Mrs. Hilary herself was certainly not obtuse to that commonness. The Story of a Play A Novel Then her eye was heavy and her mouth betrayed a commonness; though it was perhaps just at such a moment that the fine line of her head told most. The Tragic Muse It is an every-day tale, full of "deep and blood-veined humanity," and deriving its interest and significance from the very fact of its commonness. Essays on Scandinavian Literature She was proud of Verena's brightness, and of her special talent; but the commonness of her own surface was a non-conductor of the girl's quality. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) After the cultivated, mildly luxurious atmosphere of the Kemps, she realized acutely the commonness of her home.... One Woman's Life The belief in the exceptionality and the loneliness of vice is a restraint from it; the belief in its commonness is a demoralizing provocative to it. The Friendships of Women She felt an ignoble satisfaction in it, for a certain measure of commonness clung to the girl like a cobweb. The Portion of Labor Exquisite taste was married with a commonness that was glaring. Bella Donna A Novel It was a pitiful story, common enough both north and south—but none the less pitiful for its commonness. Princess The vapid emotion is properly matched with commonness of expression, and the bad taste is none the more readily excused by the suggestion of self-defence. Adventures in Criticism With such, the venal commonness of affection first profanes, then destroys it. The Friendships of Women They comment flippantly on great pictures in art galleries, and snicker over undraped statues, evincing the commonness of their minds and their lack of knowledge of art. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada He had thought of Rose like a queen or a princess, and the thought had ennobled his boyish ignorance and commonness. Pembroke A Novel Was there a streak of commonness in her that made possible such a scene as she had just gone through? The Sheriff's Son The Pre-Raffaelites were men of taste who felt the commonness of the High Renaissance and the distinction of what they called Primitive Art, by which they meant the art of the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries. Art His incurable commonness is the secret of his success. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 Byron, though he thought him "the greatest natural force, the greatest elementary power, which has appeared in our literature since Shakespeare," he roundly accused of "vulgarity and effrontery," "coarseness and commonness," "affectation and brutal selfishness." Matthew Arnold They little guessed how their commonness heightened contrast, set mercilessly thus beside the strange, eternal beauty of the sand. Four Weird Tales Somehow, away from the others, and out in the open, Phoebe seemed to shed the commonness that had blighted her at that dreadful tea. Secret Bread The first poetry, the first fresh touches with which she had made pleasant signs about their altered condition, were passed into established use, and dulled into wornness and commonness. The Other Girls They are suited, the writer trusts, by the generality and commonness of the prayers, for every class and type in this busy world. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science There was no fire in his eyes; rather a stupid apathy which in a man with less strength about the mouth and chin might easily have become commonness. Diane of the Green Van She would never learn to care for Ansdore, with its coarse and crowding occupations, so there was no reason why she should grow up like her sister in capable commonness. Joanna Godden Only the one feature saved the man from sullen commonness in his suppressed anger—and that was his boyish mouth, clean, sweet, nobly moulded, giving the lie to the baffled brutality gleaming in the eyes. The Firing Line The man's smooth face was all commonness and vulgarity. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls There is not the flat tone, the heavy stroke, the loose shamble, that give a certain stamp of commonness to so many of his most elaborate discussions. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) There is a touch of commonness about his voice, but he is not uneducated. Second Plays "Good-bye," he said, renouncing her—for her boldness and her commonness and all that she would mean of change and of foregoing—"Good-bye, Joanna." Joanna Godden Even while she spoke she remained calmly amazed at the commonness of her own speech, the astonishing surface streak of unsuspected vulgarity which she was naïvely exhibiting to this man. The Firing Line "Nothing shall persuade me to go back to the commonness of marriage in Lost Chief." Judith of the Godless Valley The intensity of their hatred, and of their sincerity, made itself felt, as the light of the sun will shine through the crude commonness of a vulgar stained-glass window. Mount Music The face must once have been exceptionally handsome, before an underlying commonness and coarseness had been brought out or emphasized by developments of character and circumstance. Harvest They have, in fact, all the commonness of the job printer. Walking-Stick Papers He approached it tonight with the nerveless sense of defeat, the hopeless feeling of sinking back forever into ugliness and commonness that he had always had when he came home. Youth and the Bright Medusa And yet there was Rufus Cosgrave with his hungry eyes fixed on her, trapped by the nameless force that lay behind her triviality, her daring commonness. The Dark House Yes," I replied, "the sea relieves everything about or near it, from the humiliation of commonness. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars There was a marked incongruity between the commonness of the dress, and a certain cosmopolitan stamp, a touch of the grand air, which was evident in its wearer. Helena The woman's grimy simplicity, her smiling face, the commonness of her teapot, her utter unlikeness to anything in the first act of Macbeth, encouraged Vera to believe in her magic powers. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories Mr. Conrad, as we see in Freya of the Seven Isles and elsewhere, is not blind to the commonness of tragic ruin—tragic ruin against which no high-heartedness seems to avail. Old and New Masters Surely this is as wonderful as the Akashic Records, though its "commonness" makes it lose its wonderful appearance to us. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers "Only it would grieve him still more if Duncan had heard of him," said Father Payne; "there would be a commonness about that!" Father Payne Such a series of impressions is illustrated in the following:— It is a phenomenon whose commonness alone prevents it from being most impressive, that departure of the night-express. Composition-Rhetoric They would have been ashamed of it before they came to Roslyn school, but the commonness of the habit had now made them blind or indifferent to its meanness. Eric His interest is in "Humanity," that is to say, a superior type of the species, with a corresponding contempt for "commonness," especially for the common man as a mere machine of "duty." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes There were "spots of commonness" in his nature. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy There were two weak points in Keats, you know—his over-sensuousness and a touch of commonness—I won't call it vulgarity," he added, "but his jokes are not of the best quality! Father Payne And since you are driven to do them, and don't do them out of greed, nor through commonness, nor by habit, they can't hurt your real work? Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel "Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure a too early expectation of the end." The Grammar of English Grammars The Wilmots have been cultivating the commonness of work out of their blood for three generations, but it has burst in again. The Second Generation They are from a writer, who of all other men, knows how to extricate a common thing from commonness, and to give it an underlook of pleasant consciousness and wisdom. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays But then he began to detect the commonness of my mind and taste, and, one by one, all the avenues of communication became closed. Father Payne Bedient had not continued to fit so readily to commonness, as in those first implacable moments in the little room. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Whatever may be thought of the grammatical propriety of such contractions as the foregoing, no one who has ever observed how the English language is usually spoken, will doubt their commonness, or their antiquity. The Grammar of English Grammars She had never especially noted before, but now she was noting as a shuddering exhibition of "commonness," that he wore detachable cuffs—and upon this detail her distraught mind fixed as typical. The Second Generation The trouble with "Kappa's" particular public-school boy is his unlit imagination, the apathetic commonness of his attitude to life at large. An Englishman Looks at the World What a cheap vein of commonness was revealed in her—in every one—by the temptation of a great fortune! The Bent Twig How utterly had they put all commonness behind. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel The characteristic of so much poetry of our own day is that the manner is uncommon, and the commonness resides in the matter. English Men of Letters: Crabbe The ceremonial inferiority or uncleanness in consumable goods due to "commonness," or in other words to their slight cost of production, has been taken very seriously by many persons. Theory of the Leisure Class There was something extraordinarily fine about her, something simple and high, that flickered in and out of her ignorance and commonness and limitations like the tongue from the mouth of a snake.... Tono Bungay A more ingenuously common young man, a more innocent outsider, it had never been his blessed privilege to enter into close converse with, but his very commonness was a healthy, normal thing. The Shuttle So many testimonies had come to her of the world's commonness that she had become flexible in judgment. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Also, the commonness persisted as he grew up. The Grain of Dust The objection to machine products is often formulated as an objection to the commonness of such goods. Theory of the Leisure Class Her cheeks were red with anger, and when she answered her voice had the hard commonness which she concealed generally by a genteel enunciation. Of Human Bondage He approached it tonight with the nerveless sense Of defeat, the hopeless feeling of sinking back forever into ugliness and commonness that he had always had when he came home. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Perhaps he might show, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that he was not identified with commonness…. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Where cow thieves went scot free, horse thieves were hanged, and to say that a man was "as common as a horse thief" was to express the nadir of commonness. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations She despised them for their commonness, his people. Sons and Lovers "Common," she was, as Mrs. Costello had pronounced her; yet it was a wonder to Winterbourne that, with her commonness, she had a singularly delicate grace. Daisy Miller Where then lay the spots of commonness? says a young lady enamoured of that careless grace. Middlemarch Marguerite Grey was saying: "When I get too weary, or heart-sick, tired of my own work, in the sense of being bored by its commonness——" "Wicked woman," murmured Vina. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel The commonness of the men and the rough joviality of their mood were the more accentuated by the supreme dignity of the orator. Captivating Mary Carstairs Both were on a large scale, but without commonness. Sir George Tressady — Volume I He had assented to the idea that she was "common"; but was she so, after all, or was he simply getting used to her commonness? Daisy Miller How could there be any commonness in a man so well-bred, so ambitious of social distinction, so generous and unusual in his views of social duty? Middlemarch This would affix him eternally to commonness in her mind. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel The commonness of her case, the absence of any romantic or poetic element in it—it was that which galled, which degraded her in her own eyes. The Case of Richard Meynell It is strange— This commonness—that, as a blight, eats up All the heart's springing corn and promised fruit. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 The doublet sat close, making him stout and vulgar, the knee-breeches seemed to exaggerate the commonness of his thick, rather short, strutting legs. Twilight in Italy The better, however, any such word is fitted for the needs of humanity, the sooner it loses its poetic aspect by commonness of use. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare The trying part was that look in Beth Truba's eyes, which told him how bored she was by this sort of commonness. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel His wife was ten years younger than he—hardly less than beautiful—only that over her countenance seemed to have gathered a kind of haze of commonness. Stephen Archer and Other Tales I was so excited and bewildered by the adventures I had gone through, that, from very commonness, all the things about me looked alien and strange. Wilfrid Cumbermede Uncommonness is not excellence, even as commonness is not inferiority. Miracles of Our Lord He had even a kind of assurance on his face as he looked down from the choir gallery at her: the assurance of a common man deliberately entrenched in his commonness. England, My England She had not seen deeply enough his inner beauty and integrity; too accustomed had she become to the myriad-flaring commonness of daily life…. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Safe enough now is the Nivernais collection, under the roof of the Ducal Palace, the rude designs and commonness of the ware strikingly contrasted with the exquisite things around. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne All her little mannerisms of voice, look, manner and movement, were there but turned towards commonness, even towards a naive but very self-conscious impropriety. The Woman with the Fan Instead of this, the old round of temptations, disputes, ennuis, and forgettings, has to be faced again and again, and we fall back into prose, into commonness, into vulgarity. Amiel's Journal But just one generation with money irons out the commonness. The Sisters-In-Law He had been mercifully spared from moving among the infinitudes of small men who hold such a large estimate of the incapacity and commonness of women…. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Reality has its own convincing charm, not inconsistent with plainness or even with commonness. The Desert and the Sown There were moments in which she was fully conscious that, despite her rank, she had not endured unsmirched close contact with the rampant commonness of London. The Woman with the Fan The verbal repetition of the description of the conduct of both him and the Levite serves to suggest its commonness. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Whether because of the commonness of the epithet, or because every one felt that beautiful was not the adjective that expressed the sensation the picture awoke in him, I know not. Modern Painting Still his first sense of repulsion at the commonness of these people was beginning to be tempered with kindlier feeling. Daniel Deronda It was only on long acquaintance that his so many ingenious ways of showing he appreciated his commonness could present him as secretly rare. The Awkward Age Our common schools are important in the same way as the common air, the common sunshine, the common rain,—invaluable for their commonness. The American Union Speaker Christ assumes the commonness of the opposite practice by asking 'why' it is so. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke It caresses the prevailing commonness and ugliness, and coaxes it into a semblance of beauty in spite of itself. London Films If she had been strong and rugged her commonness would have had a certain vigor; but to be nearly refined without being quite refined is as harrowing as singing just a little off the key. We Can't Have Everything They know well enough that they must give us something which we in our commonness regard as valuable enough to exchange for a bushel of our potatoes, or a sack of our white onions. Adventures in Friendship We detect the other in the complacency of its platitudes and the stereotyped commonness of its metaphors. The Principles of Success in Literature At a little distance were some very commonplace and disjointed fragments of building, one of them suggesting a certain pathos by its very commonness and the complete wreck which it showed. The Open Door, and the Portrait. Stories of the Seen and the Unseen. The street before it might have been a second-rate New York, or, preferably, Boston, business street, except for a peculiarly London commonness in the smutted yellow brick and harsh red brick shops and public-houses. London Films The commonness of this act hides from us its wonderful nature. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics To me, the maturing youth, love for women seemed something especially base and unbeautiful, for it showed itself to me first in all its commonness. Venus in Furs We are then tempted in defiance to exaggerate the commonness of commonplace things, thereby making them aggressively uncommon. Sadhana : the realisation of life Still less was there any touch of pride or vulgarity in his nature Meanness and commonness of mind were as far from him as from any man I have ever known. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography As we approach the Rialto indeed the picture falls off and a comparative commonness suffuses it. Italian Hours It is only the commonness of dreams that blinds us to the fact that they are more marvellous than ghost-stories. Without Prejudice In the only well-authenticated words I have ever met with as spoken by a man who knew he was going to be murdered, there is a commonness which may almost be called Shakespearean. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler What can more fully declare the commonness of a thing? Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Further, there was an element of commonness in his mental attitude as in his style. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography Mr. Hartman, the father, was a wholesale grocer—a business large enough to have brought wealth, but painfully tainted with "commonness". Love's Pilgrimage Animation cruelly displayed her appalling commonness and physical shabbiness. The Old Wives' Tale Perhaps never before has the absolute and average commonness of humanity been so steadily and unaffectedly adhered to. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers There is, therefore, a difference to be put betwixt the commonness of a thing and its presence. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Littre says that naif comes from natif, as vulgar comes from vulgus, as though native traits must be simple, and commonness must be vulgar. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres He liked the fundamental ordinariness in Aaron, the commonness of the common man. Aaron's Rod Disgrace, commonness, and meanness are with those who pretend to work and never do anything useful for the world they live in. The Master-Christian But, oh mamma! speaking of vulgarity and commonness, you must prepare yourself for our drawing-room paper. North and South Slightness becomes supplanted by comparative solidity, commonness by novelty, lowness and irregularity by symmetry and height. The Hand of Ethelberta She tried to think of some way of modifying the commonness of her phrase, but did not. April Hopes Deign then to descend from that horse and take a turn with me though I be tired, and thus prove my commonness upon my body. The Virgin of the Sun There is no disgrace in work;—no commonness,—no meanness. The Master-Christian In expressing, even to myself, my thoughts of you, I find that I fall into phrases which, as a critic, I should hitherto have heartily despised for their commonness. Two on a Tower This is the noble invention of our author, but it hath been copied by so many sign-post daubers that now it is grown fulsome, rather by their want of skill than by the commonness. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry The absolute difference of feeling between the man and herself; his levity against her earnestness, his callous blindness to her purpose, even the commonness of his words chilled her. The Man As unavoidable circumstances forced one to take him,—commonness, slanginess, appalling ignorance, and all,—one could not leave him. T. Tembarom With eyes and mouth closed like that, and all alabaster white, the face was perfect, purged of its little commonnesses. Beyond The manatee is one of the few objects which excite the dull wonder and curiosity of the Indians, notwithstanding its commonness. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The demand marks the commonness, narrowness, low-levelled satisfaction of the age. Sir Gibbie He laughs, smoothing the crumpled paper, foreseeing the trite commonness, the shallow sentiment. Tea-Table Talk It was greatly to be hoped that the crass ignorance and commonness of this young outsider would not cause impossible complications. T. Tembarom With each day, a little more colour and a little more commonness came back to her. Beyond With respect to the number of individuals or commonness of species, the comparison of course relates only to the members of the same group. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition But nothing contributes more to produce a clearness of diction that is remote from commonness than the lengthening, contraction, and alteration of words. The Poetics of Aristotle Rosamond was not unaffectionate, and not ungrateful; but she inherited much of her father's commonness and frivolity of character. After Dark Men need not be common merely because they are many; but the infection of commonness once begun in the many, what dullness in their future! Essays "Virgin and martyr," she replied, smiling at the commonness of that hackneyed expression, but giving it a freshness of meaning by her smile, so full of painful gayety. Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Not that she was an unpleasant-looking girl by any means; it was the atmosphere of coarseness, of commonness, around her that repelled me. Paul Kelver, a Novel Men need not be common merely because they are many; but the infection of commonness once begun in the many, what dulness in their future! The Rhythm of Life But, on catching sight of Minoret-Levrault an artist would very likely have left the view to sketch the man, so original was his in his native commonness. Ursula He was surprised at the commonness of the clay. The Iron Heel Before the eyes of his chief priest he disdained to lower himself to such commonness of humanity. Jerry of the Islands He must get alone, get somewhere high out of all this crowding of commonness, of everyday life. The World Set Free |
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