| 单词 | commonplace |
| 例句 | The neutron star teaches us respect for the commonplace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Estraven, sweating like ice in the sun, stays slick and cold as ice, answering Tibe’s murmurs aloud in a tone whose commonplace politeness makes the other look rather a fool. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A commonplace, practical reply, out of the train of his own disturbed ideas, was, I was sure, the best and most reassuring for him in this frame of mind. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Fire and emergency sirens were commonplace in the neighborhood—the city’s largest hospital was just around the corner. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl flushed, embarrassed even at this commonplace courtesy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the worst one since they became commonplace some years ago. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In the use of commonplaces, you can see where logos and ethos intersect. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The humiliations, so commonplace in the United States that they barely raised eyebrows, much less the interest of the press, were the talk of the town in the envoys’ home countries. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The discovery of the Big Bang and the recession of the galaxies came from a commonplace of nature called the Doppler effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember that rarity in itself leads to publicity, making rare events appear commonplace. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarce covet shelter in the commonplace human form. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, some provocative theoretical studies have suggested that planetary systems are a galactic commonplace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No translation is required, either, to see the spatial implications of “commonplaces.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A person can take something commonplace like a fence completely for granted until that same person has to try to build a foot or two of it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The house, like the others on the slanting hillside street, was a conventional suburban ranch house, pleasant and commonplace. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Instrument-specific music seems commonplace to us now, but it was a real novelty during this period, and one which was rapidly taken up by composers on mainland Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was commonplace to regard this as approximately one quarter of the earth/water globe, but it could extend to up to half of the earth/water globe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was commonplace in the South—the greatest fear all black parents had for their girls. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z What signified was not the tales we told, commonplace or fantastical, but the gestures, the silence of friends as another recounted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A commonplace, he implies, can seem to stand as a witness too.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In England the fact not only became linguistically commonplace; it also became institutionally entrenched, for the Royal Society’s official aim was to establish new facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A commonplace is a piece of shared wisdom: a tribal assumption. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Any form of reasoning has to start from a set of premises, and in rhetoric those premises are very often commonplaces. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “It’s easy. You barely know what’s happening when you’re under. It’s only when you resurface that you even know what you said. I went under when I was a kid. It’s pretty commonplace in Candor.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Given the controversy over whether the Israel lobby is merely undernoticed in American foreign policy or nefariously all-controlling, the meaning of the first cliche is a commonplace; the meaning of the second, incendiary. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Now he was used to such things, a roadside commonplace, but back then, before the coarsening and general numbness, when it was a novelty and when everything was new, he felt it sharply. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z More than a quarter of them had been arrested in North Korea, and ten percent said they had been sent to jails, where forced starvation, torture, and executions were commonplace. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But Eratosthenes was a scientist, and his musings on these commonplaces changed the world; in a way, they made the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But it would be a commonplace to a man of Aristotle’s generation and time that the opinions of women and slaves were quite irrelevant. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Elihu Root said the fair led “our people out of the wilderness of the commonplace to new ideas of architectural beauty and nobility.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A large muddy water buffalo, led by a boy perhaps a year or two older than Minli, wandered through and was ignored as a commonplace occurrence. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I felt a kind of sorrow for them: a commonplace whose strangeness remained somehow hidden from my incurious fellows. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past thirty years, since screens became commonplace, the number of women in the top U.S. orchestras has increased fivefold. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Samuel Adams’s master’s thesis was “delivered in flawless Latin,” Alexander Hamilton copied Demosthenes into his commonplace book, and Thomas Jefferson modeled his oratory on the prose of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Such commonplace loveliness, however, was not enough for my aunt. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time, early death was commonplace: Families often lost children to disease, and thousands of people wanted to reach out to loved ones who had died in the Civil War. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In the years since Terry, stops, interrogations, and searches of ordinary people driving down the street, walking home from the bus stop, or riding the train have become commonplace—at least for people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The commonplace heard in the sixties was precisely this: A black never stops being black. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Something that was finally becoming a litde more commonplace after the year of death and terror that had chased them to this place high up in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In this case, he said, the act was one that, as Bunderson said, “seems so commonplace.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And then suddenly O-lan came to the door and spoke to them, her voice flat and commonplace as though every day such things were. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z If the request for subpoena power was commonplace, the circumstances were not. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Remember, he lived in a neighborhood where screams were fairly commonplace. 3RD JUROR: Right! Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Such grandiose declarations were commonplace during Ceaujescu’s reign, for his master plan—to create a nation worthy of the New Socialist Man—was an exercise in grandiosity. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Appealing to authority—whether by quoting a commonplace or the words of a named source— always strengthens an argument. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She was now on the maternity ward, and every day brought commonplace miracles, as well as moments of drama or hilarity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I couldn't muster up a single commonplace out of the thousand in my head. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Godwin’s Law—an Internet commonplace—states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Things like that, which gave Úrsula such consternation, were commonplace in those days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It is a commonplace to say that a story needs a beginning, a middle, and an end. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Simple sympathy like this was so commonplace in the University that I hadn’t even thought about how it would look to someone else. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And this man I bent over—this commonplace, quiet stranger—how had he become involved in the web of horror? and why had the Fury flown at him? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There I was, padding about in a dressing-gown, making a slough of sentiment out of a commonplace hotel bedroom. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “But misfortunes are commonplace, Taylor, and relative. Look at the misfortune Nick Yew has endured this year. Or Ross Wilcox. How is destroying your classmate's property going to help your father?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The wise persuader starts from one or two commonplaces he knows he has in common with his audience—and, where possible, arrives at one too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z You get nowhere appealing to commonplaces alien to your audience.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Her spirits were not particularly lowered by these commonplace reflections. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The absent witnesses—proverb and commonplace, custom and authority—are not to be underestimated. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z These kinds of bizarre mind games were commonplace working with Sam. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z This aspiration towards demonstration was not confined to what we would think of as the empirical sciences but was also commonplace in theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But recently, a friend of mine, Rose, who’s in therapy now because her marriage has already fallen apart, told me those kinds of thoughts are commonplace in women like us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Quality glass was easy to come by, so windows and mirrors were commonplace. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All of those things became commonplace shortly thereafter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It draws its comedy from the fact that what, to Flanders and Swann’s twentieth- century Western audience, is a commonplace, is heresy to the cannibals of the song. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Where a nova could possibly be regarded as a miracle, a comet was too commonplace an occurrence to be handled in this way, so if comets were supralunary phenomena, Aristotle was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was a commonplace, mean-looking man who might have been an engineer or technician of some kind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Even though some aspects of the country were more liberal in the 1970s, arranged marriages were actually more commonplace than they are in contemporary Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “It was easy to see how he got commissions. His very bearing and looks were half the battle. He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Still, across South America, Nazi and fascist sympathizers were commonplace. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Some of the previous agents on the case, including Burger, had betrayed the kind of casual prejudice toward the Osage that was then commonplace. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is made up of film clips from various sources that depict events and periods we’re conditioned to think of in black and white, since they occurred before color film became commonplace. Review: ‘America in Color’ Refreshes 20th-Century History 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The works are still not exactly commonplace, though every once in a while, surprising juxtapositions occur. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He is also always on the lookout for the commonplace items — tennis rackets, computer keys, garden hoses — that he uses to build his installations. | Westchester: Federico Uribe’s Man-Made Nature, in Yonkers 2013-06-21T23:35:51Z A sense of estrangement was commonplace among the Sadrs long before their geographic displacement from Tehran. A Persian Turned Parisian Insists: I’m Not an Immigrant, I’m an Exile 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Juxtaposing scenes from the life and times of Emily Dickinson with sounds from contemporary culture, it generates new energy from melodramatic commonplaces. The Best Television of 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Even this brief segment was seriously labour-intensive, but it’s only a matter of time before live animation broadcasts such as this become commonplace. The Simpsons – live! A remarkable stunt that proves Homer will outlive us all 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z As instances of data mishandling become more commonplace, government officials may seek greater control over security policies of companies with access to health care records that aren't currently regulated. Unsecured medical records show risk of digital 2011-08-21T12:07:00Z Some 50,000 people share images that to all but the Bronx native seem commonplace: an old sign for Mt. Our old-timey addiction: Why we can’t get enough of century-old images 2013-12-14T23:00:00Z Ashenden, for example, encounters both commonplace and supremely cosmopolitan men and women, nearly all of them living with broken hearts or broken dreams. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z “So many of his ideas are relevant today, from project-oriented work, to discussion-led thinking, to the ephemeral; all of that is now commonplace. That is a central contribution of his work.” Otto Piene, German Artist of New Modes, Dies at 85 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z This means these animals were raised on factory farms, where antibiotic-heavy diets, growth-promoting drugs like ractopamine and tightly cramped conditions were all commonplace, a far cry from the images evoked in the brand's advertising. How Hormel exploited confusion over the natural label 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In 1952, the candid and sympathetic depiction of gay life was shocking; now it is commonplace. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z If a number of the practices that the photographs illustrate “were to become commonplace worldwide,” he writes, “at least one of our major planetary environmental challenges would be much better managed.” The Bewildering Beauty of Recycled Waste 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Suing for invasion of privacy used to be commonplace in the unscripted television world, but producers have become very good at crafting strong liability waivers. "Real World" contestant sues for $5 million 2010-05-05T05:46:00Z The star soloists tend to be overexposed, as does, for the most part, the commonplace repertory. The L.A. Phil’s opening gala at Disney Hall finds Dudamel & Co. in full jazz swing 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Upon absorbing "Jet Age," I am less likely to consider my future air travel commonplace. 'Jet Age': Sam Howe Verhovek's story of how Boeing came to rule the skies 2010-10-15T21:11:00Z Today, it’s becoming commonplace for hotels to offer guests a piece of the travel experience to take home. As lifestyle brands enter the hospitality business, hotel rooms double as showrooms 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z A: Everything that is commonplace for us as professional adults seems so far away for them. Pioneering L.A. chef Roy Choi on improving food in inner cities 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Friday night at the Anthem, the Pacific Northwest band’s current incarnation added synthetic bleeps and thumps — commonplace sonic emblems of Tomorrowland — for such songs as “The Future Is Here.” At the Anthem, Sleater-Kinney’s music bridges the past, the present and the future 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z What curious galleries these are: concrete corridors in the air relying, to a great degree, on artificial lighting in an era when it has become commonplace for galleries to demand diffused daylight everywhere. What's the big idea behind the Pompidou-Metz? 2010-04-06T20:30:00Z It’s a kind of TV-comedy mosaic: chunks and shards of sitcom commonplaces—the wisdom of the child, the redemption of the overgrown juvenile—are spackled together by moments of sincerity. With “Turn Up Charlie,” Idris Elba Makes a Charming Foray Into Sitcoms 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z It became obvious that in Paris, with a dog, you are regarded warmly as a fellow dog-lover or, conversely, not noticed because it’s commonplace. In France, Our Dog Has His Day 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Schlosser described fast food's ubiquity as "so commonplace that it has acquired an air of inevitability, as though it were somehow unavoidable, a fact of modern life." The connection between McDonalds and Black America 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s commonplace for comics—and comedy fans—to maintain that the stage is a place exempt from the rules of decorum and political correctness that govern other facets of life. Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Is Changing with the Times 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The idea that the private lives of others are accessible online, transparent and ready to be clicked into, is a commonplace in our culture. Megan Boyle’s “Liveblog” and the Limits of Autofiction 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The "unusual city," never named, is recognizable as modern Helsinki but a Helsinki at once as commonplace and marvelous as Gabriel García-Marquez's Macondo. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z By denying the casual, commonplace quality of racial prejudice, and peering into the saddest values of the greatest generation, Hollywood perpetuates an ahistorical vision of how democracy and white supremacy comfortably co-existed. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z There’s also profoundness in the mundane and commonplace. This Week in Fiction: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Five years later, the tide turned: Led Zeppelin won an appeals court victory over its megahit “Stairway to Heaven,” and the judges provided guidance about how copyright applies to works involving “commonplace elements.” Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Beside blank walls, slim windows, and aging radiators, commonplace objects assume surprising poignance. Life After Prison for Women Who Are Convicted of Murder 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z My memory of late middle school and high school is that sexual comments, jokes and gestures pretty much defined the experience, and quickly became so commonplace that the question of “welcome” was moot. Motherlode Blog: Handling Sexual Harassment in Schools 2011-11-08T16:26:40Z As in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or "Xena: Warrior Princess," the epic and preposterous blend profitably with the commonplace and casual. Syfy's 'Almighty Johnsons' an amiable take on Norse gods 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z What Assange is accused of — breaking into secure government computers — “is fortunately not commonplace journalistic conduct.” Perspective | Traditional journalists may abandon WikiLeaks’ Assange at their own peril 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Meat was not commonplace and many would taste it only a few times a year. The People's History Museum provides pieces of a global jigsaw 2010-12-04T10:59:00Z Mr. Kay’s commonplace contention is that there’s little difference between the two major parties that monopolize our country’s democratic system. Movie Review: ‘Of By For,’ an Indictment of American Politics 2013-07-04T21:30:22Z The song texts didn't always neatly fit the situation, but the sentiments were apt, if commonplace. William Christie, with small Les Arts Florissants group, works magic 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The appellate judges rejected Malofiy’s other arguments, including his claims about insufficient jury instructions and about copyright applied to the “selection and arrangement” of commonplace musical elements. Led Zeppelin Prevails in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Appeal 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z For starters, even as automation becomes more commonplace in California, restaurant employment there has exploded, increasing 45 percent from 2001 to 2016. Will robot-led restaurants be a gift or a curse to food workers? 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z A commonplace in opera, of course, is that by penetrating psyches, music exposes the deeper bonds and inherent inner conflicts that cause enemies to become friends or friends, enemies. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z In this now classic treatise on apocalyptic thinking in fiction, Kermode argues that it “is commonplace to talk about our historical situation as uniquely terrible and in a way privileged, a cardinal point in time.” London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s a cinematic commonplace to depict the humanity of depraved criminals, but Schrader—essentially a religious filmmaker—goes one better: he dares viewers, even dares himself, to imagine them finding a measure of redemption. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Some benefit from exotic locations, but Day can find the uncanny in things as commonplace as an elevator button, glowing red as though beckoning to another dimension. Review | In the galleries: Two photographers focus on the pastoral beauty of Arlington 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The great interpreters of this work command attention from the very first phrase; here, that opening seems just commonplace. Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 to 4; Paganini Rhapsody – review 2013-03-13T14:59:01Z If we're looking for why the habit has become so commonplace now, the evidence is varied. You can tell everybody this is your biopic (just stay off screen) 2011-01-14T12:28:56Z “Married” follows the same trajectory: The first episodes that establish the relationship are commonplace, and the series gathers steam only when the focus widens. It’s Ennui Time on ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Married’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Dixie would like eventually to settle in New York, where her parents courted a quarter-century ago, before cellphones became commonplace, rollerblading in Central Park. The D’Amelios Are Coming for All of Your Screens 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z As Walley's initial tweet pointed out, such statues are increasingly commonplace. Let RoboCop reign over the streets of Detroit 2011-03-29T11:38:05Z It’s commonplace to talk of how those worlds had softened by Bausch’s later years, when her tangled depictions of sexual politics were notably mellower than in her earliest harsh evocations. Dance Review: Swimming Through Bausch?s World 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z Pop-up stores trading in Christmas trappings are commonplace in shopping malls across the country in December. Pop-Up Bars Proliferate During the Holidays 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z These grids are inspired by commonplace industrial design that the artist notices on architecture, sidewalks and textiles. James Little, Unapologetic Abstractionist Painter, Catches the Limelight 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z His contention that women might play but not create — that they could be performers, not composers — was commonplace at the time. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The beauty of good wine is its ability to transport you to different places and cultures, sometimes commonplace, sometimes entirely new. For Greek Reds, No Matter How Good, the Embrace Will Be Slow 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The big question being commonplace makes it no less wrenching: whether to put the grandmother in a nursing home. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Though traditionally dressed women are commonplace throughout Guatemala, Sololá’s Friday market was the first place I’d been where everybody got in on the act. Browsing Guatemala's Markets 2010-08-13T19:38:00Z In 2022, New Zealand’s tranquil beauty seemed not commonplace, but revelatory. In New Zealand, Sauvignon Wishes and Sashimi Dreams 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z But in other parts of the world, bikes equipped with the surge of motorized power are commonplace. Are electric bikes the wheels of the future or just the new Segways? 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z In places like Atlanta, law enforcement officials contend, it has become commonplace to align primarily with homegrown stars, who can offer aspirants prestige and money. Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z As the baby boomers enter their seventies and Alzheimer’s disease becomes increasingly commonplace, more and more fiction writers are attempting to reach into that obscure space. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z But at this age, his first “erotic dream” becomes ludicrous, especially when it is represented by commonplace prim operatic ballet. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z I’m always delighted by commonplace discoveries in new countries. A cycling trail through Poland and Germany — and Soviet-era history 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Nguyen says that Vietnamese cooking can also be adapted using commonplace foods. A Guide to Everyday Vietnamese Cooking 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Were actions or attitudes that are now repellent also controversial during the individual’s life, or commonplace in society at the time? Yale Sets Policy That Could Allow Renaming of Calhoun College 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z At this point the knowledge is so commonplace, it's practically its own depressing category of documentaries on Netflix. A vegetarian pastitsio for when "you don't eat no meat" 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Jesus's ethical teachings are, for the most part, either implausibly rigorist or commonplace. Religion is not really about ethics 2011-04-08T17:15:52Z Now all it takes, apparently, is something as basic as gender-switched casting, a commonplace of high-school theatre productions across the country. Why Melissa McCarthy Made a Great Sean Spicer 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z It may strike you as too obvious a choice, or too innocent, or too commonplace. Glenn Taylor's top 10 books of the American South 2011-04-13T09:41:42Z It’s a commonplace to consider the documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s films to be centered on the lives of institutions and those of the Maysleses to be centered on people’s lives, but “Gimme Shelter” does both. What Died at Altamont 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Photograph: Hulton Archive When Alfred Hitchcock, interviewed by François Truffaut, lamented the "photographs of people talking" that passed for movies, he was voicing an old commonplace. Anthony Asquith emerges from Hitchcock's shadow 2011-04-06T15:13:47Z What none of this acknowledges is just how commonplace plagiarism charges are, how thin most of the evidence is and how poorly the average person understands the nature of the transgression. Enough bogus plagiarism scandals! “True Detective,” Rick Perlstein and our obsession with intellectual theft 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s a commonplace to say that food is consolation, but sometimes in McCarthy’s work, food is a vivid reminder that we’re all linked in the meat wheel of life. Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z It became commonplace by the 1980s to place Mr. Hill in the top echelon of contemporary British poetry. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The plot point may be a commonplace, but Johnson manages to lend it a spontaneous, naïve resonance. The Good and the Bad in “Central Intelligence” 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z “Mad Men” offers a far more commonplace milieu — the rat race — and finds comedy in the distortions of a rear-view mirror. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z As with The Sewing Machine, candour raised the production above the commonplace. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z The racial and artistic dynamics at play in “Swingin’ the Dream” provide a precious glimpse into the commonplace misconceptions and hangups that shaped early 20th century American culture. Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Whenever an athlete challenges nationalistic commonplaces, we are treated to priggish declarations that politicizing sport is a moral crime. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z Hollywood has been bringing popular characters back from the dead ever since blockbuster sequels became commonplace, but the ploy is rarely successful. The Rise of Skywalker: why no one ever really dies in Star Wars 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z On the one hand, she was a throwback to the early days of TV sitcoms, when housekeeper and maid characters were more commonplace, from Hazel to The Jetsons’ Rosie. Somehow Forming a Family: Why We Loved The Brady Bunch's Alice 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Spas Turn Over a New Leaf Salon and spa openings might be as commonplace as new clothing collections, but every so often, they transcend the ordinary. | Beauty Spots: Spas Turn Over a New Leaf 2012-11-05T16:37:56Z At the Fonda, the Stones attempted to avoid the commonplace sea of cellphones, requiring fans to leave cameras and smartphones at home or check them at the door. Rolling Stones reunite with their more dangerous past at 'secret' L.A. show 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Once technologies that can affect empathy become commonplace, we may need more technology to protect ourselves. As Fitbits for Feelings Emerge, Whither Empathy? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z If he objected to being characterized as a flinger of paint, he surely was a scourge of commonplace artistic taste. At the Sackler, a glorious show of Whistler’s London works, paired with Japanese prints "Mourning is commonplace," he says dismissively when someone thinks of shedding a tear in "Mr. Holmes." 'Mr. Holmes' smartly examines the great detective in winter 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In fact, the ingredients are so commonplace that it’s possible to approximate the taste of waters such as Core at home. The dubious science of Dr. Luke's Core brand: inside the premium bottled water industry 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Its characters, an extended, fractious family of lower-middle-class Jews, are trapped in an alternative timeline in which the unthinkable has become commonplace. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Even if you think you know what you’re getting, the application of sugar, water and deep-chill conditions can transform fruit from something recognizable and commonplace into an experience that borders on the surreal. Tumultuous Family Stories, Two Ways 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z The moments in my life that Big Thief reminds me of feel both definitive and commonplace, and so vanishing that I’d never think to speak of them out loud. The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z If only the commonplace violence against women made him equally furious. The Kavanaugh hearings: Angry white men get to be righteous; angry women “a mob” 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Those might seem like absurd lengths to go just to film a movie, but in today’s cinema, the extreme is becoming commonplace. The birth of “extreme cinema”: “The Revenant” is an endurance test of suffering for Leonardo DiCaprio — and moviegoers. But for what? 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s a commonplace, yet problematic, word in classical music. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z This is not to say that the way I thought of Calcutta was joyless; in fact, my sense of the commonplace aspects of its petit bourgeois life was fundamentally joyful. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z And it is commonplace in San Francisco, where the average annual per capita expenditure on books is perennially among the highest in the nation. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z Items posted span a broad range; Keurigs and kitchenware are commonplace, and furniture requests abound. ‘Buy Nothing’ groups: A place to share goods, services — and gratitude 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z For one thing, it was only “commonplace” among those of certain economic classes. Donald Trump is a chicken-hawk and a hypocrite: The real story about Vietnam and the draft 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Beyond that, its tone-deaf comedy suggests an era when crude jokes about sensitive issues like race and addiction were commonplace and therefore acceptable. ‘Donny’s Bar Mitzvah’ Review: A Rude and Raunchy Coming-of-Age 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z But the renderings of a martyred Che Guevara and Soviet soldiers triumphant over Nazis are so familiar that they seem as commonplace as the product logos Monaghan incorporates into his videos. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’ It’s a commonplace to say that after 1940 the capital of the art world moved from Paris to New York. Thirteen Crucial Years for Art in Downtown New York 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z As was commonplace for him prior to wiping his website and Twitter account earlier this year, Glover communicated directly—and remarkably openly—with his fans, revealing a series of hopes, fears and insecurities. Donald Glover Explains His Absence 2013-10-15T13:59:09Z Indeed, it has become a commonplace of late for pop music’s upper echelon to pump their wares with new energy courtesy of a symphony orchestra. Dessa's "Sound the Bells": Indie hip-hop collides with an explosive orchestral score 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z He is a pioneer of color in fine-art photography and a champion of the commonplace as a focus of contemplation. Surrounded by photographs, a collector finds beauty in truth 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z On topics ranging from servanthood to grace, she reminds us that practicing Protestantism, so commonplace in 21st-century America, began as a frighteningly, passionately radical act. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Bedrooms reserved for adults and children became commonplace in affluent 19th century homes. The bizarre social history of beds 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Invocations of quasi-religious experience — Comic-Con as “sacred space,” plot points and character traits as “canon” — are commonplace at the panels. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Here, noticing adjacencies of commonplace furniture and paraphernalia in the foundation’s offices in Merion, he will reinstall these clusters faithfully on plinths as “ready-made ensembles.” A Wink at the Quirks of a Famed Collector 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z And people marvel at that, and I think it’s commonplace.” ?Shatner?s World: We Just Live in It? Heads to Broadway 2012-02-14T16:41:40Z It’s a commonplace that speculative fiction speaks to the anxieties percolating in its age. ‘Coherence’: Dinner party gets caught in a sci-fi maze 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Amazing, isn’t it, how something commonplace is elevated by the addition of a distinguished title? Walt Whitman, Parenting Books and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Hitler’s team was quick to realize and exploit the public’s hunger, pioneering PR strategies that are commonplace today. Hitler at home: How the Nazi PR machine remade the Führer’s domestic image and duped the world 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z This kind of strangeness is commonplace in contemporary dance. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Interprets Ideas of Oliver Sacks 2013-04-23T22:10:51Z Even her delusional thinking was, in a sense, normal, because romantic love is often very irrational – love at first sight and ascribing chance meetings to destiny are commonplace. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But for now it has more in common with French feudalism of the ninth century – when territorial disputes were commonplace – than a modern unified sport movement headed for the Olympics. Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z These concepts are now commonplace in our online lives and our recreational activities, but four decades ago they were revolutionary, and a key part of D. & D.’s addictive quality. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Salad topped with chicken is a healthful staple so commonplace, it is more likely to elicit yawns than excitement. Your grilled chicken salad deserves topsy-turvy treatment 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z She uses that news as a catalyst to look back on her commonplace life, her past boyfriends and her eventual marriage to a nice guy. Theater Review: ‘Scrambled Eggs,’ at the Beckett Theater 2013-04-30T20:04:09Z The musicians argued there were no more than "commonplace musical elements" between the two songs. Gayes settle with Sony over Thicke hit 2014-01-15T15:59:56Z Menus -- particularly those printed with artistry in mind in the days before computer-generated paper menus became commonplace -- also offer a big bite of history. Seattle and beyond: restaurant menus, the collector's edition 2011-04-20T02:01:04Z “It’s perfect because it sort of embodies the commonplace, ordinary low art of the “happy days” greeting. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z It is now commonplace for food industry trade groups to nominate potential members. Questions remain about Big Food’s influence on the new dietary guidelines 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z As the actors take their seats, in chairs facing front, you may well wonder how much theatrically vigorous material they are likely to find, given the commonplace nature of divorce these days. Theater Review: ?You Better Sit Down,? by the Civilians, at Flea Theater 2012-04-13T02:00:01Z Fast-food spots like this are commonplace, geared toward the local lunch crowd, families and tourists, and our parents could pick what they wanted without worry. Traveling to Tokyo With Three Generations 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Also, she works on a near-epic scale, which adds to the boisterous, mildly surreal vibe of these scenes of commonplace foliage. In the galleries: Brentwood Arts Exchange filled with flora 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The melding of Havana street tradition and religious practice with conservatory training now seems to be commonplace among the youngish Cuban instrumentalists making waves on the international jazz scene. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z But commonplaces are usually distortions created by looking in a rearview mirror, and this one is no exception. Thirteen Crucial Years for Art in Downtown New York 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Harvey was the stereotypical ambitious, overachieving New York Jew, an exotic in Iowa, a commonplace in the East. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z The basic outline of this story isn’t what elevates “Three Stages of Amazement” from the commonplace. Books of The Times: Wife on the Rebound, Husband on the Edge 2011-03-02T23:00:07Z That stance, in fact, is commonplace for political comedians who walk the fine line between offering the public important correctives to misinformation while also trying to bring ironic levity to dark times. “The Daily Show” is dead to me: Trevor Noah will never, ever be good at his job — also, thanks a lot for Donald Trump 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z That’s more commonplace than it used to be too, though this group still makes it feel special. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z I’d later hear from Aric that this sort of passion extends to neighborhood parties, where showing up with a guitar is commonplace. Frugal Traveler Blog: $100 Weekend in Austin, Tex. 2012-01-31T18:39:03Z The oddball accolades that used to be commonplace, for instance, have been kept to a minimum. Golden Globe Awards Have New Stature 2013-01-11T23:58:31Z At the same time, though, she warns that aging is such a “commonplace experience” that nobody should “behave as though … uniquely afflicted.” What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z He said he chose tapestries because he always worked with traditional media, and enjoyed the idea of using the "costly and ancient medium to show the commonplace dramas of modern British life". Sunderland hosts Perry tapestries 2013-06-28T18:33:00Z Images have now become so extreme that acts that were almost non-existent a decade ago have become commonplace. The truth about the porn industry 2010-07-02T06:30:00Z It seems to go beyond any commonplace need for privacy – it is as if he wanted to keep himself private from himself – as if he feared over-analysis might scare talent away? Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z "It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power," he says. The Best Places To Hide 2010-09-03T16:00:00Z In a world where "tearing you up", "smashing you", and "hitting it" is commonplace, exposure to sensual – rather than violent – language surrounding sex might even do the little scamps some good. The sexy A-level set texts scandalising our teenagers' morals 2013-06-07T15:58:30Z That someone would feel this sense of impending shame as a motive for violence is commonplace. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z We take it for granted, as a kind of pop-music commonplace, that the Fab Four transformed rock 'n' roll's sartorial style during the 1960s. "Fashioning the Beatles" delves into the band's iconic, impactful looks that were "worth emulating" 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z “Tomorrow Morning,” a musical by Laurence Mark Wythe, keeps its focus on the big emotional moments of ordinary lives: marriage and divorce, love and commonplace heartache. | 'Tomorrow Morning': The Night They Called It a Day 2011-04-03T21:10:14Z This isn’t scripture, but rather a compendium of cuttings and jottings, an idiosyncratic commonplace book. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He cleared the way for the lyrics we hear as commonplace today. “That’s the message, that black is bad and white is right”: Luther Campbell on racism, the police, bringing politics back to hip hop and how Al Gore and Bill Clinton ruined the music industry 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Steeped mostly in the rural West, some of these stories by Vestal, a columnist for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, convey a tragic insight into commonplace events reminiscent of the stories of Raymond Carver. Divining darkness at the western edge 2013-04-10T18:13:54Z Apparently, binging at the U.N. is so commonplace and excessive that it is hindering the organization from conducting its most basic work. United Nations’ pot hypocrisy 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z In Sema’s world, such prophecies are as commonplace as pausing to channel the dead. A Turkish coffee reader predicted my pregnancy (and Andy Cohen’s skin cancer) 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z He’s talking about his love for a woman whose picture he discovers in a newspaper, an object previously unknown to him — along with things as commonplace as snow. ‘Mud/Drowning’ Review: 3 Fools, 3 Kooks, 2 Bizarre Plays 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z All this is in service to the deadeningly commonplace observation that “there’s no true anymore that anyone can agree on.” Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Really, you have to pinch yourself that you haven't time-travelled back three and a half decades, when that kind of vernacular was commonplace. New band of the day (LAC No 1,529) 2013-06-10T17:08:21Z It’s fine to ask if you can have rice noodles which are vegan and commonplace in south-east Asian kitchens. How to eat out if you're vegan 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Seeing him pop up in surprising places is almost commonplace. Bob Dylan, bizarre computer salesman: “He’s being played as a genial grandpa, rather than as a rebel” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Civil War or Revolutionary War reenactments are commonplace. The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Very few young gay or black people or Muslims or disabled people would say that prejudice had been defeated, yet in the 90s it was commonplace for young women to declare sexism dead. Kat Banyard: 'We were sold a lie on an almighty scale, that equality had been won, the battle was over' 2012-10-14T19:45:01Z In an especially encouraging development, American — and new American — opera has become commonplace all over the land. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z "Infanticide did of course occur, but was not commonplace … It certainly was not done in public as even at that time to be caught meant a possible murder charge." Ping Fu controversy over childhood tales of China's cultural revolution 2013-02-13T13:47:38Z You cross a boundary between a commonplace reality and a tight, compacted fictional space. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z Avalanche airbags, backpacks equipped with a deployable, inflatable balloon that help a skier rise to the top of a slide, are commonplace. On These French Ski Slopes, You’re on Your Own 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Nichols emanated a luminous glamour that was once commonplace in the theater, but now flickers only fitfully in an increasingly corporate, profit-driven, financially anxious world. Ben Brantley on Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The trio join a list of artists including Ian Brown, Jarvis Cocker and Jack White who have spoken out against the sea of electronic devices that have become commonplace at gigs. Cameraphone pictures at gigs: sometimes, they're pretty great 2013-04-11T15:51:03Z That you are struggling is obvious and the reasons for it are not only understandable but commonplace. I lost my temper with my daughter. I feel I’m failing as a parent | Dear Mariella 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z It's essentially a commonplace book, composed in the form of a book of days, which seeks to affront and arrest the reader with reminders of man's inhumanity to man. Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano – review 2013-05-17T10:46:43Z That this strategy is so commonplace merely illustrates the ugly divorce between entertainment and reality, as well as the relentless numbing of our sensibilities to gun violence. What TV gets wrong about guns 2014-02-14T23:30:00Z In her performances, “you don’t see the cogs turning. You assume that level of genius and perfection. It’s commonplace, on a less showy and performative level.” Sally Field’s relentless quest for respect: ‘The roles I cared about deeply I had to fight for’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Monitoring more intimate details about personal health and wellbeing is less commonplace, though that’s expected to change with the spread of wearable technology. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z At the high end, some works are fetching prices that far exceed the heights of five years ago, when the phrase “art market bubble” was commonplace. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z It’s also a new take on the single-room-occupancy hotels, or SROs, which used to be commonplace starting in the late 19th century; they were closer to hostels or boarding houses. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z She wraps commonplace things, arranges cloth into geometric collages and, for “Solemn Vow,” disassembles a black suit, so it hangs on the wall like a ghostly presence. In the galleries: ‘Strictly Painting’ is anything but 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Ultimately, though, discomfort turns to outrage, and Reyes makes the case that an appalling, albeit commonplace, injustice has been done here. ‘Sansón and Me’ Review: Retracing a Path to Prison 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Death was a daily threat and the death of a loved one commonplace. How to dispose of a dead pet: is taxidermy the very best option? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s also a coming-of-age story that navigates the commonplace contours of relationships. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Grisham, 66, also had sharp things to say about electing judges and prosecutors, a practice that is commonplace in many states and all but unknown in the rest of the world. John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z This is, of course, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s satirical takedown of gun violence in the US, highlighting the absurd truth that school shootings have now become commonplace. Post-outrage TV: how South Park is surviving the era of controversy 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z In family law, tales of fathers who pay exorbitant child support and rarely get to see their kids are commonplace. Dads' rights: the rise of firms for fathers going through divorce 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Andy Warhol’s serial imagery, in which a commonplace image is repeated ad infinitum, likewise raised the question. It's bathroom art: Joel Holmberg's toilet portraits 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z A spare quasi-horror film about how the commonplace can become off-putting, "Safe" was a critical success and is considered by many to be one of the best films of the 1990s. 'Guardians' is another marvel of movie entertainment 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z “That means the technology of the commonplace is terribly important,” he said. Everyone Has a Theory About Shopping Carts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z In “Everyday Poetics,” a group show of Latin American artists at the Seattle Art Museum, the springboards are commonplace household objects. Two group shows at Seattle Art Museum worth checking out 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s hardly a theory at all—it’s more like a pop way of formalizing commonplace observation and single-mindedness. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Many of the sailors who had fought for their countries during wartime were left destitute in peacetime, and working seamen were so badly treated that mutinies were commonplace. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z But paradoxically, even as the term becomes more commonplace, it has grown more trenchant. What Does Misogyny Look Like? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z More than 50 years later, this technology is commonplace, but the photo remains hard to believe, because it so baldly violates our ordinary experience of time. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Sae-Eun Park and Hugo Marchand of the Paris Opera Ballet showed how the high-tension extremes of this duet, now commonplaces of the global ballet tradition, haven’t lost the power to shock. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The abuses and injustices on display at the film's remote outpost known as Coldwater are said to be commonplace in such youth reform centers. 'Coldwater' fails to tap into drama of youth reform centers 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In a culture in which celebrities becoming tangled in a fracas of one kind or another is commonplace, these episodes don't tend to leave any lasting damage, he said. Public backlash from private gigs 2011-03-11T03:12:00Z If crossing boundaries across different media is now commonplace, Rauschenberg was there at the start. Ripe for reassessment 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It amiably alternates commonplace depictions of introspective intimacy with ostensibly bar-raising, outré set pieces. ‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: How Lucky Can a Nerdy Kid Get? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z He helped make garbage thinking like that considerably less commonplace. Here’s what Magic Johnson’s done, Donald Sterling 2014-05-13T14:15:00Z As for political organization, whispers that even previously trusted leaders were undercovers or informants became commonplace. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z In their legal papers - also filed on behalf of rapper TI - the trio insisted there were no similarities between the two songs "other than commonplace musical elements". Gaye family sue over Blurred Lines 2013-10-31T10:43:36Z I seem always to begin with the apprehension of details, as if, among objects in a commonplace view, one or two had begun to glow or resonate with imaginative potential. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z Others – like this week's finale – are almost humdrum in their portrayal of life on south London estates where gangs, stabbings, and violence towards young girls are commonplace. Jim Shelley's Screen burn: The Bill 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Alas, the commonplace writing, along with performers whose idea of playing “western” seems to derive from some pretty bad movies, renders the proceedings less than compelling. ‘Surrounded’ Review: Letitia Wright Impresses in an Overbaked Western 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z What's clear is mob violence happens among people of all colors, and what have been described as soft forms of popular justice — taboos against snitching, for example — are commonplace even in modern L.A. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z With "Zoom In, Zoom Out," for example, Starr makes hay with the Zoom technology that has become commonplace household technology across the globe over the past year. No Zoom fatigue on Ringo Starr's star-studded, peace-loving "Zoom In" 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Interested in what she once called “coalition across difference,” Smith has some opinions that she defines as commonplace but that she must know are now hotly debated. In ‘Intimations,’ Zadie Smith Applies Her Even Temper to Tumultuous Times 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z What Mr. Hibbert found on research trips was a country riddled with corruption, where miscarriages of justice are commonplace. Katie Leung Stars in ‘One Child’ by Guy Hibbert 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The dialogue is riddled with commonplaces — some of Mr. Gagosian’s lines are lifted verbatim from a recent profile in The Wall Street Journal — and groaners. Plays About the Art World? Not Sold 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Muscular athleticism of a sort that once raised eyebrows is now commonplace. Athletes Redefine Feminine Beauty Ideals 2010-04-05T18:48:00Z But things are not as they seem in a world where female infanticide is commonplace. Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability 2011-01-25T20:30:16Z You can see the shift in The New York Times, with mention of puppets now commonplace in theater reviews. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In the community I grew up in, it was commonplace that they were laid out in their home. Why Patrick Stewart Loves Twitter 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Products that are “free from” certain ingredients and that carry diet claims will be even more commonplace in brick-and-mortar and online grocery stores. Perspective | Coming to grocery shelves in 2019: Mushroom/meat mixes, pea protein and banana milk 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Information will keep moving faster, and experiences once reserved for the elite will become commonplace for the many. One vision of tomorrow’s college: Cheap, tailored to you, and you get a real education, not a degree 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z When the prince came on the scene, he was appalled to learn of the haphazard accounting practices commonplace at even the loftiest levels of rock-and-roll. Rupert Loewenstein, financial adviser who helped create Rolling Stones’ empire, dies at 80 Nonetheless, Latinx is becoming commonplace among academics; it's used at conferences, in communication and especially in publications. Stop using "Latinx" if you really want to be inclusive 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Horse-drawn carriages, first a novelty for us as we were leaving the capital, then commonplace as we entered small towns, are the principal means of transportation for people and goods. A birding adventure in Cuba 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The globe-trotting antics that used to be the preserve of James Bond have become a commonplace format, as in 2012, and the Transformers, Bourne and Mission: Impossible franchises. What next for the global blockbuster? 2012-07-26T20:00:02Z In the last decade or so of his life, it had become a commonplace to call Wayne Shorter jazz’s greatest living composer. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Their stage show pries out a gritty, filthy edge from any commonplace spectator that few bands can hope to capture. REVIEW: Die Antwoord's Donker Mag Fails to Maintain Momentum 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z In recent years, that kind of thing has become more commonplace on the avant-garde. At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Withal, the story is interesting in spite of the commonplace character of the personages and the low plane of the gallery in which they move. Review: ‘Sister Carrie,’ by Theodore Dreiser 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It is a commonplace to say that this atonal song cycle by Schoenberg retains the fearsome power it had at its premiere. Music Review: Schoenberg?s ?Pierrot Lunaire? by Chicago Symphony 2012-02-26T21:30:51Z Now it's so widespread as to be commonplace: people in movies also go to the movies, and quote the movies, so much so that they sometimes threaten to go up a blaze of self-reference. How Die Hard set the stage for 25 years of action films 2013-07-19T14:00:59Z Wood: It's so commonplace that I think people forget that that's what we do. "The house has never not been on fire": How two "Daily Show" correspondents made comedy for our pain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z To be promised unknown pleasures but receive so much commonplace tedium is disappointing. Review: ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Makes Unfulfilled Promises 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The notion of the tortured artist is such a cultural commonplace that we take its equation of writer-as-martyr for granted. AL Kennedy and the perils of the pen 2012-08-15T17:30:01Z His work sits at the time of a broader cultural movement where artists and poets were doing the same, but what became a musical commonplace was begun by him. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Even when thumbing was commonplace, hitchhikers were an object of suspicion, and old ones even more so. Tales of a 60-year-old hitchhiker 2013-02-27T01:00:00Z Between predictable, commonplace plot turns and characterizations of music business types that are even more obnoxious than the norm, the movie’s straining for effect is less than ingratiating. ‘Fisherman’s Friends’ Review: A Tale of Unlikely Chart-Toppers 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Piles of salt, ground coffee, and other commonplace substances are mixed with clear resin, which binds the grains before they’re joined with cement and molded into strikingly beautiful furnishings. AMMA Studio Makes Beautiful Furniture from Unconventional Materials 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s commonplace for almost all people to think that they have a special destiny and a relationship to their god. What Trump’s slick catchphrase really means: “Make America great again” is just code for “get the best deals” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Altuzarra’s use of plaids is consistent with his ability to mine commonplace things in fresh ways. On The Runway: In the Prefall 2014 Collections, Looking for Hints of Things to Come 2013-12-14T01:42:33Z Kant and Mill both accepted the now commonplace principle that more speech is the best response to dangerous or objectionable ideas. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z For it is a commonplace among those of a Brexotic temperament that the European Union is simply a replay of earlier devilish plots to take over poor little Britain. The Real Meaning of the Brexit Debate 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Now, not to criticize "Sex Education" entirely, considering that only a few years ago it was commonplace to see disabled characters portrayed by non-disabled actors. What that "Sex Education" disability story could learn from reality TV 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Today, the fact that the Left is winning the contemporary culture wars is widely acknowledged by the Right, whose conservative laments over losing the culture wars are commonplace. They’ll always lose the culture wars: The right loves fighting lost causes– but liberals keep winning 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Painting en plein-air — in the open air — has been commonplace for almost 200 years. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Andre was not alone in draining the art swamp of blowsy personal expression — a once-radical position that is now commonplace, verging on ubiquitous. The exhibition that has art fans in a fury: Our critic's take on MOCA's Carl Andre retrospective 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Lang’s Internet secrets are similarly commonplace, but serve a different purpose. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z Ms. Dewdney said she populated her books with llamas, rather than a more commonplace animal, because they had entertained her two daughters when they were young and because she liked the sound of the word. Anna Dewdney, creator of ‘Llama Llama’ series for young readers, dies at 50 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The data analyses, however, indicate that, although such collectors may be conspicuous, they are not yet commonplace. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z But Lindell has taken this commonplace object and imbued it with a political ideology. MyPillow boycott: How a product can spark an identity crisis 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z But now, white rappers are commonplace, if not ubiquitous or especially influential. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Rashes were commonplace, too – Tinnell rarely washed his binder because he considered it, unlike regular underwear, an extension of his body. Underwear for trans people: the torture of binding, tucking and packing is over 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Ceramic objects must overcome a double barrier before they can be regarded as aesthetically important: pottery has to perform humble domestic functions, and it is made of the most commonplace material. Feat of clay 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z After an especially vicious 1997 killing, one member is taken aback by the ensuing media attention: “He thought that this was just going to be a commonplace projects murder.” The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z However, I also wonder whether the directors and writers intentionally styled this season to melt more easily into our modern view of entertainment, where sexual situations on television are commonplace and brazenly depicted. Smart Watch: A week to look back with "The Deuce" and . . ."The Brady Bunch"? 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z What made Spring for Music exceptional is something that should be commonplace in classical music. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z Nor is this shocking in the current theater world, where nudity is commonplace. Paris Cabarets: Can We Ask for More Than the Cancan? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The only problem with a field this crowded, however, is that eccentricity becomes commonplace and idiosyncrasy mainstream. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z “That was just commonplace. It was just understood.” Mena Suvari explains writing about Kevin Spacey in new book 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z There are a lot of commonplace story elements in “Wife of a Spy.” ‘Wife of a Spy’ Review: Trust or Fear in Love and War? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z These are commonplace in the tapes, along with obvious restraint and overall evasion of grim details. Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescued 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The series depicts an alternate world in which superheroes are commonplace, and even funded by a corporation. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Outside the window, rainbow flags were as commonplace as stop signs. A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z After 8 p.m., it is commonplace to find clusters of folks dancing to a jazz happening in the street. Rowdy and Bawdy, New Orleans is a Party for Families Too 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The trumpet, bass and drums trio is less of a rarity in jazz than it used to be though it’s still far from commonplace. New Music: BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE 2012-12-31T22:21:39Z It’s a commonplace to wring hands on the subject of how bad Hollywood has become, but it’s more than counterbalanced by how good independent films have become. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z But even if its format were more commonplace, “Where the God of Love Hangs Out” would still be something special. 2010-01-12T06:57:00Z Nonetheless, it went on to become 1979's fourth highest grossing film at the UK box office, and after this breakthrough, religious comedies eventually became commonplace. The Infidel is not Islam's Life of Brian 2010-04-12T09:50:00Z I walked away from all that was everyday and commonplace. Sins of a good Mormon boy 2012-09-14T23:30:00Z But practicality is something of a commonplace; it feels a bit too aligned with the dreary expression “a woman’s work.” Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z Dire comparisons with Pakistan and Colombia are commonplace. Mexico: Democracy Interrupted by Jo Tuckman - review 2012-06-29T21:55:08Z Calamity, Ms. Churchill demonstrates, is not what happens later but what has always been happening, just subliminally enough to make it commonplace. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z As well as becoming more commonplace, terminal-teen romances are becoming more medical, which is a double-edged sword. Going viral: why Hollywood is plagued by terminally ill teens 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z But at a time when charges of author deception have become commonplace – afflicting ink-stained wretches and presidents alike – how can you decide what, ultimately, matters at all? How to rate a writer’s deceipt 2012-06-28T11:30:00Z Critics seem to forget that every love story is different — that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. Sarah MacLean picks the best new romance novels for June The first time I made carbonara, it scrambled, an occurrence that soon became so commonplace that it lost all distinction. My 10-year carbonara journey 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Yet elsewhere the thinness of texture and the virtual eschewal of metaphor can bring the pursuit of the profound uncomfortably close to the rehearsal of the commonplace. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z The conceit holds together because it adheres to the rigorous internal logic Ayckbourn applies to his finest children's fantasies, in which time travel is relatively commonplace. Communicating Doors 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z But when toy manufacturing began to rise in densely forested Sweden in the mid- to late-19th century, wood was the most commonplace of materials. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But an added anxiety was the likelihood of early death from accidents or disease; black was the favored shade of dress because a state of mourning was so commonplace. ‘The Ghost of the Mary Celeste’: a haunted 19th century 2014-02-05T21:15:29Z Even the jihadi instructors who apparently confided in him assured him that farce is commonplace in their line of work. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z In her plain-spoken retelling of the commonplace human experience of illness and loss, Coutts achieves something truly extraordinary — she's created one of the most haunting and achingly honest explorations of grief in recent memory. In 'The Iceberg,' Marion Coutts recounts the death of her husband and achieves something extraordinary 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z You can think of this as Jazz Standard’s response to a growing trend at smaller clubs across the city, where soul- and hip-hop-inflected jam sessions are becoming commonplace. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Writing in The Times, Vincent Canby described “Ordinary People” as “a moving, intelligent and funny film about disasters that are commonplace to everyone except the people who experience them.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ and ‘That’s Delicious Classics’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z That said, as commonplace as burgers may be, it's sometimes hard to make an at-home version that stacks up to the restaurant variety. Why are restaurant burgers better than the ones you grill at home? 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s a commonplace that chronicles of the grim future — of ecological catastrophe, technological domination, totalitarian politics — project the anxieties of the present. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Unpaid work has crept into almost every industry and it is commonplace for college students to work for free. Why are college students so stressed out? It's not because they're "snowflakes" 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The defendants deny these allegations, arguing that Wolfe was a writer for hire and that the chord progression was too commonplace to copyright. Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' Hit With Copyright Claim 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Multiple plots and subplots such as these are usually less of a distraction in shows with more commonplace settings and concepts. What if Hitler won? ‘Man in the High Castle’ can’t match tantalizing premise. 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Tennis are not alone in combining rock and relationships, and while couples have made music together for ever, nowadays it seems increasingly commonplace, less of a selling point and more of a fact. Til musical differences do us part 2011-02-10T21:29:00Z Its impact in wartime may have been minimal, but its legacy can be traced to the psychological profiling of foreign leaders that thereafter became commonplace in intelligence work. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z This is commonplace now, but J. Crew was essential in making it that way. The J. Crew bridal dress is dead. But the casual wedding it inspired lives on. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In this book’s version of the United States, what we consider supernatural — ghosts, vampires, etc. — is commonplace. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z The center’s auditorium, with its terraced seating and capacity of 1,800, may seem commonplace to concertgoers in Western Europe, the United States or Japan. Poland’s Concert Hall Revival 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Masks are already commonplace in many countries, including South Korea and Japan, and are worn for a variety of reasons including disease prevention and protection from pollution. Hold on to Your Masks 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z It's a safari tour among commonplace predators so accustomed to feasting on readily available prey that they don't catch the scent of a fresh danger before it closes in. In USA's clever potboiler "Dare Me," mean girls can be murder 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z It's neither surreal nor pathos-filled, instead it forms another addition to producer Ash Atalla's stable of shows that take a slightly edgy look at the utterly commonplace. TV highlights 04/08/2011 2011-08-03T20:59:01Z It is a commonplace that one can be more lonesome in a city of four million than in a city of one million. Review: ‘Philip Sparrow Tells All’ Paints a Samuel Steward Portrait 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Indeed, the mainstream media seem to have generally lost interest in this story, perhaps because it has become so commonplace. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Stocked with Flying Dog Pale Ale and other American craft brews, none of which are particularly commonplace in Italian fast food restaurants. Buffalo Wings, Milan Style 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “We recognized it wasn’t commonplace, and we talked about it,” Mr. White said. After a Marathon First Date, a Warp-Speed Romance 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z But the real story is hidden behind the headline: The buying and selling of children is alarmingly commonplace in India. Indian child trafficking on the rise 2013-05-05T12:00:00Z And now we’re seeing more and more of it, and it just is going to become commonplace. Who’s Afraid of Female ‘Ghostbusters’? 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Once the commonplace gets put on display as art, we can’t trust what it’s up to: Who’d want to try urinating in Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain?” 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z This became perhaps the most familiar trope and strategy of pop: its elevation of the commonplace, the unregarded. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z Even with quietude becoming more commonplace than turkey cries in his late work, Ichiyanagi's pieces still retain their explosive power. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Using tools like amplifiers, cables, pulleys, transformers and oscillators to create novel sounds, her sonic experiments anticipated the music software programs and apps that are commonplace today. She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The book’s entries touch on the newfound danger in what used to be commonplace activities and even the dissonance of enjoying a beautiful spring day as war rages on. 14 Books Coming in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Nowadays, distressed and torn clothing is commonplace, as is the idea of black as a default high-fashion color, and these Japanese designers were at the forefront of those trends. SAM’s ‘Future Beauty’ presents Japanese couture as art 2013-06-19T23:09:32Z The judges’ ruling offered guidance to courts about how copyright law applies to works that involve “commonplace elements” that may be in the public domain. Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The plug is in a long tradition of everyday, commonplace designs, from paperclips to Post-it notes, that are as useful as they are pleasurable to look at. Praise for a god of small things 2010-03-16T22:05:00Z For those fortunate to live on the shores of the Mediterranean, sunshine is more commonplace than it is for us Northerners. Poster poems: the sun 2013-06-07T13:28:26Z “Beyond the Clouds,” which he wrote with Mehran Kashani, is a tale of a bad kid who rediscovers his good side, and it relies on dynamics that are commonplace if not outright clichéd. Review: In ‘Beyond the Clouds,’ a Brother and Sister Struggle in Mumbai 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Books chronicling the commonplace, such as the pencil or salt, have become a fashionable means for finding in the everyday clues to some of the grander developments in society. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z “I would prefer that oat milk become as commonplace as nonfat or whole milk, where people think of it as a third option,” he said. The Humble Ascent of Oat Milk 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But Sherlock mentioned Chapman's taped reading of the book, recorded in a single night in the studio of Chapman's friend, Harry Nilsson, at a time when audiobook recordings were not yet commonplace. Monty Python's Chapman in a new film, years after his death 2011-06-27T23:57:04Z Indeed, there is one question that is never posed during these commonplace conversations: What if you got too much sleep? An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The project of Glenn's book is to show how relatively commonplace Gesualdo's experiences were. Carlo Gesualdo: composer or crazed psychopath? | Tom Service 2010-03-18T16:37:00Z The Led Zeppelin case changed that trajectory, with its ruling that some elements of creative works were so commonplace that only “virtually identical” versions infringed on copyright. Ed Sheeran Trial: Did He Copy Marvin Gaye? Here’s What to Know. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In a signal departure, a handful of stars took what seemed a fail-safe route, bypassing stylists' more commonplace choices and relying instead on the sartorial wisdom of their favorite designers. On the Runway Blog: Trendspotting: Taffeta and Tulle at the Golden Globes 2013-01-15T00:29:07Z Mr. Milch spiked the commonplace blasphemy of the 1870s with obscenities so crude they would make rappers flinch. Revisiting ‘Deadwood,’ a Lawless Prelude to TV’s New Golden Age 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The man who immortalized the properties of beets in “Jitterbug Perfume” celebrates food — both the exotic and commonplace varieties — with a gourmand’s enthusiasm. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins It’s a commonplace that movies are a visual medium and that, when movies started talking, the decadence of the medium has been the inert photographing of actors reciting the script. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Newport knits costumes for commonplace heroes, using acrylic wool for a baggy, unathletic look. Galleries: ‘The Art of Comic Books,’ ‘Wait,’ ‘Vivid’ In some ways, her staging might seem surprisingly straightforward, but her sensibility is strongly evident in its spareness and its use of small or commonplace items to evoke much grander pictures. For Mary Zimmerman, overseeing 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis, it starts with imagination 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z In fact, it’s probably as commonplace as if you’re walking around New York City and you see somebody with a BlackBerry on their hip.” ArtsBeat: Palin and Gosselin in the Mother of All Reality Shows 2010-12-13T13:38:00Z The risk now may be that we view the Civil War almost familiarly, as if its immensity were commonplace. Exhibition Review: ?Discovering the Civil War? at National Archives 2010-04-29T21:21:00Z Meanwhile, a carousel of projected slides, handmade from papers and gels, introduces an abstraction of commonplace materials in miniature, underscoring the precision of the larger arrangement. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z Art school is such a commonplace today that we tend not to give its often fascinating history much thought. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z But, as we screen this film 17 years later when the events of Columbine are more commonplace than ever, the film forces us to wonder if there really was “something overwhelming” about Columbine after all. Why Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" matters now more than ever 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Throughout Western countries, salt and pepper shakers are commonplace on nearly every kitchen or dining room table. Your salt and pepper shakers have a surprisingly spicy history 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s so commonplace that most of us don’t even think about it. Steve McQueen meets Tarana Burke: ‘I want to be part of shifting the narrative’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z It was commonplace to write in margins, underline and annotate, use blank spaces for recipes and handwriting practice, and even color in images. Why so many medieval manuscripts feature doodles – and what they reveal 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z In their interaction, for instance, a commonplace melodic motif becomes less commonplace, whereas it remains commonplace in the orchestra’s hands. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z He offers other ideas, too -- discussing L.A. as a place of ordinariness of the unexceptional, of the "fantastically commonplace." Post-diversity, post-sprawl: D.J. Waldie's response to how we talk about Los Angeles 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Comedy on television got very sloppy in recent years because it was nothing but cynicism and shock value jokes which were, once they became commonplace, anything but shocking. ArtsBeat: Your ‘Modern Family’ Questions Answered 2012-12-10T19:00:22Z But the conundrums are there nonetheless because it became so commonplace for white musicians to rip off the music of black people. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Mr. Wu also offered the space to rising chefs and restaurateurs for pop-ups before pop-ups became commonplace in Minnesota, charging them little more than the night’s operating expenses. In the Twin Cities’ Robust Dining Scene, Few Black-Owned Businesses 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z After all, tattoos and piercings are commonplace, even celebrated as far back as the Neolithic period. Motherlode Blog: A Son 'Cuts,' and a Father Struggles 2013-02-05T14:26:41Z People now feel that style is a commonplace expression of their own private passions, their own zeal for comfort, culture and color, but it was Gibbs who made it seem natural. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z When I started to tell this story, I read a lot of articles in local newspapers about abandoned newborn babies — sometimes killed or thrown in toilets — and it becomes commonplace. In "Lingui," a teenager is forced to seek an abortion in Chad: "Injustice is against women, always" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Christopher Shutt’s subliminal sound design lends a foreboding edge to the commonplace noises of traffic and children at play. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Elements like those, appeals court judges said, were so commonplace that they deserved only a so-called thin copyright. When Songs Sound Similar, Courts Look for Musical DNA 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z They're coming from communities where going on to college, even graduating from high school, is not commonplace. Study: Latinos trapped by 'blue-collar ceiling' 2011-12-15T06:01:00Z It’s commonplace to call Woolf an impressionist in this peculiar sense, and yet it nails her novelistic craft. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z They will find what were once new ideas that are now commonplace, in part thanks to Rich. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z A humble British sandwich — "bap" typically refers to a soft roll, which can be filled with eggs and meat — was commonplace as breakfast for factory workers in 19th century London. The absolute best way to make an egg sandwich 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The reasons for this, when revealed, are as petty and nasty and commonplace as those that motivate so many longstanding family grievances. Theater Review: ?A Slow Air,? by David Harrower, at 59E59 Theaters 2012-04-13T22:51:33Z Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.” Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z In the big city there’s little room for the commonplace weirdness of "Dora the Explorer's" landscape. 'Dora and Friends: Into the City' review: Dora grows up 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Topics for their sketches range from the absurdly commonplace, illustrated with tame slapstick, to outrageous and sometimes dark caricatures of sexist double standards. Salon Exclusive: Watch a clip from IFC's latest episode of "Baroness Von Sketch Show" 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Yeoh’s Sunday-night win is a big one, but the real victory will come when the lead roles that had long eluded her grasp start to become commonplace. After Her Oscar Win, Will Michelle Yeoh Get to Lead Again? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Such toxicity is commonplace across entertainment, a hierarchical industry that rewards lucrative products and the people who create them with undue tolerance of abusive behavior. The problem with Ellen DeGeneres is that she made "be kind" the unattainable goal of her brand 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Female Oscar winners in film editing were relatively commonplace in the 1950s and ’60s, when women dominated the industry. Another feminist victory for “Mad Max”: A woman kept “Fury Road” from being just another action movie 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Moreover, she wants these conversations about death and loss and hardship to become more commonplace. She lost her husband, her father and a pregnancy at 31. Now she’s helping others explore grief. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z "Many students like me were told that the lynching of Black Americans was tragic but not that these public murders were commonplace and often lauded by local papers and law enforcement," Hanks wrote. Tom Hanks calls out our whitewashed education and entertainment, citing Tulsa massace erasure 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z He speaks of "… the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father", where "gloom", with its drawn-out mournful double syllable, puts the life she wants – possibly deserves – somehow beyond reach. Thomas Hardy goes to the opera 2012-08-17T21:55:07Z In the post-"Sopranos" decade, it is a commonplace assumption that the only really serious quality television is happening in the form of non-network serialized narrative. Ted Danson gambles comeback on "CSI" 2011-09-21T16:22:00Z In the future an album like this will be commonplace; today, it’s radical. Music: Drake?s ?Take Care? Goes to Moody Places 2011-11-16T15:30:13Z How did she refine her language, her scene construction, discover a way to enlarge what are here little more than political and social commonplaces, to expose a universal human core? Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s become commonplace to say we’re living through a similar, if less bloody, period of tumult. Robert Caro and Carnegie Hall: Revisiting the ’60s 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z He drew on such sessions - commonplace for hospitals, if little publicly known - for his first novel, "Monday Mornings," and is a writer-producer on a new TNT series based on the 2012 book. CNN's Sanjay Gupta adds fiction to his workload 2013-02-01T22:16:04Z Eliot’s suggestion is both outlandish and already, in 1916, a critical commonplace. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Collaborations are now so commonplace, it's easy to forget what it must be like for the singer. BBC Sound of 2013: Chvrches 2012-12-31T07:14:44Z Such things were commonplace in Houston’s birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, an area that never recovered from the riots of the 1960s, when the singer was a child. Nick Broomfield on his damning Whitney Houston film: 'She had very little control over her life' 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z For the child all events are either commonplace or dramatic; Mao and the Red Guards play a lesser role. 11 Flowers - review 2012-05-22T13:01:46Z The little woman, subordinate and subservient, is a sad commonplace in tales about male artists. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Digital and digitally altered humans are commonplace in modern cinema. In the age of deepfakes, could virtual actors put humans out of business? 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z She's a New York multimedia performance artist known for focusing on the commonplace. NYC Museum of Modern Art to feature garage sale 2012-10-11T15:17:08Z It used to be commonplace, says Taylor, for comics to be invited to do morning-radio appearances, but that’s no longer part of the mix. U District’s new Laughs club bets on rising, road-tested comics 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Yet it can be difficult to see a pattern whose components are commonplace. Toxic Men Get All the Attention. But Not in These Plays. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z For these orphans, their “Finding Day” may be the closest approximation to the simple commonplace most of us take for granted — a birthday. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Rather than force his characters into moments of acute discomfort, Mr. Hong lets them amble toward awkwardness, talking in circles and commonplaces until their rage, need, embarrassment and loneliness bubble to the surface. Review: ‘The Day After’ and the Awkwardness of Lunch With the Boss 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z And one of my favorite ways to eat commonplace Brussels sprouts is here, where the cruciferous vegetable is shredded and combined with creamy avocado. RPM Italian review: If only it tasted as good as it looks — and feels 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The extensive disorder of the postcolonial world, in which coups and civil wars became commonplace, made the age of European empires, when the unpoliticised natives knew their place, look peaceful in comparison. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Research on the commonplace “senior moments” focuses on the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved with formation of new memories. Chocolate is good for your brain 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Or, equally commonplace these days, of a contemporary dancer accustomed to performing in the buff. Bruno Isakovic’s ‘Denuded,’ at Abrons Arts Center 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Once an indictment of barbaric ways, Chinese food had, by the end of the fifties, become a commonplace delicacy that seemed to bring an exotic people a little bit closer. Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z From the 1830s, smaller, less elegant editions were marketed to middling families, and became a commonplace of early Victorian childhood, then of a passionate nostalgia for that childhood. Projections of puppet theatre 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Both sides have accused the other of extremist rhetoric, acting in bad faith and bullying, allegations that have become commonplace in the ongoing war for celebrity hearts and minds. Lorde is only the latest: How touring in Israel thrusts musicians into controversy 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Purple varieties of basil, beans, Japanese mustard and rhubarb are also commonplace. Seeing red — in your garden 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Calling attention to commonplace accessories, humdrum crafts, misplaced masterpieces and blithe inequities is a focus of much contemporary design scholarship. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Heller called the cases “a distorted overreaction pandering to the current hypersensitive climate where innocent commonplace gestures are now misperceived and mischaracterized as offensive.” Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Accused of Unwanted Sexual Touching by 14 Women 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Fishermen catch salmon in its waters, and bald eagles are commonplace. Capitol Christmas Tree arrives after a 4,000-mile journey by land and sea 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s become commonplace to hear baby boomers complain about their millennial, Gen Z and, occasionally, Gen X colleagues, with the word “entitled” being mentioned early and often. Perspective | Scott Rudin’s bad behavior was just another Hollywood cliche until a new generation said time’s up 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Key to this discussion is infidelity, which is both increasingly commonplace yet potentially devastating for so many couples. The new sex therapy: Kink — even infidelity — can rekindle a marriage 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z In this country, where inconsideration, rudeness, and even outright hostility seems to be sadly commonplace, it is truly refreshing to read about a workplace were civility is the norm. Angie Mar’s Menu: Red Meat and Respect 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z But a grand concluding commonplace, the triumphant and teary send-off, gives rise to yet another surprising coup de théâtre: Judy, her show and her life in ruins, sings “Over the Rainbow.” “Judy,” Reviewed: Renée Zellweger’s Transcendent Performance as Judy Garland 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Words, concepts and images that pervade his work have become commonplace signifiers in contemporary discourse: Valhalla, Liebestod, Valkyrie, Gesamtkunstwerk, Flying Dutchman, Nibelung, Brünnhilde, Götterdämmerung, Siegfried, Leitmotiv, endless melody, to name just a few. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z At least, in Millican's case, observational material seems to spring from a fascination with the commonplace, and a genuine desire to share it. Millican's way 2010-08-26T15:48:00Z Wiener takes readers through her realization that she is a small part of normalizing the invasive surveillance of consumers that will soon become commonplace. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Lyons's publicity had been marked, he said, "not so much by the common touch … as by the commonplace". Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z Online hatred is so commonplace that the majority of incidents go unreported. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z An earnest primer on values that takes the whimsical form of a letter from an imaginary medieval knight to his children, it falls somewhere between celebrity vanity project and quirky philosophical commonplace book. Ethan Hawke: Actor, novelist — spiritual guide? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Celery’s popularity grew with its availability, until its success undercut its cachet: Celery became commonplace. The Real Heart of Thanksgiving 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z In the ancient Hebrew culture, having more than one wife was commonplace. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z Now the most cynical marketing ploys have become utterly commonplace, with foods frequently positioned as healthy when they're actually nothing of the sort. Tv highlights 28/06/2012 2012-06-27T19:00:01Z But the incident, in which the film's director was also injured, highlights a simple fact: Guns are commonplace in Hollywood films. Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both on and off the set 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z In these places such practices are now commonplace. Stop working for free: “Why would any self-respecting writer put up with that?” 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Powell told Mr. Siskel that after his father was transferred to Britain, he attended a school where bullying was commonplace and where the headmaster had caned him. William Powell, ‘Anarchist Cookbook’ Writer, Dies at 67 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Yet the urge to generalize from the Holocaust to genocide or to call for “tolerance” or other forms of “action” has become commonplace. Exhibition Review: ‘Some Were Neighbors,’ at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2013-04-25T22:05:38Z The manuscript diary and personal, commonplace book flourished. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Occasionally the songs’ lyrics overlap, returning to insoluble obsessions; they wander among observation, parable, reminiscence and incantation, sometimes infusing the most commonplace sentiments with mystery. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s become a commonplace of political discourse to say that Americans keep on fighting the Vietnam War over again in search of a different outcome, but that doesn’t make it untrue. “Last Days in Vietnam”: Is the humiliation of 1975 about to be repeated? 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Sure, sexual innuendo is commonplace: on television and in glossy magazines and in the provocative attire of women on the streets. Sexual Revolution Slowly Progressing in Russia 2010-07-14T21:08:00Z This kind of summary makes it sound bonkers and funny — divorces of the rich and famous — when watching it actually felt commonplace and desperately sad. Perspective | The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z It was the first time many in the audience had seen now commonplace martial arts, or heard of sumo wrestlers or ninjas. My favourite Bond film: You Only Live Twice 2012-10-04T15:29:14Z His program here was commonplace and weighed down with warhorses: Dvorák’s Cello Concerto with Johannes Moser as soloist and Sibelius’ First Symphony. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Pay-later companies are already commonplace in countries like South Korea and Australia. Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z That and other forms of indecisiveness muddle the work, which mainly rides the music’s surface with accurately timed commonplaces, substituting cutesy coyness and generic sass for the specific spirit of the past. Review: With ‘Dougla,’ Dance Theater of Harlem Recalls Past Glory 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Once exotic, “assisted reproductive technologies,” or A.R.T.s, now seem commonplace. The Case for Redefining Infertility 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But mostly his account is an endlessly fascinating commonplace book of other people’s drawings from all over the world. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The girl claims she “said it was fact or opinion… Based on my religion and based on what I think and believe, I do not think it was a commonplace assertion.” Keep God out of public schools: There are no heroes in Texas student’s “is God real?” assignment controversy 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In an unsettlingly near-future New York where extreme climate change has made cybernetic limbs and genetic modifications — called “upgrades” — necessary and commonplace, steep income inequality and horrifying medical debt are ever more prevalent. Beasts and Baseball: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Magritte was also admired by various younger artists who were exploring the pathos of commonplace objects, including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, all of whom acquired works by Magritte in the early ’60s. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z But midwifery isn’t commonplace, and there isn’t a system for integrating home births into hospitals, or consistent laws and regulations that define the midwifery medical field. Labor of love: The super-secret outlaw doula in backwoods California 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z My boys both decided to cut back on the sweet stuff that became commonplace over the holidays, but they too are struggling. Perspective | Explaining the siren song of sugar, and how to beat the habit 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z In her new book, “The Selfishness of Others,” subtitled “An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism,” Kristin Dombek destabilizes that contemporary commonplace, breaking off chunks from the inside. What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The idea that judges are supposed to — and actually able to — uncover the “original meaning” of constitutional language is so commonplace among conservatives that it is easy to forget how idiosyncratic it is. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z From there, Denial continued meeting more and more Black artists, and diverse lineups became increasingly commonplace at those once-homogenous shows. How Seattle’s storied rock scene is shattering the genre’s white male image 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Mixing history, journalism and memoir, Tsui mulls the appeal of this “most commonplace and relaxing way of putting yourself in total peril,” as our reviewer, Mary Pols, phrased it. New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z There was a heyday for places like this, when goofy, caricatured road stops built on a theme — pirates or dinosaurs, or more troublingly, Native Americans or Mexicans — were commonplace. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In the Baroque era the practice of borrowing music from one opera and fitting it with new words for another drama was commonplace. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z The fake news approach to both biblical lore and the history of Western civilization is commonplace in fantasy movies, but the filmmakers are really pushing it here. Review: ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Whisks Michael Fassbender to 1492 Spain 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z As domestic internet use became more commonplace, Williams noticed the hate speech he encountered on the streets reflected online. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z “His experience of what we could call gay and he would call queer culture, his idea of gender as performance, unexpressed in the 1940s, is absolutely commonplace.” Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z As for Paul Dacre, editor of the hated Daily Mail, it is commonplace in polite liberal circles to describe him as "poison". The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z That is not to say that his offering was commonplace: few performers would open so prominent an engagement with the first published work of Messiaen, his Preludes, composed while he was still a conservatory student. Music Review: Strands Tied Into a French Knot 2010-12-10T22:54:00Z Three decades on, coming-out stories may have become commonplace in indie films and television movies, but it is impossible not to be moved by these quiet accounts of self-discovery and affective courage. DVDs: New DVDs, ?Word Is Out? and ?Meredith Monk? 2010-05-30T01:53:00Z And as the Mass developed, the more commonplace the source of the Mass' foundational melody the better. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z It reminded media scholar Robert McChesney of a period in the late 19th century when fabricating stories and bribing reporters was commonplace. The new journalism — and the PR firms behind it 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z She went on to found Audio Book Contractors well before recorded books were commonplace in stores and libraries. Flo Gibson, Grande Dame of Audiobooks, Dies at 86 2011-01-16T03:29:21Z "Beards have become more commonplace and accepted in our society, even in professional settings," Webre said in the release. Louisiana sheriff makes successful ‘no shave’ fundraiser yearlong: ‘It’s a win-win’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z A commonplace in crime fiction is the use of two seemingly unrelated plot lines that connect late in the game. Crime fiction: a new Ian Rankin hero and nightmares from Joyce Carol Oates 2011-11-09T22:55:06Z It makes little sense to complain about opera on video as a medium at a time when it’s become commonplace. HD broadcasts, once the future of opera, are now seen by some as its demise 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Rage-baiting is commonplace and infuriatingly successful, so the most prevalent language of the Internet is at its best cynicism and its worst outright meanness. Motherlode Blog: On Facebook, Bullies 'Like' if You Hate 2012-09-09T21:51:53Z But Mr. Sherlock mentioned Mr. Chapman’s taped reading of the book, recorded in a single night in the studio of a Chapman friend, Harry Nilsson, at a time when audiobook recordings were not yet commonplace. This May Be Something Completely Different 2011-06-26T18:39:54Z There are also many photographs of commonplace details: a bucket of cleaning supplies, his television remote on a silver tray, a bunch of overripe bananas. Book and Film on Ralph Rucci 2011-12-28T17:41:11Z Characteristic of the show are the pieces’ whimsy, attention to everyday life and use of commonplace materials. Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z His lawyers have argued that overzealous prosecutors, caught up in the fervor of the #MeToo movement, are trying to turn “commonplace gestures” or misunderstandings into crimes. Cuba Gooding Jr. faces February trial in NYC groping case 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The need to nurture living things, I believe, flows from our own innate knowledge that life is laden with paradox: It is both robust and fragile, enduring and fleeting, commonplace and yet so precious. The coronavirus reminds us of our deep-rooted need for medicinal plants 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z New Yorkers, accustomed to heightened security and alerts that have become commonplace over the past decade, appeared to take the increased police presence in stride. Americans mark 10th anniversary of attacks 2011-09-11T13:00:00Z Before the word meta had become commonplace, Craven hatched a nifty way to breathe new life into the Elm Street series. Back from the dead: is the slasher movie set to make a killing? 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The bad habits of offering an opinion in place of actual news, unfortunately, are growing broader and more commonplace. Why cable news networks could use a reality check 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Around 145 of these species are eaten today and in parts of Asia it is commonplace. People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z It calls for six commonplace ingredients, including a versatile and quick ginger-garlic paste. Think recipes from an Indian restaurant’s cookbook will be too hard? ‘Rasika’ proves otherwise. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The title change certainly spices things up, no matter how commonplace body art is, at least outside of Stockholm, and it plays down its overarching theme, which the movie only does further. Movie Review | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': Stieg Larsson?s Novel on Screen 2010-03-18T23:36:00Z Releasing an album with distinct English and Spanish tracks should be commonplace for bilingual, crossover acts. Enrique Iglesias mixes things up with new album 2010-07-06T02:37:00Z But painters pursued the drama of chiaroscuro centuries before Hopper, and Young’s ability to find mystery in commonplace Americana also evokes such filmmakers as David Lynch. In the galleries: A photographer’s accident yielded artistic results 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z He built a domestic scene: the contents of a commonplace kitchen—plates, bowls, teapots, utensils—spun above a wooden table. A Visit with the Artist Damian Ortega 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Something similar created in 17th century France was shaped like a little ball and filled with commonplace ingredients. Will It Croqueta? Miami Pushes the Limits of a Favorite Snack. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z It was a lucrative business that helped lead to the kind of voter micro-targeting that has since become commonplace in campaigns. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It is a commonplace but not uncontroversial argument. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Over the last cultural generation or two the shiksa became commonplace — somewhere between Portnoy’s Complaint and The CounterlifeRoth stopped italicizing the word — and at the same time lost most of its frisson. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z Britain, he notes, spent £1.5bn fighting the drug trade last year, and yet drugs – as he learns from on-the-ground reportage – are so commonplace as to be mundane. Watch this 2010-08-01T23:05:00Z As is becoming commonplace with food shows, there's a faintly ridiculous challenge at the end of it that makes it even more amusing. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-17T06:59:00Z But actually, they were commonplace in the 1920s. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z "The idea of music being a potentially unhealthy form of stimulation, similar to drugs or electricity, had been commonplace during the 19th century," says Kennaway. A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z Standardization of training is one step in a process that she hopes will end with insurance reimbursement for animal assisted therapy, allowing it to become even more commonplace. Paws for thought: how pet therapy is gaining traction 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In the wake of All Tomorrow's Parties, it has become fairly commonplace to have a hip band program a special event, pulling on the quality of a group's tastes as much as its recorded output. Summer Stages: Pop and Jazz 2010-05-07T21:24:00Z Such a sentiment may seem commonplace today, but it was rare in the mid-1960s, before Miles Davis and other older jazz musicians embraced a similarly eclectic philosophy, as Mr. Coryell himself did throughout his career. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z A scene unthinkable just a few years ago, it is now commonplace in an area that used to be blighted by armed conflict between the government and soldiers from ethnic groups fighting for greater autonomy. Fight against malaria unites old foes in Myanmar 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z At the time, it wasn't exactly commonplace for white kids to be rapping, but the cultural implications "didn't really occur to us at the time," Diamond once told the Tribune. Beastie Boys' Adam 'MCA' Yauch dead at 47 2012-05-04T19:35:00Z It’s startling to realize how commonplace slavery was in NJ in the past. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In a now commonplace career switch, Daniel Minzer abandoned banking for baking. At Dulceria, Chilean Cookies and Other Delights 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z It became commonplace, domesticated — dare I say it? — normalized. Review: ‘Black Edge,’ an Account of a Hedge Fund Magnate and Insider Trading 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The confessions and tensions are commonplace, but “The Humans” is never less than high on the terrible power of the mundane. ‘The Humans’ Review: Reasons (Not) to Be Cheerful 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Stories of underdogs doing battle with thugs are commonplace in literature, especially in children’s literature. The Enduring Appeal of “The Pushcart War” 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s the commonplace organizational struggles, the Gandhi-like obsession with nonviolence and the stubborn refusal to be bullied by the bigoted, the rich, the armed and the powerful that stand out in “Cesar Chavez.” ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z This combination is typical of Casey’s style, in which the commonplace flows into a glistening divine. Review | In the galleries: A focus on the intersection of art and movement 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z We also need to look at more commonplace forms of rubbish – plastic bags and bin liners get swept into rivers and seas and end up choking seabirds and turtles. Callum Roberts: if seas are to survive, we need a New Deal for the Oceans 2012-06-02T23:05:35Z In this artist’s practice, such commonplace stuff is fodder for radical transformation. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, there is some evidence that ministers in the Methodist churches didn't look kindly upon guitar playing at their services, though guitars and tambourines were commonplace in Baptist, Pentecostal, and more sanctified church settings. New book traces the Staples family's soulful journey and unique sound 2014-01-18T06:00:00Z It’s commonplace for Quentin Tarantino to court controversy every time he releases a film, for his trademark gruesome violence and frequent use of the N-word in his scripts. Quentin Tarantino wants to 'go further' with his anti-police violence protests 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Might there be truth to the commonplace that science fiction writers are prophets? What we can learn from two literary masters: Ursula K. Le Guin and James Salter 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z "It's a strange marriage - knowing something is wrong yet at the same time finding it familiar and commonplace." Bieber mom Pattie Mallette writes of painful past 2012-09-24T20:43:08Z This commonplace fruit offers a refreshingly sweet taste amidst a beautiful mesh of crisp and fleshy textures. Shut your pie hole! Seasonal desserts to bake with apples instead of pie 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z In the late 1980s, with Disney attractions like Star Tours, videos in the queue became commonplace. Bringing a (Jurassic) World of Star Power to Theme Park Queues 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z He is a meticulous recorder of the natural and the commonplace, insisting upon the homeliest and most specific of country language. ‘God’s Kingdom’ review: The story of a boy becoming a man 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In the end, commonplace particulars make up her memories of illness: the clock, the children, a tube of pale blood, the tightening tone of a voice on the phone. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z But there was nothing commonplace about the dazzling performances or the reception Salonen received from a jubilant audience. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z As the American musical found its footing in the 1930s, the Depression made topical entertainments commonplace and even acclaimed. Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z These machines are basically very simple, and the principles of unconscious purposive behavior are among the commonplaces of engineering science. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z Wooley’s class was given an assignment to identify “factual claims, commonplace assertions and opinions,” one of which was “God is real.” Keep God out of public schools: There are no heroes in Texas student’s “is God real?” assignment controversy 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But despite his commonplace appearance, McCorkle’s retirement is an event that few are likely to forget. ‘I’m an Electric Lampshade’ Review: My Accountant, the Pop Star 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The bad-boss routine may be commonplace, but it doesn’t seem old here. Review: In ‘Oh! You Pretty Things,’ Shanna Mahin Dishes on Hollywood Foibles 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Back when fine art’s superiority to popular and folk varieties went unquestioned, its materials also were exalted: Oil paint and marble were considered inherently more noble than commonplace stuff. Review | In the galleries: Synthetic consumer products prove to be a natural medium 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Comparisons with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett have become commonplace. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Galleries were becoming more commonplace, but were small. Sonderbund show recreated 100 years after galvanising Europe's art world 2012-10-02T13:00:29Z In fact, so commonplace is the boundary-blurring that few any longer notice. Museums' disturbing transformation: relentless commercialization 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z By fracturing commonplace landscapes, she throws them into high relief. Review | In the galleries: Breaching the border between art and furniture 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z They’re digital natives, and likely to respond well to humor about the Internet itself, which is becoming commonplace too, a direct poke at these shows’ target demographic. Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z But comfortable doesn’t mean commonplace, as Freedman works hard to prove. The Jewish deli is having a moment in places where you’d least expect it 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The precision technique effectively renders the commonplace alien. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s depressing anyway that the movie shaped real, tragic events into a moralising narrative designed to deter women from aspiring to freedoms that are commonplace for men. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z That is the kind of interaction Ms. Banks is hoping will become commonplace in the new building, where, when it opens next year, she will maintain an office. On the Runway Blog: Tyra Banks Sets an Example 2012-06-13T18:11:53Z Belief in the supernatural was commonplace, even among the intelligentsia. 'The Clockwork Universe': charting the workings of the 17th-century world 2011-03-16T22:19:04Z If God had a commonplace proper name, He would merely be distinguished from other deities. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Decapitations, amputations and other mutilations are absurdly, ridiculously commonplace. 'Adventures in Plymptoons!' salutes playful/indie Oregon animator 2012-03-15T20:55:04Z Such lack of parity is a commonplace outrage, blithely accepted. American hustle: how Hollywood rips off women 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The 66-year-old artist, whose songs include her rendition of "Gloria" and "Because the Night," hopes the Polaroid snapshots will rekindle a sense of appreciation for the commonplace. A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show 2013-01-16T10:45:52Z Exacting negotiations that stretch to the 11th hour are commonplace. Long-Delayed Show of Buddhist Art From Pakistan Is to Open 2011-07-26T22:48:05Z The greater worry is that horror becomes so commonplace it loses its originality, exactly like the current reboot/sequel malaise. How did horror become a year-long box office slayer? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z People now specify in their wills whom they want to clean out their email accounts, Zoom allows users to virtually attend both business meetings and funerals, while online memorial books are commonplace. Revisiting Millsberry: The wild rise and fall of General Mill's virtual cereal-themed town 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The family photos Le transfigures are seemingly commonplace images of domestic life, albeit sometimes with poignant details. Review | In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Devices to relieve muscle tension via mechanical massage are commonplace, but they were rather unusual in Kellogg's day. 11 of John Harvey Kellogg's strangest inventions 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Books of all sorts of soul, all sorts of age, All sorts of face –Black-letter, vellum, and the flimsy page Of commonplace. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z Along the way, the show’s writing room turned into my therapy room — which, according to Fogelman, is commonplace. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Yes, a divorce or a parent with Alzheimer’s disease is traumatic but it’s also fairly commonplace, and in trying to milk these moments, Ms. Piper can seem self-pitying rather than insightful. Review: ‘Not That Jewish,’ but Funny Just the Same 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z While this may be commonplace nowadays, the history of green beer is more complicated than most may think. St. Patrick's Day's first green beer has an unsettling history 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z And yet, the phrase, “she’s gotten herself pregnant” is so commonplace that it passes without question. The three-letter word missing from the Zika virus warnings 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Even though Flint is British, she nails with authority the voices, commonplace wisdom and dusty claustrophobia of the borough. Still unsolved, a child-murder case inspires a gripping new novel 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “Lobby” is too restrictive and commonplace a term for the Line’s main public space. Finding your religion at the Line, a new hotel in Adams Morgan 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z In 1970 the play’s overt self-consciousness presumably felt more daring and novel than it does today, when art that advertises its own artifice has become commonplace even on television. | 'Lemon Sky': ?Lemon Sky? by Lanford Wilson at Clurman Theater - Review 2011-09-28T02:30:33Z It's difficult to describe their subtle power without making them sound everyday; Gowin had an unerring ability to render the commonplace luminous and mysterious. Portraits of women – by the men who loved them 2013-06-19T14:52:00Z Many of the sculptures in “6@35 — Fabricating Culture” incorporate objects or archetypes that are commonplace and easily recognizable. Review | In the galleries: Blurring the boundary between sculpture and space 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It's validating to hear so many people responding with outrage at the kinds of things that were commonplace in the community in which I was raised. Shiny happy homeschooling: The abusive Duggar-like household is preventable, if we all take action 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, Martin speculates that there’s “a feedback loop between these tools that have become commonplace and how we see ourselves.” An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z East’s weak two would not satisfy the purists but is now commonplace in the tournament world when the vulnerability is favorable. Bridge: After a Weak Two-Bid, to Lurk or to Jump In? 2011-01-30T22:15:19Z Putting aside the book’s singularly creepy tone, it contains little argumentation that wasn’t already commonplace in other, still-circulating anti-Semitic and extreme-right literature. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It is commonplace for domestic workers to face low wages, long working hours and no holidays. Two things you may have missed in Alfonso Cuarón’s "Roma" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Think of how the Broadway musical changed starting in the early 1960s, when amplification became commonplace, often to excess. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Such distractions are becoming far more commonplace at the dining table. How to trick your brain into healthy eating 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Their drawing-paintings of commonplace D.C. life combine an offhand approach with the intricate compositions of classical painting, a strategy that recalls Larry Rivers’s style. In the galleries: Photos that take twists and turns at Civilian Art Projects 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z And in a climate rife with corruption, foul play of all kinds is still commonplace. | 'Khodorkovsky': Mikhail Khodorkovsky Documentary - Review 2011-11-29T22:44:05Z When he mocks just how commonplace that particular scene is in his own doc, “How I’m Feeling Now,” you sense he gets it — this one will be different. ‘Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now’ Review: Breakout Crooner in Meta Form 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Underemployment, where it’s commonplace to find taxi drivers with master’s degrees, is one of the problems to which Karim was referring. Don’t Sleep on Tunis, a City That’s More Awake Than Ever Before 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It is not a commonplace sentiment for a headstone, she said, but there are certainly a sprinkling of them out there. This woman bakes recipes she finds on gravestone epitaphs: ‘They’re to die for’ 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z As he considers commonplace objects around him — a kitchen knife, tea leaves, plastic bags — he reveals a fascinating view of suburbia and people’s hidden emotional lives. Review | Five new books of poetry explore the American experience, for better or worse 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z As the absurd becomes commonplace, Berger’s work suggests, comedy has to be found in the mundane. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The thrift store's oil painting is a commonplace landscape featuring a mountain and a bench that Banksy bought and then added to, painting a Nazi soldier sitting on the bench gazing at the scenery. Banksy's latest prank on New York art world hangs in thrift shop 2013-10-30T21:37:14Z Beatings are frequent, and assassination — foreign and domestic — has become commonplace. Drama as Protest: ‘Our Complacency Is Dangerous’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The more these actors are challenged to engage physically with an unending pageant of nameless henchman, the more conventional, commonplace and clumsy the fight scenes become. The Expendables 2: Locked and Overloaded 2012-08-16T12:00:05Z With the exception of the dramatic bombing and rescue that open the book, the materials with which Bernard Ashley builds this picture are generally the mundane, the small, the commonplace. Ronnie's War by Bernard Ashley 2010-08-13T23:07:00Z This tale follows the story of a young African-American man on trial during the time of the Great Depression when rights for African-Americans had only just been won and inequality was still commonplace. Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-08T14:00:00Z These novels offer us the exotic within the commonplace. Val McDermid: addicted to crime fiction 2013-07-11T11:35:00Z Greg Collier, a Soul Food Sessions founder and co-owner of the Yolk diner in Rock Hill, S.C., said it is “so commonplace” to be the only black person in the kitchen. For black chefs, the fight for visibility is far from over 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, Black patients received care at medical schools, clinics and hospitals by serving as “teaching material,” and the appropriation of Black tissues, organs and bodies was commonplace. When a Black Man’s Heart Was Transplanted Without Consent 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z But the picture’s gender and race dynamics, not to mention its forced star-crossed lovers theme, are sufficiently commonplace to register as hackneyed. ‘Heartlock’ Review: A Prison Kingpin Steals the Show in This Hackneyed Drama 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z I love Garner’s notion of a “commonplace book,” a gathering of noteworthy excerpts from one’s reading. Walt Whitman, Parenting Books and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Sides go far beyond coleslaw, hush puppies, french fries and Brunswick stew, and cocktails are commonplace, a contemporary retort to the dry counties of old that prevented barbecue joints from serving beer, let alone liquor. Why North Carolina’s barbecue scene is still smoldering 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Privately, I still balk at the term "literary novel", a commonplace of the book business. Do creative writing courses make novels too 'literary'? 2011-01-10T12:09:17Z What was fresh and provocative soon became tired and commonplace. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z And in a story that superficially resembles that of Barack Obama’s parents, he beguiled the white woman he would marry at a time when mixed-raced marriages in America were neither commonplace nor easy. Books of The Times: ?My Long Trip Home,? by Mark Whitaker - Review 2011-11-06T22:34:42Z Such throwaways are as commonplace as the Isle of Skye is exotic, and a reminder that humans make similar messes wherever they live or travel. Review | In the galleries: A virtual visit to Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s also triggered the stirrings of a new debate over how such tragedies should be covered now that they are sadly commonplace. Changing the channel on the bad rerun of shooting coverage 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z His self-description as “a French person, of Algerian descent” may be a demographic commonplace, but not when attached to a French movie star. T Magazine: Changing of the Avant-Garde 2011-02-25T20:22:41Z Brussels sprouts have become so commonplace, I’m surprised McDonald’s hasn’t put them on the menu. At City Perch, enjoy the bread and desserts — if you can get a moment’s peace 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In the early '70s, when New York City was undergoing a fiscal crisis, vacant lots — often the result of foreclosure — were commonplace. As food scrap collection peaks, New York community compost sites face evictions 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The Northern Virginia photographers find them in nature — gazing at clouds, bananas or other commonplace things through a macro lens. ‘Hide & Seek’ reveals the beauty in details 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Whether it’s shaving, waxing or laser hair removal, pubic grooming has become commonplace – but more than a quarter of those who remove hair have met with mishap in the process, research has revealed. Wax on, wax ouch: pubic grooming has a high injury rate, survey reveals 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Here, in a neighbourhood that lacks a basic sewage system and where night military incursions are commonplace, the presence of violins, flutes and cellos feels almost revolutionary. Palestinian children's orchestra inspires youngsters at refugee camp 2011-01-14T17:05:56Z Pundits are commonplace in today's cable news environment, with politically tilted news coverage coming from both left and right. Ted Baxter pursued fame over journalism – but unlike today’s pundits, he didn't corrupt the news 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z A white American expat working in Johannesburg told me with visible disgust that among her white, South African counterparts, racist remarks and jokes regarding blacks are commonplace. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z In its mix of the commonplace and the fantastic — and its dreamlike, fragmentary unpredictability — Ms. Wright’s poetry seemed to encapsulate the workings of human memory itself. C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Photograph: Andrew Lepley/Redferns The teaching of jazz in conservatoires may now be commonplace, but for decades the art was informally learned by listening to records and sharing ideas. Donald Byrd obituary 2013-02-12T10:20:40Z Instead, he fell back on the lazy excuse that it was once commonplace. The best and worst apologies of the week 2013-03-29T14:58:00Z In 1984, he wanted a computer to say “Hello”, and now the relationship is two-way; having a natter with Siri is commonplace. Aaron Sorkin on the cult of Steve Jobs: ‘I hadn't seen anything like it since John Lennon was killed’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Apparently, as Dad explains it, his sexual life with his wife was so intense, he needed commonplace couplings with other women as a way to compare with the sublime raptures of his marriage bed. Cast helps John Patrick Shanley's 'Dreamer' from being a complete snooze 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But she also pioneered the now commonplace practice of distilling the essence of a drama or musical by posing the performers tellingly and shooting them in close-up. Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z To have found expression for it, without grandiloquence, is no commonplace achievement. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z Unusual lodgings have become commonplace, and few more than the yurt. Why be a square? Yurts offer vacationers adventure-in-the-round. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Self-reflection on maladies has become such a commonplace that it is almost impossible to bring freshness to the project. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Such comic images of domestic emancipation are commonplace in “Wings From Chains,” organized by the Athenaeum on the occasion of the national meeting of the Women’s Caucus for Art last month in Washington. Not all right angles in ‘Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The alleged methods at the California ranch are commonplace, Creamer said. Group claims elephant in Witherspoon film was abused 2011-05-11T00:39:27Z The ethics of meat consumption are so widely questioned that laboratory-grown meat substitutes have become commonplace. Beef Is a Problem. This Seattle Steakhouse Wants to Be Part of the Solution. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It is by now commonplace to say, as C. L. Franklin says of his daughter in the film, that Aretha “never left the church.” “My Soul Is Satisfied”: An Intimate New Documentary Explores the Source of Aretha Franklin’s Power 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In many countries, women are more likely than ever to be older than their husband, romantic cohabitation is commonplace and same-sex unions are winning more legal recognition. Men live longer when they marry younger spouses. Why don't women? 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Swimming, perhaps the most commonplace and relaxing way of putting yourself in total peril, is a real mind game. Eat. Sleep. Swim. Repeat. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are commonplace in our network hub of Iceland, but in case an event does occur, contingency plans are in place to deal with any potential outcome.” Rumblings of Volcanic Activity in Iceland 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Even in the little picture, failure is commonplace. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z A passage like this inspires awe, but also treats the theory of continental drift as a commonplace, well past argument. Two Books Consider Earthquakes and Their Human Tolls 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Metaphorical journeys are so commonplace as to be pretty much unavoidable, though that's no excuse for such bureaucratic excrescences as "direction of travel" and "going forward". Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z This relentless pursuit is expensive, stressful, takes a devastating toll on the environment, and has become so commonplace that we barely blink when someone suggests a $30 plastic teething toy as a “must-have” item. Why depriving your kids of toys is a great idea 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “When It’s You,” with its wry Everywoman of a narrator, is more drawn to the commonplace. Review: In ‘When It’s You,’ Isolation Has Consequences 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the real world, harassment is commonplace and womanhood is a target. Out of the mouths of babes: When street harassment comes from boys, not men 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The practice dates back to a time when arranged marriages were commonplace, and served as a way to relieve anxiety and introduce the bride and groom, per The Telegraph. Groom in China to sue 'friends' over wedding-day hazing that sent him to hospital: 'I was so tortured' 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But the need for reassurance diminished as air travel became more commonplace. Flight attendants’ roles have changed, but the stereotypes have not 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In a lighted room some of the score might have seemed commonplace, and much of it might have registered as a curious stream of timbral events. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z As that line suggests, “This Is Us” is aware when it dips into the commonplace, but it’s not above doing so when that tactic is effective. Review: ‘This Is Us’ Is Skillful, Shameless Tear-Jerking 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z And on the other side of the gutter, car-on-scooter fatalities are becoming almost commonplace. The death of the sidewalk 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Long before computers became commonplace, marketers were comparing hard copies of sales charts and statistical tables in a bid to forecast buying trends, Ekstrand said. TV seems to know what you want to see; algorithms at work 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Intentional or not, the hippos also provide comic relief to the corporate culture that's become commonplace at festivals and concerts. One of Coachella's hippest art installations happens to have hippos 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z She says that this issue will become more commonplace and that there is no ethical absolute regarding contact. Ask Amy: Man’s donation results in multiple dividends 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It has become commonplace for critics to write about every topic related to architecture except the individual building, focusing instead on urbanism, climate change or the politics of housing. Architecture is facing its own award-season controversy 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Kelman has said he also used his own experiences growing up on a multicultural housing estate in Luton where poverty, violence and crime were commonplace. Debut novel by former warehouseman wins place on Man Booker longlist 2011-07-26T19:23:35Z The Pennsylvania native appeared on "The Tonight Show" more than 150 times and was known for poking fun at the commonplace aspects of life. Comedian and 'Tonight Show' regular David Brenner dies at 78 2014-03-16T01:43:50Z These confident, optimistic depictions weren’t always as commonplace, relatively speaking. What TV still needs to show us about abortion 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z They said such filming techniques were commonplace and allowed producers to collect footage that would otherwise be hard to obtain. Viewers 'misled' over wildlife show 2013-12-03T14:47:00Z As emoji use becomes more and more commonplace, I’m curious about how tone will be affected. Can you write a best-seller using only emoji? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps we need a dose of dark humour to process and normalise taboo, yet commonplace experiences. Mothers who have abortions: what to do with TV’s third rail? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Yes, country music was shifting underneath his boots, and the pyrotechnics that made him the most vivid country star of the 1990s were becoming commonplace. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z If you’ve read anything about Dickens, you’ve heard the critical commonplaces: his great sympathy for children, his angelic heroines, the way his serial composition lends itself so beautifully to television. Dickens Turns 200 This Year. We Will Blog His Ten Best Books 2012-01-20T14:00:32Z "Open endings" have become more commonplace, partly to add an air of uncertainty and partly because, in a godless universe, death doesn't mean what it once did. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z The storyline centres on a near future where domestic robots are commonplace and artificial intelligence is about to become a reality. Anne Hathaway takes on Robopocalypse 2012-11-13T11:29:30Z Zip forward to now and it's commonplace to hear people discussing how many gigs of hard disk space they've got left without having to lower their voices in case the "norms" overhear them. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Science Of The Movies 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z And why is it not commonplace to hear that baritone "rated NC-17" voice bookend movie trailers at the theater or on television? NC-17 Turns 20: What the Film Rating Means Today 2010-10-05T09:00:00Z As I saw it, the “event horizons,” cultural benchmarks, references, and commonplaces that constitute Generation X’s intragenerational language and cultural formation were not on Millennials’ radar. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z The “Blurred Lines” case concerned genre, while the “Dark Horse” case — and another involving Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” — had to do with commonplace musical elements, like chord progressions and melodic accompaniments. Lawsuit Over Lyrics in Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ Is Dismissed 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Even in a town where celebrity-studded awards shows are commonplace, it was the most anticipated event of the season. Kate brings feminine, tried-and-true looks to US 2011-07-11T20:20:10Z Plywood and concrete are among the commonplace materials used by Kyle Bauer and Patrick Harkin, two of the many contemporary artists who seem mindful less of the Louvre than Home Depot. Review | In the galleries: Misty images from a twilight zone 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a phenomenon so commonplace you’d think it wouldn’t bring shame. Review: ‘The Art of Waiting,’ What to Expect When You’re Still Not Expecting 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Instead, the plot that lends these sequences their dramatic stakes is unfortunately assembled from a kit of commonplaces and conveniences, including a very significant mind-melding dream with quantum implications. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” Should Have Been the “Godfather: Part II” of Superhero Movies 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s commonplace to say that Lockwood fits uncannily well on social media, especially on Twitter, but I worry that she fits herself to it. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The pastel beauties, many built when autos were becoming commonplace, overlook a perpetual parade of cars. Miami has designer everything else — why not parking garages? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Most TikTok cooks are people who are preparing food in their home kitchens, and it’s commonplace for friends or family members to pop into the frame. TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z 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 “Dryouts” are commonplace, though it’s not clear whether scarcity of water or the dilapidation of the infrastructure meant to distribute it is to blame. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Immature and irresponsible fathers – the kind seen in popular shows like "The Simpsons," "Home Improvement" and "Married … With Children" – were more commonplace. What made Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner so different from other sitcom dads 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z She seems irked by the commonplace familial obligations: composing a toast, helping to pick out the cake. A Novel Explores What Happens When Adoption Means Maladaptation 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Movies becoming musicals are commonplace on Broadway today — “Sister Act,” “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” and “Catch Me If You Can” all opened this season — but theatrical works about sports are more rare. ArtsBeat: Gonna Fly Soon: A 'Rocky' Musical Is Moving Ahead 2011-06-01T19:44:03Z It’s a piece in a genre that is, now, a commonplace, the sociological study of American life based on trends in Hollywood films. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Subjects that were once forbidden are now commonplace. New Freedom for Myanmar’s Artists 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Americans cherish the sort of training that is commonplace with British actors. Michael Sheen, Passengers and why Hollywood's hottest leads need a quirky Brit 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Cycles of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, symphonies and string quartets are commonplace; the violin sonatas are much less frequently offered in entirety. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z Finland provides safety from the war, but the family quickly encounters new difficulties, as anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment prove disquietingly commonplace in their new home. A Life Altered by War and Transmuted Into Fiction 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In other art forms, it is commonplace to focus on the work of an individual. Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons 2012-11-11T18:30:01Z “Could the Wright brothers have imagined that flying would be so commonplace that we’d be disinterested in the miraculous bird’s-eye view of the earth below?” ‘Users’ Review: Brave New World 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z But Munro is now 81, and told the New Yorker last year she's "losing names or words in a commonplace way", and that "this time, I think it's for real". Author Alice Munro says she's retiring – but does she really mean it? 2013-06-21T12:52:08Z On the one hand, one of the ritual functions of restaurants is to make a common place for commonplace civilization to proceed. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z So now I come to you with a more commonplace problem in some ways, but still so connected to the vein of creativity that you speak so well to. Of conscience and creativity 2013-05-09T00:00:00Z As my colleague Siobhan Burke has written, this is a commonplace of ballet, too. Why Plays About Sexual Assault Are Too Murky for Our Own Good 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z While women entering and participating equally in the labour market is commonplace in Nigeria, there are still certain lines of work considered solely the province of men, including computing and engineering. Breaking the code: how women in Nigeria are changing the face of tech 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The sight of massive encampments adjacent to new bars and high-end coffee shops has become commonplace in Oakland. California is moving homeless people into sheds – but is it right? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z It is a “blog” in the proper sense — a “web log,” part commonplace book and part ledger of a life. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Those incidents were the extreme, but a lax and uncontrolled party-bus atmosphere was commonplace. Greyhound: 100 years old and acting younger than ever But it is also commonplace now to tweet about your breakfast or post endless photos of your dog. Keeping Up, on Camera, Is No Longer Just for the Kardashians 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z It was not simply a commentary on marriage, loss of personal freedom and the over-richness of even commonplace things. Fashion Review: C?line, Comme des Gar?ons, Haider Ackermann, Junya Watanabe, Jean Paul Gaultier and Yohji Yamamoto: Paris Review 2011-10-03T03:10:16Z But I realized it wasn’t commonplace to other people, and that it would be a beautiful story to tell people of where food comes from. Where that Christmas feast really came from 2013-12-25T22:00:00Z It isn’t just today, when tall buildings have become commonplace and 57th Street has become a boulevard of glittery glass condominiums taller than the Empire State Building, that people complain about skyscrapers. Not Your Grandfather’s Skyscraper 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z HGTV's real estate makeover shows have sold luxuries as commonplace amenities for years. How Barbie influenced our real-world Dreamhouse goals 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z But even those of us with more traditional tastes will find in Addams’s city a kind of theater: on sidewalks and in public spaces the most extraordinary sights proliferate, and the commonplace turns extreme. Exhibition Review | 'Charles Addams's New York': The Perverse Pleasures Underneath the Ordinary 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z But then again, you might not bother with this commonplace. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Photo tour books of Chicago are as commonplace as broken-hearted Cubs fans, but there’s a new one that’s worth a look. Book captures shape-shiftin' Chicago 2011-04-20T21:56:00Z It's become commonplace for presidents to write books after they've finished serving their terms in office. President Obama plans to write a book once he leaves the Oval Office 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Partly it’s because things that were once shocking have become commonplace and acceptable. How a TV Series Undersells the Danger of the Sex Pistols 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The most exciting sequence is the most commonplace: a couple of gangland killings in a Viennese hotel, which with heavy irony take place while two other characters drive around the city's famed Ringstrasse. 360 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:33Z Ubiquitous among biscuits, fried chicken, pancakes and salad dressings, buttermilk is a seemingly commonplace ingredient that still manages to mystify many. Demystifying buttermilk: How to use this amazing ingredient to make chicken cutlets, desserts & more 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z I could fill a jukebox, or a commonplace book, with selections. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Suddenly, even the most commonplace act seems fraught with danger. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z Anticipating by decades creative practices that are commonplace today, he had coined the term “third wave” to describe music that drew from both classical and jazz genres. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z While the short-film categories have existed for decades, they originated at a time when it was commonplace for shorts to receive meaningful theatrical play. Dear Academy: Face It, the Short-Film Oscars Should Be Cut From the Telecast 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Pretty well all the programmes went out live; breakdowns, gaffes, broken links and missed cues were commonplace. Mary Malcolm obituary 2010-10-14T17:49:00Z “The Un-Heroic Act,” in its nuanced way, reflects a world in which sexual violence is simultaneously traumatic and ubiquitous, singular yet commonplace. Female Artists Delete Rape’s ‘Heroic’ Underpinnings 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z McIntosh's score is fascinatingly changeable, going beyond the commonplace impulsiveness that is normally associated with fugitives. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Ideas that led to solemn Catholics crossing themselves back then are fairly commonplace nowadays, much to your grandmother's dismay. FX's stunning "Black Narcissus" remake leaves the viewer in a state of unrequited desire 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z That technique is now commonplace on shows like “Modern Family” and countless commercials. ‘The Office’ Finale 2013-05-01T12:00:01Z Her point, rather, is that this skill is becoming commonplace. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, I am troubled at some of the possibilities that may reveal themselves when travel along the intergalactic highway becomes as commonplace as a week in Magaluf. If only a Scotsman had boldly gone… 2013-07-13T23:05:54Z That is not to say that the straightforward duets were either unappealing or commonplace. Music Review: New Works and Oldies (From 20th Century) 2011-01-05T23:15:22Z Plastic waste, in the form of discarded bags, food and drink packaging, is ubiquitous in Lagos, a city of 20 million people where dropping litter is commonplace. Nigerian artist turns plastic waste into fashion to raise awareness 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z It's almost commonplace to say a Springsteen show is another triumph, but – really – he just keeps getting better and better. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – review 2013-06-16T10:39:05Z “It’s as everyday and commonplace and recognizable as the most personal book or show we’ve seen. At the same time, it has an otherworldly quality that creeps in.” ‘The Leftovers,’ About a Small Town’s Loss, Comes to HBO 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z He was an environmentalist – buying Tetiaroa, an atoll north of Tahiti, in the 1960s and pledging to protect it – and a social activist long before it was commonplace in Hollywood to support such causes. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Although the evidence is largely anecdotal, it would appear that online grooming is commonplace, and that snaring paedophiles through subterfuge is like shooting fish in a barrel. The Paedophile Hunter review – dark and disturbing 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Public restrooms didn’t become commonplace in this country until the late 19th century. In All-Gender Restrooms, the Signs Reflect the Times 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z That evening, Sexsmith played plenty of old hits and lots of new songs that showed off his tendency to work with commonplace phrases. The Songwriters' Songwriter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Practice lockdowns and active shooter drills are commonplace in many classrooms, even for students as young as preschoolers. Watching "Derry Girls" in a violent America 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The movie zips to a commonplace climactic set piece, with two admittedly nifty computer-generated monsters battling it out to decide the fate of humankind. Review: In ‘Venom,’ Tom Hardy as a Weirder-Than-Usual, Not-Quite Superhero 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z These types of interactions have become commonplace for Logic, a 25-year-old local-guy-gone-big, who built his career through hard work and affability. Logic looks to take his career to the final frontier 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The Internet has made photography ubiquitous and commonplace, wallpapering the world we live in with images. T Magazine: Weber on the Web 2011-10-11T15:55:48Z As new generations became accustomed to throwing things away, plastics — and their waste — became commonplace. More than just litter: The relationship between plastic and climate change 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z While some bands fall victim to "artistic differences", other reasons for dissolving groups are less commonplace: Bucks Fizz were unable to withstand David Van Day's wardrobe demands, for instance. Radio catchup: Band break-ups, high-kicking chorus girls and tales from Bristol 2010-04-29T15:54:00Z Another concern is history, but only as written by commonplace stuff: A series of dual portraits overlays changing products such as telephones and lightbulbs, the older version in red and the newer one in black. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The UIC experts found that overcrowding was commonplace, with many young patients regularly forced to sleep on cots in hallways or day rooms. Chilling report slams psychiatric hospital 2011-09-28T11:00:00Z Harry Houdini, the arch sceptic and magician's magician, often complained that what seemed wonderful to most people was every day and commonplace to him, describing his professional life as a "constant record of disillusion". Disillusioned with The Magicians 2011-01-17T14:26:03Z Cheap and commonplace, bananas don’t seem to inspire profound thought. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z It is shocking how commonplace debt is today, but another difference between then and now is the financial infrastructure of debt. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z According to her narrative, her mother tended bar in the small Great Lakes region town where she grew up, a town with a high rate of teen addicts and commonplace early-teen pregnancies. “What it’s like to date your dad”: Why class markers matter in stories about taboo sexuality 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The expectation of brutality used to be a commonplace part of most upbringings. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z The Delaware artist works with such commonplace items as a hangar, a brush and a carpenter’s level. In the galleries: ‘Spring Solos’ at Arlington Arts Center 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z A number of the parts that make the whole of "Clarice" feel like this is because this show is designed as a commonplace sequel to an extraordinary film. "Clarice" takes the extraordinary "Silence of the Lambs" agent and makes her network-ordinary 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Everyone in baseball suspects that these kinds of falsehoods are commonplace, especially when you’re dealing with uneven, handwritten record-keeping in a poor, largely rural nation like the Dominican Republic. Inside the secret world of Dominican baseball 2012-07-10T22:15:00Z Greene’s analytical critique of dramatization reflects the more commonplace reliance on a nonfiction record as a touchstone for drama—a reliance that risks tripping up true-story Hollywood films on the road to awards. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z I won’t tell you what they say to each other, except to note that it is both commonplace and shocking, as tragedy tends to be when it’s embedded in the pedestrian details of everyday life. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z In the 1960s, when the series takes place, that cocktail was commonplace. A Drink as Comfortable as an Old-Fashioned, Don Draper?s Cocktail of Choice 2012-03-20T22:20:50Z In these artworks, the commonplace can be strange and even sacred. In the galleries: ‘Micro-Monuments’ that take on a global perspective 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z A commonplace rock to the untrained eye, but an obvious dinosaur bone to Larson. The Dinosaur Bone Market Is Booming. It Also Has Growing Pains. 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Such disruptions in a program by Ms. Young, the provocative choreographer and performance artist, are commonplace, but in this hourlong work, a companion to her forthcoming “Elektra,” the do-over was a rare occurrence. Review: ‘Elektra Cabaret,’ a Show by Ann Liv Young 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z While it is commonplace in some quarters to pejoratively refer to men who like women too much as “simps”; here is a man who’s proudly a fan of his wife on Instagram! Is it feminist to be obsessed with Kamala Harris's husband? 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The question is, do Weston's still lives, in all their tonal beauty, their formal perfection, their technical skill, invest these commonplace objects with a heightened presence, or do they capture something innate? Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation? 2010-08-18T15:49:00Z The subscription-series format long commonplace at American orchestras, with a weekly offering of standard repertory, is looking a little, well, standard. Review: The Philharmonic Reveals the Rhetoric of Rachmaninoff 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z An uncertain fate awaits the most bracing and contrarian writers: Will the insights they offer still come across as stingingly original if the disillusion they so often recommend becomes commonplace? Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Examples of this phenomenon are relatively commonplace in popular culture. Whistleblowers, moral injury, and endless war 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It isn’t going full snuff, but the imminent threat of harm is becoming a little too commonplace for comfort. Critic’s Notebook: Discovery’s ‘Dude, You’re Screwed’ 2013-12-20T22:30:53Z “The author sees beauty in the commonplace,” said a 1972 Seattle Times review. LOCAL BOOKS 2014-03-10T19:56:45Z Those lost keys, forgotten names, mistaken parking places, and tip-of-the-tongue-but-not-quite-accessible facts seem to become commonplace. Lost keys, forgotten names, unretrievable words: 7 ways to explain those senior moments 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z With just 34 foreign imports allowed to compete for China's rapidly expanding cinema market in any given year, such drastic acts of appeasement are becoming commonplace. The China-fication of Hollywood blockbusters 2013-05-04T05:00:00Z The studio artifice that “Sgt. Pepper” daringly flaunted has long since become commonplace. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Sheeran and his lawyers never denied that the chords in the two songs are similar, but called them commonplace musical building blocks that have turned up in dozens of other songs. Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z As a chronicler of the commonplace, Lewton also investigated the Washington suburbs, notably Dale City. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The books of quotations that rarely let you down are commonplace books, those intellectual scrapbooks made for personal use and compiled by a single avid reader. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z |
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