| 单词 | commonplaceness |
| 例句 | From the outset his aim was to portray life with entire fidelity in all its commonplaceness, and yet to charm the reader into a liking for this commonplaceness and into reverence for what it conceals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z I understand what fierce parental pride is at the bottom of many a father’s or mother’s blindness to faults and commonplaceness. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Afterward, when I heard Maida Odell's story, I knew what strange surroundings she had given herself in the rich commonplaceness of that old home which had been hers since childhood. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z A heavy, or sometimes turgid, journalistic commonplaceness sat upon it. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z "Our experience doesn't leave much of Herrick's idea about the commonplaceness of crime—" "Oh, yes, it does!" "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Let not the commonplaceness of the words rob us of their meaning. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z The admixture of faith and imagination produces strange results, while it raises us above the commonplaceness of everyday life. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z Wholesome Ella Jasper met the caller at the door with an inward cordiality entirely out of proportion to even a close friend of the family, but her greeting was commonplaceness itself. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z His features were ordinary; and Jacqueline, not being a physiognomist, did not take in the piercing expression, the firmness and intelligence that redeemed them from commonplaceness. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z She reread the story and blushed for her commonplaceness. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z Many passages in the essay have undoubtedly the air of truisms; but this impression of commonplaceness is removed by the strong specific character of all the illustrations. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z I was not disposed to beat about the bush, and the commonplaceness of their talk irritated me. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Yet the fate that grudged him prizes in his lifetime contrived afterwards to spread a veneer of commonplaceness over the success which it could not prevent. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Diamond threw into his manner a certain determined commonplaceness, as though to quench any tendency to excitement or exaltation which might show itself in the preacher. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z Behind his utter commonplaceness there was the soul of Romeo, the passion of self-sacrifice that goes with great lovers. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z His Army and Navy girls are better, because they are redeemed from commonplaceness by their patriotism. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In similar fashion, Alençon as a town has its commonplaceness condoned by reason of the beauty of its lace, a beauty which is constantly thrust upon your attention by its inhabitants. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z "I think—you made a mistake," he began it with commonplaceness, but his gesture softened the words. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode But Gerry recognized her own commonplaceness and understood that unconsciously Mrs. Burton was not altogether fair. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines And it almost distressed him to see the touch of genial commonplaceness expressing itself pervasively in the big bowls and jars and vases of pink roses that burgeoned everywhere. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece "Oh, Jim, they have made it up!" says Miss Peyton, making this vulgar remark with so much joy and feeling in her voice as robs it of all its commonplaceness. Faith and Unfaith This aspect of the woman of South America, however, is the only one of characteristic form she has retained after her determined subduing of national individuality to European commonplaceness. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) But Max had this advantage of Drummond: he was not his own dupe; whereas Drummond would go to his grave believing himself bored to extinction by the commonplaceness of his fantastical self.... The Destroying Angel His large-featured, freckled face was kept from commonplaceness by its frank gray eyes, broad brow, firm chin and refined mouth. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge One who has never seen Rome is thus led to imagine that those of his country-people who have lived here for years have become in a manner purged of all natural commonplaceness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. In Hazlitt’s vocabulary there is nothing striking unless it be the scrupulousness with which he avoids the danger of commonplaceness and of pedantry. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature "I know only one thing that can preserve it from commonplaceness and dullness and dreariness." Brooke's Daughter A Novel The Paston Letters are simply genuine family correspondence—of a genuineness all the more certain because of their commonplaceness. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing The difference between a "live" person and a "dead" one can be summarized by a great many instances about us, and because of their commonplaceness, we do not observe them. Tyranny of God But the most curious thing, after all, is the want of delight in any of the principal figures, and the comparative meanness and commonplaceness of even the folds of the drapery. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) As a young girl she had a transparent complexion and a thin sort of American prettiness that unfortunately quickly faded, under the influences of the Church Street house, into a sallow commonplaceness. Clark's Field My enchanted garden had vanished, the spiked wall rose over my head, and before me, as I turned homeward, spread all the familiar commonplaceness of Church Hill. The Romance of a Plain Man The American mind has been accused of ignorance, superficiality, levity, commonplaceness, and dozens of other defects, but "dulness" is not one of them. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures It is not a commonplace book, nor is anything else of its author's; but the price paid for the absence of commonplaceness is excessive. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The commonplaceness of this composition is curiously connected with the languor of thought and touch throughout the work. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) O what poor wretches our fellow creatures now seem to us in their commonplaceness, who yet all, as the patient children and drudges of mother earth, are better than we. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck All regrets over the probable commonplaceness of a small country wedding had vanished. The Indifference of Juliet Over vast sections of our prosperous and intelligent people of the Mississippi Basin to-day the very genius of commonplaceness seems to hover. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Profound attention has been given to the proper reproduction of the individual characters of its subjects, while the art has not been allowed to sink into caricature or commonplaceness. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture In the first place the title is not alluring, and not until you have read the book, can you know that there is an admirable consistency in the stiff, uncompromising commonplaceness of that title. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays The German cracks heavy jokes and the French cynical ones: it is difficult to choose between them as both show little culture and an inherent commonplaceness of mind. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship The frozen commonplaceness of the scene was made for me still more oppressive by Signora dell'Acqua. New Italian sketches One need not be a poet like Keats or an inveterate psychologist like Henry James, in order to become aware how the commonplaceness of the world rests like a fog upon the mind and heart. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures A few steps, and below us in the hollow we see the city, all its commonplaceness charmed away, the vulgar noises of the streets blended in a soft murmur. The Chief End of Man The great point to be emphasised at such an initiation is this: that people, especially refined people, are not to judge of Dickens by what they would call the coarseness or commonplaceness of his subject. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens "That is often so," I hurried to assure her, with the idea of establishing the commonplaceness of such an experience. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon A large measure of the success that Euphues had is due to the commonplaceness of its observations. The Bibliotaph and Other People Commonplace persons and commonplace things do appear in literature, but they must have something more than their commonplaceness to recommend them. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story A certain superficiality, vulgarity, and commonplaceness seems to have been forced upon him by the circumstances of his age, no less than by his special temperament. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Van Vreck asked in a tone which changed to commonplaceness—if his voice could ever be commonplace. The Second Latchkey Indeed, only a gracefully low forehead and eyes at once keen and genial saved his face from commonplaceness, and would have led a spectator to feel any curiosity about his meditations. Roads from Rome Vagrant towers and angular church spires, uninspired statuary, and weary, smoke-darkened trees shed their garments of commonplaceness and shimmered like the mosques and turrets of an enchanted city. The Parts Men Play The necessity for a simple style must not be made an excuse for commonplaceness; and here the author confronts rather a serious question, for everyday life abounds in commonplaces, which literature will not tolerate. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story It must not be an attempt to bolster up weakness of ideas or commonplaceness of expression. Public Speaking I want to be happy; I want to be loved; I don't want to live a life of just dreary commonplaceness, alone, uncared for, with no outlook, with no prospect of joys. The Iron Furrow She examined the hands submitted to her notice, and interpreted the lines with an amount of conscientious commonplaceness for which I should never have given her credit. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 The utter commonplaceness of much of what passes for political thinking in this country had for years discouraged him. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I Scott's work on romances, though it does not always rise above commonplaceness, escapes the perfunctory quality of hack writing by virtue of his keen interest in the subject. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature She was in her work-room, if a place so decoratively enchanting can be connected with a subject so stern and prosaic, so crowded with every-day commonplaceness, as work. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie The week-ends in the still old house drew not a few famous folk who loathed the commonplaceness of convivial atmospheres. The Gay Cockade He could not obey his instinct and write directly and simply: he must needs warp and twist the obvious, and disguise, even from himself, its essential commonplaceness. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas But, paradoxically, this superficial commonplaceness only heightened the tensity of the thing that underlay it. The Real Adventure The frozen commonplaceness of the scene was made for me still more oppressive by Signora dell' Acqua. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series To what he felt to be the commonplaceness of her outlook he had long since accustomed himself. The Just and the Unjust With an instinctive recognition of the demands of any relation such as she felt her friendship with Janet Cardiff to be, she simply refrained, from imposing upon her anything that savored of dullness or commonplaceness. A Daughter of To-Day Here you can feel the perfect harmony and balance of the old version and the miserable commonplaceness of the effort of these misguided modern men. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson "I should have thought your mind might be better occupied now," he retorted with brutal commonplaceness. The Dark House The whole landscape is transfigured—lifted high up out of commonplaceness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series At Aix he tried to pass for a respectable rentier; he found no difficulty in being silly, but he could not achieve the necessary commonplaceness. Since Cézanne Besides, the commonplaceness, the eternal routine, the being tied together, the—the domestic virtues! A Daughter of To-Day You felt that she was affectionate and commonplace with that tender commonplaceness, which real poets understand, and which is the absence of hate. Romance of the Rabbit Drudgery, commonplaceness is in the spirit, not the work. Quiet Talks about Jesus We may talk wisely and at length of his commonplaceness, lack of spice, philistinism; he can be counted on to amuse us. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities There is no fault which seems so hopeless as commonplaceness, but it is really easier to elevate the commonplace than to reduce the turgid. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 Yet we cannot help noting his deficiency in the finer sense of beauty, the absence of poetic inspiration or feeling in his work, the commonplaceness of his colour, and his wearisome reiteration of calculated effects. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Having thus attempted to hide the deadly commonplaceness of this story with a thin layer of cynicism, perhaps even the wily editor may be tricked into taking the leap. Cheerful—By Request "Oh, your old Uncle reads a little of everything," he returned with a reassuring commonplaceness of manner. Dust He was so subtle that he hid the vast range of his powers behind an appearance of commonplaceness. The Cruise of the Jasper B. My chief recollection of our journey to Berlin was its commonplaceness. Greenmantle It was as a part of all this commonplaceness that she regarded the treatise on village-improvement. Main Street The great gray pile, mountainous, almost ominous, looms up in the midst of the dingy commonplaceness of Amsterdam avenue and 110th street. Fanny Herself I can see the Alberto, slow, laboured, yet with a kind of pristine simplicity in all his movements, that touched his fat commonplaceness with beauty. Twilight in Italy In his "Essays in Criticism," Matthew Arnold enters a general complaint against English prose writers for a lack of mental flexibility, and against Addison particularly for the commonplaceness of his ideas. Sketches from Concord and Appledore There was a studied commonplaceness in his manner; his eyes avoided hers. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories I gazed at commonplaceness and dulness—I mocked at it; and now it has conquered me! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow There was everyday commonplaceness in the poverty of the house, where lay the hastily prepared yellow corpse. The Created Legend In painful contrast to them stands commonplaceness, always a fatal fault. A History of English Literature Amid the commonplaceness of Islington where we changed omnibuses, the fog abandoned us in despair, and rising aloof, dissolved into the bitterness of a small cold rain. London Films Perhaps one reason for her naive stupidity was the commonplaceness of her relations with Blair. The Iron Woman Its principal streets give you the impression of walking through an English town,—not an old-time town, but a new one, plain almost to commonplaceness, in spite of Nelson's monument. Two Years in the French West Indies The dusty road trailed behind the rapid wheels, and revealed vistas of depressing commonplaceness. The Created Legend Breaking so violently through the commonplaceness and formality of the age, however, they offer eloquent testimony to the irrepressibility of the romantic instinct in human nature. A History of English Literature Neither in speech nor in look did she show a trace of her father's fatuous commonplaceness, and she gave no sign of her mother's coldly calculating disposition. The Auction Block And he was hoping to find reserves of power in her, such as would rescue her from the imputation of commonplaceness in her beliefs. The Emancipated There was a hideous commonplaceness in the tone which struck a chill to Stafford's heart. The Judgment House Crossing the threshold, the commonplaceness of it all clashed so discordantly with the scene in her memory that for an instant she grew faint and clung to the curtains between which she was passing. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest There was something uncanny in their commonplaceness in so uncommon a place. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan As I glanced at him I could not but think how on that very day he had complained bitterly of the commonplaceness of life. The Sign of the Four From a height of illimitable loftiness the owner of the cardboard treasury looked down upon the squat commonplaceness of those three lives. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William And of himself holding desperately to them all, and to the believed commonplaceness of his surroundings. The Breaking Point It is from the point of view of those great facts that it handles even commonplace things, and you forget the commonplaceness of the things in the greatness of the dealing. Study of the King James Bible A pair of twinkling blue eyes and a humorously quirked mouth redeemed his countenance from commonplaceness. The Riverman |
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