Adjective : mundane affairs. From Dictionary.com.
Jetse de Vries: You don't understand: mundaneness is the red flag to our bullish bull. From Wordnik.com. [Shelfari:] Reference
People who inhabit Second Life are already escaping the boring mundaneness of their real lives. From Wordnik.com. [Bestiality May Be Knackered In Second Life] Reference
Have you never noticed FSJ throwing out obviously wrong stuff before perhaps to make it look like he can't be bothered with the mundaneness of everyday life. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Ive says he's embarrassed to be British] Reference
Were their national community to lose it's 'mundaneness' or when an important part of their nationality is questioned then their nationalism becomes more apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Everybody's A Nationalist] Reference
This is only to say that we're a bit familiar with the material from the start, so it feels like Ross and Eisner have some work ahead of them to avoid getting caught in the same mundaneness created by those others. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from the Black Lagoon Remake Has Legs « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Sadly, even the very articulate and intelligent woman who had chosen to give up work to look after her children still seemed to see looking after them as intricately connected to domestic mundaneness, even though she said ultimately she enjoyed it. From Wordnik.com. [SQHQ» Blog Archive » Mothers!] Reference
We all have our little anti mundaneness ... things that help us keep going, and I'd like to think that soon swancon will be an even bigger boost that isn't rejuvenation, that i won't need the recharge and to immerse myself into the relative obscurity of being alternative too. From Wordnik.com. [March 24th, 2005] Reference
Your blog is a really nice break from the mundaneness I that is 90% of the internet …. From Wordnik.com. [ProBlogger Blog Tips] Reference
Instead, the absolute mundaneness of both daily life and those taboo subjects are captured. From Wordnik.com. Reference
West actually invokes the mundaneness of the outside world as a break from the heightened existence of intellectual pursuits. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from The Sun] Reference
The horrible mundaneness of friendly-fire incidents, including British troops killed by US soldiers because they were listening to their iPods. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
"He was acquainting me with my age," Elsley said of Brittain he uses his mother's last name, then 19, "and my boringness and the mundaneness of what I did.". From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The mundaneness of these things, or so one hears from the thronged psychocrats, can lead a human person into feeling "trapped" or some such thing, but for me it is a little paradise. From Wordnik.com. [The Ochlophobist] Reference
It had just enough spice to keep the dish away from mundaneness while also remaining true to the pure simplicity of smoked beef brisket (would we really want to tamper with that beauty?). From Wordnik.com. [Blake Makes a food blog by One Ambitious Foodie] Reference
The way Wilson blends mundaneness with weirdness and the way his monologues can ennoble even his most wretched characters - to do these shows, you've got to stay with Wilson through it all. From Wordnik.com. [Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
It's perhaps a formula destined for mundaneness but the Brood do experiment a bit with sonics in their guitar sound at times, but above all have a great catalogue of melodic tunes they're working with. From Wordnik.com. [For the records] Reference
Another reason for the mundaneness, meandering, and vacuity of Obama's speeches and answers in press conferences is that he does not have a political strategy or coherent, interrelated set of political beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
Yet this mere effort by Blow to reach just above videogame mundaneness for something more evocative of his artistic intent - not to mention perfectly in keeping with Braid's painterly backgrounds and Celtic-themed score - was enough for the p-word to be slapped on to his game. From Wordnik.com. [Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today] Reference
I had seen children playing there colorful wings soaring, shaking hands with kites jutting in and out of perspectives challenging red tail hawks that swooped from perches high, where mighty limbs had nested providing vantages for many to peer from allowing sights beyond the daily mundaneness. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
What Mike Tyson has to say isn’t necessarily surprising except in its mundaneness. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Tyson] Reference
The only part that didn’t ring true to me was the mundaneness of the second-to-the-last paragraph. From Wordnik.com. [ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE • by Bill Gaythwaite] Reference
Whether you’re shopping for a college friend or the former speaker of the House, a couple’s registry can be fascinating in its mundaneness. From Wordnik.com. [Soft Money or a Non-Stick Loaf Pan? | PopPolitics.com] Reference
And, yet, amid all this mundaneness, he’s the focal point of scores if not hundreds of real scientists, engineers and educators who follow his every move. From Wordnik.com. [Conflicting Explanations for Withdrawal of Dover Experts? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I hope you’re following this mundaneness because now Ben and Locke are clearing off the outriggers WHY ARE THOSE THERE? when Caesar and Random-New-Lostie 1 & 2 appear. From Wordnik.com. [Lost 5.12: Dead is Dead | The Disney Blog] Reference
Perhaps some such feelings as these Mr. Ruskin himself at one time experienced, until, shocked by what he deemed the excessive mundaneness, the intense unspirituality of the great Fleming, -- he revolted to the thoughtful, attenuated poetry of Angelico and the early Italian painters, to be in time again driven by the too intense asceticism and archaic debility of this school, to the robust excellence and the more real and material, though pure and refined, beauty of the Venetians. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
The other is dullness or mundaneness, when you design by committee. ". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
His self-described "uninhibited," "spontaneous" work was astonishing in its mundaneness. From Wordnik.com. [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference
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