But it is the description of quotidian events that sheds light on how the people lived. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
On a more quotidian level, my childhood with him was often fraught. From Wordnik.com. [Eulogy for Robert B. Parker by his son, David] Reference
This deliciously bittersweet movie makes magic out of the quotidian. From Wordnik.com. [LIFE IS A CABERNET] Reference
Even the most banal and quotidian activities of normal life become challenging. From Wordnik.com. [PBS's This Emotional Life: What The Hurt Locker Got Right] Reference
Yes, everyone partakes of quotidian heroism, which evidently is not an oxymoron. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificence Democratized] Reference
I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr. Johnson's own fabrication; but I have since found it in. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
English landscape, Austen offers a sort of test case that asks how the sensibility endorsed by the eighteenth-century novel fares in quotidian England. From Wordnik.com. [Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper] Reference
The quotidian is the daily, the ordinary existence, the "what happens anyway". From Wordnik.com. [Walking Turcot Yards] Reference
These (sung, but not high, Masses), are the Masses that are called quotidianæ in the Missal. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Yet Kazin tells us that "The 'quotidian' never got into the Cantos; perhaps there was no actual life around him for Pound to report.". From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Ezra Pound] Reference
It means "daily bread," but somehow "quotidian" seems right for Seinfeld, 52, a guy whose entire career is built on his bemused study of everyday life. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Seinfeld] Reference
Under his expert hand, the Wiener Philharmoniker, apt to phone it in for something as "quotidian" as Mozart's 40th, shines and sparkles with the swank and swagger only it has. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
He's an acute observer who finds the extraordinary in the quotidian. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: The Prince Of Reportage] Reference
Well, the stuff on offer at Meatopia was not meat in that quotidian sense. From Wordnik.com. [Stefan Beck: Meatopia: Meat-Up on Governors Island (PHOTOS)] Reference
The answers to Schofield's problems are found in sources both quotidian and obscure. From Wordnik.com. [Little London Prop Shop Turns Ideas Into Art] Reference
Those who live the rather routine life of involved citizens are our quotidian heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium Event On Vital Voices Through The Century] Reference
All the admiration in the world can't change the quotidian reality on Sarajevo's streets. From Wordnik.com. [Counting The Living] Reference
Neither "turpitude" nor "quotidian" get a mention in my little English-French dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis Stine Gets a Job!] Reference
Where, you may ask, are the forces of law and order when this quotidian nightmare is going on?. From Wordnik.com. [Brian McNally's Letter from Saigon] Reference
The result so far is a collection of sterile well-wish videos and quotidian clips of home life. From Wordnik.com. [A Few Good Viral Videos] Reference
Not everything, despite the quotidian temptations to believe otherwise, is actually doom and gloom. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Gourmands who swore by New York Strip are now singing the praises of the more quotidian hanger steak. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Good Taste] Reference
Nor is the movement concerned with the quotidian lives of men in relation to their lovers and families. From Wordnik.com. [Drums, Sweat And Tears] Reference
The problem comes from the quotidian difficulties of making benchtop science work on an industrial scale. From Wordnik.com. [Cellulosic Ethanol: One Molecule Could Cure Our Addiction to Oil] Reference
Everything that should be precise, matter-of-fact and quotidian is made slightly larger, and falser, than life. From Wordnik.com. [Gere Caught In The Headlights] Reference
Toby, your articles work when they do what it says on the tin: quirkily noting one's own quotidian urban angst. From Wordnik.com. [It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity...] Reference
It came from the hysterical juxtaposition of the banal and quotidian with the austerity we associate with books. From Wordnik.com. [Are You a Bridezilla? Check the OED] Reference
It shows that a lifestyle framed as fun and carefree is really just an endless, quotidian cycle of maintenance tasks. From Wordnik.com. [America’s New Icons] Reference
No doubt, you, our best music teachers, have witnessed music perform quotidian miracles in and out of your classrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Lucia Brawley: A Twa Lala -- Play a Song: My Keynote Address at the Music Educators Symposium at the Yale School of Music] Reference
Everything is mercilessly catalogued, even the Advent calendar, and reduced to the quotidian banalities of the weather. From Wordnik.com. [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference
It seems that the majority of the diaries here are either quotidian and a bit dull (like this), or just plain unsettling. From Wordnik.com. [meli Diary Entry] Reference
The patrician Cooke thinks Baker, best known for spoofing quotidian American life, will make an excellent armchair Anglophile. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee In King Alistair's Court] Reference
Luxury works a kind of magic on us, but only if we allow it to be special and rare rather than quotidian and readily available. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Luxury] Reference
They were the quotidian rituals of the Senate — markups and conference committees, the pat on the back and the joke in the ear. From Wordnik.com. [Watching the Lion in His Den] Reference
Wright predictably argues that the development of this doctrine, like others, can be seen as a response to quotidian local conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Can Science Explain Religion?] Reference
Others, though, are departing with lingering concerns about the quotidian tasks of building an international climate justice movement. From Wordnik.com. [Robert S. Eshelman: From Cochabamba to Cancun] Reference
And then there's "Mon-ey for Your Life," in which average-guy contestants were given a camera, some training and an editor who would help them record their quotidian lives. From Wordnik.com. [Cbs Tries A Dutch Tv Treat] Reference
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