Nothing could have been more commonplace than the whole incident, but the commonness was the beauty of it. From Wordnik.com. [Change in the Village] Reference
Add to this the "commonness" of Palin and her appeal becomes even clearer. From Wordnik.com. [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference
Mr. Hartman, the father, was a wholesale grocer -- a business large enough to have brought wealth, but painfully tainted with "commonness". From Wordnik.com. [Love's Pilgrimage] Reference
A shuddering exhibition of "commonness," that he wore detachable cuffs -- and upon this detail her distraught mind fixed as typical. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Generation] Reference
They have, in fact, all the commonness of the job printer. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
The commonness of names is even more acute with slave names. From Wordnik.com. [Cinnamon Roll] Reference
The commonness of this act hides from us its wonderful nature. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The commonness of violations was the big surprise of the study. From Wordnik.com. [Let's talk class warfare shall we?] Reference
His commonness was pointed by his dishevelled hair and dirty clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Too much interaction with the water has softened them into commonness. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah O'Leary: Overthinking to Stinking: The Dangers of Overly Complicated Marketing] Reference
This very simplicity and commonness has turned many against our treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
In the sense that there is a certain cultural commonness in upbringing, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Adbusters makes a list of Jews] Reference
The commonness of doping has fans questioning the credibility of many sports. From Wordnik.com. [Olympic Committee Struggles to Eradicate Doping] Reference
It is not enough to plead the tendencies of the times as an excuse for commonness. From Wordnik.com. [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference
For all her commonness and coarseness, he wanted her with a peculiarly urgent desire. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
And the species that became king of the landscape, by virtue of its commonness, was the deer mouse. From Wordnik.com. [Brenda Ekwurzel, Ph.D.: Small Creatures and Climate Change: How Warming Can "Shuffle the Deck" of Creatures That Thrive] Reference
But what strikes us most about Larkin is not the commonness but the singularity of the point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Wounded by Un-Shrapnel] Reference
I fall into phrases which, as a critic, I should hitherto have heartily despised for their commonness. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Mr. Rosenbaum plausibly points to the reasonable man's "sheer moral blindness and undaunted commonness.". From Wordnik.com. [Justice Is Blind-Must It Be Soulless, Too?] Reference
For one thing (alas! the commonness of this complaint), she was less young than they had fancied her to be. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
You may also want to note that senses are listed in historical order, not order of authority or commonness. From Wordnik.com. [Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?] Reference
I have to believe the mix is swilled by barrelful at the bar, explaining the commonness of their Hurricanes. From Wordnik.com. [Lost City: New Orleans Edition: Sazerac, Mon Amour] Reference
The message also noted that despite the great distance that divides us, there was commonness and unity in approach. From Wordnik.com. [REPORT, MAIN DECISIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SECOND NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS - ZAMBIA.] Reference
But leadership breeds leadership and, in the end, can create that commonness of purpose we call national consensus. From Wordnik.com. [The Competitive Edge: Canada's R&D Strategies for the Global Market] Reference
His commonness rose into the uncommon, the extraordinary, but without any hint of the exclusive or specially favored. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
And as I recall those who were closer to the situation thought is was deeper that simply seeking commonness. datingjesus. From Wordnik.com. [A non-black queen at a historically black college « Dating Jesus] Reference
The sight loses none of its sadness and pathos by its commonness; only the horror is gone, giving place to apathy and stupor. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Slightness becomes supplanted by comparative solidity, commonness by novelty, lowness and irregularity by symmetry and height. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
Somehow, away from the others, and out in the open, Phoebe seemed to shed the commonness that had blighted her at that dreadful tea. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Minoret – Levrault an artist would very likely have left the view to sketch the man, so original was his in his native commonness. From Wordnik.com. [Ursula] Reference
In a dozen books he scourged the court of the citizen king -- its pretensions, its commonness, and its assemblage of nouveaux riches. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
It's become a nervous tick, actually; I'm not sure you'd understand, but there might be a shred of commonness in it for you to relate. From Wordnik.com. [They are only numbers] Reference
Perhaps because of the commonness and simplicity of such names, as well as their exciting beauty, many girls respond quite well to them. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
They emphasize the commonness of much that surrounds them, much that blatantly would obscure them if they were not pronouncedly superior. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
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