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.
Over vast sections of our prosperous and intelligent people of the Mississippi Basin to-day the very genius of commonplaceness seems to hover.
The frozen commonplaceness of the scene was made for me still more oppressive by Signora dell' Acqua.
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.
Commonplace persons and commonplace things do appear in literature, but they must have something more than their commonplaceness to recommend them.
Commonplaceness is the chief cause of the unattractive title, and that fault is usually traceable to the plot itself.
The separateness has given him the standpoint whence he has been able to observe and describe the commonplaceness with which (in spite of his separateness) he is in vital sympathy.
It was as a part of all this commonplaceness that she regarded the treatise on village-improvement.
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 shorter poems are also magniloquent, and, like the longer one, barely escape commonplaceness by a certain activity of mind.
Mr. Lindsay, at this stage, was writing like other people, and his verse was redeemed fromcommonplaceness only by its sincerity and high spirits.
