He had a harsh, sharp voice, with an articulation of a most painful accuracy, even his commonplaces being enunciated with a sort of distinct impressiveness, as though to imply that his copper was of more value than another man's gold.
Paten would drop such commonplaces on the subject as showed he cared little or nothing for the event.
One must be as commonplace as Grant's own commonplaces to maintain such an absurdity.
Of all his friends La Farge alone owned a mind complex enough to contrast against the commonplaces of American uniformity, and in the process had vastly perplexed most Americans who came in contact with it.
One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces of religion and poetry which seemed to deaden one's senses and veil the horror.
In tones that seemed to them more unnatural than they were, she and Basil exchanged the commonplaces necessary on such an occasion.
The commonplaces of an official inquiry were about to supersede the play of a startled spirit struggling with a problem of whose complexities he had received but a glimpse.
These commonplaces answer much more to our prejudices than to our convictions.
This interested me in her, so I engaged her for the next quadrille, not supposing that our conversation would prove particularly interesting, for not knowing the young lady at all, I had nothing but commonplaces to say to her.
She was not inclined to talk, and that day he scarcely spoke with her except in commonplaces at the table.
But his face lighted up a little when he took Philip's hand and exchanged with him the commonplaces of the evening.
It was Philip's turn to laugh at this new definition, and upon this the talk had drifted into the commonplaces of the summer situation and about Rivervale and its people.
Once for her too, below the commonplaces of daily detail, flowed that same magic river of delight.
And I daresay there are a great many of you to whom the utterance of the word suggests that I am plunging into the bathos and commonplaces of the pulpit.
We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
Night-nursing was no longer a necessity; and with the relief from anxiety, from the effort to meet the demands upon her small stock of strength, came the inevitable drop to the comfortable commonplaces of everyday life.
He himself began upon his banana, and she glanced at him in astonishment, not untinged with admiration, at his effortless transition from controlled passion to the commonplaces of everyday life.
Yes; and the condition of Christianity this day is the sad and tragical sign that the commonplaces need to be talked about, till they are rubbed into the conscience of the Church as they never have been before.
This one felt dimly that she despised him; another, that his simpering commonplaces (delights of how many well-bred maidens!
Some folks say the world is heartless: he who says so either prates commonplaces (the most likely and charitable suggestion), or is heartless himself, or is most singular and unfortunate in having made no friends.
But what signify commonplaces that always run parallel and equal?
They are, indeed, the most ancient of all commonplaces: commonplaces sometimes of good and necessary causes; more frequently of the worst, but which decide upon neither.
The doctrines of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man have become commonplaces in his mouth.
Two commonplaces about India are that pessimism is her natural temperament, and that a natural outcome of her pessimism is the Indian doctrine of the transmigration of souls.
In the history of education there are two commonplaces that are appealed to oftener than any other as the sources of material with regard to the influence of the Catholic Church on education during the centuries preceding the Reformation.
Like a good many other convictions and persuasions that exist more or less as {4} commonplaces in the subconscious intellects of a great many people, this is not true.
When Descartes and others broke away from medieval interests, they retained as commonplaces its intellectual apparatus: Such as, knowledge is exercised by a power that is extra-natural and set over against the world to be known.
But as long as such facts as we have been discussing furnish the subject-matter with which philosophizing is peculiarly concerned, these commonplaces must be urged and reiterated.
That should cure me if anything will--to see him surrounded by the commonplaces of married life, that kind of married life.
It became more or less necessary to argue then, and the commonplaces with which I opposed him called forth a wealth of detail bearing most picturesquely upon his stay among us.
In the meantime it was something to have got it over, and she was able at a bound to talk about the commonplaces of the roadside.
He took to one of the commonplaces of admonition instead: "Dear John, you must try and submit yourself to the will of God.
This is because truth is the staff with which he travels through life, because commonplaces are the bread in his wallet, the wine in his gourd.
The state of disassociation reached by moral commonplaces seems to bear a rather close relation to the degree of intellectual civilization.
But, at most, education may have something to say for one of the particular forms of memory, or for a literal knowledge of the commonplaces contained in the Decalogue.
But, indeed, the real charm of manner is to invest commonplaces with interest, and impart to the mere nothings of intercourse a kind of fictitious value and importance.
He finds abused justice vindicated, proud wrong punished, and all God’s neglected commonplaces achieving in time their triumph.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commonplaces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
