commonplaces
- plural of commonplace.
Example Sentences
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Many of Fiedler’s ideas, exciting when they first appeared, are now commonplaces, while the critic himself has been largely forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
“The Other Side of the Wind” is also, for better and for worse, uncannily prescient—possessed of passions that were rare at the time of its making but eventually became celebrated, then became commonplaces.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018
His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 26, 2018
In the use of commonplaces, you can see where logos and ethos intersect.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
