Example Sentences

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That needle-drop of wisdom amid life’s dailiness signals Barrett’s unique genius more than any under-35 accolade can.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022

Doucet brilliantly toggles between charting dailiness and fantasy.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2018

It takes him outside the dailiness we all live in and brings to mind the idea of valor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2015

Her argument is that the dailiness — the “ten thousand things” of small impressions and observations, shifts in mood — define a life, not the plot or wide arcs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2015

There was no showiness of a review, but the normal functioning, the actual dailiness, of a line regiment as it lives strenuously in the midst of war.

From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Bennett, Arnold