common run

“Cooper’s sophomore film far outshines the common run of contemporary biopics in its artful construction and attention to emotional nuance,” she writes of his efforts in Maestro, the story of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein.

In his 1983 essay Tropes of the Text, Gass wrote that “only the common run of novels expects the one-night stand”.

Mr. Anderson brought a deep understanding of masters like Piero della Francesca, Velázquez, Poussin and Degas to his still lifes, portraits, landscapes and streetscapes, while applying a modern twist that lifted them from the common run of academic realism.

The Daily Telegraph's Tim Martin praised Freudenberger's "feline way with tiny social observations … this intriguing novel's finest moments come from sudden felicities of phrasing, flashes of emphathetic insight and constant attention to how our surroundings come to shape us", all of which make the novel "a lost-in-translation book out of the common run".

The price of such an article varies, according to circumstances, from two to ten shillings, though rich people will give as much as twice or three times that sum for anything out of the common run.