common run
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“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.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2023
When you enter their mind-space you pass through an extreme gradient in worldview, a hard ontological shear that separates Singularitarians from the common run of humanity.
From Time ● Feb. 10, 2011
When reporters asked which belonged to which, Garland said: "As to unmarried people living together, this is a matter of individual inclination, and not understood by the common run of social fabric."
From Time Magazine Archive
Compared to the common run of nominating effusions, Mr. Roosevelt's speech was as homo sapiens to the gibbering banderlog.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other things about the newly-discovered person showed him to be a man far above, or below, or, at least, differing from, the common run of people one meets in a railroad-car.
From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
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