common run
Example Sentences
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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
He is thus too specialized a case to represent the common run of Hitler's children, or to prove, in the story's closing suggestion that he is reconstructible, that there is any such hope for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps it helped him to maintain his chosen stance of lonely, lofty defiance of the "trolls," as he called the common run of men.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's very little of a sacrament there is about the common run of such things, but I hoped for something better when it came to my girls' turn.
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock
