commonplaceness
Example Sentences
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I understand what fierce parental pride is at the bottom of many a father’s or mother’s blindness to faults and commonplaceness.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
"I think—you made a mistake," he began it with commonplaceness, but his gesture softened the words.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst
One who has never seen Rome is thus led to imagine that those of his country-people who have lived here for years have become in a manner purged of all natural commonplaceness.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
A heavy, or sometimes turgid, journalistic commonplaceness sat upon it.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
She reread the story and blushed for her commonplaceness.
From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Nell Speed
