workaday
Example Sentences
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That an Oscar-nominated director with a celebrated eye for the ethereal, strange world of girl-women living in beautiful boxes could make a film as workaday as this one is frustrating.
In a 1991 interview, Kurosawa recalled the origins of “Seven Samurai” as a story about the workaday existence of a single samurai.
People trusted him because for much of his career he’d been a workaday reporter at United Press International.
Historically, country music’s purview has been broad and workaday, with songs that reflected the lives of their audience.
His inspiration was not any architectural theory or school so much as the workaday landscape of Southern California itself, the brash free-for-all he had noticed as soon as he arrived in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times
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