The commonplaceness, the complete normality of the scene and the people around him, was so strange as to be shocking.

Harrison was struck, suddenly, by the extreme commonplaceness of the transportation system between eras.

And then the commonplaceness of it all.

Nonetheless, after they had emerged from their booths into the commonplaceness of the dream chamber, it took them silent minutes to return altogether to themselves.

As I glanced at him I could not but think how on that very day he had complained bitterly of the commonplaceness of life.

It was a part of the commonplaceness of all the preposterous angles of this whole business of travel in time.

Chaplin recalled that he "had a disquieting feeling of sinking back into a depressing commonplaceness", and was therefore "elated" when a new tour began in October.

The truly remarkable thing about ULYSSES, for instance, is the commonplaceness of its material.

The combination ot im- probability with commonplaceness seems to have been characteristic ot the whole affair ot the time-tunnels.

She had been so intent on the other Forsaken-on the mingled strangeness and commonplaceness of them-that she had forgotten to keep an eye on Moghedien.

Written in short lengths for newspaper serialization, the autobiography is not a literary masterpiece, but it is the more impressive because of the commonplaceness of much of its material.

A 1907 article in Architects' and Builders' Magazine declared that "we are hardly aware of the edifice until it fairly bursts upon us, truly a dazzling gem among the surrounding commonplaceness."

Mr. Rachal's story of a life of drugs and violence is more remarkable for its commonplaceness in South-Central Los Angeles, the scene of last spring's rioting, than for any heroism.

"Practical commonplaceness," says Frederick William Faber in his panegyric of Neri, "was the special mark which distinguishes his form of ascetic piety from the types accredited before his day.

Like Goody, Jeff and Sally spent childhoods in the area, and returned from their studies, he at Brown University, she in Florence, to a place they loved partly for its commonplaceness.

There is nothing original or startling, on the contrary a general commonplaceness, about his metaphysics, yet so far as they go, they express real agitating questions, express in a poet's language what most men feel & think about.

A few years before, Mildred would have been incapable of presiding over such a party: her commonplaceness, her upbringing, her sense of inferiority in the presence of "society people," would have combined to make her acutely miserable, completely incompetent.

He dreamed of joys and luxuries and power which always had been beyond his grasp, and as he dreamed his gaze lifted from the table, as the gaze of a dreamer will, to a far distant goal above the mean horizon of terrestrial commonplaceness.

And there is further ample evidence of this commonplaceness in the present book, particularly in the unromantic incident of Paul Castellano's falling in love with his family's housekeeper, one Gloria Olarte, and even going to the pathetic extreme of having surgery to make himself more adequate as a lover.