commonness

How To Use commonness In A Sentence

• Summary: Different Ways Achieve Unity vs Harmony : Recognizing Differences vs Starting from the Commonness.
• a spirit which Satan had bound, the schoolmaster caught sight, -- caught from its commonness, its grimness, its defeature, inspiration and uplifting, for there he beheld the oppressed, down trodden, mire fouled humanity which the man in whom he believed had loved because it was his father's humanity divided into brothers, and had died straining to lift back to the bosom of that Father. The Marquis of Lossie
• Mr. Hartman, the father, was a wholesale grocer -- a business large enough to have brought wealth, but painfully tainted with "commonness". Love's Pilgrimage
• She was a little unhealthy thing, dark and sallow and sulky, with thin lips that showed a lack of temperament, and she had a stiffness and preciseness, like a Board School teacher -- just that touch of "commonness" which Lena relied on to put him off. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
• Though commonness exists with individuality, we must develop the useful and discard the useless.
• I can really make sense of your ungrammaticality judgment only as an aversion against the constructions excessive uncommonness (use of “whom” + overt relative pronoun in an object relative clause, which also seems to have become sort of uncommon) … Are “the boy to whom I gave the gift” and “the man whom I saw” really that much better for you? Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar
• The commonness of shrub thickets on abandoned fields thus may reflect their nearly ubiquitous seed sources and good establishment ability.
• She'd had this disagreement many times with Andy, and he'd always trumped her with what he called her pretensions to commonness.
• I do not wonder that he discerned the uncommonness of the Christ. Brooks by the Traveller's Way
• Painting should take 'painting' as the premise on the principle of "the few prevailing against the many", "expressing extraordinariness from commonness" and "the real concealed in the virtual".