commonness

How To Use commonness In A Sentence

• Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment. William Shakespeare
• But I am not common, and by cleaving to me and my leadership you bask in the glory of my uncommonness. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
• 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".