How To Use Commonness In A Sentence
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Summary: Different Ways Achieve Unity vs Harmony : Recognizing Differences vs Starting from the Commonness.
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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
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Mr. Hartman, the father, was a wholesale grocer -- a business large enough to have brought wealth, but painfully tainted with "commonness".
Love's Pilgrimage
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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
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Though commonness exists with individuality, we must develop the useful and discard the useless.
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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
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The commonness of shrub thickets on abandoned fields thus may reflect their nearly ubiquitous seed sources and good establishment ability.
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She'd had this disagreement many times with Andy, and he'd always trumped her with what he called her pretensions to commonness.
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I do not wonder that he discerned the uncommonness of the Christ.
Brooks by the Traveller's Way
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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".
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The uncommonness of the latter three species in the state is reason enough to warrant monitoring their known populations.
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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
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The rate and amplitude of the current warming testify about its uncommonness during the past centuries Briffa et al.
Juckes and the Indigirka River Alter Ego « Climate Audit
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I might give you a dozen pictures of our life, and yet mislead you as to its uncommonness; it was really commonplace life in strange and unfamiliar circumstances.
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
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The blinding, dazzling gas-light throws a grateful glare over the salient points of its indecency, and blends the whole into a wild whirl that dizzies and dazes one; but the uncompromising afternoon, pouring in through manifold windows, tears away every illusion, and reveals the whole coarseness and commonness and all the repulsive details of this most alien and unmaidenly revel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Policies and measures of farmland preservation abroad are both diverse and have some commonness.
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Twain was especially impressed with the brilliant color and uncommonness of the Eastern costume.
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In the rest of practical life he walked by hereditary habit; half from that personal pride and unreflecting egoism which I have already called commonness, and half from that naivete which belonged to preoccupation with favorite ideas.
Middlemarch
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WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness.
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It is not the uncommonness of the diction or phrasing but the uncommonness of the sentiment and appropriate expression that accounts for eloquence.
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Despite the apparent commonness of blonde hair, which accounts for a third of British women, Tobin said only about 3% were naturally blonde.
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Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment.
William Shakespeare
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To the contrary, it is the uncommonness of such mobilization that draws attention and makes the mobilization effective.
American Grace
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Summary: Different Ways Achieve Unity vs Harmony : Recognizing Differences vs Starting from the Commonness.
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The ceremonial inferiority or uncleanness in consumable goods due to "commonness," or in other words to their slight cost of production, has been taken very seriously by many persons.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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Commonness will prevail," as De Candolle said in speaking of the graminaceous plants.
Amiel's Journal
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Talk about her growing appreciation of the uncommonness of common things.
Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos: Questions
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She produced the lunch box, and for once Bess was too ravenously hungry to protest at the "commonness" of it, and they set to at its delicious contents with a will.
Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves
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Later, when he left the company to launch his company, the mystique of his name followed (in part due to its uncommonness).
Game Designers Gain Notoriety
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The ambitions, the hopes, the dreams, every twisted, bizarre, seemingly abnormal thought I ever had melts in the glare of commonness.
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The very commonness of assumed aliases in the data suggests that taking on a new identity was not difficult in a nation of people increasingly ‘on the move.’
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There was tea break after tea break, but never really a break long enough to snap out of the work and appreciate the uncommonness of the situation.
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Our admiration of 'em does not so much arise out of their Greatness as Uncommonness.
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Nothing could have been more commonplace than the whole incident, but the commonness was the beauty of it.
Change in the Village
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It's in acquiring this "uncommon visage" that the meaning of human existence seems to lie, since for this uncommonness we are, as it were, prepared genetically.
Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Lecture
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There was something common about him -- not like the labouring men, but a kind of town commonness, which is twenty times worse to my thinking; and if I didn't like him before, you may guess I didn't waste much love on him when I see poor Ellen's looks.
In Homespun
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So the comparative literature research should turn from commonness to difference.
