quotidian

[ UK /kwɒtˈɪdi‍ən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. found in the ordinary course of events
    it was a routine day
    a placid everyday scene
    there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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How To Use quotidian In A Sentence

  • One thus can't claim that it was feminism that first started to regulate ‘the most quotidian, private corners of life.’
  • As an antidote to James Bond's far-fetched, murderous exotica it was perfect - a world of grimy brutalism, mundane bureaucracy and the vividly realistic, morally-empty, quotidian horror of Cold War espionage.
  • Robert Elms' excellent phone-in show on BBC London often features such mundane yet satisfying acts of gaming in quotidian urban life.
  • How could I leave a moment early only to return to my quotidian life?
  • The author's stated goal was to lead the reader to see everything, from the simple quotidian rituals of Zen monastic life to the most abstract philosophical vision, as a Buddha would.
  • But the effect is calculatedly bathetic, since it turns out that what saves or condemns you is such embarrassingly quotidian matters as whether you fed the hungry and visited the sick.
  • And then there is the warfare of quotidian existence. Times, Sunday Times
  • The quotidian machinations of court life in the great European cities of the time are utterly bewildering - one sort of sinks into a delighted daze at the insane levels of ever-shifting information flows.
  • Television has become part of our quotidian existence.
  • The concept of 'wartime' offers more than a revisionary reading of the quotidian. The Times Literary Supplement
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