workaday

How To Use workaday In A Sentence

• According to his sociology of the individual as political fetish, the modern state routinizes gender inequalities through a "workaday" bureaucracy located in the mundane structural demands of economic activity; in the civic arena created by official bureaucracy, patriarchal social patterns formalize commercial relations and enforce the domination of a perceived "natural leader" in the home, the marketplace, and the sphere of civic activity. Notes on 'Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott'
• Boyd is undoubtedly a substantial writer but this block of journalism confirms the mighty labour of his workaday career, rather than the more memorable flights of fictional transcendence. Bamboo by William Boyd: Book summary
• He promised to tackle the workaday matters affecting people's daily lives.
• In conceptions of social reform generally, whether in the shape of wholesale creation of utopias, or specific workaday policies concerning poverty and welfare, or justifications in city planning and architec - tural mainlines, concepts of happiness often have an immediate place. HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE
• In these revisions of the still life, he addresses himself to the latencies that everyday objects hold, patiently brings to light the secret lives that their workaday physiognomies disguise.
• Peering into their world was a welcome counterpoint to the workaday routine of her own life.
• He promised to tackle the workaday matters affecting people's daily lives.
• More than anything, these companies with their workaday products built relationships and brand loyalties that remain. Times, Sunday Times
• This agency has become the official applier of yellow, smiley-faced stickers on an ugly economy that is stiffing America's workaday majority.
• Her mostly flat set, with its isolated boxy units, is supposed to suggest jewel boxes but more closely recalls workaday storage units. A Biography in Need of an Editor