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  • Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life. It is one of the main types of humor in stand-up comedy. In...
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    formulae. For women, who were excluded from formal higher education, the commonplace book could be a repository of intellectual references. The gentlewoman...
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  • part of the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, Shakespeare treats the commonplace Renaissance conceit connecting heart and eye. Although it relates to...
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    inscribed in what is usually called the Third Position, and adheres to the commonplace strategy of defending socializing (and at times leftist) doctrines...
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  • Simultaneously, anthropology of institutions extends beyond examination of the commonplace involvement of individuals in institutions to discover how and why...
    6 KB (719 words) - 01:25, 26 June 2024
  • 440C has the highest strength, hardness, and wear resistance of all the commonplace 440-series stainless alloys, with high carbon content and moderate...
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    works and a detailed treatment is to be found in Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Danto stated, "A work of art is a meaning given embodiment." Danto...
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  • twin-guitar harmony leads ever". AllMusic described the song as turning the commonplace into legend, or bringing myth into the modern world. The author of...
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  • writing, Dryden was credited with elevating baseball writing from the commonplace. In 1928, The Saturday Evening Post wrote: "The greatest of all the...
    24 KB (3,094 words) - 16:02, 28 July 2024
  • and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." England & Wales, Civil Registration Death...
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    with relatively cramped rear seating. Most recent S-segment cars use the commonplace front-engine design (as either an FF layout, FR layout or F4 layout)...
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    lives that we are apt to lose sight of the pictorial possibilities of the commonplace.” This photograph was taken from the back of a train in motion in Long...
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    imaginative and the poetical must submit to the rights of the commonplace. The commonplace is honeycombed with the uncommon heroisms of the patient, everyday...
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    Retrieved 22 February 2012. "Alexander Rodchenko: The Simple and the Commonplace," Hugh Adams. Artforum, Summer 1979. Page 28. John E. Bowlt, "Aleksandr...
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  • Absolute photographic magnitude is Mpg. These are different from the commonplace photometric systems (UBV, UBVRI or JHK) that are expressed with a capital...
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    Muller has written that it accomplishes a "monumental treatment of the commonplace". While generally considered among Israëls's most famous and popular...
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    Volokh is a supporter of same-sex marriage. Volokh's article about "The Commonplace Second Amendment" (2020), was cited by Supreme Court Justice Antonin...
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    famous novel Don Quixote by its embrace of the fantastic rather than the commonplace. While Cervantes is known primarily for Don Quixote, widely regarded...
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    background of Chinese, Japanese and Old Korean influence and history. The commonplace names have multiple meanings in Korean, Chinese, and when transliterated...
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  • a little hackneyed, and required some new slant to lift it out of the commonplace."[citation needed] Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol is the 16th century...
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