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  • s  found in the ordinary course of events
    there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

  • To most of us, riddles like those are mostly quotidian curiosities, the kinds of things you might wonder about while stuck in traffic or waiting for a train to arrive.
  • With so many of these works being shown publicly for the first time, film and art fans will get a good look at how the quotidian inspires this multimedia auteur's wild imagination.
  • Her pictures often seemed like snapshots raised to flashpoint and their intention seemed to me to reinsert the freakish back into the quotidian, to make us see the human normality .
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  • Michael Lewis in The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
    The crash of 1987, Lewis writes, marked "the beginning of the Age of Financial Unreason, when panic became just another quotidian aspect of financial life. At the time, to a lot of people, it felt like the end of something. In retrospect, it appears...
  • Harris Yulin in Chicago Tribune
    He just kept following his star through all the hard times,said Yulin. "What he knew was in one sense very quotidian, but it added up to something extraordinary and unusual."
  • Susan Jacoby in Philadelphia Inquirer
    To keep telling Americans that they are folks,Jacoby writes, "is to expect nothing special - a ratification and exaltation of the quotidian that is one of the distinguishing marks of anti-intellectualism in any era."

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