He could turn a mundane event into a colourful drama, and she fell under his spell.
Who would ever have thought that a fantasy life could revolve around something as seemingly mundane as a bus?
Their sheer size means that even a mundane problem could cause a systemic crisis or a bank run.
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And the demands of running a business and buying for resale must also seem rather mundane after a day spent slaying dragons.
BCP's Mr Watson loves working as a member of a tight-knit team, but says "being on the phone for a long time doing something again and again can get mundane and a bit boring".
It's debatable whether this dollar-book Freud tells us more about the president or about Oliver Stone, but it's an insight -- if a mundane one -- into a subject who may not be complex enough to justify a multifaceted portrait.
Just to ensure no one mistakes your special edition for anything as mundane as a base version.
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And when that happens, I expect it to be a mundane, administrative detail, not a catastrophic market event.
Compare an innovation as incredibly mundane as a new plastic lid for paint cans with a whiz-bang, new computer chip.
Here junior team members are required to intervene when they see doctors skipping a step, however mundane, during a procedure.
At first, The Avett Brothers' "Yardsale" unfolds as a fairly straightforward study of the mundane items at a neighborhood yard sale: From plastic flowers to a blade that may or may not have been used, the selections are viewed from a bittersweet distance, as if the band merely wants to draw a character sketch of lonely and unloved household goods.
That includes everything from a mundane money market fund to something as complex as a Madoff-linked bank note.
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While pondering these questions, we're also left with a more mundane one: Exactly why would a broke, iffy team want anything to do with an expensive, sketchy player in the first place?
My life is better because of a handful of mundane innovations that allowed someone to build a better toothbrush.
The ad shows people painted to match a mundane backdrop of brick walls, trees and escalators.
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Strong composition will quickly make a mundane scene more interesting and help communicate your story theme.
But it turns out that there were simple enough explanations for what was, in fact, a mundane affair.
On the other hand, Firestone fared worse because it makes a mundane product that people expected to work reliably.
Get Michael Graves to design a toilet brush (as Target did) and you turn a mundane thing into an object of desire.
Bit traffic on the Internet keeps doubling every 100 days, even now, because of things like, to use a mundane example, new chips that enable cheap digital cameras.
Like all dystopias, the power of this play is that it shows how mundane and casual a descent into the abyss might look, and with what familiar bureaucratic language.
"He told me I needed an operation to remove the disc because if I knocked it even during a mundane activity around the house it could kill me, " said Thompson.
But far more crucially, the key assumption that drives its strong conclusions is the mundane fact that a very low interest rate is postulated, with which distant-future benefits and costs are then discounted .
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Chen was relishing the renewal of his apartment lease, normally a mundane affair but currently no small feat in Beijing as the clock ticks toward the start of the Olympic Games on August 8.
The 5-inch model has a mundane appearance.
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Keep it boiling or agree to a settlement that will yield peace and increased prosperity for your people but to the now-aging militants might only mean the drudgery of performing the mundane duties of a real politician in a poor backwater.
Those range from a mundane calendar of then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman to the often-talked about memo from the State Department's intelligence unit about former ambassador Joseph Wilson's 2002 trip to investigate claims that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium in Africa.
The situation here reminds me a little bit of the biotech stocks: everyone is all excited about the unlimited prospects when a promising new drug is in trials, but once it hits the market, the company turns into a mundane pharmaceutical company that has to actually sell something.
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In the real world, the job was a lot more mundane, but it was still virtually the only one a young woman could choose that offered the chance to travel.
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