Resnais makes luscious use of interiors, and the camera glides sensuously through the most commonplace scenes.

NEWYORKER: Wild Grass

Many of the most commonplace products Wall Street firms foisted upon the American public over the decades caused devastation.

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What were the most commonplace advanced phones before the original iPhone?

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Changing the benchmark is only one of the many devices available to managers to improve the appearance of performance and, not surprisingly, money manager performance reporting violations are the most commonplace of all violations.

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The latter is a matter, in turn, of the demand for polyethylene, the world's most commonplace plastic.

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Innovation requires risk and it requires patience most inventions that are commonplace today are the results of thousands of iterations based both on success and failure.

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It is a commonplace that, among these emerging economies, the most successful are the ones that have educated most of their workers up to, and in many cases well beyond, levels typically achieved in the West.

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It's commonplace to assume now that the overthrow of dictators in the Arab world is most likely to generate victories for Islamist parties, as it already has in Tunisia and Egypt.

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