Indeed, an author talking to rows of empty chairs is an embarrassing commonplace event on the signing circuit these days.

In the world of museums, that was not what I would think of as a commonplace event.

But unless one occurs much nearer to Earth, these are very commonplace events.

Rather, it is the responses to the simplest and most commonplace events.

In such details, the illusion that we all experience commonplace events identically is suddenly dispelled.

On the other side of theAtlantic a far more commonplace event was taking place.

It has come to be a commonplace event that by some paradox, it seems, I can always survive.

There was a great deal to do, and it was not such a commonplace event as to be simple in its enactment.

Murder is almost a commonplace event in the life of some American cities.

She worked swiftly, without fuss, as though caring for damaged strangers were a commonplace event in her home.