(a.) Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(2) This morning he has mundane tasks to attend to – the logistics of players’ luggage for Basel – but the man they call Monchi is the sporting director and the architect who transformed the club.
(3) This requirement is one that Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.
(4) The low number of scorable dream reports collected did not reveal a heightened incidence of "masochistic" or "negative" content, indeed were rather mundane.
(5) Today's demands are more mundane: hostage-takers range from single mothers to the nearly retired - they want jobs, proper pay and no brutal layoffs.
(6) Recent research in Delhi has revealed more mundane causes for high levels of violence and harassment.
(7) Finally, Guardian sports reporter turned ace observationalist Josh Widdicombe has the ability to find the sparkle in the mundane that puts him in line to become the next Sean Lock.
(8) Our current understanding of these disease processes is discussed in an effort to review the current status of both the mundane and the esoteric infections of the kidney.
(9) The perhaps disappointingly mundane answer, however, lies in a television programme.
(10) What seems the epitome of mundane routine for the average British commuter is being seen as near miraculous in a city where, like Los Angeles, the car is king and the train is nowhere in sight when navigating the sprawling suburbs.
(11) Many organisms construct structural ceramic (biomineral) composites from seemingly mundane materials; cell-mediated processes control both the nucleation and growth of mineral and the development of composite microarchitecture.
(12) In any case, Caine’s interest was piqued by more mundane matters: it was the first time he had been asked to play a conductor.
(13) Modern research has confirmed that memories for emotionally intense situations are unusually vivid and detailed, but it has also shown that they are no more accurate than mundane memories.
(14) These are the same mundane, bureaucratic factors that conspired to prevent any kind of action in Rwanda , 20 years ago.
(15) Published in their original handwritten form, the minutes of meetings of the Bank’s Court of Directors from 1914 to 45 , and of another key decision-making body, the Committee of the Treasury, from 1914 to 1931 , reveal a rich interweaving of the Earth-shattering and the mundane, which carried several echoes of the most recent crisis period of 2007-09 – minutes from which were released by the Bank on Tuesday.
(16) I think it’s useless to be afraid, actually … I believe that when you do things, when you decide an action, any fear goes away because action is stronger than fear.” Back in Moscow there are more mundane problems to worry about.
(17) Jimmy McGovern's saga of the ill-fated residents of The Street was similarly afflicted, despite its pedigree, as was Broadchurch, the unremitting Southcliffe and Prey, the recent Mancunian take on The Fugitive which managed to be both far-fetched and gruellingly mundane.
(18) In Scott & Bailey , for example, a good deal of the police work is mundane and the characters are bedevilled by the kinds of real-life domestic troubles that normally receive little more than lip service in police procedure.
(19) To the casual observer, emails between CIA staff and Bigelow's team have a somewhat mundane quality to them, though they do suggest a certain fanboyesque enthusiasm for the Hollywood project.
(20) Although rare, eosinophilic granuloma can be associated with cutaneous lesions, sometimes isolated and mundane in appearance.
Quotidian
Definition:
(a.) Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
(n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.
Example Sentences:
(1) (The work is named after Jack Foley, who first came up with a process for adding quotidian noises, such as footsteps, to films in the 1920s.)
(2) Adult-onset Still's disease is a systemic illness characterized by quotidian fever and a fleeting, salmon-colored rash.
(3) A mixture of a special kind is febris semitertiana: a continuous quotidian is accompanied by an intermittent tertian.
(4) Both lift us out of our everyday monotony – poets by finding the eternal within the quotidian; royals by gliding about in crowns and ballgowns – and I am not a femme serieuse .
(5) The myth is that of the eponymous artist who stepped into his painting as the culmination of his work and to elude quotidian reality.
(6) For registering the postural component of lithium-induced tremor, the first two methods proved themselves worthy of recommendation in quotidian practice.
(7) We'd gathered at Downing College, Cambridge, to discuss the economic crisis, although the quotidian misery of that topic seemed a world away from the honeyed quads and endowment plush of this place .
(8) Those having left school and receiving less education were also significantly more pessimistic and worried about quotidian contact with HIV+ people, and their ability to control against HIV infection.
(9) Activity of the enzyme in P. knowlesi, an intrinsically synchronous quotidian parasite, was found to be dependent on the stage of parasite development.
(10) Lower down the scale one could cite the quotidian grumbling in workplaces across the land from underlings hamstrung by their less competent bosses – a tendency observed by Richard Sennett among others, though we can surely all supply examples.
(11) The attacks on Paris were, after all, an attack on the ordinary, on the quotidian routines of Parisian life.
(12) This is less high-flown and more quotidian than it sounds.
(13) This is an economy of minor anxieties and insignificant dangers: the emotional range of a comfortable life, fretted by quotidian storms – a parking ticket, a stressful day at work, a forgotten lunch date.
(14) It includes explicit sex and copious drug use; it also includes domestic squabbles, quotidian work hassles and meals with friends, straight and gay.
(15) The novel prompted comparisons with Kafka and Philip K Dick for its exploration of arbitrary authority and individual disorientation, and has been read as an allegory of divided cities such as Jerusalem and Berlin as well as the quotidian willed blindness of modern life.
(16) Photograph: Alamy The idea that food is an "art form" in itself is a much stronger claim than traditional phrasing such as "the art of cookery" (on the model of the French l'art de … ), a more modest attribution of creativity and craft ( techné rather than poésis ) to quotidian activity.
(17) The onset of this illness is sudden and is characterized by quotidian fever, evanescent rash, arthritis, leukocytosis and with variable frequency abnormalities of the liver function tests, adenopathy, splenomegaly and loss of weight.
(18) Adams doesn’t like the quotidian routine of small vexations that make up a political career; he likes the big game, and he has played it well in sidelining the nationalist rival the SDLP .
(19) On the one hand, the procession of people with their quotidian concerns, nervous demeanour and hoarded bits of paper resemble nothing so much as feudal petitioners; a real reminder of the powerlessness of many ordinary people.
(20) Nkosi effortlessly acquired the habits of his colleagues – the demanding journalistic assignments, the clashes with the law, the insatiable literary talk, heavy drinking, jazz through the night – against the backdrop of quotidian township violence.