(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.
Workaday
Definition:
(n.) See Workyday.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without electricity, the batteries on my toothbrush, phone and laptop gradually ran down, and I let the slow rhythm of the sun reorganise my workaday brain.
(2) In February 1978, he lost the title to the workaday Leon Spinks and regained it once again that September – but tiredly, for now the feet were flat, the reflexes dull, the senses dimmed.
(3) FITP emphasizes one Focal Problem, provides criteria for defining it, makes it possible to formulate the problem in operational language, channels free-ranging case discussion into workaday terms, invites the clinician to make explicit a sophisticated view of pathogenesis; including developmental, dynamic, and contextual factors, and ties formulation to intervention through explicit objectives.
(4) Perhaps mine was the last generation to be brought up with the fully inflated version of this idea – that the Clyde's tradition and skills made its ships singularly good – but it was powerful while it lasted and still held sway in 1961, when the documentary Seawards the Great Ships won an unexpected Oscar and thrilled us at the cinema with its heroic depiction of Glasgow's workaday river.
(5) An old bar, Le Comptoir Dugommier is a workaday and yet cosmopolitan bistro.
(6) This diminishes the role of politics in local government and local democracy, in effect turning campaigners and activists into workaday managers.
(7) Nonetheless, observe the workaday clothing, the B-list attendees, and the untropical surroundings of traffic-choked Park Lane.
(8) Johnson elaborated (in the workaday prose of his character): "Prince came on and he's really nice and he told us he was a fan of the show.
(9) In some special cases we found subjects well adapted to the workaday world who could live with briefer sleeping periods.
(10) There are also the duller, more workaday parts of Venice, in which one is introduced to the disquieting idea that the entire city is an occult conspiracy, leading inexorably to death.
(11) A t the workaday offices of bet365, the online gambling company that has made his second fortune, Stoke City's owner, Peter Coates, is reflecting on his club's landmark run to their first FA Cup final, and his own remarkable life.
(12) Visionaries are rare in this workaday world, so we should all be grateful for Saif al-Islam Gadafy, architect, philanthropist, and Libya's leading artist, at least according to the exhibition The Desert Is Not Silent, organised by his own foundation, that opens today in Kensington Gardens.
(13) Candidate Clinton feels different, political analysts and media observers say, from the workaday secretary of state who filled that office from 2009 to 2013 or from the more timidly progressive candidate voters got to know in 2008 – one whose presumptuous designs on the general election left her vulnerable on the left in the primary.
(14) There is also a 14th-century castle owned by Jools Holland and a workaday marina, about as far from Cowes in its social atmosphere as it's possible to get.
(15) Cubs fan Joe Wiegand, 51, from Maniton, Colorado, mused: “Baseball is a wonderful distraction from the workaday world and the issues at hand.
(16) There's a grisly murder, the workaday investigators are stumped, then maverick DCI John Luther comes along and solves it with his finely honed instincts.
(17) They hide their food issues like a dirty secret, are ashamed of them, or simply regard them as a part of the workaday diet chat so common in offices up and down the country.
(18) set its story in the year 1947, pitting workaday Los Angeles private detective Eddie Valiant against the villain Judge Doom, a cadaverous, black-clad personification of all these backroom-dealing companies.
(19) That must be the reason why Donnelly had nothing to say about such workaday themes as the civil service reform plan or relations between departments and arm's length bodies.
(20) The coalition published its detailed programme , and offered a stab at a Con-Lib mission statement – "a Big Society matched by big citizens" – which unwittingly underlined what a workaday document this was.