Word: everydayness
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...appropriated sports clothes as part of the language of fashion. One can see how her style evolved out of necessity and defiance. She couldn't afford the fashionable clothes of the period--so she rejected them and made her own, using, say, the sports jackets and ties that were everyday male attire around the racetrack, where she was climbing her first social ladders...
...loved the investigation of the past," he says. "The sound of it was so beautiful to me." The voice of the Quartets--meditative, grave, sorrowful, but also dry, experienced and harsh--has been important to poets from Wright to John Ashbery, because it allowed the conversational tone of everyday life to enter into the discussion of the deepest subjects...
...female condition but about the human one. I Say a Little Prayer (1968) and Love Pang (1998) are existential soul, capturing heartache juxtaposed with workaday life--brushing your teeth, drinking morning coffee. By singing of such things, she exalted the mundane, giving a voice, a powerful one, to everyday folks and events...
...used to competing against these people," said Baxter, who skied competitively in high school. "We are racing against skiers who train everyday and who went to ski academies. It has been a challenge...
Nuclear war is but a scarier version of everyday reality in its potential for disruption, eruption, combustion and conflagration. The flow of daily events has the capacity to change the world--for better or worse--to a substantially different and often unrecognizable place. The worlds that we encounter in five, 10, 25, 50 years will hopefully be changed for the better, though history warns us otherwise...