Word: quotidian
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...understand she was just stressed out, overworked, tired. But you are staffed with academics like her who did not sign on for this, who prefer the low-simmer stress of the classroom to the adrenaline spikes of the emergency room. They are wonderful when it comes to the quotidian checkups that most of us use you for—but when it comes to a head wound, especially on a busy Friday or Saturday, the frightening possibility exists that bedside manner may become a weekend casualty...
...chaos of the novel serves as a background for Lind’s omnipresent existentialism. Because in the world of “Ergo” everything is permitted, Lind takes the liberty of mentioning the concept everywhere. From the most quotidian of conversations to the Leo’s deitific chants, the characters communicate via existential tropes from modern literature whose clearest source is Samuel Beckett...
...entire immense country in which [he] lived was made up of lots and lots of these lousy little closets where there was a smell of garbage and people had just been drinking cheap port,” an acknowledgment of the tedium and squalidness of quotidian life in the Soviet Union. Other stories critique the endless, labyrinthine bureaucracy and the culture of mistrust, where civilians spy on their fellow citizens...
...classes. As a writer, Allen lavishes attention on characters that banter and bicker, and so does Chainey. This is where the actors’ otherwise solid performances fall short. Before the story’s key deception is exposed, the deepening relationship between Ellie and Sara is developed over quotidian chatter about job interviews and spilled coffee. Although talented, the actresses do not seem to have devoted as much time to understanding these crucial opening scenes as they have to the later ones; their words feel recited, not organic. But this is a minor issue, and one that...
...their form, pithier than previous poems. In these nearly haiku-like meditations, Wright recursively combs over symbols he sees around him in the natural world as he circles around death and the meaning of life. The opening line of the collection reads, “The metaphysics of the quotidian was what he was after.” The “he” could easily stand in for the author.Throughout these poems Wright is acutely aware of the passage of time, and this is what drives his repeated examination of the nature surrounding him. The cyclical nature...