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  • Does this sound horribly mundane?   (source)
    mundane = uninteresting (too ordinary to discuss)
  • Perhaps it was desperation because I felt so poorly, but I think the reason was more mundane: curiosity.†   (source)
  • A gnawing hunger—such a mundane thing—surprised her.†   (source)
  • Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning.†   (source)
  • It is as mundane as the rainstorm we cannot predict.†   (source)
  • They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of the mundane.†   (source)
  • Rather, he exchanged a few remarks with Vyacheslav Malyshev, the rather mundane Minister of Medium Machine Building who was sitting near the table's end.†   (source)
  • His life of comfort and knowing his place in the world, his education and life experiences seem mundane and predictable compared to the travels and struggles endured by the people he now finds himself living with.†   (source)
  • Of course, at that time our relationship was frayed almost beyond repair, and it felt like a minor victory every time we got her home from school in one piece, let alone into the kitchen for a mundane event like a family meal or an evening of homework.†   (source)
  • I think she didn't want anything as mundane as laundry polluting the view of her herbaceous borders.†   (source)
  • But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid And Mariam was afraid She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies and sometimes not.†   (source)
  • When she turned to him after every seemingly mundane part of her job, the screen danced brightly in his eyes, his face rapt—like he'd never seen anything more interesting in his life.†   (source)
  • Our lives will become mundane and boring and I'll have to divorce you and marry a wife who's twenty years younger than me so I can have a lot more firsts and you'll be stuck raising the kids.†   (source)
  • He was a new guy the BBC had just brought up from some trashy London tabloid to handle some of the BBC's more mundane coverage.†   (source)
  • And even if I recognized her strategy, her sneak attack, I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.†   (source)
  • I read through pages and pages of his old entries, all of them about irrelevant, mundane things.†   (source)
  • It was a mundane unraveling that could not be reversed, and therefore offered no opportunities to the storyteller: it belonged in the realm of disorder.†   (source)
  • WHO CAN SAY WHAT ASTONISHMENTS ARE HIDDEN INSIDE THE MOST MUNDANE BEING?†   (source)
  • Holly and I could be scanning Earth, alighting on one scene or another for a second or two, looking for the unexpected in the most mundane moment.†   (source)
  • And as an ongoing prospect, after Amsterdam, which was really my Damascus, the way station and apogee of my Conversion as I guess you'd call it, I continue to be immensely moved by the impermanence of hotels: not in any mundane Travel-and-Leisure way but with a fervor bordering on the transcendent.†   (source)
  • We kept the windows closed so neighbors could not hear any discussion that strayed from the mundane into anything vaguely political.†   (source)
  • Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian.†   (source)
  • You should use magic only for tasks that can't be accomplished the mundane way.†   (source)
  • Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane.†   (source)
  • I was halfway through the title piece explaining how the myth of the dragon in all likelihood evolved from the much more mundane draccus when a scriv appeared at my elbow.†   (source)
  • But I'm sorry to tell you that the average geisha party was something much more mundane.†   (source)
  • And though, over the years, his departures had become mundane, his father would always stand on the platform until the moment the train was out of sight.†   (source)
  • Even the mundane could feel magical.†   (source)
  • To put characters, then, in this mundane, overused, fairly boring situation, something more has to be happening than simply beef, forks, and goblets.†   (source)
  • You've left the safe and mundane world you once knew, Nicholas Flamel said seriously, looking at each twin in turn.†   (source)
  • Burnham and President Baker expected a general review but instead found themselves grilled about the most mundane expenses.†   (source)
  • I had to get out of the house, so I decided to do something simple and routine, but even something as mundane as grocery shopping turned out to be a bigger blow to my weakened selfesteem.†   (source)
  • He frowned impressively, perhaps to show that as manager, he did not concern himself with such mundane aspects of the Overlook's operation as the boiler and the plumbing.†   (source)
  • The activities of the council were mundane, making decisions on room disputes or claims of theft or unneighborly behavior, and also on relations with other houses on the street.†   (source)
  • The Literary Digest reported that the cells could have already "covered the earth," and a British tabloid said they could "form a rooster ...big enough today to cross the Atlantic in a single stride, [a bird] so monstrous that when perched on this mundane sphere, the world, it would look like a weathercock."†   (source)
  • "That is a much more mundane idea," said the vampire immediately.†   (source)
  • The vacant look in her eyes told me that she was seeing something very different from the mundane lunchroom scene that surrounded us, but something that was every bit as real in its own way.†   (source)
  • Any mundane excuse, and they would believe it more readily than the truth.†   (source)
  • She had made the same trip year after year, but always inattentively because there was someone else to worry about the mundane details while she dreamily watched the landscape out the window.†   (source)
  • To most of the world, perhaps, a minor prison riot in Congo—five dead, fourteen escaped—was a mundane event, especially against the backdrop of the five-million-plus lives lost in the country's most recent civil war.†   (source)
  • They were the original source of his first letters to Fermina Daza, those half-baked endearments taken whole from the Spanish romantics, and his letters continued in that vein until real life obliged him to concern himself with matters more mundane than heartache.†   (source)
  • Of course, they probably just say things as mundane as Restaurant or Pharmacy or Open 24 Hours.†   (source)
  • "Doctors think it's mundane to follow guidelines," he says.†   (source)
  • "I'm okay, thanks," I replied mundanely.†   (source)
  • As the business had grown, she'd traveled more and more, taking tour groups to places both mundane and exotic.†   (source)
  • He supposed she could have been doing something mundane: grocery shopping or returning a video or picking up dry cleaning ....or ....or ....And with that, he suddenly realized where she was.†   (source)
  • Something mundane, without deep meaning.†   (source)
  • The whole experience of buying fast food has become so routine, so thoroughly unexceptional and mundane, that it is now taken for granted, like brushing your teeth or stopping for a red light.†   (source)
  • I look around—and suddenly this mundane office life seems far too boring and limited for a creative spirit like mine.†   (source)
  • Now it seemed mundane.†   (source)
  • The conversation turned to other, more mundane issues.†   (source)
  • Sometimes ghosts put on such mundane disguises, they aren't particularly interesting.†   (source)
  • Moody hired a maid to free me from the more mundane duties of housekeeping, and we put my managerial training and organizational skills to work.†   (source)
  • She meant well, but Julie reveled in gossip—from the salacious to the mundane—and often used her position as.†   (source)
  • Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires.†   (source)
  • He took the stand, smiled goofily at the jury, swore to tell the truth, then began answering a lot of mundane questions.†   (source)
  • It was one of his favorite things about Earth, how mundane stuff like washing your feet suddenly felt like a huge deal.†   (source)
  • Everything is carefully recorded, even the most mundane details.†   (source)
  • Certainly, in one mundane part of our culture, Mexico has "conquered" a portion of the American food market.†   (source)
  • She and Colin remained friendly, but it was all so superficial, and Colin felt like they ought to be talking about the big issues of mattering and love and capital-t Truth and Alpo, but they only talked about the mundane business of taking oral histories.†   (source)
  • It is precisely those mundane activities of daily life that one misses most in prison.†   (source)
  • So she took the job at the Gazette and wrote stories about politics, international events and sometimes stories so mundane that not even the people mentioned in the articles found them newsworthy.†   (source)
  • When Mort the Wart took office in 2068, he gave us a sermon about how things were going to be different "on" Luna in his administration—noise about "a mundane paradise wrought with our own strong hands" and "putting our shoulders to the wheel together, in a spirit of brotherhood" and "let past mistakes be forgotten as we turn our faces toward the bright, new dawn."†   (source)
  • But the blue, shadowless light seemed too alien for anything so mundane.†   (source)
  • Creating grandiose romantic fantasies around the mundane exchange of seminal fluids?†   (source)
  • Then we were apart, and I was becoming aware of mundane things: a dim grey sky; considerable discomfort; and, presently, Michael, anxiously inquiring what had happened to me.†   (source)
  • Mundane and real and what her everyday life was made of, and I realized how much we didn't know each other and what a shame that was.†   (source)
  • I the most prodigal and mundane of historians.†   (source)
  • Poems to mythological women who consumed and overcame mundane lives.†   (source)
  • But soldiering, even for the Confederate cause, is far too mundane for his flamboyant personality.†   (source)
  • The mundane details of life impressed him too — the neatly made milk cartons, the spring-loaded window shades, the electric iceboxes everywhere.†   (source)
  • Like so many parts of the modern car engine, the fuel injector seems mundane until you sit down with an engineer who can explain how amazing it truly is.†   (source)
  • Just a few short months ago my days were filled with the mundane tasks of small jobs.†   (source)
  • By their nature, most personal letters or diary entries were descriptive rather than reflective, concerned with day-to-day events in the army and at home—with the weather, food, sickness, and other mundane concerns.†   (source)
  • They spoke of mundane subjects, men, movies, the sex life of a nymphomaniacal nurse from the childbirth center, anything but the horror they had witnessed that day.†   (source)
  • That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air—too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.†   (source)
  • However, somewhere between ages sixteen and nineteen I realized that most lawyers never meet even one man falsely accused of some heinous crime and that many of the more mundane legal tasks require about as much imagination as testing a streptococcus culture.†   (source)
  • We are mundane and materialistic—and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals?†   (source)
  • But to be more mundane about it, I believe that it simply consulted Central's national directory.†   (source)
  • Too bad," he said again, after a prolonged pause that was almost unendurable in the burden it imposed on the silently spun-out seconds, "too bad our celebration will be of a more mundane stripe.†   (source)
  • They thrilled every fiber of his body, shifted his mind to a higher gear than it normally used (as if some door opened, as doors occasionally opened in his dreams, revealing, beyond some mundane room, vast recesses obscurely lighted and charged with warm wind and a deep red color, beautiful and alarming): he thought them dangerous, possibly mortal, like the shocking pleasure (he imagined) of falling from a roof.†   (source)
  • He wore his most mundane clothes—jeans, a white shirt, and a dark jacket over them.   (source)
    mundane = ordinary; or belonging to our ordinary world
  • A spell costs the same amount of energy as it would to complete the task through mundane means.†   (source)
  • Goblin's silver repels mundane dirt, imbibing only that which strengthens it.†   (source)
  • Indeed, I don't remember ever meeting a student whose mind was so hopelessly mundane.†   (source)
  • And in all of these mundane matters, Lestat was an adequate teacher.†   (source)
  • I guess she's leaving the mundane things up to me now.†   (source)
  • The Senator's grin deflates and he looks back at the maid to collect these mundane drinks.†   (source)
  • Emeline never would have accepted so mundane a means of communicating news of such magnitude.†   (source)
  • You look about eight years old, and worse, you look like a mundane.†   (source)
  • Your mother brought you up in the mundane world, and that's where you belong.†   (source)
  • The teacher is very monotonous and mundane.†   (source)
  • You'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute.†   (source)
  • And because your Simon is one of the most mundane mundanes I've ever encountered.†   (source)
  • You seem to be a mundane like any other mundane, yet you can see me.†   (source)
  • Demon poison is strong stuff, and she's a mundane.†   (source)
  • I'm not setting myself on the bad side of the Night Children for a mundane I don't even know.†   (source)
  • Now, what interest would a warlock or demon lord have in an ordinary mundane household?†   (source)
  • I wouldn't have thought a mundane could have thought of something like that.†   (source)
  • The Institute is sworn to shelter Shadowhunters, not their mundane friends.†   (source)
  • "I forget how regrettably lax mundane education is," Valentine said.†   (source)
  • You know the rules about mundane knowledge of Shadowhunters, Jace.†   (source)
  • There hasn't been a mundane who knew about us for at least a hundred years.†   (source)
  • But you—you're dead weight, a mundane.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Hodge, and added quickly, "but her father was a mundane."†   (source)
  • But you're a mundane," Jace said, finally finishing his sentence.†   (source)
  • "She's not a mundane," Jace said quietly.†   (source)
  • You could turn a mundane into a Shadowhunter.†   (source)
  • It was an innocuous, straightforward, almost mundane sign.†   (source)
  • From outside, the Institute looked to mundane eyes like the ruins of an old Spanish mission.†   (source)
  • My gratitude for these mundane enjoyments amazes me.†   (source)
  • The mundane kind that didn't break any spells?†   (source)
  • She was a mundane, she'd been a stranger, there'd been no sense in wanting her.†   (source)
  • "Out, mundane," said Jace, pointing to the door.†   (source)
  • Maybe you've been living too long in the mundane world, Mom, but there is magic.†   (source)
  • Better than I would have thought for someone who was so recently a mundane.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace.†   (source)
  • I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours.†   (source)
  • So he really was healing like a mundane, as Alec had asked him to.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the most irresistible force is the most mundane.†   (source)
  • And after all, if Simon hadn't been a vampire, he would still have been a mundane, still lesser.†   (source)
  • Rex looked as if he hadn't expected anything so mundane to mess up his plans.†   (source)
  • Surely my desire for connection, for intimacy, for human touch was not "mundane"?†   (source)
  • "It goes to the mundane world," said the Queen sweetly.†   (source)
  • I think they experimented on some poor mundane woman," Clary said.†   (source)
  • You're not a mundane," Alec pointed out.†   (source)
  • You were calling the mundane, weren't you?†   (source)
  • Sebastian had gone to lock up and dim the lights up front, lest they attract mundane attention.†   (source)
  • You have your talent with runes, but it's been squandered by your mundane upbringing.†   (source)
  • A human killing is not of concern to me, but the death did not seem to be one of mundane origins.†   (source)
  • She knew more about mundane technology than they did.†   (source)
  • If you're calling me up just to chat, mundane, you must be lonelier than I thought.†   (source)
  • We must reach out into the mundane world, find those who might Ascend, teach and train them.†   (source)
  • We do not fight in your mundane battles.†   (source)
  • You can convince mundane humans of almost anything, if you learn how to use the ability properly.†   (source)
  • "Mundane education is regrettably prosaic," said Jace.†   (source)
  • At least face can't call me mundane anymore.†   (source)
  • You have to stop thinking of Simon as the mundane boy you used to know.†   (source)
  • He will have the life of an ordinary mundane.†   (source)
  • Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court.†   (source)
  • You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadow-hunter.†   (source)
  • "That," said Jace, "and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.†   (source)
  • When Simon didn't move, he said, "Get out of the way, mundane," in a tone of immense annoyance.†   (source)
  • You cannot tell a mundane about the Shadow World unless he is in danger.†   (source)
  • "If you lived in the mundane world," said Luke, "that's all you'd be."†   (source)
  • "I'm not a mundane," Simon said, an edge to his voice.†   (source)
  • Don't expect any special consideration, mundane.†   (source)
  • I shall go forth into the mundane world.†   (source)
  • If Jace were in your mundane army, do you think he'd be allowed to mouth off to his superiors?†   (source)
  • "I know that mundane history is not of enormous interest to most Shadowhunters," he said.†   (source)
  • We don't have much to do with mundane doctors, our kind.†   (source)
  • I didn't know you were bringing the mundane.†   (source)
  • Trees rustled in neighbouring gardens and the mundane rumble of cars in Magnolia Crescent filled the air again.†   (source)
  • The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing.†   (source)
  • We go on to say that parents pass along this cosmology to children through their behaviors, their reactions to daily events, often mundane—You look puzzled.†   (source)
  • Boys have given me the butterflies before, but I usually have more control over my susceptibility to such mundane movements.†   (source)
  • We didn't have to catch our breath or rest or eat or even use the bathroom; we had no more mundane human needs.†   (source)
  • The Inner Eye,' said Professor Trelawney with dignity, straightening her shawls and many strands of glittering beads, 'was fixed upon matters well outside the mundane realms of whooping voices.'†   (source)
  • It was such a ridiculous, mundane sight, the three of them sitting there, as if they were a family trying to work out where to go sightseeing that day.†   (source)
  • Yes, those with eyes too clouded by the mundane to See as I See, to Know as I Know...of course, we Seers have always been feared, always persecuted...it is — alas —our fate.†   (source)
  • Humbled and hungry, he realized, surprised such a mundane thought could enter his head at a moment like this.†   (source)
  • To begin with, such a personage was called a chef, nothing so mundane as a cook — cooking was what she did in her apartment kitchen when she threw all the leftovers into a greased Pyrex casserole dish and added noodles.†   (source)
  • He made a supreme effort to learn the mundane simplicity of mercantile prose, imitating models from notarial files with the same diligence he had once used for popular poets.†   (source)
  • They felt closer on nights when they were making these plans, as though major events distracted them from the more mundane realities of life, and sometimes as they debated their options in their bedroom they would stop and look at each other, as if remembering, each of them, who the other was.†   (source)
  • It's her flashes of joy that are most poignant for me now And so in memory she rambles through her mundane activities, to the outward eye nothing very unusual — a bright-haired girl walking up a hill, intent on thoughts of her own.†   (source)
  • Then Cadwallader scored again, making things level, but Luna did not seem to have noticed; she appeared singularly uninterested in such mundane things as the score, and kept attempting to draw the crowd's attention to such things as interestingly shaped clouds and the possibility that Zacharias Smith, who had so far failed to maintain possession of the Quaffle for longer than a minute, was suffering from something called "Loser's Lurgy."†   (source)
  • He sat as if posed, with no agitation, no embarrassment, as if there were a perfectly mundane explanation for why he was sitting up, alone, at near two in the morning, watching Ralph and Alice Kramden prepare for a Christmas party.†   (source)
  • Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing.†   (source)
  • You heighten random, mundane details.†   (source)
  • The trick with her audience was to balance the mundane with the more glamorous parts of the Circle; both were necessary to reveal, and certainly thousands of viewers were more interested in the boiler rooms than the penthouses, but the calibration had to be precise.†   (source)
  • Examples of mundane.†   (source)
  • She wrote me every mundane detail of Longleaf: My back pains are bad but it's my feet that are worse, or The mixer broke off from the bowl and flew wild around the kitchen and the cat hollered and ran off.†   (source)
  • Three times he walked past the door; then, his heart pounding with excitement, he opened his eyes and faced it — but he was still looking at a stretch of mundanely blank wall.†   (source)
  • A mundane reason, surely, for granting me a life which will last until the end of the world; but he was not a very discriminating person.†   (source)
  • Over the life of the fair the hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day, for injuries and ailments that suggest that the mundane sufferings of people have not changed very much over the ages.†   (source)
  • 'Elements of Poetry' is a pretty mundane section, so I know you're all glad to have it out of the way.†   (source)
  • But now she has, and she is the first mundane to pass through the doors of the Institute in over a hundred years.†   (source)
  • The rat's a mundane," he said sharply.†   (source)
  • I don't want to deal with taxi drivers or mundane rental companies when we're doing something this important.†   (source)
  • If her father were a Shadowhunter, and her mother a mundane—well, we all know it's against the Law to marry a mundie.†   (source)
  • What are you still doing here, mundane?†   (source)
  • "Drive fast, mundane," he said.†   (source)
  • No mundane may summon a demon—they lack that power—but there have been some, desperate and foolish, who have found a witch or warlock to do it for them.†   (source)
  • "They are not Shadowhunters," he said, "and it seems unlikely to me that Valentine would set up headquarters in the home of a mundane or a Downworlder.†   (source)
  • "Because it's your fault the mundane's a rat, idiot," he said, and Clary was struck by how rarely any of them, other than Isabelle, ever said Simon's actual name.†   (source)
  • As I had done in other cities, I sent out messages through Downworld, searching for any sign of Jocelyn, but there was nothing, no word at all, as if she had simply disappeared into the mundane world without a trace.†   (source)
  • I knew that if not for the child she carried, she would have taken her own life, and since to lose her to the mundane world was better than to lose her to death, I at last reluctantly agreed to her plan.†   (source)
  • Hodge Starkweather, who got along better with books than he did with people; Maryse Trueblood, whose brother had married a mundane; Robert Lightwood, who was terrified of the Marks—Valentine brought them all under his wing.†   (source)
  • She's bringing the mundane.†   (source)
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