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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Trees rustled in neighbouring gardens and the mundane rumble of cars in Magnolia Crescent filled the air again.†   (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)
  • I think she didn't want anything as mundane as laundry polluting the view of her herbaceous borders.†   (source)
  • It is as mundane as the rainstorm we cannot predict.†   (source)
  • I read through pages and pages of his old entries, all of them about irrelevant, mundane things.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • WHO CAN SAY WHAT ASTONISHMENTS ARE HIDDEN INSIDE THE MOST MUNDANE BEING?†   (source)
  • We kept the windows closed so neighbors could not hear any discussion that strayed from the mundane into anything vaguely political.†   (source)
  • Of course, they probably just say things as mundane as Restaurant or Pharmacy or Open 24 Hours.†   (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)
  • You should use magic only for tasks that can't be accomplished the mundane way.†   (source)
  • Burnham and President Baker expected a general review but instead found themselves grilled about the most mundane expenses.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "I'm okay, thanks," I replied mundanely.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian.†   (source)
  • You've left the safe and mundane world you once knew, Nicholas Flamel said seriously, looking at each twin in turn.†   (source)
  • Even the mundane could feel magical.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It was one of his favorite things about Earth, how mundane stuff like washing your feet suddenly felt like a huge deal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But I'm sorry to tell you that the average geisha party was something much more mundane.†   (source)
  • Something mundane, without deep meaning.†   (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)
  • It is precisely those mundane activities of daily life that one misses most in prison.†   (source)
  • Any mundane excuse, and they would believe it more readily than the truth.†   (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)
  • As the business had grown, she'd traveled more and more, taking tour groups to places both mundane and exotic.†   (source)
  • Now it seemed mundane.†   (source)
  • The conversation turned to other, more mundane issues.†   (source)
  • Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires.†   (source)
  • "Doctors think it's mundane to follow guidelines," he says.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • None of it was familiar, and for a few hours she'd felt as if she'd suddenly slipped into an alternate universe in which she wasn't a hairdresser in a small southern town, the kind of gal whose highlight of the week was usually something as mundane as removing a stubborn ring from around the tub.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "That is a much more mundane idea," said the vampire immediately.†   (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)
  • Creating grandiose romantic fantasies around the mundane exchange of seminal fluids?†   (source)
  • I look around—and suddenly this mundane office life seems far too boring and limited for a creative spirit like mine.†   (source)
  • He took the stand, smiled goofily at the jury, swore to tell the truth, then began answering a lot of mundane questions.†   (source)
  • Everything is carefully recorded, even the most mundane details.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Even Bram's most mundane ledgers and notes were treasured documents, meticulously preserved and jealously guarded by scholars who spent lifetimes scrutinizing them in the hope of some veiled cipher or insight.†   (source)
  • But the blue, shadowless light seemed too alien for anything so mundane.†   (source)
  • Certainly, in one mundane part of our culture, Mexico has "conquered" a portion of the American food market.†   (source)
  • Poems to mythological women who consumed and overcame mundane lives.†   (source)
  • I the most prodigal and mundane of historians.†   (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)
  • But soldiering, even for the Confederate cause, is far too mundane for his flamboyant personality.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Just a few short months ago my days were filled with the mundane tasks of small jobs.†   (source)
  • The mundane details of life impressed him too — the neatly made milk cartons, the spring-loaded window shades, the electric iceboxes everywhere.†   (source)
  • Sometimes ghosts put on such mundane disguises, they aren't particularly interesting.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But to be more mundane about it, I believe that it simply consulted Central's national directory.†   (source)
  • We are mundane and materialistic--and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals?†   (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)
  • Broaden your minds, my dears, and allow your eyes to see past the mundane!   (source)
    mundane = ordinary
  • 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
  • Goblin's silver repels mundane dirt, imbibing only that which strengthens it.†   (source)
  • "Out, mundane," said Jace, pointing to the door.†   (source)
  • Indeed, I don't remember ever meeting a student whose mind was so hopelessly mundane.†   (source)
  • Luke, smiling faintly, said, "But I'm not a mundane.†   (source)
  • Emeline never would have accepted so mundane a means of communicating news of such magnitude.†   (source)
  • The Senator's grin deflates and he looks back at the maid to collect these mundane drinks.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the most irresistible force is the most mundane.†   (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)
  • At least face can't call me mundane anymore.†   (source)
  • If you're calling me up just to chat, mundane, you must be lonelier than I thought.†   (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)
  • If Jace were in your mundane army, do you think he'd be allowed to mouth off to his superiors?†   (source)
  • You were calling the mundane, weren't you?†   (source)
  • You seem to be a mundane like any other mundane, yet you can see me.†   (source)
  • Don't expect any special consideration, mundane.†   (source)
  • Demon poison is strong stuff, and she's a mundane.†   (source)
  • I didn't know you were bringing the mundane.†   (source)
  • I'm not setting myself on the bad side of the Night Children for a mundane I don't even know.†   (source)
  • "If you lived in the mundane world," said Luke, "that's all you'd be."†   (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)
  • Well, I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace.†   (source)
  • We don't have much to do with mundane doctors, our kind.†   (source)
  • The Institute is sworn to shelter Shadowhunters, not their mundane friends.†   (source)
  • When Simon didn't move, he said, "Get out of the way, mundane," in a tone of immense annoyance.†   (source)
  • "I forget how regrettably lax mundane education is," Valentine said.†   (source)
  • Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court.†   (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)
  • A spell costs the same amount of energy as it would to complete the task through mundane means.†   (source)
  • It was an innocuous, straightforward, almost mundane sign.†   (source)
  • She was a mundane, she'd been a stranger, there'd been no sense in wanting her.†   (source)
  • From outside, the Institute looked to mundane eyes like the ruins of an old Spanish mission.†   (source)
  • The mundane kind that didn't break any spells?†   (source)
  • My gratitude for these mundane enjoyments amazes me.†   (source)
  • And in all of these mundane matters, Lestat was an adequate teacher.†   (source)
  • "It goes to the mundane world," said the Queen sweetly.†   (source)
  • You have to stop thinking of Simon as the mundane boy you used to know.†   (source)
  • You're not a mundane," Alec pointed out.†   (source)
  • I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours.†   (source)
  • Rex looked as if he hadn't expected anything so mundane to mess up his plans.†   (source)
  • I guess she's leaving the mundane things up to me now.†   (source)
  • She knew more about mundane technology than they did.†   (source)
  • Surely my desire for connection, for intimacy, for human touch was not "mundane"?†   (source)
  • So he really was healing like a mundane, as Alec had asked him to.†   (source)
  • Better than I would have thought for someone who was so recently a mundane.†   (source)
  • Sebastian had gone to lock up and dim the lights up front, lest they attract mundane attention.†   (source)
  • The teacher is very monotonous and mundane.†   (source)
  • "Mundane education is regrettably prosaic," said Jace.†   (source)
  • You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadow-hunter.†   (source)
  • Maybe you've been living too long in the mundane world, Mom, but there is magic.†   (source)
  • You can convince mundane humans of almost anything, if you learn how to use the ability properly.†   (source)
  • You cannot tell a mundane about the Shadow World unless he is in danger.†   (source)
  • "That," said Jace, "and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.†   (source)
  • I shall go forth into the mundane world.†   (source)
  • We do not fight in your mundane battles.†   (source)
  • A human killing is not of concern to me, but the death did not seem to be one of mundane origins.†   (source)
  • And after all, if Simon hadn't been a vampire, he would still have been a mundane, still lesser.†   (source)
  • You have your talent with runes, but it's been squandered by your mundane upbringing.†   (source)
  • I think they experimented on some poor mundane woman," Clary said.†   (source)
  • "I know that mundane history is not of enormous interest to most Shadowhunters," he said.†   (source)
  • We must reach out into the mundane world, find those who might Ascend, teach and train them.†   (source)
  • "I'm not a mundane," Simon said, an edge to his voice.†   (source)
  • He will have the life of an ordinary mundane.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It's not safe for any of you here right now And especially a mundane— Luke, smiling faintly, said, "But I'm not a mundane.†   (source)
  • You think of me that way because you look at me and at what I do through the lens of your mundane understanding of the world.†   (source)
  • Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter.†   (source)
  • I can get a job in the mundane world for a year, live like one of them— No, you can't," Clary said.†   (source)
  • A mundane might have thought the white scars that snowflaked Jace's skin, remnants of old runes, made him less than perfect, but Alec didn't.†   (source)
  • Are you suggesting a mundane hospital?†   (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)
  • Being a lycanthrope made you grow up fast, and as long as you sprouted hair and fangs once a month, you were good to drink at the Moon, no matter how old you were in mundane years.†   (source)
  • Simon's not an ordinary mundane.†   (source)
  • The rat's a mundane," he said sharply.†   (source)
  • You've gone as soft as a mundane.†   (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)
  • Still, she couldn't imagine having him—a mundane—here while Luke petitioned Maryse Lightwood on Jace's behalf; it would just make everything awkward.†   (source)
  • Squeamish about blood, mundane?†   (source)
  • What are you still doing here, mundane?†   (source)
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