| quotidian \kwoh-TID-ee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
2. Of an everyday character; ordinary, commonplace, trivial.
"Thus, art for Amulya Chandra Pal is inextricably bound up with ordinary life. 'The process of skilled creation is not divided from the quotidian flow.... It belongs to the daily round of work, and even its most glorious products are meshed in commerce and destined for participatory roles in human affairs'."
--"Quotidian Treasures: A folklorist explores the visual traditions of Bangladesh," New York Times, March 8, 1998
"Erasmus thought More's career as a lawyer was a waste of a fine mind, but it was precisely the human insights More derived from his life in the quotidian world that gave him a moral depth Erasmus lacked."
--"More man than saint," Irish Times, April 4, 1998
"She also had a sense of fun that was often drummed out under the dull, quotidian beats of suburban life."
--Meg Wolitzer, Surrender, Dorothy |
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| Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce (41) |
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