Word: quotidian
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...early writing was a fresh take on the realities of the daily quotidian routine, reportage on the specifics of middle-class life which usually consisted of "years of marriage, two children, two renovations, three attempts at the Scarsdale diet, a stint at Smokenders and one midlife crisis...
...writings were to have served as Bob Packwood's monument, to be published years after his death. For more than two decades, every morning for 30 minutes, he scribbled his recollections of the day before, thoughts both philosophical and quotidian, ranging from political ruminations to juicy gossip. As he described it, the writings contained "the hopes and the dreams and the despairs...
...useful technique for getting your own way, because people will just want to shut you up and will give you just about anything," appear designed to provoke first a raised eyebrow and a burst of scandalized laughter, and then a self-indulgent rethinking of how we conduct our quotidian existences...
That quality is Short Cuts' great redeeming grace. But it is Altman's refusal to linger on it sentimentally, his joyous appreciation of his actors' wicked inventiveness, and everyone's passionate, quick-witted desire to expose the vagaries of human behavior under quotidian pressure that simply sweep you up and sweep away whatever doubts you may have about its grand design. It is, finally, as a richly pulsating, hugely entertaining human comedy -- antic, wayward, glancing -- that Short Cuts bemuses, amuses and finally entrances...
...them, and women sleep with men so they can talk with them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian in the same herniated sentence, and calls three different women "raccoon-eyed," which sounds like something Philip Marlowe said while ducking bullets...