How to use "mundane" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "mundane" in popular movie and book plots

He does not care for money and such mundane things. - Chakradhari (1948 film)
The boring and mundane Professor Ovidio has a twin brother called Raf who, on the contrary is an exuberant, womanizing night club pianist. - È arrivato mio fratello
Tired by the constant struggle to fit in a perfectly happy society, she chooses to explore herself and teach herself how to embrace solitude and transgress the mundane world. - How to Be Alone (film)
The series follows three friends from two different centuries as they try to balance the thrill of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present-day lives. - Making History (TV series)
Fernand Ravinel is a traveling salesman who leads a mundane existence with his wife, Mireille. - She Who Was No More
Six years later, Fiona lives a mundane existence, struggling through a tedious office job and child care. - Fishnet (book)
When the rest of the Smith family asks Rick for solutions to several mundane problems, he gives the family the Meeseeks Box, a gadget capable of summoning helpful beings named mr Meeseeks. - Meeseeks and Destroy
As the conversation comes to an uncomfortable and cold finish, the character begins to revise sentences asking if the two will ever be the same - deleting earnest questions and asking about the weather or other mundane affairs instead. - Emily Is Away
Therefore, she is determined to avoid a mundane life, and will shatter whatever boundaries are in her way. - The Tenants Downstairs
Yann Kerbec is in his thirties and has been leading a mundane and stale life. - Our Futures
When Vollmer tries to start conversations about wide-spanning or deep subject matter, he attempts to redirect the conversation to something more mundane or routine. - Human Moments in World War III
Peter agrees with Sergeant Kumar that the victim shows signs of operating under a magical influence but visits Lewis's civil partner in case there is a more mundane explanation, only to find none, (increasing Peter's anxiety over Weil's collision while taking a sedate drive through a red light after making a half-hearted attempt to bury a disfigured and mutilated murder victim). - Broken Homes
Simon Lewis, who has been a mundane in City of Bones, then a vampire from the middle of City of Ashes till almost the end of City of Heavenly Fire has been stripped off his memories by a Greater Demon in the final volume of The Mortal Instruments. - Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy
As a handyman, he does electrical work, handles plumbing, takes out garbage and does an array of other mundane tasks for tenants of the building he works at. - Manchester by the Sea (film)
There is nothing interesting about her life; she leads a mundane life but she craves for a change. - 36 Vayadhinile
At the mean time at the Shastri's, things go on in a mundane way until Shubra has visions again where she sees a black car hitting a teenage boy, although she doesn’t know who the boy is. - Asambhav (Marathi TV series)
When the recreation of mundane events fails to quench this thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events. - Remainder (novel)
It seems he has some sorcerous foe against whom no mundane weapon can avail. - Witch of the Four Winds
Ethan accumulates evidence that there is a mundane explanation for what's going on: some of his clothing is missing, and he receives several voice mails from friends and family, answering calls, made in his voice, asking about details of his past. - The One I Love (film)
However, most of what she interprets as signs of successful seduction are mundane aspects of Finn's altruistic character, such as his willingness to fetch her old spaghetti for dinner. - Gotcha! (Adventure Time)
Hellsalem's Lot was created when a portal to the "Beyond" opened, becoming a paranormal melting pot of monsters, magic and the everyday mundane life, and it is up to Libra to clear the streets of trouble and prevent the horrors of this city from spreading to the outside world. - Blood Blockade Battlefront
Michal (Gustaw Holoubek) is a middle aged professor of medicine in a provincial town who is bored by the mundane and superficial nature of his life, friends and family. - An Uneventful Story
Jon Burroughs, an aspiring songwriter, lives a mundane life working in an office. - Frank (film)
Alex's (Corey Sevier) mundane life is changed forever when he has a brief encounter with a mysterious woman named Rachel (Jordan Ladd). - Awaken (film)
"What if our relationship becomes boring and mundane after marriage. - Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha
Despite her mundane penchant for playing video games, Mendle's conviction about the young woman's unearthliness is sealed the day they go swimming with dolphins and, as she pulls off damp clothing, he discovers the mysterious stranger has no navel. - Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
In the mundane world, everyone wears a mask in his life. - The Dream Makers (TV series)
Joe turns his back on organized crime to live a more mundane life with his son. - Live by Night
Applejohn is bored with his sheltered and mundane live and craves excitement. - Captain Applejack
She revels in the townspeople's mundane and repetitive lives; every day, Regina wakes in bed with Graham, mr Gold (Robert Carlyle) limps along the sidewalk, Marco (Tony Amendola) repairs the sign over his shop, Granny (Beverley Elliott) and Ruby (Meghan Ory) argue, dr Hopper (Raphael Sbarge) walks Pongo, and Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) volunteers at the hospital where she does not recognize the comatose David Nolan (Josh Dallas). - Welcome to Storybrooke
As Frances cuts Tilly's hair, they have a mundane conversation that once again turns into one about feelings, sadness, and their inner lives. - Melancholy Play
His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodian nature a secret from his human family. - Octodad
The Canimals find something new and worthy of attention in the most mundane of things. - Canimals
Sam and his wife Miriam are living mundane lives in Naples, Florida. - Last Vegas
Humanity forgets about the cubes' arrival, and use them as paperweights and similar mundane functions. - The Power of Three (Doctor Who)
Father Brown uses the distinctive skills of his close friends as well as his own wits to solve cases, occasionally to the neglect of his more mundane parish duties. - Father Brown (2013 TV series)
The story of the dating simulation portion of the game follows the protagonist, and the inter-species love and hijinks—of both the mundane high school and quasi-anthropomorphic bird-specific varieties—that ensue as she draws the attention of and attempts to romance one of a number of eligible birds she comes in contact with over the course of the year. - Hatoful Boyfriend
Passing boring time without receiving any orders from the North, they gradually get used to life as ordinary neighbors in a small town until one day, their mundane lives are turned upside down when a "secret and great" mission is suddenly assigned to them. - Secretly, Greatly
It is written in the form of a letter listing mundane household chores. - At the Bottom of the River
Raghunandan is an ex-Bank of England employee who resigned his lucrative job because he was bored with the rather sedentary and mundane nature of his work. - Spirit (2012 film)
After some mundane outings, such as touring a slaughterhouse and visiting a cemetery, Peter murders an old woman in her home, which he and the cameraman ransack. - August Underground
Robin has temporarily moved in with Lily and Marshall, but becomes annoyed at their mundane lifestyle. - Karma (How I Met Your Mother)
Elfie's mundane existence is thrown for a spin with the arrival of a family of trendy city dwellers, the Gammons. - Elfie Hopkins
Even though they are still married, Faisal has never truly given Aiman her full rights as his wife and they have lived a relatively mundane lifestyle. - Maat (TV series)
Before he can exact his retribution, Mizushima notices that the apparently mundane contents of the Inoue's house deserve a second glance, due to knowledge gained while working for her magazine. - Key of Life
He easily fulfills her first two wishes in mundane ways. - Pot o' Gold (Glee)
At any moment the ship may fade from reality, and both Kenton and the reader will be imprisoned in the mundane world of the everyday". - The Ship of Ishtar
As the summit draws ever closer, preparations are again thwarted when Xin Yi becomes "collateral damage" while investigating a seemingly mundane kidnapping and burglary case and is held hostage by a mysterious Korean-American man. - C.L.I.F.
Juan (Manuel Domínguez) is an employee of a uniform store was comfortable in his routine, uninspired, and mundane life until he meets "La Borrega" (The Lamb) (Carlos Aragón), a cruel man who tortures Juan. - Juan y la Borrega
This unusual event in his otherwise mundane life, inspires Maiquel to ask his hairdresser, Cledir (Cláudia Abreu) out to a bar where he is confronted and bullied by a local criminal named Suel (Wagner Moura). - The Man of the Year (2003 film)
Mortmain, the mundane who informed the Shadowhunters of de Quincey, comes back to the Institute to tell Will and Jem about the Dark sister who is trying to help the Magister with his army and her location. - Clockwork Angel
Leopoldo lives a mundane life with his wife and two children. - To Rome with Love (film)
Seemingly above such mundane concerns, India's elderly Prime Minister, devoted to movies, scotch, and late mornings, adds to the confusion with random utterances and occasional temper tantrums. - The Goat, the Sofa, and Mr. Swami
After several failed attempts to plunder mundane ships, they come across the Beagle and capture its passenger Charles Darwin (David Tennant). - The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The official website describes the film: "In The Off Hours, Amy Seimetz alluringly commands the screen as Francine, a waitress whose liberation from her mundane existence is long overdue. - The Off Hours
Mitsuyo also lives a lonely and mundane life, working at a men's clothing store and living with her younger sister. - Villain (2010 film)
The Doctor reasons with her and makes her come to an understanding of the clash of mundane reality and literary illusion, at which she finally accepts Glanville's hand and marries him. - The Female Quixote
In the aftermath, Shea and Belphebe are blasted back to the mundane world by the attack of a surviving magician, whereupon Belphebe finally accepts Shea's proposal of marriage. - The Mathematics of Magic
There are also scenes from the previous summer when they both took a road trip across the Utah desert and share a great time depicted in a quiet serene backdrop with no signs of mundane life and worries. - All the Days Before Tomorrow
Random and/or outlandish events regularly occur throughout the series, mainly through the mundane situations each character undergoes. - Nichijou
Goodson hopes to finally grasp a moment of his own creation, independent of the mundane demands of his work-shaped life. - Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco
He claims that he is doing this for Julia and compares it with other mundane activities (going to a concert with one's spouse even though one hates the music) that one does just to make one's partner happy. - Open and Shut (House)
Taking a break from her mundane life, she traces the clock to its location, and find a quaint restaurant in the middle of Hong Kong's concrete jungle, run by the adult McDull. - McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten
Seeking an explanation as to the strange circumstances of his apparent lack of family structure, as well as the respect from others fundamentally absent in his mundane model-building existence, Barlam is soon led astray amid a seedy underworld of prostitutes, hustlers and addicts. - The Sentimental Engine Slayer
The novel flips between telling the history of the main characters in Hesse, their homeland, and current events in the mundane world (what the Fables call our world). - Peter & Max: A Fables Novel
As William returns to his mundane daily life, he encounters three familiar faces: Peter Parker, a high-school student who is pressured by Norman Osborn to conduct industrial espionage on Stark Industires; a blind lawyer Matt Murdock who battles an uphill case against the kingpin to absolve Frank Castle of murder; and an amnesiac soldier named Logan who is led to believe he murdered Charles Xavier. - Powerless (comics)
Suddenly a young, rich man, Aakash ( Jimmy Shergill ) enters her life and provides her the much-needed respite from her mundane lifestyle. - Jahan Tum Le Chalo
At first, Tong Tong seems a refreshing, welcoming presence in the depressing, mundane life of Chu's family. - Hollywood Hong Kong
Slowly, Yvette becomes attracted to the gypsy, leading her to consider whether she wants to have a mundane life or a romance with someone her family may not accept. - The Virgin and the Gypsy (film)
Kevin’s mundane world is falling apart and through seemingly accidental circumstances is lured into the world of the drug Exente. - Ex Cathedra (film)
More mundane matters prevail in such stories as "Mr. - Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir: Stories
Through a mundane conversation about work, girlfriends and friendships John gradually watches Dan's skin colour go from a dark black to almost white, as he discovers that they have a lot in common. - Colour Blind (2009 film)
Constance is a young French woman who is dissatisfied with her mundane life but has a talent for reading stories to others. - The Reader (1988 film)
Simon is reduced to mundane constituency business. - In the Loop (film)
Though the city is designed by the robots to support a human population, its design had been merely functional and utilitarian, until a building suddenly appears on the horizon that starkly contrasts the city's mundane architecture. - Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Prodigy
Derec theorizes it was pathogens in human blood (from a mundane cut on David's shoeless foot) that the Central Core was interpreting as an alien presence because of its lack of data on normal human blood borne pathogens. - Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Suspicion
Meanwhile, Stan's father, Randy Marsh, rouses the ire of his family by videotaping every mundane household activity with his new camcorder (parodying the filming style of Cloverfield as well as the movie itself). - Pandemic (South Park)
The meticulous attention that Taghvā'i has given to the accurate representation of even the most mundane aspects of the film would at first sight seem to be at odds with the fact that with the exception of the opening and closing scenes, in all other scenes where the clock on the wall of the sitting room is in sight, its pendulum is conspicuously motionless. - Unruled Paper (film)
They go to a poetry reading where Clary sees Jace, one of the boys she saw, who privately tells Clary about demon-hunters, called Shadowhunters or Nephilim, and claims Clary is not a mundane (ordinary human). - City of Bones (Clare novel)
She is assigned to a rather mundane case of tracking down an old man's first love. - Mataharis
One day, while walking in the market, Taani sees a poster about a dancing competition; she soon asks for Surinder's permission to take the expensive dance class with a visiting Bombay company, to unwind from her mundane and boring life at home. - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
After the battle, Cornelius wants nothing more than to return to the mundane world with Lucan, but it is revealed they must find a specific portal to do so, so their quest must continue through a magical gateway into Greece. - Magic and Mayhem
The player controls Curtis Craig, an introverted 26-year-old man who on the surface seems to be living a mundane life while working at a pharmaceutical company. - Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Other people seem mundane at first but Natalie manages to make other friends eventually, throwing herself into her school work while Tulip gets wilder, knifing bus seats and burning litter bins. - The Tulip Touch
The workers begin another mundane and hellish day at work under Franklin Hart, Jr, president of Consolidated Industries. - 9 to 5 (musical)
Their health improves dramatically but when Young-su's friends from the city come for a visit, he starts to wonder if he should abandon mundane rural village and return to his former lifestyle. - Happiness (2007 film)
The children have to choose to stay in that eccentric, mysterious and possibly sinister world or to flee back to safety in the mundane world and perhaps lose the hopes of spiritual healing they discovered in Heaven Eye's world. - Heaven Eyes
Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a single woman who repeatedly misreads mundane actions and comments from her dates as indications that they are romantically interested in her, and frets when the guy does not call her. - He's Just Not That Into You (film)
Inspired by a true story, the journey begins when three childhood friends from Ethiopia reunite at various stages in their mundane lives as struggling musicians. - Journey to Lasta
Disbelieving, but with little to lose, Tregarth gives up all the money he has left and is transported to a land where magic vies with more mundane swords and bows. - Witch World (novel)
At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump. - Marley & Me (film)
One day Ignace and Kessler have a mundane quarrel and after a horrid exchange of words, Ignace runs and complains to his wife. - The Mourners
The book's content is from entries Smith has written about on said blog, from mundane daily activities to a series of writings detailing his friend and frequent featured actor Jason Mewes' heroin stuff. - My Boring Ass Life
These units, the 'transmorphers', ambush humans by appearing as mundane features of the terrain, even fooling detection systems. - Transmorphers
Even though their parents were archaeologists, they lived a rather mundane life. - Crisis Force
Haru cannot understand why Akira gets so excited by what he considers mundane objects, but is envious when she explains washing machines, tumble driers and electricity, which would make his life considerably easier as he spends his time doing all of the housework and cooking for his older brothers. - MAGiMAGi
Frustrated, he asks the priest what he should do with his mundane life, and the priest tells him that he should repent, sacrifice all his palatial pleasures, and live the life of a simple and ordinary man, and hence learn the true meaning of life, for at least six months. - Prince (1969 film)
Her seemingly mundane day-to-day activities take a strange turn when she tries to kill herself. - Aversion (film)
Returning to the mundane world, he undertakes to find certain persons who can help him gain his own readmittance to Khoire, having fallen in love with one of its denizens, Mareth of the Watchers. - Beyond the Golden Stair
Chuck is recruited to use the knowledge he now possesses to help thwart assassins and international terrorists, upending his previously mundane life. - Chuck (TV series)
Julian soon disrupts Terry's mundane life, turns the flat into something similar to an 18th-century Turkish boudoir and disrupts Terry's relationship with his girlfriend, policewoman Rene. - Terry and Julian
Trapped in a small Russian town, Lana wants desperately nothing more than to flee her mundane life causing the two girls to develop an instant connection through their love ofATu. - You and I (2011 film)
The first half or so of the film is taken up with examining the mundane details of life on board the aircraft carrier as she sails through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific Ocean, finally seeing action at Marcus Island (attacked in 1943). - The Fighting Lady
Caught up in a real-life adventure that seems unbelievable even to him, Walter attempts to hide his double life from his mundane family and friends. - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)
From the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome counting paperclips, to which he has been exiled through political fallout from the Aldo Moro kidnapping and murder, he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia. - Ratking (novel)
The only colour in his otherwise mundane life was his obsession for Neeta, an older, more pragmatic woman, who likes him but does not share his plans for their future. - Raakh
What these victims have in common is that they have been described by folk who knew them as "righteous" (hence the title) although they led some mundane or unethical existence (ie. - The Righteous Men
Faster than light travel is impossible (although FTL communication via quantum entanglement is used), and the result of more mundane interstellar travel between the eighty worlds of the empire results in relativistic effects due to the high speeds involved; as such, the ages of space travelers become out of sync with those of their friends and family, an effect known as the "Time Thief". - The Risen Empire
Their mundane lives change when sisters Naomi and Yumi accept their invitations to a party and the brothers have to decide if they are ready to exchange their happy existence for the vicissitudes of love. - Mamiya kyodai
In the process, Oar is contacted mentally by a very strange alien being who calls himself the Pollisand; he, or it, has a form resembling a headless white rhinoceros, but seems to be one of the very advanced and cryptic galactic beings who exist far above the mundane material level. - Ascending
He apparently lures young women to South America by offering them a promising opportunity while, in reality, wanting to recruit them for mundane criminal purposes. - Lured
The second is more tragic, with a mild-mannered clerk (Mervyn Johns) concerned about quitting his mundane job. - Easy Money (1948 film)
Horatio ends up staying with the family under the assumed character of a penniless artist, as he does not want to betray his family’s role in displacing the Prince of Inismore’s family (technically referred to as the O’Melvilles, although the Prince refuses such a mundane title). - The Wild Irish Girl
The four live and work together in mundane harmony, eating Ha-yoon's bad cooking and watching their crush (Go Eun-mi) read the news on TV. - Guns & Talks
Attacks made against him, both mundane and magical, fail to stop him. - Devlin's Luck
Working together through mundane days and personal crisis they share their lives, hopes, ambitions and regrets, as Paul learns to find stability and calm in his life and Murphy achieves acceptance and forgiveness for his mistakes. - Spring Forward
When he is not busy with mundane tasks, Shef finds himself aiding the village blacksmith, where he develops his talents as well as an affinity for invention. - The Hammer and the Cross
Their obvious incompetence in more mundane areas of life only seems to increase their glamour. - Climbers (novel)
However, nobody appreciates his talents and it transpires that his mother had led him on - the real vacancy is for nothing more than mundane typesetting work. - The Science of Sleep
With help from Alicia, he does gain the Shamir, but when they are cornered by Voties, he has Alicia use it to escape to the mundane world. - Solomon's Stone
Moreover, several more mundane sub-plot tropes common to Japanese manga occur at the same time at the invasions, such as: At the end of the fourth volume, the main characters, as Evangelion pilots, are broken up and posted to different spots around the world, although they plan to (and, with one exception, do) meet up after the Angels' threat is over and they grow too old to work as pilots anymore. - Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
The Void regains control, people return to their mundane ordinary lives and the world has reverted to how it was before The Age of Misrule Hal escapes The Void and enters the Blue Fire to travel through time and set in motion events to bring back the original leader of the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons, Jack Churchill, as Existence's last hope in the battle with the Void. - The Dark Age (series)
Catherine, Called Birdy discusses everything from the mundane events of her life (killing fleas, spinning and embroidery) to festivals and holidays (such as Easter or May Day, many of which are celebrated by the entire village) to her travels in England, which are limited (she goes, for example, to Lincoln with her father, or to spend a few day at Lady Aelis' manor). - Catherine, Called Birdy
Each show made a habit of creating outrageous plots out of mundane tasks and settings. - Ned's Newt
In the opening chapter Howells introduces the Talbert family, middle-class New England proprietors of a silverplate works that turns out ice-pitchers and other mundane household items. - The Whole Family
In that split second, they are electroported to safety, unaware of what had transpired and free to resume their mundane lives. - Fun and Games (The Outer Limits)
Dug, being a mundane boy of sixteen, picks Nada Naga as his partner, because of her beauty. - Demons Don't Dream
After battling their way in, the PCs explore the temple chambers, which contain mundane creatures and new monsters from the Fiend Folio supplement. - The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun
The plot is driven as much by Tsubasa learning from Hikaru and her experiences with her new sister at school as it is by the presence of the Maguar, and there tends to be less cross-interference of mundane and fantastic life than is typical of 'magical girl' type anime. - Figure 17
Middle-aged Oji Tanaka has a wife, a child and a mundane job as a salary man in Tokyo's modern society. - Black Heaven
In each episode, their latest attempt to add excitement to their dull mundane life as livestock somehow snowballs into a fantastic sitcom-style escapade, most often with the help of their fascination with human doings and devices. - Shaun the Sheep
During a quick trip to the suburbs for a dinner with extended family, Hlynur, so comically disturbed by the mundane family ritual (they actually gather to watch a video of last year's family dinner), imagines a bloodbath scene killing everyone at close range with a shotgun. - 101 Reykjavík
This is meant to be a sort of "good service" reward for Adderly, as his supposedly cushy Miscellaneous Affairs job is mostly concerned with mundane in-house administrative paperwork. - Adderly
Subjects are made to believe that their fictional life in the virtual world was real, then are later deprogrammed and normalized into accepting mundane reality after their discharge. - Underground (role-playing game)
Willow asks Buffy what is the significance of the seemingly mundane scene of placing a book on a shelf. - The Weight of the World (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
While Eilonwy is introduced to the ladies, the banal tedium of life at court, and the maxims of proper ladylike conduct, Taran meets his frequent companion Fflewddur Fflam - who, again having become wearied with the mundane duties of presiding over his peaceful but small hereditary kingdom, is living in the stables as a bard - and a traveling shoemaker, who turns out to be none other than Prince Gwydion. - The Castle of Llyr
In this way Ames sees the allure in both the ordinary and mundane as well as the tragic. - Gilead (novel)
At the beginning, he is shown along with his pregnant wife at a mundane scene. - Peppermint Candy
His life, mundane and schedule-driven by the institution's authorities, is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suddenly moves in. - Inside I'm Dancing
They send him to a doctor who diagnoses him with that condition in a very odd fashion (reading The Great Gatsby in its entirety, then asking one random question about a mundane detail from the book). - Timmy 2000
However, when the Devore re-materialize the transporter buffer, they only find mundane shipping containers filled with vegetables. - Counterpoint (Star Trek: Voyager)
If the player depletes their power by overuse of the celestial brush, Amaterasu will temporarily revert to this mundane white form. - Ōkami
In the far future, an office worker named Johnson leads a dull and mundane life. - Cobra (manga)
Perusing the materials of the sect, Har Veris finds himself enjoying the fanciful, creative, but ultimately ridiculous narrative, finding it far more interesting than the more mundane heresies that have developed around power, money and doctrinal quibbles. - The Way of Cross and Dragon
Their plans to leave the United States begin to crumble when April conceives their third child, and Frank begins to identify with his mundane job when the prospect of a promotion arises. - Revolutionary Road
Obviously, it is out of the question for Conan to take any such mundane act as bringing this jewel to a fence and getting at least a fraction of its market value. - The Tower of the Elephant
Peggy is the most levelheaded of the three and is generally the one presenting the mundane alternatives to Declan's theories. - Mysterious Ways (TV series)
Her quiet, orderly existence - filled with both the mundane (futon furniture and an aging pickup truck) and the serious (a large student loan and a supply of antidepressants) - is disrupted by the sudden appearance of two disparate men. - Shopgirl
It aims to show how a Christian is transformed from unbeliever to immature believer to mature believer, who walks daily with God as easily on the High Places of Joy in the spirit as in the daily life of mundane and often humiliating tasks that may cause Christians to lose perspective. - Hinds' Feet on High Places
Most of the dreams are concerned with mundane affairs: talking to his friends Ian Sommerville, Allen Ginsberg and Brion Gysin; protecting his cats; trying to get sex, drugs or something to eat. - My Education: A Book of Dreams
Three years later, Dashrath rescues them from their mundane domestic lives by offering them to work for the nation thwarting the activities of other scammers. - Bunty Aur Babli
Danny and Bernie balance their mundane office jobs with sexual banter, particularly their experiences and preferences in the bedroom. - Sexual Perversity in Chicago
Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage – which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating – with their secretive work. - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)
She then departs for Earth and begins a mundane life of working all day in a supermarket and spending all night in the pub. - Exile (audio drama)
A couple, Fred (Henry Kendall) and Emily Hill (Joan Barry), living a mundane middle-class life in London, receive a letter informing them that an uncle will give them, as an advance against their future inheritance, as much money as they need to enjoy themselves in the present. - Rich and Strange
Whilst he could produce any range of idyllic, surreal or mundane environments, Max seemed to have a personal taste for the horrific. - The Thirteenth Floor (comic strip)
Feeling bad that she has to toss out the Ultrahouse (since he was charming and witty before being driven mad by love), Marge gives the CPU to her sisters Patty and Selma, whose mundane stories about their day at work drives the CPU to suicide (but since the CPU is not willing to reach inside Selma's cleavage to get his self-destruct button, the Ultrahouse CPU is reduced to banging himself with Patty and Selma's Egyptian pyramid lamp). - Treehouse of Horror XII
The series in general also pokes fun at the shōnen genre's tendency to be melodramatic over mundane tasks. - Yakitate!! Japan
In the wake of the events of "The Mathematics of Magic", Harold Shea and his lady love Belphebe of Faerie have married and settled happily into a mundane earthly existence. - The Castle of Iron
The dragon leads the Silanda into a fire warren, and Kulp, Heboric, Baudin, and Felisin fall or leap to safety in the mundane world near Raraku as the ship moves between warrens, on fire. - Deadhouse Gates
Westgate is bored with his mundane college life, including his German friend Boris who experiments on animals in the lab, and the attentions of a shy male student who claims to be in love with him, so he is only too happy to be diverted into joining Penny in her search for missing archaeologist Pilkington (a fellow Oxford colleague). - After Pilkington
Police detective Huang Huo-tu, a Waisheng ren (Mainland Chinese) in Taiwan, has relegated himself to a mundane job as a Foreign Affairs Officer as self-punishment for blowing the whistle on corruption in the force, and his colleagues have turned their backs on him. - Double Vision (2002 film)
These meetings are often referred to as "The Game" or "The Great Game" by the participants, who try to keep the goings-on secret from the mundane population. - A Night in the Lonesome October
At the beginning of each day, Postal Dude is given several tasks to accomplish, such as 'get milk', 'confess sins', and other seemingly mundane tasks. - Postal 2
Their home, Frostbite Falls, has been destroyed by deforestation, Rocky has lost his ability to fly and the show's unseen Narrator now lives with his mother, spending his time narrating his own mundane life. - The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Giulietta explores her subconscious and the odd lifestyle of her sexy neighbour, Suzy, as she attempts to deal with her mundane life and her philandering oppressive husband, Giorgio. - Juliet of the Spirits
Each of the fantasies is inspired by some detail of Mitty's mundane surroundings:. - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Using a telescope, he watches her every night performing mundane tasks, working on her artwork, and entertaining men. - A Short Film About Love
The circumstances of her accident prevent Sissi from re-adjusting to her mundane life at the hospital, as she obsesses about tracking down her saviour. - The Princess and the Warrior
Judd tries to convince her that her fears are of a mundane nature, and stem from these childhood traumas. - Cat People (1942 film)
A variety of mundane and arcane archetypes are available, including "Sykers" (characters with deadly psychic powers), "Doomsayers" (magical priests of radiation), "Templars" (members of a martial organization patterned after the Knights Templar), "Junkers" (humans with the supernatural ability to create working devices from the scavenged debris of pre-apocalypse civilization), and even just plain-old everyday humans, surviving by their wits and their gun. - Deadlands: Hell on Earth
The book depicts the mundane details of Bogey life in loving detail, with definitions of Bogey slang and numerous annotations concerning the myths, pets, hobbies, literature, clothing and food of the Bogeys. - Fungus the Bogeyman
In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake world of the early 21st century, Colin Laney is referred to agents of mega-rock star Rez of the musical group Lo/Rez for a job using his peculiar talent of sifting through vast amounts of mundane data to find "nodal points" of particular relevance. - Idoru
Realizing they could not control the power granted them by the sphere, they decide its knowledge to be too dangerous to be communicated, and resolve to use its power to remove it from themselves and alter their memories, replacing the fantastical experiences with more mundane memories of a technical failure. - Sphere (novel)
Philip's uncle has a vast collection of books, and Philip enjoys reading to find ways to escape his mundane existence. - Of Human Bondage
As an English teacher and lecturer at Albert Mission College, Krishna has led a mundane and monotonous lifestyle comparable to that of a cow, but this life of his took a turn when his wife, Susila, and their child, Leela, come to live with him. - The English Teacher
Mowgli instructs Baloo to scare off Shanti should she appear, and rants about the mundane life he had in the Man Village. - The Jungle Book 2
She pushes him to do everyday mundane things for her, such as fetching her morning carrot juice and vitamins or escorting her to social functions where it is clear he is only there as a trophy boyfriend. - Cocktail (1988 film)
David Boring is a story told in the first person by its eponymous protagonist, concerning his sometimes fantastic and sometimes mundane exploits and misadventures in and out of big city life. - David Boring
In the opening chapter, Hans is symbolically transported away from the familiar life and mundane obligations he has known, in what he later learns to call "the flatlands", to the rarefied mountain air and introspective little world of the sanatorium. - The Magic Mountain
While the plots are gag-driven, much of the humor comes from the combination of mundane characters with those that are bizarrely out of place; such as Nakagawa who has wealth and Ai Asato who has appeal. - Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
Arthur keeps his mind occupied during the mundane and repetitive work through a mental collage of imagined fantasies, and memories of the past. - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The arrogant, reckless and loudmouthed detective, James Carter is tricked into doing this but Carter makes a plan to solve the case himself when he finds out that he has been given a mundane task as punishment for botching a sting operation. - Rush Hour (1998 film)
He is taken off his mundane household duties, for which he was intended, and allowed to pursue his creativity, making a fortune by selling his creations. - The Positronic Man
UNITY's leaders, Jones and Smith, are skeptical of Cate working as a field agent, and have previously relegated her to more mundane assignments. - The Operative: No One Lives Forever
The family regularly consult them in order to find out about the such mundane matters as the weather or how soon a visitor will be arriving at the house. - Little, Big
The Acid Tests are parties where everyone takes LSD (which was often put into the Kool-Aid they served) and abandon the realities of the mundane world in search of a state of “intersubjectivity". - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Bruce also finds ways of using the powers to cause miraculous events to occur at otherwise mundane events that he covers, such as discovering Jimmy Hoffa's body or causing a meteor to harmlessly land near a cook-off, earning him his job back. - Bruce Almighty
Revolving around two local families, the narrative is interspersed with vignettes from the seemingly mundane lives of various other residents. - Cujo
Next we see some of the hardships of mundane Aran life: making a field on the barren rocks using seaweed and soil scraped out of rock crevices, fixing holes in the boat with a mixture of cloth and tar, rendering the liver of the giant basking shark. - Man of Aran
During this time Rand's physician, dr Allenby (Richard Dysart), becomes increasingly suspicious of Chance, and seems to be able to see what everyone else cannot that Chance is not a wise political expert and that the mystery of his identity may have a more mundane explanation. - Being There
However, when Casaubon's girlfriend Lia asks to see the coded manuscript, she comes up with a mundane interpretation. - Foucault's Pendulum
Aristide chooses the surname Saccard and Eugene gets him a seemingly mundane job at the city planning permission office. - La Curée
Ada cares little for the mundane world, occupying herself for hours every day with the piano. - The Piano
However, there are many mundane chores and duties that prevent Niggle from giving his work the attention it deserves, so it remains incomplete and is not fully realised. - Leaf by Niggle

Example sentences for "mundane" in interesting articles

And i agree that there’s an element of truth to this… For the most part what is sold as outsourcing is either creative time management or the mundane parts of development. - Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India
Machines have a big advantage over humans – they can perform mundane jobs with high efficiency, once taught something their skills are transferable from one machine to another, they don’t complain and they can work throughout the day. - The Story of Engineering Education in India
He knew nothing else about them: not their names, not their thoughts, not the thousand mundane and profound details of their lives. He was told that they were carrying rifles on their shoulders, but for all he knew, they were shepherd’s staffs. - Confessions of a Drone Warrior
If they are losing their data that way then they are just stupid. The NSA would not need to do something so mundane to get into your systems they have very intelligent people working for them that has much easier ways to break into your systems. staff office LINUX ri0t I LOLed hard.Windows 7 can “be operated safely until 2020.” An update can easily modify Windows 7 to have all the evil stuffs that Windows 8 has.During this process, copies of all keys can be made Yeah sure, it can be made. - German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 Links The NSA
Arabs believe that the most mundane details about them are somehow transmitted to the Mossad via a secret hotline.This explains why a U.S. - Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)
Sim later offered a more mundane reason: insufficient funding. - Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (2012)
They continued chanting for the master till long after he'd walked back into the dressing room, reluctant to break the magical spell and return to mundane reality. - Sachin Tendulkar leaves India in tears
As technologists, the more technology we deploy, the less mundane jobs there are in the world. - Programming is the new High School Diploma
When instead of Narnia, our portable classroom landed in relatively mundane St. - My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists (2011)
As the writer Douglas Rushkoff puts it: Program or be Programmed [3]. Be it in the City where computer feats from the mundane (in Microsoft Excel) to the magnificent (in custom written programs) are the foundation for modern banking, or be it in any other job where real computer literacy is needed (how many times have you or your family had trouble 'programming'---in the sense of making the most of---one of your devices?) We live in a world where understanding computers means we can maximize their use, not be mere users of someone else's tools. The future benefits are huge. - UK government response to my letter about programming in schools
This sort of interaction felt like the more mundane parts of office hours for a university class, but I still tried my best to be helpful. Career counseling – In particular, several students asked me about the tradeoffs of pursuing a Ph.D. - Hacker School Residency
It has good abstraction and allows you to express your ideas concisely without having to deal with the mundane details. - How high school students start thinking about code
I don’t think that everyone should be a professional programmer, but they should be proficient enough to automate mundane tasks. For instance, someone could automate tasks in ms Excel (vbscript), or learn some scripting to read a file and filter it for info. - Teach Hacking in High Schools
But ultimately Zuckerberg decided he wanted the team to focus on building software, rather than mundane tasks like hunting for office space. "This is personal for us." Sego sees the connection between the core of Facebook and PLP this way. - Inside Facebook's plan to build a better school
So if I said: "What are you up to?", the answer would be an attempt at sexiness, like: "Ooh, I'm all alone ;);)" and so forth.Yet the service seems to strive to be somewhat unsexy, almost mundane - like real life. - Fake girlfriend, revisited
The smartphone revolution delivered a camera small enough to fit in a pocket, documenting the most mundane minutiae of our lives. - The photographers who refuse to abandon traditional film cameras
So the fires had died down, thanks to the city's intrepid peace committees - and the mundane fact that Hindu businesses couldn't survive without their Muslim workers or suppliers. - How the 1993 blasts changed Mumbai forever

Meaning of "mundane" in English

belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
Example
- so terrene a being as himself
found in the ordinary course of events
Examples
- it was a routine day
- there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
concerned with the world or worldly matters
Example
- he developed an immense terrestrial practicality

Meaning of "mundane" in Hindi

संसारी ( Sansari, sansaaree)
दुनियावी ( Duniyavi, duniyaavee, duniyawi)
सांसारिक ( Sansarik, saansaarik)
लौकिक ( Laukik)
साधारण ( Sadharan, saadhaaran)

Synonyms of "mundane"

quotidian
everyday
terrestrial
unremarkable
terrene
workaday
routine

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