Dailiness

The volume contains much of what the editors call the dailiness of women's lives and it is interesting to see what commonalities and differences ancient and modern women share, not only in North Africa, but all over the world as well. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dailiness is the point. "festival via" the ridiculously thorough and prolific musings of film-buff and filmmaker ❋ Unknown (2009)

Too much "dailiness" being peddled around here, I think. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It seems to me, unlike most histories I have read, Conn's work more precisely reflects how history happens to us -- amongst and between our strange dailiness. ❋ Joe Woodward (2011)

Gallant and resourceful in wartime, she is defeated by "dailiness." ❋ Tom Shippey (2012)

And she reveled in the process of making movies—its dailiness, its camaraderie, a shared sense of mission that had been missing in her chaotic youth. ❋ Scott Eyman (2012)

How did we get ourselves into a state where having escaped the dailiness of dread of the Cold War, we are still content to live with the possibility of annihilation? ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)

Mr. Borowiec positioned his camera to peer down a road that zigzags into the distance; the homes on either side are modest but well maintained; the cars are American made, not foreign; telephone wires drape across the frame; a single boy on a bicycle silhouetted against the sidewalk is emblematic of small-town dailiness. ❋ William Meyers (2011)

In most of the post–Cold War period, the so-called “holiday from history” when many succumbed to a historical amnesia about the dailiness of nuclear dread, the term “World War Three” has had a ring of unreality. ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)

Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life, Didion wrote. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

The faces of the sufferers in the street, in dailiness, their lives showing through their bodies ❋ Unknown (2009)

We go always to be gone, apart from ourselves, our endless echoes, the desires of eternity gone the way of everyday where we mine love and stay, dissolve our faces in dailiness— ❋ Jill Chan (2011)