I'd stepped out of the shell of my workaday life, that construct of wages and bills, credits and debits, and met myself, and Chicago, directly.

Once upon a time, in Paradise, contemplation was uninterrupted by the grimy chores of workaday mortal life.

So often in our normal workaday life we don't have time in the same way to devote to that.

And the family are glad and proud; glad to listen to the explanations and analyses, glad to learn, glad to be lifted to planes above their dreary workaday lives.

People are living longer and are more likely to pursue dream businesses rather than tend to their garden when the workaday lives are done.

Sidewalk cafes were filled on a day of bright sunshine, and workaday life revived along streets and on the bridges that crisscross the walled-in Ljubljanica River.

The same artist, however, clearly maintained his affection for the peasant and for the simple workaday life, as seen in his "Girls in a Field" of the same period.

His head may have been on Parnassus, but his feet were firmly planted in the workaday agrarian life of his native Veneto region.

After all, the performers themselves are often isolated by psychosis, senility or an unusual naïvete that rarely serves them in workaday life.

But the protagonist's deep inner logic skews the proceedings just enough to reveal the surreal lurking within our workaday lives.