Furthermore, it is important to note that functional fixedness can be easily expressed in commonplace situations.

It has become a commonplace situation: a corporation threatens to move its headquarters out of New York City.

It's a commonplace today to lament the funding situation of the arts.

The question is embodied in a commonplace situation almost all of us confront from time to time.

It was a commonplace situation, familiar to every householder.

In the most commonplace situations, he locates great drama.

The play casts an uncommon glow on a commonplace situation.

"It's a kind of commonplace situation that most people have become familiar with."

"This is a logical conclusion of what is already a commonplace situation in the typical house."

But doesn't everybody give himself/herself away in such commonplace situations?