I love the mundanities of Hangzhou, this majestic land, and the maids by the river of Huansha Road.

我喜欢杭州的俗事，这一个辉煌的土地，和浣纱路河旁边洗衣的女子。

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You were not caught up in the mundanities of the place you inhabited, any more than you wanted to be.

ECONOMIST: Being foreign

It is just possible to justify the disparity between Ms Blanchett's exquisite intelligence and Robyn Nevin's mediocre production since Ibsen's pioneering (and crazy) housewife is meant to be too good for the middle-class mundanities into which she married.

ECONOMIST: Captivating as Hedda Gabler