| What Emma initiates and so much subsequent fiction follows in whole or in sections is the novel of dailiness. |
| There is something uninspiring about the compromises and the dailiness of a happy marriage, and something compelling about one that is coming apart: it looks more like the due fate of all things. |
| People are closely attended to and swiftly evoked amid the engrossing particulars of life — clothes, households, parents, children, dailiness of all kinds. |
| She has an incongruous, almost Mediterranean easiness and dailiness.... Her capacity for enjoyment is movingly large. |
| But then again, Walker can hit a bull's-eye, piercing the surreal heart of dailiness amid devastation. |
| The dailiness, even hourliness, of social media makes it a perfect vehicle for documenting each thump of the wrecking ball, each crunch of the backhoe. |
