How To Use Ordinariness In A Sentence
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But its ordinariness and even boringness only make me like it more; ordinary places where extraordinary events have occurred are my favorite kind.
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The ordinariness of a professional writer is rendered extraordinary by the strict discipline of a word culture that engulfs her or him, without and within.
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The pair played a brother and sister marooned in the wastes of suburban ordinariness.
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It's about the innocent ordinariness of the victims.
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The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis.
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Forster, who has always written fiction with the consummate skills of a social historian, says that diaries often explode the concept of ‘ordinariness’.
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There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life.
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Thus it is always with those in the high places, ever temporising with their natural desires, ever masking their ordinariness under a show of disinterest.
CHAPTER XVI
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He enjoyed painting people for their ordinariness.
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Painting should take 'painting' as the premise on the principle of "the few prevailing against the many", "expressing extraordinariness from commonness" and "the real concealed in the virtual".
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Ela Bhatt, Indian leader and passionate advocate for women, says: Peace is about the ordinariness of life, how we understand each other, share meals, and share courtyards.
Katherine Marshall: Hallelujah! The Nobel Prize Committee Blesses Feisty, Spiritual Women
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There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life.
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But I was not tuned in to the ordinariness of the people who listened to my idealistic preaching.
Christianity Today
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What Ker discovers instead is a common concern for the ‘sheer ordinariness’ of Catholic Christianity, the everyday ‘matter-of-factness’ of its sacraments and sacramentals.
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That great sprinkling of stardust over a plausibly assumed ‘ordinariness’ with which we identify is what chemistry is all about.
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So this stone was monumental in its very ordinariness.
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Mr Pearce was rather bowled over by his niceness, his concern and his ordinariness.
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The strangeness that increasingly unsettles the reader does not appear to bother the characters, who act with an exaggerated ordinariness that comes to resemble insanity.
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With its deep focus and crystal clarity, the movie has a hyperreal ordinariness, with a still-photography aesthetic.
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Eventually, ordinariness takes over everything.
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It is the very ordinariness of his life (and the tragedy of his death) that has given his story the power to overthrow dictators.
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The overall impression was one of ordinariness, a lack of personal charisma.
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Lincoln was to become a hero in the myth that grew out of the times - a most unlikely result to many of his contemporaries who could see only his ordinariness and typicality.
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He searched for something deserving of the word “bestowed,” something so rare as to horrify the clerics of ordinariness.
The Goldsmith's Anniversary
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Of course, being daggy, she declares with triumph, is all about 'relishing the ordinariness'.
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There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life.
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Yet it is that ordinariness, oddly enough, that makes the stories resonate.
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The family in question is really quite ordinary, nothing special, but it's exactly that ordinariness that makes the film warm and comforting.
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That great sprinkling of stardust over a plausibly assumed 'ordinariness' with which we identify is what chemistry is all about.
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It is the sheer ordinariness, the lack of histrionics that makes it so engrossing.
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