Sentence examples for In ordinary terms from inspiring English sources

In ordinary terms, morality may be less what you do so much as why you do it: are your motives or intentions "good," regardless of the actual outcome?

The refusal to be understood in ordinary terms also extends to Beuys's life.

The fact that the speed of light is the same for all observers is inexplicable in ordinary terms.

"A lot" doesn't even convey it, because people will think in ordinary terms of "a lot," which is misleading.

Then we found it right in front of us, living life in ordinary terms on islands of public space, all in the shadows of the financial dark lords vacuum-wrapped in their reflective glass.

This feature for independents Falling Tree – who rightly won a best news feature Sony gold award this week for Child of Ardoyne – was a goosebumpy wonder, all layers of sound-texture, mesmerising voices and a lyrical narration by Malinovski as he described the town in ordinary terms elevated into something hypnotic by the key word: "For a traveller, there's nowhere to sleep in Poetry".

Polite, sensible, modest and still only 24, she defines herself in militantly ordinary terms.

That being "shared" has become a rather technical notion should be apparent, since in more ordinary terms you and I may both share a reason, that doing X would be pleasant say, where each of our reasons provides no corresponding reasons for the other.

Directed with personality-free proficiency by the Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig, and produced by the computer-generated explosion factory commonly known as Jerry Bruckheimer Films, "12 Strong" recounts an extraordinary military mission in predictably, even reassuringly, ordinary terms.

In Fabrizio she has also created a complex and wholly credible character; it is a necessary part of her success in the novel that she should begin by making us care about him and wonder about his fate in ordinary realistic terms.

If we think in ordinary causal terms, it is straightforward to note that a genetic cause will only have its normal effects if accompanied by suitable environmental conditions, and an environmental cause will only have its normal effect if accompanied by suitable genetic conditions.