XML can tie together specially defined areas in ordinary Word and Excel documents with big, humming corporate databases.
The company's Web site gets thousands of magnetic poems a year; the majority find inspiration in combining ordinary words to produce sexual innuendo.
This is a play in which ordinary words become unfamiliar, routine actions become pained repetitions and the very act of living seems like the cruel joke of a godless world.
Even while Jane spoke to her mother in the ordinary words that seemed to flow convincingly, as if from her old self, her new self pressed her free palm on the rectangle of thick glass against which, on the other side, Daniel in his blue shirt was also miraculously pressed, oblivious of her touch.
In fact, in this later, plainer work Roth often makes subtle poetry by using ordinary words in unexpected ways, or by mobilizing cliché, but he slips these phrases past us conversationally, almost before we have noticed them.
"I like to see people speaking ordinary words in strange places, or people speaking extraordinary words in ordinary places," Ruhl has said.
That, Google has warned, would be like claiming ownership of ordinary words in a language.
He bleeps ordinary words in clips to make them seem obscene.
He seemed weary, and more than once he stumbled over and mispronounced ordinary words in the lawyer's lexicon — corruption, corporation, allegation.
