When we are experiencing it, loss often feels like an anomaly, a disruption in the usual order of things.
She said she ate there up to three times a week for several years, having her usual order of a hot dog, fries and a Diet Coke.
— The new kids on the block are not a boy band here, but a threat to the usual order of things at Wimbledon.
So I got my visa, and I learned that, in a reversal of the usual order of things, American bureaucracy can sometimes spark British commercial ingenuity.
Quite a contrast to the usual order of business in software (or just about any other professional service), where asking for references will get you testimonials from a very select list of happy customers.
The early crowd at the Hollywood Diner ("Where the customer is the star") was unmoved by Buffett, a fixture with his usual order of chicken-fried steak with extra mashed potatoes.
Meyers has clearly flourished, while Shyer has stalled; it's as though, in an inversion of the usual order of things, Meyers inherited the family franchise while Shyer got a new wife.
Activists sell "Take Back Oak Lawn" T-shirts with a logo of a rainbow-coloured clenched fist, the usual order of the hues inverted to signify distress.
The usual order of a food chain is: sunlight.
An influx of feelgood stories and images are proliferating across social media, almost like an antidotal injection against the usual order of viral anger and sadness.
Nor is this interesting initiative a cunning ruse to pre-empt the professionals, or to throw them into a paralysing state of confusion by reversing the usual order of things.
