Sentence examples for acts of ordinary from inspiring English sources

As the Life photo essay shows, history is also made through the daily, unheralded acts of ordinary people.

Their hold on power is mitigated sometimes by their own clumsiness but more often by unheralded, stubborn acts of ordinary decency.

Each of us will remember and keep with us Alice's generous spirit, her sheer good will and the pleasure she took in acts of ordinary kindness.

But art is also expensive, even more so in an increasingly deranged commercial art world, and the combination of money and symbolism means that attacking art will make headlines unlike other acts of ordinary vandalism.

In every village, town and city in the world, every minute of each day, there are millions of acts of ordinary co-operation, courtesy and kindness, and they constitute the majority of human interactions.

Therefore, if judges are persuaded, as they sometimes are, either not to punish a disobedient or to punish her differently from other people who breach the same laws, it must be on the basis of some feature or features of her action which distinguish it from the acts of ordinary offenders.

Respondents' lengthy and tortured efforts to recharacterize the decision below as a modest, hardly noticeable, garden-variety act of ordinary statutory interpretation fail to withstand the mildest scrutiny.

Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov murdered an innocent old woman to test his theories that superior human beings can act free of ordinary moral constraints.

Nicușor Dan, the party's leader, said it would act on behalf of ordinary people.

'YOU CAN COUNT ON Moviesvies like this -- beautifully written, scrupulously acted, solid stories of ordinary life -- should be staples of our filmgoing diet.

The diaries record the full range of human responses to circumstances of great duress, including acts of kindness by ordinary Germans that make Klemperer reject the view, common among his friends, that the entire country and culture is anti-Semitic.