This has been reflected in the way perpetrators of war crimes have been depicted in fiction: for the first time characters who perpetrated crimes could be ordinary people and even possess some redeeming features, albeit ordinary people, like Hanna, who committed appalling crimes.
The geek world is currently going gaga over genetic and robotic enhancements to brain and body coming within the reach of ordinary human beings – albeit ordinary humans who rarely need to plead with a high-street bank for an extension to their overdraft facility.
At first it's an eensy bit daunting - speaking with the daughter of a living legend - but it's been my good fortune to converse with J.C. Lee's dad a few times, so I know that behind the magnificent myth there's a mortal man, albeit no ordinary man: Stan the Man! (Yep, that'd be the fellow who developed a shed of huge Marvel characters, and plenty more).
Superheroes step aside in favor of ordinary (albeit highly competent) people equipped with nerve, resourcefulness and impressive but not always reliable technology.
Last month NBC News hired a correspondent straight out of college — albeit not your ordinary 22-year-old — to cover the youth vote.
"In a city where celebrity is taken for granted, one of the hottest tickets in town is for a politician - albeit not your ordinary back-slapping type," wrote the paper's Rick Orlov.
She knows she can survive on her own, she's always earned her own living, she's got her own house and her own car, albeit a rather ordinary and very economic Ford, so what would she want a husband for, exactly?
ICU patient length of stay (and costs) demonstrate skewed distribution and various statistical modelling strategies have been employed in analysis of such data [ 11- 14]; albeit linear regression (ordinary least squares regression, OLS) of the logged dependent variable has demonstrated a remarkable persistence [ 15].
Agni Taverna is an ordinary restaurant, albeit with enchanting views to the mountains of Albania and a friendly black and white cat.
So, going in there, I tried to look at them as ordinary people, albeit with extraordinary talents, and they were magnificent with me.
These so-called "reality" shows are about watching ordinary -- albeit cute-in-a-swimsuit -- people sweat, fret, scream, scheme, eat bugs and diss one another in nastily amazing ways.
