Sentence examples for all too ordinary from inspiring English sources

The phrase "all too ordinary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is excessively common or unremarkable, often with a negative connotation.
Example: "The movie was all too ordinary, failing to capture the audience's interest with its predictable plot."
Alternatives: "excessively mundane" or "remarkably unexceptional".

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Myra is most compelling as an all too ordinary woman trying to escape an inheritance of violence and poverty.

"Half of a Yellow Sun" takes us inside ordinary lives laid waste by the all too ordinary unraveling of nation states.

Dog bites man isn't news because it's all too ordinary.

Suicides are in danger of becoming all too ordinary as well.(Photo credit: AFP).

But with irregular work, Hitchcock's stuff has seemed all too ordinary.

It is also a deeply strange story about a strange man whose insecurities were all too ordinary and explicable.

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Or we confer arbitrary celebrity on a dozen all-too-ordinary people, lock them in a house, throw the domestic trials of Hercules at them, then watch to see if they live up to our expectations.

Mr. Pekar (pronounced PEE-kar), who toiled for nearly 40 years as a file clerk in a Veterans Administration hospital, applied the brutally frank autobiographical style of Henry Miller to the comic-book format, creating a distinctive series of dispatches from an all-too-ordinary life.

The unleashed potential for easygoing virtuosity and casual expressivity is realized, long before the terrors and the chills, in tense scenes of Sawyer's daily life in and around her office (including a scene of all-too-ordinary creepiness, in which her boss, a middle-aged man, tries to lure her to take a business trip with him).

His recordings, reflections, observations, writings on the human species, his gift to us all-too-ordinary and fearful men.

I've come to realize that our love is truly built in the simple, sweet moments that sometimes seem too ordinary to really be anything at all.

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