Sentence examples for an ordinary existence from inspiring English sources

Nothing spectacular, just an ordinary existence, but it was comfortable.

In 1989, Kenneth Kimes Jr. is poised on the edge of an ordinary existence, but it slips away when his mother returns from prison.

The work of South African artist Mary Sibande tells the tale of her alter-ego Sophie, a domestic worker who finds refuge in dreams where she emancipates herself from the ghoulish realism of an ordinary existence, cleaning other people's homes.

The film is a full-throttle rifle through the life of a fiercely chaotic figure, a man whose disability was clearly not nearly so terrifying to him as the prospect of an ordinary existence.

It was a middle-class life of a kind," says Prof Saunders, who describes a gifted youngster who - to the outside world at least - enjoyed an ordinary existence.

A close-up portrait of an ordinary existence, Life in Peacetime offers a new look at the postwar era in Italy and the fundamental contradictions of a secure, middle-class life.

Its nothingness is fuller and richer than any ordinary existence.

The Duchess of Cambridge has moved from a comparatively ordinary existence to a prominent role in the Royal Family.

While Gates leads a prominent public life, managing the dispersal of his foundation's vast riches, Ballmer lives an almost ordinary existence.

And sprinkle liberally with some "Reaper" (which hails from the creative team that made "Kevin"), a show in which an audacious premise gets folded into an otherwise mostly ordinary existence.

From the perspective of phenomenology, however, this doubling of the world in representation looks like a mischaracterization of ordinary existence, in which we usually encounter people and trees, e.g., not representations of people and trees.