Sentence examples for an ordinary experience from inspiring English sources
Like the runners at Tate Britain, the idea is lightly put across: an ordinary experience made surprising.
When a subject makes a claim on the basis of an ordinary experience, it might fall into any one of these three categories, depending on the claim's content and the epistemic situation of the hearer.
Welcome to the effects of tear-gas, which for Athenians has become an ordinary experience.
After all, ordinary experience establishes that each of us is often alone.
"The tacit undercurrent of her argument, as I felt it, was that Gallop's maternity had rotted her mind — besotted it with a narcissism that makes one think that an utterly ordinary experience shared by countless others is somehow unique, or uniquely interesting".
Induction may come from ordinary experience, experiment, or the inspections of the field naturalist.
In an extraordinary setting, it delivers a very ordinary experience, and diners, once they get over the first flush of excitement at sitting down to eat beneath the great domed zodiac, will find themselves staring at food so undistinguished it nearly disappears on the plate.
Some of the doctor contacts described regret at having responded to hearing experiences described by a doctor friend in terms of symptoms rather than an example of a range of ordinary experience.
Klein summarises this allure: The moment of taking a cigarette allows one to open a parenthesis in the time of ordinary experience, a space and a time of heightened attention that give rise to a feeling of transcendence, evoked through the ritual of fire, smoke, cinder connecting hand, lungs, breath and mouth.
After all the warnings, I was a little surprised to find Sunday Mass at Holy Family an almost entirely ordinary experience.
I wrote here yesterday about Mel Brooks's recollections of his New York childhood; in "David Holzman's Diary," McBride gives the streets an inner life, turns ordinary experience into a treasure trove of loss that empties out faster than it fills.
