Sentence examples for become ordinary from inspiring English sources

Tensions are always escalating on the peninsula, a state of emergency that has become ordinary, a state of "crisis ordinariness," to borrow a term from Lauren Berlant's new book Cruel Optimism (Duke UP, 2011).

These have become ordinary tales in America.

The violence has just become ordinary".

By the 1960s, the exotic had become ordinary.

With immigration, however, culture has become ordinary in the eyes of our rulers, too.

It has become ordinary and unremarkable, something everybody, without exception, does at one time or another.

But the session quickly became ordinary.

One becomes ordinary and marries; the other's romantic fate is vague but seems to be more patchy.

Keith Watson, Guardian, 2000 "My one feeble reservation is that even such fabulous virtuosity, viewed over 40 minutes, becomes ordinary.

Just as a mighty army becomes useless if its soldiers are scattered helter-skelter, a great mind becomes ordinary the moment its energies are dispersed.

And in today's New York, he said, even money "becomes ordinary, so you have to find a new outlet, a new means for aspiration".