Sentence examples for common and ordinary from inspiring English sources

Why was he making it all so common and ordinary?

First, the rich shoppers will abandon the retailer if they perceive the goods as becoming common and ordinary.

Few people would deny the need to explain unusual phenomena (e.g., flying hippos), but fewer would demand an explanation for what is common and ordinary (e.g., time), and it is precisely here where the task of the philosopher begins, first in making us de-familiarize ourselves with, and question the nature of, the ordinary, and then in attempting to explain it.

Hadn't he earned slightly better treatment than that?" 3. On the other hand, the accuser is so common and ordinary!

The artist has even created a term for this is, Baloneyism, referencing the aesthetics of suburban dysfunction as well as the ability to transform the common and ordinary into "a strange glamour and ridiculous beauty".

And that was no aberration but rather a perfectly normal--indeed, a common and ordinary--event in a labor market built on what economists call the "tournament model".

But while the Democratic establishment was being led down Wall Street like a bull by the nose, Warren was sticking up for common sense and ordinary consumers.

The trouble with this approach is that once we have admitted that there are some absolute moral facts, it is hard to see why we shouldn't think that there are many — as many as common sense and ordinary reasoning appear to warrant.

As we shall see in §7.1, many eliminativists and permissivists take their views to be entirely compatible with common sense and ordinary belief.

His strangely smooth yet vividly fragmented paint surface was a slap in the face of academic finish, just as his emphasis on common, contemporary subjects and ordinary people, evident in his early masterpiece, "Funeral at Ornans," disdained the aloof erudition of history painting.

"Indeed," he wrote, "it is as likely to take place as are most future events that common-sense inference and ordinary knowledge of human nature tell us will happen".