Sentence examples for contemporary ordinary from inspiring English sources
The first feature written and directed by Shana Feste, this study of a family's emotional devastation after the death of a perfect teenage son, whom everyone remembers as "the greatest" (awful title!), wants to be a contemporary "Ordinary People".
Yet it is Maggie, sexy and glamorous in her strapless 60's gown, whose cynicism about marriage can send a chill of recognition through the audience today, while the contemporary, ordinary couples in "We Don't Live Here Anymore" -- two college teachers and their wives, who crisscross spouses in affairs -- exist in such a vague recent past that they might as well live in outer space.
However, "Love & Monsters" follows a contemporary ordinary man named Elton Pope (Marc Warren) who becomes obsessed with a man called the Doctor and his strange blue box, and joins a group of like-minded people in hopes of finding him.
Has the line between contemporary photography and ordinary snapshots become that blurry?
Contemporary writers give ordinary people more credit for knowing the difference between real life and playacting.
Great translations age, while great novels merely mature, and it would be valuable to have even an ordinary contemporary English version of Tolstoy's book.
And "unless otherwise defined, words will be interpreted as taking their ordinary, contemporary common meaning". Perrin v. United States, 444 U.S. 37, 42, 100 S.Ct.
A fundamental canon of statutory construction is that, unless otherwise defined, words will be interpreted as taking their ordinary, contemporary, common meaning.
Yet Green applies these highly refined artifices to situations and settings that are ordinary, contemporary, even documentary-based, and their effect is critical, even comedic.
North Korean authorities have been pushing a media focus on contemporary improvements to ordinary lives since Kim Jong-Un came to power in late 2011.
Hill's work was steeped in history (and occasionally myth), unashamed of intellectual and scholarly breadth; Movement poetry was cautious, rooted in a defiantly ordinary contemporary English postwar vision, scornful of "pretension".
