Sentence examples for lack of ordinary from inspiring English sources

Forced into making hip statements, the clothes suffered from a lack of ordinary élan.

"There is certainly a remoteness, a lack of ordinary compassion in her dealings with characters", wrote Frank Kermode, much earlier in Spark's career.

Although Franzen had remarked upon the lack of "ordinary love" in Wallace's fiction, Lorentzen writes, "The paradox was that Wallace's readers felt loved when they read his books, and in turn came to fiercely love their author".

(This year, an unusually high turnout is expected, but high, by our standards, would be more than sixty per cent. And if four out of ten of the nation's eligible voters fail to turn up at the polls it won't be for lack of ordinary courage).

In several works published during the 1860s, Graham observed that low diffusivity, the absence of crystallinity, and the lack of ordinary chemical relations were some of the most salient characteristics of colloids and that they resulted from the large size of the constituent particles.

This is because modeling or predicting climate change impact on predominantly subsistent farmers at global level is a very difficult task due to the lack of ordinary descriptions, lack or difficulty to get benchmark data, unique location, and the households' ability to integrate on-farm and off-farm activities, and lastly the farmers' susceptibility to a range of stressors (IPCC 2007b).

Here are some of her recommendations for reaching that emotional nirvana: Recognize that superstardom often carries the baggage of lapsed ethics, alienated spouses or children, substance abuse and a lack of plain ordinary fun.

Above all, its lack of the ordinary half-tints and protective shadings of adjectives and semicolons — the Jamesian fog of implication — lends itself to generalizations, sometimes profound, often idiosyncratic, always startling.

And its lack of an ordinary turtle-style shell (instead it has a leathery, flexible carapace not attached to its ribs and spinal column) probably represents another adaptation to deep water, where pressures would crack a rigid shell.

The success of this full-length novel rests on its tripartite structure: each section is "short novel size, with counterpoint, motifs, and allusions making up for the lack of more ordinary means of continuity".

Lila illustrates what Robinson described in Home as humanity's "odd capacity for destitution," "as if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life.