Does this make it "ordinary" or not?
When any event occurs to us, we make it ordinary.
(The fact that police violence against black Americans was, and remains, all too frequent does nothing to make it ordinary).
Not what makes this site special, but what makes it ordinary; not the foundations of what led to the overcoming of slavery, but a sense of its enduring presence.
She takes the miracle of my returning to Ky Hoa and makes it ordinary, which is to say real.
Steve Erickson from Los Angeles magazine gave a detailed positive review of the song: "Nature Boy" is so otherworldly in its melody and lyric that any number of interpretations over the decades, from Nat Cole's to Alex Chilton's, have never been able to make it ordinary.
If you have to decorate a bulletin board, don't make it ordinary, make something that will stand out and will catch someone's eye.
"People have criticised me for making it too ordinary, but this is how it really was," says Franco.
We have to encourage innovation by making it so ordinary that it becomes a part of our core business.
