Sentence examples for mere ordinary from inspiring English sources

As usual when you meet a great diva, it was somehow disappointing to find her a mere ordinary, attractive woman.

This, according to Bruno Giussani, the European director of TED, the annual ideafests in California and Edinburgh, and its online offshoot TED Talks, is one step beyond mere ordinary openness.

Stade is a kind of debauched truth-teller: a comedian who has drunk and smoked so much that it's given him access to a wisdom that is beyond mere ordinary mortals.

While the mere ordinary among us would pay 10%, the extraordinary among us would pay 20%, or 30%, or 40% – a fundamentally unjust tax system.

Thus, reason should endeavor to elevate itself to the level of the Intellect, which is distinguished by a much higher degree of unity than the mere ordinary use of reason is capable of.

That wrist held a mere 23 ordinary plays, 9 red-zone plays (for situations inside an opponent's 20-yard line), 6 goal-line plays, 2 2-point-conversion plays and 5 trick plays.

The exemption would not apply if the secondary transmission consists of anything other than the mere relay of ordinary broadcasts.

There was a time when mere proficiency and ordinary musicality would not distinguish a pianist on the world stage.

Its cavernous grandstand capable of withstanding the weight of 80,000 people has in recent years echoed hollow beneath the feet of mere hundreds on any ordinary race day.

No special exception is needed to make clear that the mere placing of an ordinary radio or television set in a private hotel room does not constitute an infringement.

In Vanni, a region that has been bypassed by time, Mr Prabhakaran commands a Führer's awe rather than the mere respect accorded to ordinary leaders.But Mr Prabhakaran is striking democratic poses.