Brand will be looking at what makes an icon, why we need heroes in an "age of atheistic disposability", and how they might just be ordinary, flawed individuals after all.
Some people may have trouble understanding how an accomplished world-class athlete could be bothered by what might seem to be ordinary issues or conflicts.
The defense said that such a killing might be an ordinary crime that could be prosecuted in American courts and that it was not a war crime for an enemy to kill a soldier in combat.
No-one can imagine that I might be an ordinary person with a perfect social life and a normal, healthy lifestyle.
Yet, it might be argued, ordinary language allows for the relata to be described in eventive (imperfect nominal), factive (perfect nominal), and other forms (Mackie 1974, Vendler 1984, Bennett 1988).
Yet, it might be argued, ordinary language allows for a range of irreducible causal notions, such as "scrape," "push," "wet," "carry," "eat," etc. (Anscombe 1975, p. 68) Why not take ordinary language at its word, and adopt a form of causal pluralism on which 'cause' is viewed as providing a merely nominal grouping of metaphysically diverse relations?
"He might be an ordinary dishwasher in real life but online he was a big shot," said a woman who goes by the Twitter handle @tsargirl in an interview via online chat.
I went into the show interested in how the directors would handle scenes of what might be called "ordinary" blindness, scenes in which Murdock simply goes about his day as a regular non-superhero.
Embryonic resorptions were detected frequently in the queen, indicating that this might be an ordinary event in this species.
