Sentence examples for modern ordinary from inspiring English sources

In his sequel, the only character who survives from Fleming's novel is the car itself; rather than the eccentric Caractacus Pott, his wife Mimsie and their children Jeremy and Jemima, Cottrell Boyce has created the Tootings, a modern, ordinary and very recognisable family: harried Dad, sensible Mum, grumpy Lucy, practical Jem and the baby, Little Harry.

"I'm not perversely attached to ruins," she said, but they are often sites of contested memories, especially if they are surrounded by modern or ordinary things.

At Bologna the term "college" long had a meaning different from the ordinary modern one.

A time-traveller from 1973, on the other hand, would find a modern kitchen fairly ordinary.

Ordinary modern architecture, scorned even by its creators, was about making things quick and cheap.

Druids are robed in cottas and pointy capirotes, soutanes or ordinary modern suits.

The main entrance to the hotel is through a blessedly ordinary modern base of clear glass on Forty-third Street.

In 1988 he returned to the cinema with High Hopes, which sheds light on social distinctions among ordinary modern Britons.

My rule is to follow what I consider ordinary modern standards of good taste — which occasionaly has gotten me into trouble.

Bringing supernatural events into ordinary modern life – in this case, Oswestry in 1979 – isn't an easy business for a novelist.

WITH half her adult life spent either in exile or in prison, Benazir Bhutto might have lived like a medieval princess, but she died like an ordinary, modern Pakistani.