Sentence examples for of being ordinary from inspiring English sources

Born with several genetic abnormalities, 10-year-old August Pullman, called Auggie, dreams of being "ordinary".

Later, the teenagers I watched made a virtue of being ordinary.

Happily she soon realised she "wasn't very good" at this, managing only "three months, maybe" of being ordinary.

Like Tesco – for whose efficiency Nadir expresses great admiration – 99p Stores does not try to make the shopper feel special; instead, it takes the anxiety out of being ordinary.

It was a self-reflexive, self-congratulatory milieu in which art was all, sex was the coin of the realm and the only real transgression was the unpardonable sin of being ordinary.

I was relieved the commission recognised how fractured current systems were and that a socially progressive policy might allay the lifetime burden on informal carers and genuinely help those with disabilities realise their dreams of being ordinary citizens.

When she was very young, she says, she rejected the idea of love being ordinary.

There's plenty of time to be ordinary.

The most common kind of syncope is ordinary fainting.

The most important function of parliament is ordinary legislation.

All of this was ordinary for middle-class blacks in that time and place.