Sentence examples for ordinarily serious from inspiring English sources

Some of his distinguished seniors and contemporaries (figures such as Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart) were perpetuating in more highly researched and philosophical ways the English moral tradition he favoured; but few university teachers have had so much influence as Hobsbaum on individual students, whether talented or just ordinarily serious about literature.

What is clear is that going for a dip in a chlorinate pool without goggles can leave your eyes puffy and inflamed (though the damage is not ordinarily serious or long-lasting).

Medical experts said a seizure in a brain cancer patient was not unusual and ordinarily had no serious consequences.

This loss of perception of high frequencies interferes with identifying individuals by their voices and with understanding conversation in a group, but does not ordinarily represent a serious limitation to the individual in daily life.

The pathogens in this class usually cause serious human and animal disease and do not ordinarily spread from an infected individual to another.

The philosopher for whom reality consists, first and foremost, of physical objects as ordinarily conceived, may have serious doubts.

These statutes suggest that "severe pain" as used in Section 2340, must rise to a similarly high level, the level that would ordinarily be associated with a sufficiently serious physical condition or injury such as death, organ failure or serious impairment of body functions in order to constitute torture.

Suspension is serious discipline that is ordinarily used only for serious infractions like cheating, or when a student's behavior is disruptive.

Ordinarily, I'm not good at thinking (LOL).

Ordinarily, floods in the Yangtse are less serious than in the Yellow River valley, but the flood this year now threatens to be unusually grave.

Ordinarily, Comstock attacked commercial pornography rather than serious writing, but he sometimes took action against established modern works and the classics on the principle of "morals, not art or literature".