Sentence examples for ordinary causes from inspiring English sources

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Her fiction sets out to track down its strange yet ordinary causes.

She saw her writing as a series of "experiments in life", and wished, she wrote, "to trace the gradual action of ordinary causes rather than exceptional".

Fearing an unnecessary slaughter, Zhou had taken a leave from his job and hurried to Liaoning, where he found that waterfowl and migrating cranes were dying from more ordinary causes — hunting, poisoning, netting.

My next discovery was the wonderful pattern of interlinked metaphors (the web, the makeup of the eye) that hold the novel together as tightly as a poem, while chance and surprise work in the plotting, despite Eliot wanting to observe "the gradual action of ordinary causes rather than exceptional".

Your fear, sadness, grief and/or anger may not be fair, ie: if events were: accident/coincidental (ordinary causes and effects), natural (animal, weather, geological) human good or poor/bad choices, and not actually/necessarily supernatural "acts of God".

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Just as bereavement has an ordinary cause (death), so hoarding may be the product of unremarkable circumstances notably modern medicine, which allows us to live longer.

Just as bereavement has an ordinary cause (death), so hoarding may be the product of unremarkable circumstances — notably modern medicine, which allows us to live longer.

"Death in Love" burrows so deeply into the unconscious minds of its depressed New Yorkers that the movie seems to be mumbling to itself in a dream state, driven more by hazy Freudian logic than ordinary cause and effect.

That, more than any particular policy or analysis, is what's called upon right now, I think -- what a friend of mine, the writer Marilyn Robinson, calls "that reservoir of goodness, beyond, and of another kind, that we are able to do each other in the ordinary cause of things".

But then again, Peers isn't your typical advocacy group - and the "sharing economy" is no ordinary cause.

The subhazard ratios were similar to the HRs from the ordinary Cox regression, which suggests no major effect of competing risk, although it must also be emphasized that subhazard ratios are not directly comparable with ordinary cause-specific HRs (56).

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