Sentence examples for ordinary character from inspiring English sources

The most ordinary character is Debbie, Eliza's teenage sister, whose native habitat seems to be more San Fernando Valley than Siberia, Serengeti or the many other places the roving family visits.

The reduction, as Merleau-Ponty conceives of it, disrupts our absorption in the world, thereby destroying its "ordinary character".

Neither a coquettish schoolgirl nor a gruff and troubled badass, Heather is a remarkably ordinary character.

For The Times, he "was ideally equipped to make an ordinary character seem extraordinary or an extraordinary one seem ordinary".

He enjoyed the film, having experienced last-minute Christmas shopping himself, and was attracted to playing an "ordinary" character in a family film.

Chabrol only ever cast me as fairly ordinary characters – they just have rather particular destinies".

Dispensing with the typical operatic kings and gods, they featured recognizably ordinary characters experiencing way-larger-than-life emotions.

His intention was to show the audience, in ordinary characters they might see every day, truths about themselves that they half-knew but would not acknowledge.

Rooted in his 1920s Texas boyhood, it is a canny celebration of life, its hopes and disappointments, in scenes that resonate with ordinary characters.

Though Wharton skilfully depicts "ordinary" characters in a powerful novella, "Ethan Frome", her writing on America's working class was never quite as successful commercially as her other fiction.

And so his books are often like elaborate bedtime or campfire stories in which the narrator works through the progressive decisions of ordinary characters but stretches the reader's trust all the time.