Sentence examples for ordinary figure from inspiring English sources

Mark Z. Danielewski, "House of Leaves" It is surprising that Mark Z.'s rabbit deviates so dramatically from an ordinary figure?

A stiff, grey man of 56 in a sombre suit who speaks softly and smiles awkwardly through imperfect teeth, he cuts a desperately ordinary figure.

Alice would have greater resonance if she were introduced as a more ordinary figure, especially since the play is essentially an old-fashioned melodrama of a woman struggling to forget her past.

All these images inhabit an imaginative world in which an ordinary figure is put into a context where it is clear that some sort of extra meaning attaches to him - but there is no clear way of saying what that extra is.

He's a kind of an oddball but otherwise ordinary figure, who just because of where he was that morning, found himself — 100 years before [Andy] Warhol's 15 minutes of fame thing — famous for a single act.

Peter Repentant" (1645), which both center on more ordinary figures, as real as Hals's Roosterman but a lot less cheerful.

Ordinary human figures have mouths of more modest proportions, the corners of which are either straight or turned down, while the ordinary figurative cat mouth has both upper and lower canines.

Sun Yat-sen, too, is no ordinary historical figure to the Chinese.

His opponent is, by any detached observation, a well-qualified and thoroughly ordinary political figure, with a common and unremarkable package of strengths and weaknesses.

According to Maclachlan, for instance, seeing involves direct awareness of sensations of patterns of light, while surfaces and ordinary objects figure only indirectly and thanks to inference among the intentional objects of sight.

The story of Queen Esther is a good example of an "ordinary" biblical figure performing a miracle.