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.
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.
The annual summer gathering runs from the middle of July until early September, bringing over 250,000 visitors to this otherwise sleepy, mountain-ringed city, all of them so hungry for its cultural offerings that they will pay up to €400 ($508) for an ordinary ticket.These figures suggest that the festival is in good shape, but the truth is more complex.
The second type arises between the dichotomous ordinary filaments (Figures 8B, 9B).
Sun Yat-sen, too, is no ordinary historical figure to the Chinese.
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.
Without ever doing anything but just working at ordinary jobs, figuring out that there was something more than that.
The story of Queen Esther is a good example of an "ordinary" biblical figure performing a miracle.
He creates the same impression that would have been made by an ordinary seated figure, preserving an appearance of normality without disguising Seneb's unusual physique.
