Sentence examples for ordinary name from inspiring English sources

And woe to the biographer whose subject has an ordinary name.

She gives him an ordinary name (not specified) for public purposes but to herself calls him by the pet name of "Christ," meaning Messiah in Greek.

He teasingly responds: "So you want an ordinary name, but you want to do something different from everyone else in art.

Morrissey once told an interviewer that he chose to call his band the Smiths "because it was the most ordinary name".

"You're doing this really unusual thing but you've picked a really ordinary name," said one colleague, as though by doing something different we are obliged to go the whole hog and call ourselves Rob and Franki Thundercats.

He gently pours it over the vegetables, and before your eyes the dish comes to life: so fragrant, limpid and beautiful that it hardly deserves such an ordinary name.

The extension to connector names is natural and seamless, since they are handled in full analogy with ordinary names.

It is certain, however, that it was known as an inn, tavern, or ordinary, names not always interchangeable.

Thus, ordinary names must be concealed descriptions and cannot be the means of directly referring to the particular things in the world.

This idea had indeed been considerably developed by Russell, who held that ordinary names are logically very much like definite descriptions.

But Russell argues, on the contrary, that ordinary names are really concealed definite descriptions (Aristotle may simply mean "The student of Plato who taught Alexander, wrote the Metaphysics, etc").