Sentence examples for ordinary nothing from inspiring English sources

"Do we perhaps need so much energy and effort for ordinary and common things," Novalis wrote in his Miscellaneous Observations, "because for an authentic human being nothing is more out of the ordinary – nothing more uncommon than wretched ordinariness".

So it was nothing out of the ordinary — nothing too crazy, as Santana would say — when he, after pitching out of early trouble, retired 10 consecutive hitters until Scott Hairston led off the sixth with a double.

It was consistent with this popular view of the emptiness of the lives of the rich to make Susan Alexander a cartoon character; the movie reduces Hearst's love affair to an infatuation for a silly, ordinary nothing of a girl, as if everything in his life were synthetic, his passion vacuous, and the object of it a cipher.

But there are also dishes you cook once, and which, in their way, have gone reasonably well - several small routine disasters in the preparation, but nothing out of the ordinary, nothing to prevent you seeing what, in a perfect world, they might taste like.

This feeling I had after we talked was nothing out of the ordinary, nothing revelatory, nothing thousands of fans have not felt before.

She loves chocolate and that whole thing, but nothing really out of the ordinary, nothing like pickles and icing, nothing weird".

I swear I would pay an annual membership fee to shop in a 3,600-square-foot 3,600-square-foot 3,600-square-footable variety of everyday, ordinary, nothingroceryian-about-them groceriestore

The setting is ordinary, but nothing else is.

He contrasted the regulators with Mahmood Karzai and Mr. Fahim, describing both men as ordinary borrowers, nothing more.

They are slight men with ordinary faces, nothing imposing, the kind one might see at any bus stop or tea stall.

After September 11th, when almost every corporation became architecture-phobic, the Times would have had an easy excuse to fold up its glass tent, send Piano back home to Genoa, and build something ordinary, or nothing at all.