She explained that hers was no ordinary home, just as this would be, for me, no ordinary opportunity.
This male obsession with sex is sometimes effectively channelled to narrative ends but it never really reaches the density of, say, Nobokov's Lolita, partly because it sounds too much like the obsession of Anglophone Indians from professional classes, an obsession that is defined, even in its absence, by the paucity of ordinary sexual opportunities available to that particular class in India.
Mr Blair, no tearer-down, tries to convey the missing sense of mission by dressing his ordinary policies ("opportunity for all" was John Major's slogan too) in extraordinary effusions of personal passion, but this trick is wearing thin.
The composition of the top 1% is constantly changing as CEOs lose their jobs and young go-getters outpace their elders.Mr Naím celebrates the anti-power revolution for holding the mighty to account and providing ordinary people with opportunities.
She argued that the tendency to centralize and professionalize management throughout the 20th century had deprived ordinary people of opportunities to learn from experience, and thus our capacity to address collective action problems had weakened.
It has also given ordinary people new opportunities for self-expression; not only can 140 characters in Chinese express more than in a western language, but Weibo has pioneered the inclusion of video and photographic images.
It gives ordinary Egyptians the opportunity to return to normal life.
While Arab political leaders may sense opportunity, ordinary people seem more despairing.
One of Britain's leading sporting activists has called on the International Olympic Committee to give ordinary fans the opportunity to see superstars such as Usain Bolt at affordable prices.
This anniversary of Mao's birth is the first significant one in the age of online social media, which despite attempts at censorship have given ordinary Chinese unprecedented opportunity to engage in public debate.
