In addition to all of those well-being benefits, Writer William Arthur Ward said, "Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings".
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.
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.
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.
You need to get out – preferably, to some place that elects Democrats and therefore still has the well-funded infrastructure that gives ordinary people an opportunity to better themselves.
In Squire Romolee's feast, Sarah Josepha Hale gave mythic meaning to an essentially domestic festival, offering ordinary Americans an opportunity to join their own stories to the national story through feasting and sharing.
She worked at the BBC as a television producer, first in the access unit which gave "ordinary" people the opportunity to make programmes, and then on Open University programming.
