Sentence examples for ordinary passage from inspiring English sources

In other words, our pleasure in beauty in a sense lifts us out of the ordinary passage of time.

The best showcases for these comparisons aren't necessarily the poem's "big moments" but smaller, more ordinary passages, such as the one I've chosen below, lines 795-800 from Book 13.

Ordinary rites of passage, like going to a dance or sampling a margarita, turn into intrigue and scandal where First Daughters are concerned.

Private and public colleges alike have begun offering a wide range of services and activities intended to help students negotiate what used to be considered the ordinary rites of passage: homesickness, sophomore existential angst, romantic relationships.

• Yes, I know: it sounds like a perfectly ordinary exchange after the passage of a piece of legislation.

Helped by a mineral-resources boom over the past decade, even the passage of ordinary legislation nowadays often requires payouts.The latest Supreme Court decision is particularly dangerous because parliament was dissolved last week.

For the ordinary Shakespeare buff, this passage might elicit vicarious compassion, but for a few dozen young men who witnessed it on a recent afternoon, it had a more direct effect: they blinked in recognition and sat up in their chairs.

What we all lead are ordinary lives with extraordinary passages.

After all, he managed to remember long passages about ordinary people he had met around the country, but not two of the issues ordinary people tell pollsters they care about the most.

Virtually all Christian traditions hold that the Bible condemns ordinary drunkenness in many passages, and Easton's Bible Dictionary says, "The sin of drunkenness... must have been not uncommon in the olden times, for it is mentioned either metaphorically or literally more than seventy times in the Bible".

No matter: with the United Nations' economic embargo now in its eighth year, with the government and the UN gearing up for yet another row over weapons inspections, and with international efforts to ease the plight of ordinary Iraqis getting nowhere, the passage of time seems pretty meaningless in Iraq.