Sentence examples for ordinary scenes from inspiring English sources

It's why he quit painting mythological scenes of great meaning and began writing ordinary scenes of great beauty.

The filmmakers easily sweep the girls out of their woodland digs, but they stumble with some of the more ordinary scenes.

Instead, he has found a series of quiet, even ordinary, scenes that add up to a layered portrait of a complicated place.

Instead, explanatory notes were added beneath the color photos by André Zucca as a way of putting such ordinary scenes into their extraordinary context.

— The ordinary scenes of Habitat for Humanity — volunteers with saws and hammers creating homes from scratch on empty dirt — are being upended here.

His subject is the ridiculous, not the monstrous, as with the writer of burlesque; and the nature he is to imitate is human nature, as viewed in the ordinary scenes of civilized society.

Across town, in Abu Chir, residents looking at another ordinary scene echoed Mr. Massoum.

The public is surprised, but prior to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence.

An ordinary scene is made extraordinary by perfectly natural light, and the worker is singled out as much by that light as by the camera.

What Mr. Shearer likes to do in some of the pictures taken in France is to insert bits of hot color in an otherwise ordinary scene.

It was, in other words, a perfectly ordinary scene in a small-town library — except that everyone was holding the same slim volume, "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick.