Wayne Grudem notes that the word formerly meant "the act of sitting down," but that it no longer has that sole meaning in ordinary English usage today.
Delaroche's version, however, sees Napoleon in a fairly ordinary, gray coat with the sole purpose of keeping the cold away, rather than showing him as the symbol he may have represented - that of a gallant and powerful war leader, which is the impression given in David's version.
Gibson does a feeble job of rendering Desmond's ordinary life — before the war, when his sole traits involve his love for the nurse Dorothy Schutte Teresa Palmerr) and their rapid, bland, and brief courtship; during the war, when his sole trait is the steadfastness of his faith and his devotion to his military service; and, above all, his ordinary practice of religion with extraordinary faith.
And, through the Wall Street reform law President Obama signed into law last year, we created a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- the sole mission of which is to protect ordinary Americans from abuses like these.
Under such circumstances, Desmond's extraordinary heroism isn't the sole grand mystery; so is every soldier's ordinary functioning.
This would include most of even the most successful small-business owners — the vast majority of all small-business owners report their income as deriving either from sole proprietorships, partnerships or S corporations, all taxed at ordinary income tax rates.
Dover sole is a little rubbery and flavorless; desserts are ordinary.
Ordinary people, or more precisely people with only ordinary computers, are the sole providers of the information that makes the big computers so powerful and valuable.
Whether you operate your business as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation, you're allowed to deduct "ordinary and necessary" expenses required to running your business.
That is the sole extraordinary touch in a production that is in most ways ordinary, and I think purposely and profitably so.
