Sentence examples for ordinary stories from inspiring English sources

Their stories carry a weight no one expected because they are such ordinary stories.

Our films are reaching out for increasingly ordinary stories in which acting comes class-free.

In addition to sacred mythology there were ordinary stories and tales, either historically true or presumed to be true.

If done well, diagnosing the misspent life can be revelatory and heartbreaking, and give ballast to otherwise ordinary stories.

Mothers, sons, sisters, brothers, partners, friends, cheek-to-cheek, laughing, celebrating: snapshot portraits telling ordinary stories of interracial marriage, closeness, family.

The contemporary fairy tales in Aimee Bender's second collection, WILLFUL CREATURES: Stories (Anchor, $13), alternate between zany scenarios imbued with human pathos and apparently ordinary stories pitched at oblique angles.

Because . . . it sounds complicated, but it's an ordinary story.

Then again, as Colton chronicled, the 1964 Barons were no ordinary team, with no ordinary story.

On the surface, his final Broadway success may seem like a rather ordinary story.

I love the fact that he starts from an ordinary story.

His is not the kind of "ordinary story" that often makes its way into Ugandan media — let alone Western ones.