Sentence examples for outwardly ordinary from inspiring English sources
They were about outwardly ordinary lives, and thereby established that there's no such thing as an "ordinary" life; there is only inadequate appreciation of humanity.
But, lacking either the high peculiarity of a Dickens or a Gaskell character, or the inner life of an outwardly ordinary person like Leopold Bloom or Clarissa Dalloway, Aunt Phyl can feel, disquietingly, like just the sort of limited, uninspiring figure for whom the jigsaw puzzle, indeed the whole notion of "killing time," was devised.
Islamic terrorist organizations have always insisted that jihad is not an act but an orientation, a system of beliefs, and as reporters have sought to make some sense of how outwardly ordinary people have acquired those beliefs, the radicalization story has recurred.
Starting with the June 27 arrest of 10 outwardly ordinary East Coast residents accused of being unregistered (or, in spy-speak, clandestine) foreign agents and culminating with a well-orchestrated East-West prisoner exchange two weeks later, the Russian "spy ring" story hasn't lacked for entertainment value.
But by far, the best bargains I have found are in the string of outwardly ordinary Arab grocers, on Rue d'Italie, just one street down from me.
Instead, many of the Ore cases which attracted the most publicity involved outwardly respectable, ordinary-looking men with families, jobs and friends.
The jackets each sold for the equivalent of about a thousand dollars, and they were outwardly indistinguishable from ordinary jackets.
Though outwardly unusual, the two of them live an ordinary, rather cosy kind of a life.
But the sad and frightening truth is that the vast majority of homicides are carried out by outwardly normal people in the grip of all too ordinary human aggression to whom we provide nearly unfettered access to deadly force.
Outwardly, Klinsmann seems unruffled.
