Sentence examples for past ordinary from inspiring English sources

As they move, they seem to float slightly, as if, like ballet dancers, their momentum carried them past ordinary human ability.

These are a magnet for wealthy parents, whose offspring can be seen speeding past ordinary mortals on the pistes, resplendent in shiny salopettes and Ray-Bans.

In the past ordinary citizens would often have to pay a bribe just for simple procedures such as a visit to a doctor, obtaining a passport or driving licence.

In times past, ordinary people could wander the halls of this temple of democracy.

After past recessions, ordinary investors have typically regained their enthusiasm for stocks, hoping to profit as the economy recovered.

"It's dangerous to be associated with dissidents, so in the past, other, ordinary people have not signed such documents.

But the dancers, likely confined by time, seemed too much like acolytes of Ms. Zaporah's teachings to push past the ordinary.

As for content, Fleming stretches past the ordinary shapes and colors to concepts that may not come as quickly to a parent's mind but are just as pertinent to a young child's world.

There have been times in the past when ordinary civilians were thrust into battle or asked to perform wartime reconnaissance, said Dr. Douglas Johnson, a professor of national security at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Penn.

Obviously they have a love of music that extends past the ordinary.

Dostoevsky believed, like I do, that Westernization, or now globalization, is inevitable, but it must not lead to the repression of the past, of ordinary people and their culture.