Sentence examples for somehow ordinary from inspiring English sources

Until now, González's strength has been to come across as formidable but also somehow ordinary.

Comic though it is, "Rides of the Midway" engages serious concerns, ranging from the visionary gifts that guilt and grief may have earned for Noel to the frictions within an odd yet somehow ordinary family.

I am somehow both ordinary and endlessly fascinating — I can't ever fold a towel the same way twice.

­Eggleston's picture was great, Teller told me, his own picture somehow ­lifeless and ordinary.

But somehow a surprisingly ordinary suburban American life goes on, and preteens have their usual mundane concerns.

It's a game about how we behave in hotel rooms, and their role as somehow separate from ordinary life.

Often activists are depicted as being like the mafia – part of an underground coterie that is somehow separated from ordinary life.

Virtually every tax shelter, legal and illegal, involves somehow re-labeling ordinary income as a capital gain to get the lower rate.

While acknowledging the complexity and drama of sex, Greer has long celebrated the woman who lives apart, who somehow evades the ordinary encumbrances of a man in her daily life.

Although at times the Hebrew and Greek of the Bible have been treated as sacred languages, and the history contained in the text has been regarded as somehow different from "ordinary" history, most forms of biblical exegesis employed in the modern era are applicable to many other bodies of literature.

That is to say, there would have been no faith tradition and no scriptures had not the early believers thought that Jesus was "Risen," raised from the dead, and, as "Ascended," somehow above the ordinary plane of mortal and temporal experience.