Sentence examples for something more ordinary from inspiring English sources

"Why not something more ordinary, like bread?" Chikwado whispered to me, and then promptly raised her hand when our boss asked for volunteers to go see the Oba right away.

It's not the cool calculation of spies plotting an intelligence operation, nor the furtive euphemisms of criminals planning a bank heist, but something more ordinary and more intense: lovers in the throes of an illicit affair.

From there the story moves to jazz-age Shanghai and becomes something more ordinary: a stiff Chinese gloss on a 1940s Hollywood international-intrigue thriller, with chorus lines, cigarette girls, shouting newsboys, klutzy cops, a masked hero and a torch singer (the ambulatory pin-up Shu Qi, as gorgeous as ever).

It was one of Harrison's moments of instinctive genius, I think, perhaps the only way to bring off the scene without changing the mesmeric sound coming off the pages to something more ordinary, and I mean it as no disrespect to speculate that these moments are in some way out of Harrison's hands, and very close to magic.

I've often struggled with conflicting loyalties, which I could describe as lyric versus narrative, constriction versus expansion, or -- heaven forbid -- High Art versus something more ordinary.

Unions prevent the authorities from disciplining slackers or rewarding good teachers.The willingness of poor parents to pay is also a sign of something more positive: ordinary Indians' passion for education.

We will later see that the tendency to preserve both the impulse to idealism and the conviction that there is something more than ordinary human minds by positing a more than human mind is characteristic of many versions of idealism until the end of its glory days at the beginning of the twentieth century.

"It was a nice party," he says cheerily, as if he were talking about something far more ordinary, like, say, a backyard barbecue.

But this year, thanks to his quirky, sinewy album "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal Motown), he became something much more ordinary: a superstar.

As Alessandra Stanley observed in her review of Season 2, now that the tightly wound plot of the first season has run its course, the show will inevitably tilt toward more straightforward international-thriller territory — something potentially more ordinary.

I watch transfixed, aware that before me stands a young Geppetto or any one of those master craftsmen who each day bring their hands, their skill, their time, their tools and their patience to something no more ordinary than a piece of wood or a piece of marble, until out of the rawest clump of matter something timeless begins to occur.