Sentence examples for sudden ordinary from inspiring English sources

Now, all of a sudden, ordinary Germans who donate spare rooms to Syrians or organize makeshift language classes for asylum-seekers are celebrated on national television.

All of a sudden their lives were ordinary again.

So there emerges a kind of counterpoint and sudden upheaval in the ordinary things of life.

As "the slowing" begins, Julia says she remembers feeling "not fear but a thrill" — "a sudden sparkle amid the ordinary, the shimmer of the unexpected thing".

It's delightful to find (never concoct!) such moments, in which a chance encounter or a sudden revelation changes an ordinary life into the kind of life that people get paid to write books about, since those moments enable the biographer to construct the sort of conversion narrative, or Dick Whittington before-and-after story, that readers find familiar and take pleasure in.

But if you knew that a very precious diamond was inside this box, all of a sudden, it's no ordinary box".

Use your nose to detect any smell that is out of the ordinary, like a sudden change in aroma of the area.

So the phase change creates a sudden reduction in pressure, allowing any ordinary matter in the star to implode into this new vacuum.

Shares are a case in point, driven by foreign investors, oligarchs on strategic buying sprees and the fortunes of a few big firms, not ordinary Russians taking a sudden interest in the stockmarket.

In one of the least populated states in the nation, this sudden overcrowding has upended some axioms of ordinary life.

Sam didn't know, but I found myself thinking again of the magpie, its talent for collecting this and that, and its eye for the sudden shards of brightness that enliven the ordinary.