Sentence examples for that seems normal from inspiring English sources

Mo Rains told me that it's prison that seems normal to her and civilian life that's unruly and strange.

So if you're at school and want to play a couple of rounds of a game and then you go back home and want to continue on your couch, that seems normal.

"Thus, in the subways, the two worlds of New York collide: the working world that seems normal, and the never-working world of the criminals and the utterly helpless," he wrote.

This refers to the notion that often "something that seems normal or inevitable today began with a choice that made sense at a particular time in the past, but survived despite the eclipse of the justification for that choice".

"But they've done it," Mr. Cohen said, illustrating one of the things that seems normal in China today but that was almost unthinkable when China's opening to the world was brand new.

It's a remark that reflects the direct, self-deprecating honesty that characterizes his films, as well as a state of affairs that seems normal enough for a person who has recently turned thirty, let alone a prolific filmmaker who has been busy making movies — and whose art has appreciably darkened and spiralled inward from "LOL and Hannah Takeses the Stairs" to "Uncle Kent and Silver Bulletsts".

Things that seemed normal a generation ago, like the frequent use of corporal punishment in schools, seem horrifying today.

When she ditches him, he obsesses about her in ways that seem normal until they become destructive and then violent.

No, she kept those thoughts to herself; she didn't, in any case, imagine that they would interest anyone — and that seemed normal to her.

"A 38-year-old woman dying, does that seem normal?" said Ms. Storozhenko, whose friends had come to identify their niece, a mother of two.

But there is something in the old "town" and "gown" division – in the bits that seem normal, in the bits that seem strange – that momentarily catches much broader chasms, of class, wealth, access to public space and sense of belonging.