Sentence examples for unremarkable man from inspiring English sources

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This apparently unremarkable man has, he tells Charles flatly, "broken every commandment" on almost every continent.

Around 10am on 14 August 2014, an unremarkable man walked into a café near Tishinskaya Square in Moscow.

She has picnics of champagne and sweets, all while in the company of a generically handsome, if unremarkable, man.

"The patient" is an unremarkable man who fights with his mother, falls in love, and then dies in an air raid during the Second World War.

In Midnight in Dostoevsky two college students walk in some wintry northern Nowheresville, following a seemingly unremarkable man and urgently imagining a life for him.

Yet without reams of exposition, without slogans and lectures, it offers a vivid portrait of postcolonial Africa from the point of view of an unremarkable man made less so by extraordinary circumstances.

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Beneath toy planes, trucks and sports gear strung from the ceiling, I battled an unremarkable man-burger, plus... what's this? Green beans on the plate?

"The Beauty and the Sorrow" threads together the wartime experiences of 20 more or less unremarkable men and women, on both sides of the war, from schoolgirls and botanists to mountain climbers, doctors, ambulance drivers and clerks.

But to a reporter sitting 25 feet away, for the five hours it took to complete preliminary hearings against Saddam Hussein and 11 others who terrorized Iraq, they seemed to have shrunk, pressing home the question: How could these utterly unremarkable men, forgettable in any other context, have so tyrannized their 25 million countrymen that they remained unchallenged for 35 years?

And with Hannah Arendt we have been introduced to a further complication: the notion of the "banality of evil" (a formulation that Camus himself would probably have taken care to avoid), the idea that unspeakable crimes can be committed by very unremarkable men with clear consciences.

These were ordinary, apparently normal and certainly unremarkable men.

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