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Ordinary in sentence

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I applaud Tim Burton for being original with his use of the penguin as a freak, rather than an ordinary criminal or a clone of the old Batman TV show.
Batman Begins is dark, but boring, tedious, ordinary, filled with lackluster villains, and a playboy Bruce Wayne.
We don't have flashy and contrived romance here, only two ordinary beings made wonderful by their friendship and unexpressed love for one another.
Hitchcock once gave an interview where he said he like to direct screenplays that had an ordinary person minding their own business, who's accidentally caught up in an awful chain of events that they can't get out of until the dastardly plot that's behind their troubles is resolved.
One Life Stand avoids falling into the trap of other UK realist films, with ordinary working people portrayed as either hopeless victims or comedic stereotypes.
The mentor this time is played perfectly by Kevin Costner; An ordinary man with common everyday problems who lives an extraordinary conviction, to save lives.
These ordinary people did extraordinary things and it is based on a true story.
Her tenants consisted of a lesbian, a psychotic war veteran, an amputee, and a host of other vagrants that made the home miles away from ordinary.
Begotten is certainly an experience, and a out of the ordinary experience at that.
If this was just about a movie being made it would be ordinary.
Not an ordinary narrative film by any means but for those who like that something different, this is certainly that.
But, Faith akin, being an Turkish oriented guy who probably knows about that country more than an ordinary European, falls into the trap of orientalism that other western artists usually fall.
This film is like that : ordinary people suddenly finding themselves in a world of unstoppable violence!
What he reveals is a fascinating look into the lives of two rather ordinary people who like so many of their generation married early for the wrong reasons and found themselves stuck in a family life where they found they just had to "make do".
Ford was able to make of what would be an ordinary western, something totally different and original showing us the music, the dances, and most of all, the people.
But, if someone says that this movie is ordinary, I absolutely don't agree.
if you're looking for a war action film or "bosnia lite", this isn't for you -- it's about an ordinary woman who took on an extraordinary challenge for humanity.
I found that I quite warmed to most of the characters, there were some perhaps unintentionally amusing moments, the men were so ordinary that you felt you could empathise with them and the film's climax and ending were quite poignant.
It is the story of Juliette, a perfectly ordinary cleaning woman who works in the large corporate office of a yogurt company, and Romuald, the president of same.
Hitchcock made at least 11 films about the ordinary man, wrongly accused, on the run (sometimes really running, sometimes not) to prove his innocence in a situation beyond his control, the first one being "The 39 Steps", which really made him popular in Great Britain.
It was much higher than ordinary life and it gave many people hope to live after the tragic war.
As a testament to the suffering of the ordinary soldier on the Eastern Front in the Second World War, it is a powerful one.
The film is also successful in the sense that it doesn't allow character or plot to dominate it - it is simply a tale of survival, that attempts to depict the battle mainly from the ordinary (German) soldier's point of view.
The life of ordinary young girl, with all the terror and the repression full blown.
But that's why I love Nikki Finn, she's not your ordinary girl.
The story is about the strength of character of ordinary people, people who just tried to survive a horrible time in their lives.
But being that as it may, I laughed so many times and I have to hand it to the film makers, it wasn't pretentious or ordinary in any way.
In Russia, the ordinary teenager Vera (Natalya Negoda) lives a leisured life with her drunkard father and her simpleton mother, without working and waiting for the calling for a technical course of telephone operator.
Luis Bunuel's "Nazarin" will always be remembered as a great film because it is absolutely honest in its presentation of comical assault on religion.It is one of those outstanding films which must be shown to all people especially young children in order to familiarize them with the notions of good and bad,sacred and evil.The toughest question asked by "Nazarin" is about the strengths and weaknesses of organized religion.It has been tackled by involving numerous ordinary people who are not at all above petty affairs in their mundane lives especially sins.Bunuel scores tremendously by showing us that various questions related to class differences deserve frank,honest and reliable answers.
Nazarin appears credible as it has been made in a light,comical vein.This is the sole reason why it can be said that the story of an ordinary priest appears absolutely true to life to all audiences.It is amazing how Bunuel approaches quest for true love issue in his film.
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