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1942 examples of Ordinary in a sentence

The cast is put to superb use in this heartfelt tribute to the simple glorious joys of an ordinary childhood.
It shows a healthy family going though the most fascinating of all things, namely ordinary living.
This sagebrush story is out of the ordinary; and a memorable Roy Rogers vehicle.
I could not but think of such works as Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment or such films as Schindler's List, because I am fascinated by the portrayals of seemingly ordinary people put in situations of fundamental moral choice.
He plays a young typical middle-class English guy that has just begun to watch the girls as an unknown new universe; he has a family, a brother next to the marriage, and an ordinary social life.
It was really interesting to watch the legislators explain why they were voting either "for" or "against", but even more interesting to see the whole process of how ordinary people can make a difference, working with the legislators, or opposing them.
Absolute Giganten is the story of a night that is so ordinary and because of that so honestly that you're going to enjoy every minute of it.
Anyway, the basic premise of this movie is fairly simply: an American space rocket crash-lands somewhere in the middle of the African jungle and causes a plain ordinary wasp to mutate into a gigantic buzzing monster.
That fiction drives the film and the very plot of having a leading actor (a dashing Jeff Daniels pre-Dumb & Dumber- we can understand how Michael Keaton got the boot from Woody, seriously) walk off the screen literally and romanticize an ordinary down-trodden, abused waitress in depression era New Jersey (played elegantly by Mia Farrow pre documentary expose- we can't understand how Soon Yi got the loot from Woody, seriously) is simply spell-binding as a plot line.
To my mind this is just an average ordinary silly film.
On a seemingly ordinary day like any other something terrible is happening in Starline Tower, a university professor named Dr.
The 1960s represented the best years of their lives for most people, as measured by the wealth of ordinary people.
Marwan Hamed is no ordinary director, he is one of the best around.
Everyone remembers such great films as Raging Bull, The Elephant Man, Ordinary People, and Coal Miners daughter, but there were other, overlooked or nearly overlooked films.
I concede that the film uses rather ordinary plot devises of violent setting, young vs. old, etc., to contrast the characters' predicaments.
It is not a laugh a minute comedy there are some funny moments but the film really is about ordinary women in their fifties trying to do some charity work by doing the extraordinary i.e. posing nude to sell calendars.
Their adventure accomplishes both of these goals as it progresses from the ordinary and banal to its unexpected and chilling conclusion.
This is a particularly hard-hitting and suspenseful depiction of an ordinary man (Frank Lovejoy) down on his luck as he tries to provide for his family and hold on to his self-respect at the same time.
"Luck of the Draw" is a very ordinary B-movie quality not-to-be-taken-seriously action/drama flick.
The action is little more than a couple of ordinary shootouts.
this is no ordinary coming-of-age film.
Beau Bridges does a reliable job and Kiefer Sutherland even works to do a role out of the ordinary kiefer.
It doesn't have the same kind of strange, mystical power of other Lewton films, but is effective at invoking the image of dark streets at night, when the most ordinary sidewalks and street lamps take on a sinister feeling.
But if you happen to have serious issues with homosexuality, you will probably NOT want to see this movie, even though it isn't about being gay in the ordinary sense.
Mateusz Birkut is an ordinary Polish bricklayer working on a massive government project.
The only people I feel sorry for are the ordinary people who occasionally show up they get treated like escaped asylum patients.
Victor is an ordinary guy but due to circumstances his whole life will be twisted up as he's the victim from two policemen who are arguing.
The storyline of this movie is very ordinary and hard to believe in.
There's anything fancy, nothing shocking or out of the ordinary.
Woody Allen's nostalgic look at the golden age of radio through concentration on one ordinary family and the variety of favorite shows among that household is both interesting and entertaining.
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