Ordinary in sentence

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What I mean is this ability that each of us has to be something greater than herself or himself; to arise out of our ordinary selves and achieve something that at the beginning we thought perhaps we were not capable of.

And it also has an observational bias, because it only looks at geniuses and doesn't look at ordinary scientists and doesn't look at all of us and ask, is it really true that creativity vanishes as we age?

So let's look at an ordinary scientist like myself, and let's look at my career.

There are ordinary heroes.

Ordinary heroes like the janitors who are worth celebrating too.

As practitioners each and every one of us should strive to be ordinary, if not extraordinary heroes.

And, perhaps most important, as teachers, we should strive to be the ordinary heroes, the moral exemplars, to the people we mentor.

But it's also been quite common for cultures to normalize some form of eating human flesh under ordinary circumstances.

Similarly, when I hear some women saying, "Politics is a dirty world I don't want to engage with," I'm worried that the idea of politics and political engagement has become so polarized in many parts of the world that ordinary people feel, in order for them to participate in politics, they need to be outspoken activists, and that is not true.

I want to ask these young people, women and ordinary people in general: Can you really afford not to be interested or not to participate in politics?

Now, politicians might not be the only ones to blame, because ordinary people, and many young people as well, don't care about politics.

Roy warns that the tragic consequences of their relationship “would lurk forever in ordinary things,” like “coat hangers,” “the tar on roads,” and “the absence of words.”

Roy’s writing makes constant use of these ordinary things, bringing lush detail to even the most tragic moments.

And in the middle of this economic crisis, where so many of us are inclined to pull in with fear, I think we're well suited to take a cue from Jane and reach out, recognizing that being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Basically you take an ordinary telephone, you plug it into this little box that they give you and the box plugs into your cable modem.

But mortal guards and ordinary weapons wouldn’t suffice, so the visionary god devised an indomitable new defender.

The origins of osteoarthritis can often be traced to a patient’s early life, from any seemingly ordinary joint injury.

So the ultimate goal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy was really what Freud called ordinary misery.

And so we need a process of generating jobs, for ordinary young men, fast.

The focus on the basic service delivery through these independent service authorities would have rescued basic services from their catastrophic levels, and it would have given ordinary people the sense that the government was doing something useful.

It's interesting, say, to take a 25-megawatt, 25 million watts, and you compare it to the standard big iron of an ordinary Westinghouse or Ariva, which is 1.2, 1.6 billion watts.

If people can find that that sub-prime product has been transferred across nations many, many times until it ends up in banks in Iceland or the rest in Britain, and people's ordinary savings are affected by it, then you cannot rely on a system of national supervision.

Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them.

Well, swimming across the North Pole, it's not an ordinary thing to do.

So how many other Madoffs are there on Wall Street or in the city of London, fleecing ordinary folk and money laundering?

What I have learned is two things: one, that the epidemic of violence towards women is shocking; it's global; it is so profound and it is so devastating, and it is so in every little pocket of every little crater, of every little society that we don't even recognize it, because it's become ordinary.

It bothers me a lot, because I've seen firsthand how lack of access to safe and affordable healthcare can blight the lives of ordinary people.

Here was a woman, part of the ordinary masses of Nigerians, who were not supposed to be readers.

But seriously, we also have this phenomenon on Madison Avenue and in other places, where people are actually walking out of luxury boutiques with ordinary, generic paper bags to hide the brand purchases.

We have to deal with the hardware of development, the ports, the roads, the airports, all the infrastructural things we need to do, and the software of development, the human capital, the need for the ordinary person in India to be able to have a couple of square meals a day, to be able to send his or her children to a decent school, and to aspire to work a job that will give them opportunities in their lives that can transform themselves.

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