So anything that seems to approximate ordinariness feels wonderfully refreshing.
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The ordinariness of the house is, of course, an illusion.
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The ordinariness of her stitches becomes extraordinary in their configurations.
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It's a red brick building with an air of industrial ordinariness.
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So it was its ordinariness that I thought was really radical.
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The horror is revealed in the very ordinariness of that day.
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She was valued for her "eye," her balance and seeming ordinariness.
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And then they disappear into the crowd, disguised by their ordinariness.
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It's the ordinariness—the familiarity—that makes Butler's work so wretchedly riveting.
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Indeed, what was remarkable about Fox's Pelosi video was its very ordinariness.
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"I think there's a strangeness in ordinariness, or an ordinary world," Cave says.
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But once you get closer, you see that their ordinariness is an illusion.
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It wasn't because of the well-intentioned politics; it was the scene's sheer ordinariness.
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You sense a kind of shell-shocked ordinariness; the very air seems to quiver.
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Clark: That's something we wanted to bring out: the ordinariness, the banality of it all.
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"To the Back of Beyond" takes Mr Stamm's interest in ordinariness to a new level.
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Simultaneously, their fakery highlights the contours of your down-to-earth character and virtuous ordinariness.
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Trying to make everything go according to it—feelings, food, flight, ordinariness, the very earth.
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By contrast, Logic has built his whole career on his humanity, his ordinariness, his relatability.
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They recognized that the first step to making Woods great again was acknowledging his ordinariness.
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Their very ordinariness is one of the many obstacles to the early detection of terrorist threats.
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Within this schema, when a back is curved, the figure's posture becomes extraordinary in its ordinariness.
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Faced with so much ordinariness, Dery does his best, which proves to be more than enough.
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Here we move from the "ordinary" into larger imaginative possibilities, only to collapse again into ordinariness.
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It's very ordinariness and settledness of standards that enable us to survive, and to move ahead.
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The ordinariness of the precipitating event and how unprepared officials were to deal with it are shocking.
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In the long term, with VR, we relate to the ordinariness of daily life, and that's more respectful.
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It doesn't try to be a Marvel-like blockbuster What also makes "Fast Color" special is its ordinariness.
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The relationship between these two identities—near-sociopathic self-belief and total ordinariness—is Mindhunter's key animating tension.
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But there's an inescapable ordinariness to the series, and a larger portion than usual of domestic soap opera.
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She finds ways of embedding political terror in ordinariness, which is what life is beginning to feel like.
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However, rendered invisible by its popularity and ordinariness, is the brutal industrial exploitation on the most powerless human workers.
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It made him seem extraordinary, when what hidden in plain sight, alongside ordinariness, was an unquenchable sense of rage.
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It's a false note of objective judgment that affirms the accuser's supposed "authenticity" or "ordinariness" against someone else's fakery.
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He's a dramatist and a linguist who can be glorious about the ordinariness and misery of duty and work.
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It's a thoughtful, beautifully crafted work that emphasizes above all the ordinariness and humanity of people who become refugees.
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In it, there is a photograph that can only be called heartbreaking in its happiness, unbearable in its ordinariness.
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In that way, his ordinariness—his basic, dogged will to survive—was as vivid a trait as his heroism.
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Ms. Lambert's film builds nicely, staying in tune with the ordinariness and intimacy explored in Ms. Akerman's boldly rendered films.
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The ordinariness of the locations in this series of work by Eliza Hatch on sexual harassment will not surprise any woman.
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Camus chose Oran for its underwhelming characteristics; in its ordinariness, Oran can suffer on behalf of almost any city on earth.
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The first, on Saturday, was in the air-conditioned ordinariness of the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.
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This surprisingly buoyant book chronicles the search for a cure as well as the family's life stories, rich in their ordinariness.
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Judson Dance Theater had all of that in its fabric: rigor and ordinariness, humor and grit, the spontaneity of the moment.
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Occasionally, dishes slipped into ordinariness, like roast leg of lamb with Jerusalem artichokes and an Italianate salsa verde that lacked punch.
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The series is at its best when it uses these home-movie-style vignettes, many of them poignant in their ordinariness.
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The objects in Mystery and Benevolence are seductive with their strangeness and feel somehow accessible through the ordinariness of the materials.
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"There's not a day that goes by where I'm not putting on my shoes, or brushing my teeth, where I just think about the ordinariness of, people who just went to a concert, or the ordinariness of the day people from 9/11, who were just doing an ordinary thing, and then you never get home," she said.
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Philipps' Instagram stands out partly for its approachable ordinariness, an effect that dissipates when you're spending half a show talking with celebrities.
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New York runs on the gap between the ordinariness of the daily commute and the exotic possibilities presented by the subway system.
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Lelio conveys the affair beautifully, including in the delicate, fragmented scenes of lovemaking that convey the profundity of desire and its ordinariness.
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Ms. Lacey's ostensible ordinariness (she made her Broadway debut as Emily in "Our Town" in 2002) always makes her easy to identify with.
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They sat at a bar that was the portrait of ordinariness, a place no one would have given a second thought or glance.
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In their wooden ordinariness, they spoke to the 10th graders visiting the former Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen as no history book had.
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With deliberate brushwork she manages to create a painterly reality, effectively holding our attention to both its abstract patterns and color-saturated ordinariness.
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Policies, which create a hierarchy of eminence and ordinariness, autonomy and control within the university sector, are at best a short-term fix.
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The latest example is the horror movie "Beyond the Gates," which shows early promise but eventually ends up in the bin of ordinariness.
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Many more images, in their ordinariness, underscore the pervasive, and sometimes casual, place of racism in Southern life, perpetrated by seemingly upstanding citizens.
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There is a vulnerability and ordinariness to him: in one picture, he helps to change a tyre on the sun-parched streets of Kingston.
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It does, however, echo the story's emphasis on both ritual and ordinariness; of course, someone would have to prepare the paper slips in advance.
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It's a shame, too, because when the film is more restrained, Prospect effectively uses language to convey the utter ordinariness of prospecting in this universe.
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The ordinariness of "Plant Bowen's" mid-canvas horizon and classical proportionality is undermined by a sooty ground that harmonizes perversely with the raw linen support.
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Roped off, elevated on a riser for display, it is spotlit ordinariness, like the toe-bone of a saint set in a filigreed golden reliquary.
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Johanna Vuorelma, political analyst at Helsinki University, said Stubb did not fit the mould of a politician in Finland, where modesty and ordinariness are considered virtues.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists have said it ("voters repeatedly reject insurrectionist candidates who parallel their own ordinariness ... in favor of candidates of proven character and competence").
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What's central to the narrative is the ordinariness of it all: how easily a normal, dull life can be smashed apart, and how frequently it happens.
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Rigatoni with yellow wax beans and gold tomatoes is saved from ordinariness by a very good pesto in which pistachios do the work of pine nuts.
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In allowing them to leave behind, if momentarily, the sexual restrictions of their time, Sinatra also allowed them to leave behind the dreary ordinariness of their lives.
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Didsbury's ordinariness made it the perfect backdrop for a show that followed the lives of six 30-somethings as they moved about their daily, often mundane, lives.
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The goal is to bring attention to the ordinariness of Jews, to focus attention on regular Jewish life rather than to get them seen as just victims.
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Profound bravery exists alongside profound ordinariness; friends still gather for dinner, they still tell their children bedtime stories, they still have to cook and clean and sleep.
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Profound bravery exists alongside profound ordinariness; friends still gather for dinner, they still tell their children bedtime stories, they still have to cook and clean and sleep.
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The ordinariness of his tale and its unexceptional heroes—Ananda and his uncle Radhesh, an avatar for Odysseus—implies that, in the end, everyone is wandering and shipwrecked.
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But its ordinariness is part of its beauty, says Caroline Winn, chief operating officer of SDGE; the utility uses it to offer power at times of peak demand.
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It was, the movie insists, the absolute ordinariness of their love that defined them, and that made the fight for it into an indelible story of this country.
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Their seeming ordinariness convinced a generation of goofy punks that maybe they, too, could turn out deceptively simple songs as well constructed as anything on the pop chart.
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The stunt served to highlight the translucence of imposed "value" in the art world, as well as to disrupt ideas about the "ordinariness" and public nature of art.
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The idea, said Andy Borman, the executive director of the Rens, is to disrupt the ordinariness of gunfire, the shrugging, undeclared normality of it among young men and boys.
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They are presented within the ordinariness of a home, but, lit with an uncanny light, they're presented out of context in a way that lets us see them anew.
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Frankie spends much of their first night together, from post-coitus to pre-dawn, insisting on her ordinariness, especially in contrast to what she sees as Johnny's florid weirdness.
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Yet despite its apparent ordinariness, Norwich is home to a probabilities puzzle for the statistics students at Dartmouth College, less than two miles away as the hermit thrush flies.
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At other times, the 6-foot-4 professional gambler lopes, shoulders slightly hunched, through gaming areas and steps onto elevators -- the ordinariness of his movements camouflaging his dark aims.
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Ms. Clark, best known as a Tony-winning actress ("The Light in the Piazza"), has chosen to underscore the ordinariness of this marriage and the universality of its discontents.
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And when we finally delve through the Rashomon-style flashbacks in this episode to piece together what happened to her, the incredible ordinariness of it all is even more heartbreaking.
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But this baggage isn't specifically Bauschian, and the ordinariness of her take — it's basically a battle of the sexes — helps expose her traditional skills of choreographic shape and dramatic tension.
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Ms. Fares made her debut in an unofficial pageant in 2014 in a bare, over-lit room at the Baghdad Hunting Club, whose contestants were extraordinary only in their ordinariness.
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But its very ordinariness demands our attention, reminding us that judging is inevitably a mix of law and instinct, and that we need judges with sound instincts more than ever.
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" She added: "It was, the movie insists, the absolute ordinariness of their love that defined them, and that made the fight for it into an indelible story of this country.
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For all the horror and mystery in "Us," this element of charming ordinariness gives me a little bit of hope for the movies coming in a post-"Black Panther" world.
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When I look at this exhibit, I see a queer ordinariness; in many ways, this is what my everyday life has looked like for the past 20 or 30 years.
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It is sweet in its ordinariness, and crystallises the impetus behind the gay-rights movement: it was a quest to lead a normal life on the same terms as everyone else.
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Perhaps this peculiar feeling mirrors that felt by contemporary viewers of Poussin: that what they beheld on the canvas were magical, mythical events thoroughly removed from the ordinariness of their own lives.
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Rummage around their home and it's all there: the agreements and the arguments; the hobbies and the hang-ups; the unique neuroses and the utterly mind-numbing ordinariness of an everyday existence.
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The French film emphasized the sheer ordinariness of its hero, but Mackie is a more conventionally ripped action star, and most of the tension comes from his mismatched-buddy dynamic with Grillo.
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I won't say what Mr. Turkowski eventually discovers; the revelation may not be on the scale of a Cold War thriller but in its ordinariness turns out to be just as exciting.
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The show's specialty was its tender approach to ordinariness, its baked-in knowledge that what makes a dog special — or an owner special, or a friend special — is that they're yours. 7.
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For me, as a scholar and a resident of Charlottesville, the Nazi label erases the ordinariness of this impulse to display and defend the symbols of a fallen iteration of white patriarchy.
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Its ordinariness is reinforced by a habit of using period pop songs in the most obvious ways — "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" for a prison scene, "Woodstock" for a funeral procession.
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In this apparent stronghold of ordinariness, the Alternative for Germany, a far-right populist party, won more than 22 percent of the vote in the 2016 local election — more than any other party.
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Details emphasizing the group's poverty include a fool-the-eye patch, ostensibly stitched onto one disciple's legging, and an overturned rush-bottomed chair, as poignant in its ordinariness as any by Vincent van Gogh.
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And all I really mean by that comparison is that whatever shape grief takes, it's always a volatile, kinetic one, capable of drawing everything into itself or of dissolving into the ordinariness of the day.
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Ms. Magassa's own home, now disguised by its brick facade, its swinging gate at the front steps, its ordinariness among the tidy homes and small apartment houses on Woodycrest, is a landmark to such deaths.
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And yet for me, their projections of high school misery and endless summers only served as a reminder that Black girls are never afforded the kind of ordinariness that would make them relatable to white audiences.
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"This is an ordinary forest," she says, as if the simplicity or ordinariness of the trees meant that protecting them did not have to be complicated, as if everything that threatened them could be wished away.
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Arendt, attending the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi captured in Argentina by Israeli operatives, was struck by his ordinariness, the bland bureaucratic demeanor seemingly at odds with the enormity of his crimes.
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In the same Atlantic essay, Gilbert praises Leni Zumas's Red Clocks for the "quiet ordinariness" with which it strips its female characters of rights, rather than needing to dream up "spectacular global catastrophes" that catalyze their loss.
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The opening area's environments, too, are convincingly grounded in relatable ordinariness—this is a Final Fantasy game, but one that mixes a healthy dose of the real world into the usual formula of almighty monsters and spectacular summons.
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"Here are buildings and architectural details that we encounter constantly in everyday life, although their ordinariness makes them barely noticeable," Martino Stierli, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, writes in a foreword.
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Sully is bewildered by the strangers who keep hugging him—he's nonplussed to spend his first night as an American hero at a dingy airport Marriott— and his ordinariness and plodding dullness is the center of the film.
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Ultimately her enthusiasm, together with her eye for the odd, surprising detail, wins you over, and the younger Pliny gradually emerges as a mostly sympathetic character, interesting for his ordinariness and for the ways he resembles us today.
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It's a cheerful, familial moment realized as a sort of theatre of ordinariness that exalts the simple pleasures of a life in safety as an elusive paradise, one that's brutally threatened by the hands-on violence concealed in France's administrative indifference.
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But it's also because, from the moment the show begins, with a salutation to the working day by the employees of a perfume shop in 1930s Budapest, "She Loves Me" is a sustained reminder of the pleasures of exalted ordinariness.
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Platanov was surprised to find out that his photo had become so popular thanks to what he called a "meme campaign," but, in his view, it is the very ordinariness of the egg that makes it so great, he told Insider.
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Yet by simply talking about myself to someone who was not only genuinely interested but also analyzed everything, identifying or establishing connections between all the various parts, that ordinariness was turned into something extraordinary and unique, even to my own mind.
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A flight last week from Omaha, where a hospital has treated more than a dozen cases of coronavirus, to Chicago, where a handful of people in the area have tested positive for the illness, was notable only for its ordinariness.
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For the past few years I have made a habit of going to a particular Starbucks in Brooklyn after I drop my son off at school, a ritual that has given me pleasure way out of proportion to its ordinariness.
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Lately I've turned again to James Salter's LIGHT YEARS, which spans about 20 years in the life of a couple, Nedra and Viri Berland — Nedra fears ordinariness and Viri wishes he were famous — in the New York area and Rome.
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Image 2 of 2 NEW ORLEANS – Former first lady Michelle Obama said Friday her upcoming memoir "Becoming" is a "re-humanization effort" that shares the "ordinariness of a very extraordinary story" that she hopes will give voice to people who feel voiceless.
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While Ed Sheeran is a scourge he's also a very British one—there's no other country that finds ordinariness so appealing; nowhere but the UK would have made a man who looks like he lives at an open mic night a star.
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What these men get from a life of crime, and what they put into this film, is drama—albeit miserable drama, of which they are the antiheroes, even the villains—which lifts them out of ordinariness only to plunge them into degradation.
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On a soundstage here, where the show films its interiors, you can wander through the women's houses, appreciating the ordinariness of the rooms — the collectible pottery, the bulk-bought animal crackers, the moisturizer on the night table — and the outrageousness of the situation.
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And in keeping with the inflationary tendency of the established Ryan narrative, where the hero's ordinariness is contrasted with the extreme threats of nuclear annihilation or economic collapse, this new Ryan uncovers a terrorist who's bidding to be the new Osama bin Laden.
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But while this makes for a more dramatic heroine who can grow and change over multiple seasons of TV, it's worth remembering that the very ordinariness of Atwood's Offred gave readers an immediate understanding of how Gilead's totalitarian rule affected regular people's lives.
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For a lot of people, it happens when you're a teenager, when your brain is wide open to new possibilities, and a strange yearning in your chest that you can't name until years later longs for something more than the ordinariness of your life.
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Honing in on the ordinariness and growing pains of modern America, poems like "Self-Portrait at 28" ("I can't remember being born and no one else can remember it either / Even the doctor who I met years later at a cocktail party") were both absurd and wrenching.
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The joy of reading these books is found in the way they capture the rhythm of life in all its ordinariness, interspersed with the occasional devastating observation or character snapshot and the precise distillation of one or two events that, unbeknownst to us at the time, steer our destinies.
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I hated when he said that, because he made it sound as if the reason I kept looking for exceptions was that I thought of myself as exceptional, whereas I believed, on the contrary, that it was my ordinariness itself that made me a better candidate for exceptional scenarios.
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He construed me as a kind of baroque entity, abnormal and warped, whose inner being was utterly out of synch with its outward expression — completely the opposite of how I saw myself, which was ordinary to the point of self-erasure, this very ordinariness being my problem as a writer.
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Seeing how the Dakotas had been eviscerated by the loss of their young, she had come to respect the wisdom of the Benedictine vow of stability—which is, as Thomas Merton put it, a renunciation of the vain hope of finding the perfect monastery, and an embracing of the ordinariness of what you already have.
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That ordinariness continues in "Spring," the third of a quartet of books, titled after the seasons, describing the period around the birth of his youngest daughter, but with a significant twist, one that involves not Knausgaard but his (now ex) wife, a blank and confusing presence in the detailed universe he lays before us.
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Dispensing almost entirely with plot and character, his later works are essayistic meditations on his own past, a personal mythology as attuned to the epic ordinariness of lost time as Proust, except with Murnane it's horse races, a boyhood marble collection, Catholic sexual hang-ups and life as a househusband in the suburban Melbourne of the 1970s.
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As we made our way through the terrible milestones of leukemia — hair loss, infections, feeding tubes and transfusions, one endless, brutal procedure after another — I felt lightheaded every time I stepped outside the hospital, blinking in the sunlight, at the ordinariness of people walking on sidewalks, picking up their children from school, drinking coffee in cafes.
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Dreamily, she even half imagined that she could hear her mother at work downstairs: a consoling clatter of pans and crockery in the kitchen, water running in the sink, voices rumbling on the radio—as if some substratum of ordinariness were so fundamental that it must always be carrying steadily on somewhere, below all the agitation of change.
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And occasionally that ordinariness achieves magnificence, like the moment when the camera's framing captures the succession of staircase-d men so that it rhymes with the electric succession of French Republicans flinging their arms up at the pedestaled "live free or die" lady in François-Léon Sicard's "La Convention Nationale" sculpture, which dominates that section of the building.
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We meet a young woman whose first and last encounter with her father is at his deathbed, a hardworking nurse who dips into her savings to help her ex-husband's new wife, a mother fighting dementia long enough to dispense wisdom to her daughter — a whole cast of characters who feel absolutely real: so striking in their ordinariness, so complex in their humanity.
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When we remember the 21st night of September, what we are remembering is that this is how humanity prevails, not through war and conquest and an apocalyptic fear of the Other, but by coming together to celebrate the spectacular ordinariness of life, and the way even a mundane calendar date can be filled with wonder and beauty and unforgettable communion.
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We meet a young woman whose first and last encounter with her father is at his deathbed, a hardworking nurse who dips into her savings to help her ex-husband's new wife, a mother fighting dementia long enough to dispense wisdom to her daughter — a whole cast of characters who feel absolutely real: so striking in their ordinariness, so complex in their humanity. —A.
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For this reason, in my mind, they're directly linked with Heaton and Cocker, and with no antecedents in guitar music (though there's an argument to be made that there's plenty of similarly elevated ordinariness in the UK's other great love, grime), it seems fair, almost ten years since their break-up, to memorialise them as what they are: British rock's last great kitchen sink dramatists.
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Former first lady Michelle ObamaMichelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts Michelle Obama to present Lin-Manuel Miranda with the Portrait of a Nation Prize Michelle Obama thanks her high school for naming new athletic complex after her MORE said Friday that her upcoming memoir will seek to give a voice to underrepresented communities by sharing the "ordinariness" of her journey to the White House.
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Which is why I've only just gotten to rotten #30 now that that good dental coverage is behind me.) Whether you're a revolutionary or a reactionary or just trying to make your rent (like the characters of Kentucky Route Zero, so special because of their ordinariness), the world is filled with these snares that can drag us not only into debt, but into patterns of action that only worsen the situation, things that prey upon our worst instincts and a whole heap of traits that have nothing to do with our choices at all.
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