ordinariness

Example Sentences

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The very ordinariness of these reminders underscored the fact—as if it needed underscoring—that I hadn’t just lost a daughter but a whole previous life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

But it’s his comfortable ordinariness that allows him to make such a powerful connection with the audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

In their ordinariness, some photos I’ve seen of those deported immigrant families remind me of my own family.

From Salon • May 25, 2025

During a rehearsal for “Swim Like Me,” less than a week before previews, Valk asked Berryman to slow down the cadence of a monologue about the ordinariness of his name.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

There’s no need to invoke any special parapsychological abilities; the ordinariness of apparently predictive dreams does not need any ex plaining.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos