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

Finally, after a prompt for “terrifying normality,” it produced what it described as “a completely blank, featureless white canvas,” which it said “represents the very essence of ordinariness taken to its absolute limit.”

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024

So she goes to that place where all things go that are not mentionable, taking her blond hair, her angora sweater, her ordinariness with her.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood