ordinary people

He did this because there can be terrible consequences for ordinary people when a bureaucracy is not able to run efficiently.

But during the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, ordinary people performed heroic actions.

While he did effect a U-turn on U.S. trade policy, much of which Biden continued or even deepened, it has not yet really touched the lives of most ordinary people.

Or Peter Thiel's "seasteading" dream of an island nation where he and his buddies could be lordlings, carefully separated from the ordinary people who frighten them.

“Kaleidoscope” is a far preferable and more colorful description of Aitken’s ambition here, which takes stunning, impressionistic and often dreamlike images of ordinary people moving through extraordinary California landscapes, and stirs them into seemingly improvised songs as well as familiar minimalist masterpieces by composers like Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley.