Sentences with phrase «although ordinary world»

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On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I was suddenly flooded by light and absorbed in a sea of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding world.

There aren't any big surprises here for anyone accustomed to Hannah Montana, although the movie certainly takes a step away from the TV show's fictional world to depict Miley Cyrus as a down - to - earth (if not quite ordinary) teenaged girl to whom fame is still new.

Although some of the central events of the novel, like World War II and the atomic bomb drop at Nagasaki, are familiar territory for fiction, Lee prioritizes out - of - the - ordinary perspectives: her Korean characters are first the colonized, and then the outsiders trying to thrive in a foreign country despite segregation and persecution.

Although the Internet has opened up the world of agents, editors, and publishers to ordinary writers, there are several things that you should know.

There is good and evil in the world and although I've met a handful of people I'd truly classify as evil, it's my experience that the majority of evil deeds done are by ordinary people who think they're somehow acting on behalf of a higher good or bringing a brighter future closer.

Although ordinary individuals may have no duty to go beyond their own personal opinion about the science of climate change, government officials who have the power to enact policies that could present catastrophic harm to millions of people around the world may not as a matter of ethics justify their refusal to support policies to reduce the threat of climate change on the basis of their uninformed opinions on climate science.