Sentences with word «ordinariness»

The shock of Lucas's death was compounded by the sheer ordinariness of the play that caused it — he wasn't hit awkwardly or with unusual force.

But in trying to make a 10 - best list, I tripped right over my own divided soul right at the top: My two faves of 2016 are Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, an infinitely gentle - souled movie about the poetry of life and the life of poetry that finds more pleasure and meaning in ordinariness than most movies do in extraordinariness, and Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, a perfectly sustained dystopian sick joke about the desperate, poignant futility of seeking human connection.

It's not a new story, but that's the point: the sheer ordinariness of their experience lets De Botton use their relationship to explore the philosophical ramifications of everything from first date preparations to when to say I love you.

It's not a masterpiece, but it is a rarity: one of those glimpses into another culture obsessed with ordinariness, mendacity, and universality.

Correctly, Seidl understands that his commentary is rather unnecessary, that the power of the work comes from the very ordinariness of the couples and families participating, the racial divide in the work involved in this industry, and his unflinching capturing of events we know occur but usually repress.

Michael Ealy gives a performance of ordinariness as the cheesy talisman.

The environment «poisoned by ordinariness, mediocrity and clear agenda to destroy talents» is from you, your fellow pastors and your churches that have condemned the people to such mental slavery that they are unable to think as creatures of a God who created us in his image.

At the same time, it's Kapur's flourishes, the deviations from ordinariness, that keep Elizabeth from foundering in its period trappings.

«Pop culture obscures the heartbreaking ordinariness of members of white supremacist organizations,» writes Baker.

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, who passed away on Friday, cultivated an air of provincial, down - to - earth ordinariness, often saying that he had wanted to be a farmer.

What does the tradition teach him about how to speak of this Logos who is active in personal and communal ordinariness?

It was almost too much to bear: the absolute ordinariness of the scene, which would remind any of us of our own desks and unfinished projects, combined with a fear that she might not be back to finish things up, to clean the dust off the tape dispenser and wash out the water bottle for another use.

Its in the day to day ordinariness that Jesus is to be found in our midst and we should celebrate that and hang onto it — he never really had big buildings, big fanfares, big «ra ra» moments did he?

A grisly story, this — full of fervid, sanguine ordinariness.

This is life in its common ordinariness in which we try at least to preserve our sanity and at most to improve our lot and that of others around us.

While religion often functions on an everyday level to sustain and enrich our ordinary lives, some of our most pointed questions arise when things do not go the way we expected and the blessed ordinariness of life is interrupted by death, disease, or despair.

However, when you put the two together... when you sew a couple pockets into a big flowy skirt... it transforms that ordinariness into what feels like a heaven - sent miracle outfit.

But forgive these two guys for their astonishing ordinariness.

The club is stuck in a new area of profitable ordinariness where ambition is too dangerous to the board and owners and too hard for a mentally blind manager to alter.

Yet like Sancho, we, too, are apt to convince ourselves of the innocuous ordinariness of our windmills.

After Philip May appeared on the show with his wife last year, one columnist noted that «he seemed to be able to don a mantle of such extreme ordinariness that he might as well not have been there».

A documentary - style look at the lives of office workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, The Office takes ordinariness and turns it into comedy gold.

There are also eight Vicariate Apostolic and one Military Ordinariness in Ecuador.

The ironic distance derived from the film's framing device and fourth wall — breaking helps emphasizes the drab ordinariness and the utter acceptability of such cruelty.

Her fetching ordinariness, which happens to be quite extraordinary, brings him down to earth in ways no movie queen could manage.

And the stripped - down acting style echoes the way Mitchell approaches the material, dwelling on the plodding ordinariness of the situation by using sharp comedy, sudden emotional responses and wrenching anguish.

Gary Oldman is one of those actors you could walk past in the street and not recognise — he has a quiet, unshowy ordinariness that not only allows him to disappear into the parts he plays but also does a very good job of deflecting public attention.

It's not his exceptionality, but his human ordinariness, that makes Oscar's murder (by a transit police officer) sting.

But the actors are betrayed by a roundelay farce lacking in insightful moments and by Bogdanovich's medium - shot visual scheme that is either too poorly - lit, too pointlessly obfuscating (see especially a long track of Herrmann galumphing through the bowels of his ship), or so terrified of being obtrusive that its very ordinariness becomes distracting.

Hanks is given a speech which he delivers with his customarily epic ordinariness of how war changes a man.

To date, Saoirse Ronan - a 21 - year - old Irish actress - has made a charm of her earthy ordinariness.

The unforced ordinariness of Vincent's family is echoed in most of the friends and former associates we see.

But Nichols, whose superior Midnight Special opened earlier in 2016 (and made our aggregate list), is so committed to capturing the noble ordinariness of his subjects and their lives that he zaps the story of urgency.

The CSL's main problem in the current marketplace is one of mechanical ordinariness: that straight - six may have been taken out a few cc, but there wasn't any claimed increase in performance — it was timed at 7.3 sec to 60mph and wouldn't quite reach 140mph.

She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.

When [Brunetti] muses, the reader listens almost hypnotically, transfixed by the somehow ennobling ordinariness of this remarkable man's humanity but also by the subtlety of his mind and his absolute refusal to succumb to the tyranny of bureaucrats and moralists....

«What makes Lahiri's debut collection of stories stand out is precisely its quality of unexpected ordinariness.

All kinds of contradictory emotions seep into these paintings — loneliness and camaraderie, and the convoluted union between ordinariness and strangeness that is synonymous with daily living.»

Suburban life and dreamlike landscapes symbolically represent a quasi-nostalgic ordinariness.

What she terms «sublime ordinariness» manifests itself in a muted pastel - and - beige colour palette, and recurring visual motifs such as pearls, butterflflies, hearts and motivational slogans, act as reminders of the ubiquity of the mundane and the cute in presentations of identity and taste in social media and beyond.

For Heidi, the unflinching ordinariness of her female figures makes them more worthy of painting, not less.

The works move freely between the apparent ordinariness of a recognizable image and sheer abstraction, sometimes appearing closer to painting's pictorial strategies than what we expect from photography.

The son of a miner, Lavery has developed an enduring interest and passion for his subject since dropping in on a small indoor circus in his hometown of Wakefield in 1968: «I was immediately struck by the disparity between the outward exoticism, the finery, the sequined costumes, the plumes, the elaborate display and backstage ordinariness.

Born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927, Dodd shares the commitment to the gritty ordinariness of the everyday with another native of that much misaligned state, the poet William Carlos Williams, who was interested in «a new art form -LSB-...] rooted in locality which should give it fruit.»

Yet despite its pronounced ordinariness, it displays the same sort of mesmerizing imagery that pulls a viewer into reverie.

Orto Botanico # 1 (2014), a large - scale silver gelatin print, presents a sculptural form emerging from a base of incongruous materials; the hint of surrealist photography projects an atmosphere of ambiguity over the relative ordinariness of the colour photographs that appear alongside it in the exhibition.

His work is unified and characterised by its calm intelligence and a kind of extraordinary ordinariness that helps us see its subject, the world around us, in a new way.

In Ireland the ground for civil partnership or gay marriage had been harrowed by couples such as Katherine Zappone and Ann - Louise Gilligan, whose public appearances in their ongoing court battle for the right to an Irish marriage revealed their unthreatening, almost nunlike ordinariness.