The phrase
"ordinary words" refers to common, everyday language that is used in a general or non-technical way.
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Even though these seem like
just ordinary words, they could be major red flags for an interviewer or recruiter.
My English is not very well, so I can only
use ordinary words to describe my trustfully thankful feeling....
Dina Danish questioned how language is structured, from tongue - twisters to
ordinary words in cinema.
The reader meets strange phrases made up of
ordinary words which are combined to read almost like a secret code — phrases like... the Son of Man (what son of what man, and why all the capitals?)
As is often the case with John, small,
ordinary words such as bread and life are freighted with theological meaning.
At the edges of language, caught between here and elsewhere, there is hope that if we look out of the corners of our eyes, we can sometimes catch the metaphors lying round about, hidden in the
most ordinary words, in wait for the possibility of surprise.
The paintings
contain ordinary words or phrases that, because they seem to point to no obvious external referent, sometimes ask to be read as descriptions of the painting in which they appear: «CUTE AND USELESS» or «DISASTER.»
I put together a list below of some words you'll want to try to avoid at your next job interview, because even though they seem like
just ordinary words, they could be major red flags for an interviewer or recruiter.
And
ordinary words in the mouths of politicians have become weapons against trust itself, betraying anyone who hasn't amassed enough wealth and power to insure against betrayal.
Following the opening credits, we learn that in 1989, Ochs, who the film's program notes indicate was also among that group of Americans, gave the poets a list
of ordinary words.
Even the reader, who knows that Jesus has been
using ordinary words to refer to extraordinary things, is inclined to agree: «Whoever eats me will live because of me.»
Ordinary words are strained or are mixed with others in unusual ways.
Speaking for myself, the way that I usually do this is by clicking on «accept all changes» — and then saving the document — thinking that this turned off track changes and revered the document to
an ordinary Word document.
There was usually no need to direct the jury as to the meaning of
ordinary words, and therefore here, in the absence of any query from the jury, the judge did not err in not directing them as to the meaning of «substantial».
Descriptive terms way not be protectable — you can't lay ownership claim to
ordinary words and meanings.
«Some of the worst things ever written have been due to an avoidance of
the ordinary word.»