Sentences with phrase «perfectly ordinary ways»

«What Mr. Romney's returns illustrated, instead, was the array of perfectly ordinary ways in which the United States tax code confers advantages on the rich...» [Nicholas Confessore and David Kocieniewski]

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What a great way to transform perfectly ordinary Muslims (the Palestinian - American who runs your corner grocery, the Iranian - American at the local gas station) into the arms of the extremists.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

Not only does it pair perfectly with the spinach, yellow bell pepper, celery and pistachios, its a wonderful way to liven up an ordinary salad with some lovely color and flavor.

But I do feel for him to the extent that the Turner prize unleashes a kind of national hysteria in which perfectly nice, ordinary, serious artists suddenly get slapped about the face with a ferocity that seems astonishing — normally serious critics suddenly start hyperventilating in a most peculiar way.

In the usual way we don't suspect duplicity when ordinary stupidity can provide a perfectly adequate explanation.