Sentences with phrase «very ordinary ones»

Most of us probably look at cardboard boxes for what they are, containers for our stuff, and a very ordinary ones at that.

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In DP3 I have an ordinary car and God is a very persuasive «back seat» driver; or, as one of my students suggested: God is in the trunk and her7 suggestions are barely audible.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

It seems to me that these latter novels are all illuminated by discussing them in terms very similar to the ones we used to discuss parables: they evoke the graciousness of the transcendent by means of a distortion of the familiar, for the purpose of providing a new and extraordinary context for ordinary experience.

As Whitehead points out, this concept of substance mirrors the ordinary concept of a thing, according to which reality consists in «things» that are «simply located,» are isolated from one another, and manifest an unchanged, enduring essence, their very «substance,» that underlies their fixed or changeable determining conditions or «accidents.

For some reason, the nature and the growth of thought that are necessary for the elaboration of great stones, great histories, great myths — or even ordinary ones — have not seemed very attractive or challenging to most of us.

It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck by the fact that, in any other area of medicine, ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).

«The Presbytery of Springfield, sitting at Cambridge, in the County of Bourbon, being through a gracious Providence in more than ordinary bodily health, growing in strength and size daily, and in perfect soundness and composure of mind; but knowing that it is appointed for all delegated bodies once to die, and considering that the life of every such body is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our calling.

If one is totally honest, the Tridentine liturgy as practised by the ordinary clergy in a daily «low» Mass was by and large a hurried and not very reverential exercise.

Whole Wheat Mixed Berry Loaf Cake — Quick breads seem like such an ordinary thing that wouldn't usually make it to my list of absolute favorites from the year, but this loaf cake still stands out in my mind months later as one of the very best things I whipped up this year.

I am so excited to share with you this one of a kind, very healthy, and delicious This is not your ordinary snacks because this cheesy sweet potato bite is incorporated with essential oils.

It is customary to associate cucumber or vegetable marrow fillets with these curries, and very nice ones are made with vegetables alone — sprigs of cauliflower, both kinds of artichokes, mushrooms (which are overwhelmed in ordinary curry by the condiments), and well soaked haricots are specially adapted to this method.

Except for one fumble - producing sack by defensive end Simeon Rice, the front four was very ordinary against San Francisco, and Warren Sapp was practically invisible.

Second half proved one thing to me, Arsenal have a title winning eleven, may be twelve, but after that we are very ordinary.

Although my story is not one of the exciting ones, I still think it's important for me to share the very ordinary happenings on my breastfeeding journey, thus far.

Ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the sun.

Mr Letwin - now directing policy for the Conservative Party - has told today's Daily Politics show on BBC1 that it's very unlikely that an ordinary voter would be able to name even one of his party's policies:

These people have very little understanding of what it's like to control a class of unruly teenagers, run a small business, deal with personnel management issues or directly tackle any one of the thousands of other issues that the rest of us in the real world deal with in our ordinary everyday lives.

However, Hochberg and colleagues argue that dark matter could also consist of lighter particles that have a mass somewhere around one - tenth that of the proton and interact with one another — but not ordinary matter — very strongly.

A: If you look across ordinary odors that might even be very similar to each other, you'll notice that the humans will be most sensitive to one and dogs will be most sensitive to another.

They are very hard to detect because their interaction with ordinary matter is extremely feeble, but over the years physicists have detected enough of them to observe that as they travel through space they can «oscillate» from one flavour to another.

While talking about the adornment one should be very clear that there is a big difference in bride mehndi dress and ordinary mehndi dress, here we are taking bride ones as a dominant part.

One of my favorite parts of hosting a weekly link up is getting to see the ways that everyone styles sometimes very ordinary staples from their closet.

Actually, dating after 40 is very similar to an ordinary one and thus, two of you can visit all common and usual places.

The way bikers date is already very different from ordinary people, but there are also things you can do to make your first date with a biker the most memorable one yet.

To forestall such questions, and distract us from the film's core emptiness, director Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park) and his crew very nearly art - direct everything into the dirt: The wallpaper in ordinary apartment buildings is a catalogue of optical illusions, and one fleeting overhead shot of a parking lot features an array of vehicles so expertly color - coordinated they could be photoshopped into a Kelly - Moore spread.

One of the best films of the decade, Yi Yi, Edward Yang's most accessible (and very last) film is a fluent, charming and precise family portrait that celebrates ordinary life with all its joys and chaos.

Tilda Swinton makes for a terrifically affable Ancient One, while Rachel McAdams shines as an «ordinary» person finding herself at the centre of some very abnormal goings on.

While drug and alcohol use may be common at most guy's weekends, this one is not ordinary, and the audience is shown the very real consequences of a group of men who are coming a bit unhinged.

It gives us men of very ordinary goals with whom to relate and further imbues them with the most honorable of motives: to provide a tolerable life for one's family, to stay loyal to old friends, and to find a reason to wake up every morning.

Schools with a STEM focus or university affiliations, for example, reported an array of upper - level science and math courses that few ordinary high schools — even very large ones — could offer.

«Although our lives have been very ordinary in one sense, they have been filled with adventure and new learning every day,» added Karen Dunmire.

One of the ways that I think that recipes were a particularly important part of this story is that it showed how an ordinary family struggled through a most horrific time and were able to help their community... it gives you a look at «the other» and realizing that the ordinary people who were part of «the other» are very much like «me.»

It takes considerably more literary skill to write a beautiful, fascinating novel about one ordinary person to whom very little happens.

Most war books are about battles and famous heroes; one doesn't read about «ordinary» people - particularly not women - very often at all.

This was no ordinary nose, but one long, aquiline, and furnishing the trademark circular bump over the bridge — the very same nose bestowed on all the Trencom men.

I also like the size for reading MOBI documents, but don't do that very often, as I am annoyed at the lack of ordinary page numbers in most MOBI docs and that there is only one font for the Kindle DX - which is not my favorite font.

In one hand place an ordinary «Leave It» treat (some kibble or other plain dry treat) in the other hand place your dog's very favorite «jackpot!»

Indeed, it's possible that if you encountered one of Tillmans's photographs in isolation, without attribution or outside the context of a gallery or museum, you might very well mistake it for a hastily snapped photograph taken by any ordinary person.

In an ordinary street in an ordinary part of north - west London, stands a very ordinary - looking Victorian terraced house, one of thousands like it.

However, the plaintiff (who had refiled under medical malpractice) brought the ordinary negligence theory again, despite the orders, and was awarded a staggering $ 20 million (one of the largest in state history and very unusual for someone so advanced in age).

But as I also said in a (friendly) critique of prof. Kerr's argument, one problem with such appeals for more evidence, especially expert evidence, is that it can be very hard to come by, especially in «ordinary» cases rather than those that are designed and litigated by specialized public - interest advocacy organizations.

Lawyers are advised to discuss communications security with their clients (and the subtle advisors warn that the clients may not be very knowledgeable about that topic, and one can't hide behind that ignorance to establish a permission); but the general rule is that ordinary, unencrypted email is OK.

Ordinary life, along with term life, is one of the original types of life insurance, and is still very much in use today.

And, one of the very best features of this type of policy is that it provides the same coverage as standard, ordinary, exam - is - included life insurance.

One of the first cutbacks in the recession was companies started to no longer print corporate stationery, but rather electing to print computer generated very ordinary nondescript peel and stick on labels, often with ink lacking in their printer.