ordinariness

In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

But the point is this evidence points to an ordinariness of objects like Oumuamua not to a rareness.

If you do it slowly like most people do, you'll mistake the slow process of becoming wise to your own ordinariness for decay.

I'm from the North West, and it was the sheer ordinariness of the people that they managed to capture so perfectly that made themselves empathetic to me.

The spiral of ordinariness took more than a decade to overcome and not until the prodigal son returned to the helm of the company he co-founded.

For decades until, arguably, the arrival of nighttime soaps in the 1970s and '80s the most celebrated figures on the small screen evoked not glamour but ordinariness.

It's incredibly brave of her to take on the darling of venture capital, because what she highlighted wasn't the extremes of silicon valley culture, but the ordinariness of its status quo.

After indulging his taste for politics and intrigue as president of the Oxford Union, Boris exercised his "belief in freedom" as a journalist, Eurobashing and penning paeans to British "ordinariness".

You'd also think Thoreau a dick for renouncing society for a time, yes?What he needs right now is to acknowledge that he's just another ordinary humanOP is on an experiment to put his ordinariness as a human being to the test.

Conforming to the society without compromising oneself is okay, trying to fix defects one's own personality is okay, but all these are possible without becoming "normal", which implies mediocrity, ordinariness.

The very ordinariness of the institutionalised bias against declassification and its predictable result of large numbers of things remaining unnecessarily classified is the whole point.

We may be endowed with the wisdom of Solomon and have the resourcefulness and intelligence of Odysseus, but if we are unable to wield socially recognized badges of our qualities, our existence will remain a matter of raw indifference to them”Outsized expectations; Because meritocracy, "American Dream" doesn't empower people; rather statistically forces us to confront the mediocrity of our ordinariness of lives, while feeling anxious about alleged "wasted potential" :"In aristocracies, servants often accepted their position with good grace; it was not impossible for them to harbour, in Tocqueville’s words, 'high thoughts, strong pride and self-respect.