• This is a community of mutual respect, but it is still distinctly divided at all the levels that matter in ordinary life.

    ECONOMIST: Race relations

  • The new saint, born in northern Spain in 1902, in his earthly days was a priest of forceful personality, much self-flagellation and attractive ideas of the personal sanctity that the lay Christian could achieve in ordinary life.

    ECONOMIST: A controversial canonisation

  • Could you imagine measuring ordinary life in such a manner?

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  • The narrative is about the hidden greatness in my sister's ordinary life and our sleepy hometown, most of which I hadn't been able to see until Ruthie began to die of cancer.

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  • Born in 1869, a year after the tsar, Rasputin seemed destined to a perfectly ordinary peasant life when an enforced stay in a local monastery, named Verkhoturye, seems to have changed him forever.

    ECONOMIST: Ra-Ra-Rasputin

  • The core idea revealed to Escriva in that 1928 vision, and unfolded in subsequent stages of Opus Dei's development, was the sanctification of ordinary life by laypeople living the gospel and Church teaching in their fullness.

    NPR: A Glimpse Inside a Catholic 'Force': Opus Dei

  • It's incredible - in the very heart of the city, in the middle of the traffic and ordinary life.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | House of Augustus opens to public

  • Life for ordinary Iraqis in Baghdad seems to me almost untenable.

    NPR: Khalilzad's Take on Baghdad

  • Though she is, at times, somewhat reluctant to speak about herself her ordinary beginnings in Illinois, her personal life she comes alive when she speaks about her work.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Other pictures show them in pubs, trying to maintain an ordinary social life, or doing war-relief work.

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  • In ordinary medicine, the goal is to extend life.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • But what I have noticed is a shift in my networks away from sharing the ordinary pieces of life fabric to focusing on the bigger, flashier, grander (or more grandiose) moments.

    FORBES: The Unfortunate Culture of Awesome

  • He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.

    NEWYORKER: Total Recall

  • There are fewer worthwhile accounts of ordinary life across the vast, eccentric Russian continent in the Putin era.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • But it is also a deservedly bad moment for some of the destructive forces in American public life, for those who have substituted for ordinary politics a sustained campaign to brand Obama as an outsider, as un-American, as non-American.

    CNN: Now, stop questioning Obama's legitimacy

  • It also turns out that ordinary speech patterns may be excellent predictors of human behavior in real life.

    FORBES: Technology

  • There is too little sense of what life was like for the ordinary soldier caught up in the most colossal of conflicts, subjected after decades of peace to an environment for which nothing could have prepared him.

    ECONOMIST: 20th-century history

  • He said vibrations caused by drilling for ordinary fillings could damage the nerve and cause root canal work later in life.

    BBC: 'No need for dentist's drill'

  • For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • After being warned by a tired bureaucrat in the heavens to keep his mouth shut, he returns, with relief, to his ordinary life.

    NEWYORKER: Control Yourself

  • This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.

    ECONOMIST: Science in fiction is not science fiction

  • This was the closest I could get to ordinary North Korean people and it was in sharp contrast to the poorer, harsher views of rural life I got during the trip east.

    CNN: Behind the veil: A rare look at life in North Korea

  • Filming at an Olympian remove from ordinary life, Straub and Huillet judge it severely and reach profound, disturbing conclusions: in an unwillingness to face death, modern mankind rejects the gods and despoils the divine realm of nature.

    NEWYORKER: These Encounters of Theirs

  • Environmental issues have also received increasingly frank coverage in state media in a sign China's new leaders are attempting to address growing quality-of-life concerns by ordinary Chinese.

    WSJ: Cadmium-Tainted Rice Found in Guangzhou

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