Greig, herself a mother of three, admits she was drawn to the play because of Hilary's ordinariness.

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The accounts of the lives of the 10 people arrested in the US for spying for Russia emphasise their ordinariness.

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Ordinariness is at the heart of Jonathan Franzen's extraordinary novel.

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And it is precisely their ordinariness that makes them extraordinary.

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The contrast between the anonymous ordinariness of life in the Bronx and the ghettos and squatter camps that form European impressions of their Romani fellow-citizens could hardly be sharper.

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Death and life finally unite, married in their ordinariness.

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From the kitchen-sink ordinariness of the working-class Belfast upbringing towards stardom on the pitch at United, renown as a Sixties socialite and eventually the infamy of alcoholism with the despair and trouble it brought.

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His awkward, inadequate ordinariness is his selling point.

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In the midst of this demographic stew lies the relatively new town of Sunny Isles Beach, formerly part of North Miami Beach, which like other villages nearby boasts an ambience resplendent in its sheer ordinariness: Strip malls, high-rises and decidedly unchic motel properties stand cheek by jowl.

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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.

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