Nor did she fumble over a single hook in securing the skirt of ordinary life.
Within a few weeks of the resumption of ordinary life, the Glasgow theater had become like a piece of cake that one eats unconsciously, then turns to find and discovers not.
Outside he would destroy the magic that had waked her at last from the dull sleep of ordinary life.
And the motives put into operation to produce effort and economy, being also of the same character with those in ordinary life, will advantageously prepare the prisoner for their wholesome action on him after his discharge.
If the motives which govern the world at large, and operate upon men in ordinary life, to make them frugal and industrious, and to keep them honest, can be brought to bear upon the isolated community of a jail, why should they not?
The freedom of will is permitted to us in the occurrences of ordinary life, as in our moral conduct; and in the former as well as the latter case, is often the means of misguiding those who possess it.
And if so in ordinary life, why not in the freaks and starts of despotism?
His heroes and heroines are too much addicted to stilted conversation and to sentimental remarks, which look very well in print, but are never heard in ordinary life.
The frequent change from seriousness to buffoonery, from the beautiful to the burlesque, has a similar origin in the tastes of our ancestors for the actualities of ordinary life, where these transitions are habitual.
To reach their land, the traveller must leave behind him every familiar object, and abandon every habit or need of ordinary life.
But the Jew is to be pitied, not distressed; he should be personally treated, in ordinary life, as his conduct merits.
This affair was transacted in as cool and business-like a manner as if Annie and her "laddies" had been following any of the honest callings in ordinary life.
We have all seen this phenomenon occur in ordinary life.
That release from the chains of ordinary life can be obtained as easily during life as by death.
The intellect can conquer the heart, as is well known in ordinary life.
In ordinary life, mental and physical traits are not sharply distinguished, and probably they cannot be distinguished except in the abstract.
But when we become precise, our remembering becomes different from that of ordinary life, and if we forget this we shall go wrong in the analysis of ordinary memory.
Those who maintain that mind is the reality and matter an evil dream are called "idealists"--a word which has a different meaning in philosophy from that which it bears in ordinary life.
Such understanding as this may belong to lexicographers and students, but not to ordinary mortals in ordinary life.
The sex taboo is the set of inhibitions which control and restrain the intercourse of the sexes with each other in ordinary life.
The leading idea was to reverse or invert everything in ordinary life.
The truth concerning these founders of religion seems to lie in the fact that they realised a depth of life beyond the world, the intellect, and the span of ordinary life.
What but knowledge can reveal to us the difference between spiritual norms and ordinary life, between intellect working alone and intellect merged with the spiritual potency of one's [p.
It may remain dormant in a large measure, but it is not entirely so, as witnessed by the fact that men have scaled heights far above Nature and the ordinary life of the day.
The work is far from being completed: the world still clings to the old level of ordinary life, and is so slow to grasp the value of the life of spiritual ideals.
In Les Corbeaux and La Parisienne the plot is very simple; the episodes are incidents taken from ordinary life.
In ordinary life a difference is felt between the world we know and the world we live, but the extreme professional attitude of science greatly widens the differences.
He has really made considerable progress, if we compare him with his predecessors and contemporaries, in the direction of the novel of ordinary life, as that life was in his own day.
He has, from our special point of view, made a real further progress towards the ideal of the ordinary novel--the presentation of ordinary life.
Both were, in fact, part of the general refusal to accept the conditions of ordinary life.
The internal life annihilates the external, which is just the opposite of ordinary life.
But I think that a man may deliberately resolve not to make recognition an object; and next I believe he may most successfully fight against egotism in ordinary lifeby regarding it mainly as a question of manners.
To me they are types: characters finely conceived, and only exaggerated because Charlotte Bronte had never mixed with people of that species in ordinary life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinary life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
