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Meanings of ordinariness in anglès

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The quality of being commonplace and ordinary.

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Usage of ordinariness in anglès
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But despite its ordinariness, violent crime was growing at an alarming rate.
Damaged
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The contrast, as the darkness gave way to sunny ordinariness, was stunning.
Spiral
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There you are, he said, with an effort at ordinariness of demeanour.
The Price of Love
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The ordinariness of the surroundings made the matters they dealt with extraordinarily moving.
Of Human Bondage
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Brennan's natural and casual statement should embarrass us with its ordinariness.
The Irish Times
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At this moment, the evidence leans toward the ordinariness of earth.
The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
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So it was its ordinariness that I thought was really radical.
Wired
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The machine whirrs into action, almost anti-theatrical in its functional ordinariness.
The Guardian
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The most important thing about Johnson's Dublin photographs is their ordinariness.
The Irish Times
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These fantastic alien forms are scuffed with ordinariness and even bathos.
The Guardian
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And yet, that unprepossessing ordinariness is what makes Buscemi captivating as a performer.
The new yorker
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Sometimes, it is the very ordinariness of a scene that makes it terrifying.
The Guardian
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On my own, the ordinariness of the moment is almost too much to stand.
Dark Matter
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More importantly, I think the ordinariness of these meals should serve as a caution.
Reuters
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All this is made more frightening by the ordinariness of the setting and props.
The Guardian
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You can't imagine how much I envy you that ordinariness.'
Melnitz
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