ordinariness

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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.

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  • You'd always resented your own ordinariness, and at last you'd found a way to be extraordinary -- a way to make other people take notice of you, even to admire you. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
  • At times, its ordinariness is quite extraordinary. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • I saw her eyes flicker to me and then away, satisfied by my obvious ordinariness, and by the cautious, no-contact space Edward kept between us. —  Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
  • In the book, the couple's very ordinariness was a secret they withheld from each other and themselves, and that was the tragedy as Yates saw it: We're never the stars of our youthful dreams, and it hurts like hell to admit it. —  Google News - Top Stories
  • Sarah Palin's great appeal is her apparent ordinariness (just your average moose-hunting mom), although by definition she is extraordinary. —  Top Stories - Google News
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