Edmund White

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

American Novelist

Varun Grover

There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.

American Writer

Donald Judd

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

American Artist

Peter York

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

British Journalist

George Will

In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

Journalist

John Shelton Reed

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Sociologist

Ursus Wehrli

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Swiss Comedian

Ronald Blythe

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

English Writer

Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

American Author

Ordinariness isn’t negative; it emphasizes normality and the absence of drama.

Not Negative

Ordinariness can suggest something is being hidden beneath a normal appearance.

Disguise

Use 'ordinariness' where simplicity or routine is valued or observed.

Context Sensitivity

 and the epidemic of it, and the kind of ordinariness of it, is so devastating to one's soul that you have to take the time, or I have to take the time now, to process that. There are a lot of causes out there in the world that have been talked about,

Eve Ensler: Security and...

 prose in which archaism and hallowed associations were to be avoided and a sense of reality sought now the sense of reality was actually a sense of total ordinariness an idea that information