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ordinary and man
There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.
Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors.
The man who now commanded her had started the voyage as an ordinary seaman.
When an ordinary free man accepted Islam, despite opposition, he would enjoy the protection of his tribe.
:" such care as an ordinary man might be expected to take on his own behalf.
Hence the Roman censors might brand a man with their " censorial mark " ( nota censoria ) in case he had been convicted of a crime in an ordinary court of justice, and had already suffered punishment for it.
: Economics is a study of man in the ordinary business of life.
He is selected by a news reporter to represent the " common man ", used to capture the imagination of ordinary Americans.
Some show him as an ordinary man who is dressed in plain attire.
He describes himself as " an ordinary man, but with the brain of a super-genius.
It is very difficult for the ordinary man to lose himself completely in the subject of a play or of a novel ; but for those who can do so, this method is unquestionably the best.
It argues that their lot as scribes is useful, and their lot far superior to that of the ordinary man.
This move marked him out as a ' man of the people ', and allowed him to interact more easily with ordinary citizens.
Burton had considered it ridiculous to cast a " bulked-up " ultra-masculine man as Batman, insisting that the Caped Crusader should be an ordinary ( albeit fabulously wealthy ) man who dressed up in an elaborate bat costume to frighten criminals.
While in the comics, he was an ordinary man, Burton created a freak of nature resembling a penguin with webbed, flipper-like fingers, a hooked, beak-like nose, and a penguin-like body ( resulting in a rotund, obese man ).
Hall and Popkin defend Mill against this accusation pointing out that he begins Chapter Four by asserting thatthat questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term ” and that this is “ common to all first principles .” According to Hall and Popkin, therefore, Mill does not attempt to “ establish that what people do desire is desirable but merely attempts to make the principles acceptable .” The type of “ proof ” Mill is offering " consists only of some considerations which, Mill thought, might induce an honest and reasonable man to accept utilitarianism ".
... come generally ... to the conclusion that there is something painful in the condition of the rural labourer in this great respect, that it is hard even for the industrious and sober man, under ordinary conditions, to secure a provision for his own old age.
Rousseau's striking phrase that man must " be forced to be free " should be understood this way: since the indivisible and inalienable popular sovereignty decides what is good for the whole, then if an individual lapses back into his ordinary egoism and disobeys the leadership, he will be forced to listen to what they decided as a member of the collectivity ( i. e. as citizens ).
) Brighton was apparently created to represent how ordinary British soldiers would feel about a man like Lawrence: impressed by his accomplishments but repulsed by his affected manner.
Before filming, Mendes and Spacey analyzed Jack Lemmon's performance in The Apartment ( 1960 ), because Mendes wanted Spacey to emulate " the way moved, the way he looked, the way he was in that office and the way he was an ordinary man and yet a special man ".

ordinary and woman
The Rabbis conflated ordinary niddah with this extended menstrual period, known in the Torah as zavah, and mandated that a woman may not have sexual intercourse with her husband from the time she begins her menstrual flow until seven days after it ends.
A modern liturgical pronunciation would be k ' deysha .</ ref > The word zonah simply meant an ordinary prostitute or loose woman.
The people of the Netherlands watched as their queen often appeared in public dressed like any ordinary Dutch woman.
Others point out that here, as in Galatians 4: 4, Paul does not use the ordinary word for " born " ( γεννητός, gennetos, the word used in in relation to John the Baptist being " born of a woman "), but the word γενόμενος, genomenos, literally meaning " become ", " come to be ", a fact that some interpret as an allusion to incarnation of the pre-existent Son of God.
Appius Claudius is said to have made an unjust decision which would have forced a young woman named Verginia into prostitution or as Appius ' personal slave, prompting her father to kill her, and this travesty caused an uprising against the Decemvirate ; the decemviri resigned their offices in 449 BC, and the ordinary magistrates ( magistratus ordinarii ) were re-instituted.
His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way ; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
Miss Marple explains that she believes that Helen was an ordinary, decent young woman, trying to escape from Kennedy, who was unhealthily and pathologically obsessed with her, and that the only evidence of her being " man-mad " came from him.
Heather Badcock, an ordinary albeit annoying woman, dies after drinking a cocktail at a party hosted by Marina.
In the following chapter, Pinocchio is transported to the Island of Busy Bees ( Isola delle Api Industriose ), where he meets the Fairy, now older, disguised as an ordinary woman.
The idea to base the strip around an ordinary, unremarkable woman, typical of the society she lived in, was also very different for 2000 AD.
After a nurse went missing in Los Angeles in 1980, an ordinary woman claimed to have a " vision " of the nurse's murdered body.
In many cases they continued in their ordinary line of work alongside earning money as a professional cunning man or woman in order to gain the maximum possible income.
Also implied is that the process must be precise ; the less experienced Wonder Girl attempted the spin only to find herself still an ordinary woman.
The story takes place today in Los Angeles and character would have three identities: Wonder Woman ( a superhero who fights crime ), Diana Themyscira ( Wonder Woman's public persona outside of costume, who is a successful businesswoman and owner of Themyscira Industries ) and Diana Prince ( an ordinary shy woman, the other assistant of Diana Themyscira ).
Also, in an attempt from the Watcher's Council to capture Faith without killing her in " Sanctuary ", they prepare a tranquilizer that is capable of knocking out a man twice her size, which is more than enough to subdue an ordinary young woman her size.
In his summing up, he had said of Edith: " This is not an ordinary charge of murder .... Am I right or wrong in saying that this woman is one of the most extraordinary personalities that you or I have ever met?
This is the woman you have to deal with, not some ordinary woman.
While researching an ordinary real estate transaction, title examiner Leah Farrell ( McCormick ) discovers a property transfer document with the forged name of a missing woman, and proceeds to investigate.
In reality, he is quite an ordinary fellow who married a rich woman in order to be a member of Manila's high society.
However, it was in many respects simply an intensification of ordinary Victorian fashions, and the ideal image of feminine attractiveness that a Victorian woman saw around her ( in fashion plates, advertisements, etc.
Image: Ellimans-Universal-Embrocation-Slough-1897-Ad. png | An 1897 ad, showing a relatively early example of an ordinary non-sea-bathing woman in public view in unskirted garments ( to ride a bicycle )
About this time, prominent society figures, such as Amy Vanderbilt and Emily Post, emerged to advise the ordinary man and woman on appropriate etiquette.

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