In all the 1920s writing on Chaplin, however, we find an emphasis on his humanity and on his sheer ordinariness.

Curiously enough, what makes this movie so engrossing is the sheer ordinariness of the lives it surveys.

Yet they always seem held down by their sheer ordinariness.

In Australia she was loved for her embodiment of all the national virtues - stoicism, humility, good humour and sheer ordinariness.

The sheer ordinariness of it all calmed her.

Einstein and Springsteen notwithstanding, we felt blessedly free of the pressures of fame and fashion, and could play out, in our own modest way, the dramas of sheer ordinariness.

The sheer ordinariness of it all and the cold stare of director Markus Schleinzer's camera are deeply disturbing in all manner of ways.

Yet his secret was his sheer ordinariness.

IT was only in the courtroom, at the American military base, that their physical insignificance, their sheer unremitting ordinariness, became so plain.