On the surface, things seemed surprisingly ordinary.

While the book's background exerts a grim sci-fi fascination, its central story manages to be surprisingly ordinary.

In actuality, the painting was a surprisingly ordinary sfumato portrait.

Without it, he looked surprisingly ordinary.

In the context of the rest of production, the evening's final tableau is surprisingly ordinary, almost tacky.

He ushered her through another door and into a surprisingly ordinary office.

Ms. Bee's path to one of the hottest shows on television was surprisingly ordinary.

The place struck Lutt as surprisingly ordinary until he looked at the window wall on his left.

For all these ailments, he looks surprisingly ordinary: a clean-shaven 55-year-old man with soft brown hair and blue eyes.

Gathered together, engrossed with each other, the Q family presented a surprisingly ordinary portrait of domestic life.