| The family in question is really quite ordinary, nothing special, but it's exactly that ordinariness that makes the film warm and comforting. |
| With its deep focus and crystal clarity, the movie has a hyperreal ordinariness, with a still-photography aesthetic. |
| Yet it is that ordinariness, oddly enough, that makes the stories resonate. |
| Even to her fellow-actors, the emotional volte-face between Moore's offscreen ordinariness and her onscreen extraordinariness can be confounding. |
| The pair played a brother and sister marooned in the wastes of suburban ordinariness. |
| The ordinariness of my life became extraordinarily beautiful because I was with persons who had time to listen and affirm. |
