He enjoyed painting people for their ordinariness.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It is the sheer ordinariness, the lack of histrionics that makes it so engrossing.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But I was not tuned in to the ordinariness of the people who listened to my idealistic preaching.
Christianity Today (2000)
There is something meditative and naturalistic about it, not least the depictions of the sea and nature and the slow humdrum ordinariness of small-town life.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is the very ordinariness of his life (and the tragedy of his death) that has given his story the power to overthrow dictators.