ordinary point
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The conventional wisdom is that an ace is worth more than an ordinary point because a server can save energy, stay in rhythm and psychologically wound the opponent.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2014
I fear that you would not receive me, and from the ordinary point of view of society you would be acting quite rightly, since you are really living alone.
From Taquisara by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
And now this story, which has been—from an ordinary point of view—little more than a comedy, develops into something very like a tragedy.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley
Mrs. Venables' niece, Prudence Varley, talked about Naples, with a certain careful accentuation of the purely ordinary point of view of the cultivated seer of sights.
From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
As seen in this light, the blacks of the picture are blacker, the whites, whiter, than they appear from the ordinary point of view.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.
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