normalities

The human body and mind are pretty incredible in the ability to adjust to new "normalities".

Smokey Mountain Breakdown 2008

That “would you say it to their face” position brings up the question of social normalities – if a certain number of people dictate that something should not be said in public, then the conformity of the group shifts to exclude the phase or statement from “civil discourse.”

Some Thought, Part Ten – Respect « The Graveyard 2010

If you want to be a fan, you have to accept everything about your actor/actress: the good and the bad, the normalities and the eccentricities alike.

Twilight Lexicon » Kristen Stewart: Elle Style Woman Of Year Acceptance Speech 2010

I have no idea how I'm going to cope with all of these, writing this blog, work and various other social normalities to attend to, but there are some people seeing over 70 titles so at least I'm not them.

17 Days, 21 Films: MIFF2010 Itinerary Glenn Dunks 2010

All of these exotic normalities are dramatically challenged by the outbreak of war.

Mrs Miniver shares Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes feeling Peter Bradshaw 2010

Prawitz, using previous work of William Tait and Jean-Yves Girard, proved in 1971 that non-normalities in a derivation can be converted in any order, with a terminating normalization process and a unique normal derivation as a result.

Chores 2009

It's actually taken this crisis to expose hidden normalities.

John O'Kane: Media Muddle 2009

It also produced anxiety, grief, tension and other connubial normalities.

Houses Divided Geoffrey Moorhouse 2009

Is life not made up of a series of days filled with these “normalities”?

Humans Do Not Need to Comfort Themselves With Fairy Tales 2008

Bowden then comes full-circle back to the comfort/meaning/reason for living argument by claiming that we need a reason for being, that reason must be something “beyond the normalities of our daily lives”, and that religion provides it.

Humans Do Not Need to Comfort Themselves With Fairy Tales 2008