Meaning of intraordinary | Babel Free

Definitions

Falling within normal parameters; normal, ordinary.

nonstandard, rare

Examples

“It goes a great way perhaps towards explaining the secretion of urine, the formation of halitus from the lungs, the insensible and sensible perspiration from the other parts of animals, and the curious and intraordinary production of watery fluids [...]”

“My arguments will vary in strength and appeal, but I hope that they are usefully suggestive and present at the minimum a hypothesis worth entertaining. Perhaps we can make some sense of this extraordinary work by making it a little more "intraordinary".”

“These, while making no concessions to fair play or diplomatic stances, brought together a form of a benevolently critical lack of knowledge (i.e., ours); a form of extra- and intra-ordinary knowledge (i.e., that of Fei Dawei, an art historian, French since 2000; Fei in Mandarin means "not" or, in certain contexts, "against"); and a form of "absolute" acknowledgement (i.e., by the museum establishment).”

“"It is a place outside of place," Eunida answered. "Extra-ordinary as opposed to intra-ordinary."”

“Do we not have to accept two kinds of event i.e. intra-ordinary events, which take place on the ground of a given order, and extra-ordinary events, which leave this ground behind and change it? Or in other words, do we not have to presuppose that there are conformable and normal events on the one hand, and deviating and anomalous events on the other hand?”

“Ken Dowden's article "The Roman Audience of the Golden Ass" (1994), now the classic statement of this position, straightforwardly seeks to make the eccentric Metamorphoses more "intraordinary" by emphasizing the Roman spatial markers, the survival of the manuscript at Rome, Apuleius' probable residence at Rome, and other factors that give the novel a Roman rather than Carthaginian orientation.”

“What is especially frightening about Pet Sematary [1983, by Stephen King] is that there is nothing extraordinary about it. It is, in a sense, "intraordinary."”

“[...] I am simply referring to what [Emmanuel Chukwudi] Eze calls the ordinary sense of reason. If we lack an intra-ordinary exercise of reason, and intra-reliance on that reason, then we are ultimately going to be found wanting in our interpretation of that world.”

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