And became a minor literary sensation because of a first novel that no ordinary readers have even read yet.

The vast majority of our examples do not seem to cause comprehension problems for the ordinary reader.

The message could not have been deciphered by an ordinary reader, for it was in code.

It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imagine those eight days.

What criterion can the ordinary reader choose when he is confronted by difficulties of this sort?

The ordinary reader was compelled to read secondary history or none.

I do not think the ordinary reader is such a fool.

Clearly such a chapter, which after a year or two would lose its interest for any ordinary reader, must ruin the book.

What do ordinary readers think, when their eyes catch the fact that someone they know is concerned with a police inquiry into crime?

There is no hard and fast rule: once again, the test is that of ordinary readers.