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Simple sentences
Tom was an exceptional leader.
Sherlock Holmes had exceptional problem-solving skills.
This is an exceptional case.
I've done nothing exceptional.
Tom is an exceptional person.
They say that many Buddhist monks have exceptional abilities like levitation, abandoning the body and later returning to it at will.
Tom is exceptional.
Exceptional patience is required.
Movie subtitles
I don't think I'm exceptional.
They were exceptional.
In an exceptional case like this, I ought to keep it all.
But being an exceptional lawyer, I want my own office.
Looks like an exceptional bargain.
She torments me with such exceptional maturity.
You must carve an exceptional position for yourself. and have your dear sister profit by it. Am I right, Germaine?
I have an exceptional record by Billie Holiday.
Priest Takuan, realizing that Takezo ia a man of exceptional qualities, has intervened on his behalf.
You're dealing with a rather exceptional person.
Tonight's show is exceptional.
You should have an exceptional view.
Exceptional qualities.
I owe it to you that I'll have the privilege of marrying a very exceptional girl.
Excellency Vangon and the police asked us to help them in an exceptional case.
I'm an exceptional case, monsieur.
I'll do the exceptional job of working on Sunday.
But Octave. is exceptional.
Mary, in many ways, your father was an exceptional man, but that wasn't one.
You have exceptional gifts.
I'm sure you'll give an exceptional performance, Ms. Spedding.
This boy was born with exceptional gifts.
Beauty is exceptional, an affront to an ugly world.
You couldn't see it yet you have exceptional eyesight.
You will admit that Blake Randolph is an exceptional man. - Wealthy, considerate. - Yes, ma'am.
Through my exceptional career, I've gained common sense, and stunning willpower.
Yesterday at the Alhambra, the dancer Ma had an exceptional success.
If any of you have your tongue in your cheek, feeling your exceptional talents and noncombat activities will remove you from harm's way, get it out of your heads.
She was exceptional, too.
And that's not exceptional, that's usual.
Well, you are exceptional.
Because I believe you are an exceptional man, unique, I would almost say, a phenomenon.
It's not the magistrate who's talking to you here, it's the man, it's the friend, who wonders if your exceptional and at times very singular eloquence might not be of such a kind, I repeat, as to encourage crime. Yes!
Even in the absence of organic injury, the thoughts of these individuals should doubtless be considered exceptional anomalies.
Geniuses are exceptional anomalies too.
Tony's an exceptional case.
Exceptional.
News and current affairs
Today, the mood is much grimmer, with references to 1929 and 1931 beginning to abound, even if some governments continue to behave as if the crisis was more classical than exceptional.
The Cup's organization has been exceptional (as was to be expected), with excellent police work giving hooligans hardly a chance.
There are those who truly believe in the idea that America is exceptional.
Exceptional periods sometimes create exceptional leaders.
Likewise, the current period in America and its relations with the world have been truly exceptional, requiring a leader who can fundamentally challenge a global majority's view that America has become arrogant, impotent, and selfish.
But that is another reason why Obama is exceptional: the complexity of his identity makes him truly universal, a global candidate for a global age.
Explaining the inevitable shift to tightening could prove a far greater challenge than explaining the exceptional accommodation of quantitative easing.
Unsurprisingly, China's pampered leadership now acts as if the country actually is exceptional and can get away with polluting outer space without rebuke.
China's exceptional tough talk does not necessarily mean that it intends to abandon Kim Jong-un's regime; but, at the very least, it does suggest that a radical shift in China's policy toward North Korea might no longer be unthinkable.
Perhaps the moral and intellectual tide will be reversed, and America will remain exceptional for the reasons that Tocqueville identified two centuries ago.
In my view, the classification of mental disorders, as a form of public policy making, poses exceptional challenges.
The fact that the existence of exceptional circumstances can now be invoked to distribute the burden of any needed adjustments over more than one year is helpful.
The mood in contemporary Germany may be exceptional.
France, at the heart of the European Union and President of both the G-8 and G-20 this year, is in an exceptional position to encourage such a regulatory move.
There are those who truly believe in the idea that America is exceptional. Those true believers argue that America's consumers can long pursue their spendthrift ways because their country's economy is better than everyone else's.
That exceptional spirit benefited her husband, but the country's institutions paid a high price.
Since this is designed to defuse an exceptional crisis, it would not become a precedent that encourages frivolous attacks on Latin America's democratically elected governments.
When embarrassed by comments made by the pastor of his church, he delivered an exceptional speech about race in America.
China's rulers see the Olympics as a stage for demonstrating to the world the exceptional vitality of the country they have built over the past three decades.