Sentence examples for a exceptional figure from inspiring English sources

Like Durk, del Pozo is a exceptional figure in the NYPD.

"122 is not an exceptional figure for a champion.

In this influential critical manifesto Champfleury asserted that the hero of a novel should be an ordinary man rather than an exceptional figure.

Mr. Obama is an exceptional figure even in the United States, a nation of immigrants with a long and complex history of racial problems going back to the Indian wars and the extensive slave trade, which produced a bloody civil war.

Durk, an exceptional figure in the NYPD, had played a key role 40 years ago in bringing Frank Serpico to the New York Times after the police department had rebuffed Serpico's attempts to report corruption in his Bronx plainclothes unit.

Forgan will characterise Gove as an exceptional figure "with the determination and brilliance to make a difference" unlike most politicians, who "on the whole are bad at culture".

But Larouz remains an exceptional figure.

But the knight is, of course, an exceptional figure: the victims of seductions are almost always women.

What makes Oshima an exceptional figure in modern cinema is not two hours of erotica culminating in genital mutilation; anyone can show that, and lately many have.

Already in the late Renaissance, Francis Bacon had characterized Roger Bacon as an exceptional figure among the schoolmen.[1] Francis held that Roger Bacon had set aside the scholastic disputations of his age and engaged in the mechanical understanding of the secrets of nature.

Above all, his role as the co-discoverer of natural selection and his work on zoogeography marked him out as an exceptional figure.