It is a species leap, a higher order of being.
When secrecy is used to protect a higher order of knowledge, it can make the keepers of the secrets think of themselves as a higher order of humans.
There's the implicit argument that a religious community produces a higher order of human being than a secular society.
Digital voltmeters generally have a higher order of accuracy than analogue instruments.
"I convinced myself that I was engaging in a higher order of mental activity than trying to flick pencils into the acoustic ceiling tiles," he said.
But Kosovo -- which I saw within months of having spent four years in Africa -- was clearly a higher order of aid recipient.
Monsters, Inc is another brilliant film from Pixar, a higher order of existence than any other Hollywood family entertainment on offer.
Yet even with something as ostensibly conventional as a literary adaptation, this movie is so distinct from everything and everyone else, and watching it is like encountering a higher order of film-making, more advanced and evolved.
Sakharov's was a higher order of political and human ambition than anything now heard across Russia, and, until his inheritors appear, it will be hard to think of the country as more than a dream gone wrong.
Normal bedtime is 9. Similar midnight madness erupted at bookstores in July 2000, when "Goblet" was released under the same sort of codified circumstances, but the new volume seemed to provoke a higher order of frenzy.
The theory came from J. W. Dunne, a British engineer and armchair philosopher who, in 1927, published "An Experiment with Time," arguing, in part, that our dreams afforded us rare access to a higher order of time.
