If the French choose Sarkozy, they will be acknowledging that France is in a hell of a mess, and that they need an unusual sort of leader - in this case, a populist with a bit of a Napoleon complex (like the Corsican, he is a hyper-active, rather authoritarian, diminutive outsider) - to sort it out.
The program opens with a travelogue, though one of an unusual sort: "Lyman H. Howe's Famous Ride on a Runaway Train," the 1921 version of a concept that Howe, a traveling showman who worked the Northeast, filmed several times.
In this 1965 sketch from Dean Martin's variety show, Bob Newhart plays a customer furtively trying to return a hairpiece to Martin's salesclerk — though he's an unusual sort of salesclerk, one who wears a tuxedo, holds a lit cigarette, and almost immediately starts to grin.
The young cop's conflicted emotions generate an unusual sort of suspense, a heightened apprehensiveness.
Yes, a hedge... albeit of an unusual sort, more than 2,500 miles long at the peak of its growth in the 1870's and requiring a staff of roughly 14,000 to keep in good trim.
Lots of fans find him on YouTube, where he is an unusual sort of celebrity, a stern but mercurial lecturer who often holds forth for hours, mixing polemics with pep talks.
Now, they say that a type of exploding star first thought to be an unusual sort of type Ia supernova is actually a different class of supernova altogether.
And so, left alone to wander and lose himself in a waking nightmare, he went on an unusual sort of rampage: Over the spring and summer months of 2010, Maynard ravaged scores of city-owned trees.
It was an unusual sort of talk to bring to a business conference.
But her speech was actually most effective when it was confirming the impression that Romney is less a relatable 21st century kind of guy than an unusual sort of throwback – the last of the WASP aristocrats, the latter-day heir of the Cabots and Saltonstalls and pre-Texas Bushes, offering himself up to serve a country where his species long ago ceased to rule.
