Sentence examples for exceptional deeds from inspiring English sources
It is not to do – at heart, anyway – with the force of chauvinism or the blandishments of politicians with their airy talk of legacy and investment in youth, but the stunning possibility of quite exceptional deeds.
Writer Herbert Steinhouse, who interviewed him in 1948, wrote that "Schindler's exceptional deeds stemmed from just that elementary sense of decency and humanity that our sophisticated age seldom sincerely believes in.
For five years he lived in poverty on a small country estate, in debt, moreover, because of his exceptional deed of freeing his serfs from part of their villein service.
Again and again in social and political discourse, and in everyday life, landlocked elites repeated the dictum that Westerners were exceptional in their deeds, their customs, and their virtue -- and that they were being wronged by outsiders.
"Creigh Deeds is an exceptional and committed public servant".
Any features or deeds of human beings that seem exceptional, then, must have for Spinoza some explanation in terms of universal, natural laws.
She will always be remembered for her good deeds, kindness and the legacy of her exceptional children and grandchildren.
Anti-Semitism helped cause the Holocaust, but it is in the workings of law and deed, in turning belief into practice, that the Holocaust turned exceptional.
