This year, a documentary titled "The War Photographers" was one such exception, Baker said, which squeaked in "because it was exceptional". Other entries that impressed him were "Educaution," which explores college, debt and the American dream, and Thomas Rio's "Hsu Ji Behind the Screen," told from the perspective of a young Chinese girl.
The figure of her daughter is too high school portrait-like and less interesting than the lively self-portraits, which would have been exceptional at the entry to the exhibition as a big "Hello!" The "Street Music" themed paintings are well executed; however it would be more interesting to see dynamism and motion in the compositions.
While black dancers excel at every type of dance, from street to modern, it's been hard for exceptional talents to gain entry to the major classical ballet companies.
Mr. Marshak produced a copy of a permit from the Israeli coordination and liaison authority that deals with Gaza, dated Sunday, stating that it had approved the group's entry on an "exceptional and one-time basis, in light of the special circumstances". It was addressed to Mr. Marshak and a charity, the Candle for Peace and Brotherhood, based in Kafr Qassem, an Arab town in central Israel.
And the quality of the entries was as exceptional as the quantity.
These off-diagonal non-zero entries are called exceptional elements (Albadawi et al. 2005; Murugan and Selladurai 2011).
Andrew Lloyd Webber said: "The standard of entries has been exceptional and is a credit to the dedicated music staff at the hundreds of schools which entered.
Lebanon, which has taken in 1.2 million Syrians, announced this month that it was barring entry to all but "exceptional" cases.
Bedser's entry into Test cricket was exceptional, with no signs of his being a nervous novice.
Olivier Assayas's competition entry, "Personal Shopper," starring an exceptional Kristen Stewart, was unfairly booed at its first press screening.
