Romand's exceptional passivity and fear of confrontation seem to have been the products of a combination of geographical and family elements: rural isolation in a grandiose but oppressive landscape - the Jura forests of eastern France - in which he grew up a sensitive only child with a stoical, undemonstrative father and a sickly, fretting mother, on whom no demands could be made.
As we wait for their responses, we read those résumés as time permits, looking for exceptional candidates who we fear might not take the next step.
In writer-director Jeremy Lovering's exceptional British thriller "In Fear," the needy, nebbish Tom Iain De Caesteckerrollslls the dice by booking a room at a remote hotel for himself and his maybe-kinda girlfriend, Lucy Alice Englertto, to celebrate their two-week anniversary.
"Staff favored going ahead with exceptional access because of the fear that spillovers from Greece would threaten the euro area and the global economy," the report said.
The 17-year-old's escape from the house Sunday was exceptional, therapists say, considering how fear of punishment can often paralyze children in similar situations.
The defendants claim that those were exceptional times in which officers feared for their lives and were under orders to bring an end to the anarchy that consumed the city.
The same Pew poll suggests that America is both exceptional and more united than some fear.
(The last show to beat "Idol" would be the subject of an exceptional bar bet — an episode of "Fear Factor" on NBC in May 2004).
I mourn the state of a great and seemingly exceptional nation that has been reduced to fear.
He is an exceptional human being, an inspiration to live beyond our fears and perceived limitations.
The United States is indeed an exceptional nation but our collective psyche is fragile, prone to fear and susceptible to simple narratives.
