It's just a matter of time before something exceptional happens".
Yet months later, in the final days of the campaign, something exceptional happened.
And the films are solidly constructed — nothing too surprising or exceptional happens, but the mysteries are logical, the texture is gritty, and the performances are more than capable.
The climate threat features very prominently on the home page of the Guardian on Friday even though nothing exceptional happened on this day.
Born in London, Leacock was excited by film at the age of 11 when "one day, at school, something very exceptional happened.
Indeed, I almost got the sense that the Tigers spent the last few games of the season biding their time until Mathieu made something exceptional happen before snapping to life.
But toward the end of "Uhuru Afrika" at the Majestic Theater in Brooklyn, Randy Weston, the composer of the suite, brought out Melba Liston, the orchestrator of the piece, and something exceptional happened.
Here's a guide to 10 exceptional shows happening at venues across the city, from the Beacon Theater to the top of a tour bus.
Anyone who has turned out at these gatherings – and seen how all kinds of different people, megaphone in hand, are putting forward ideas about how to improve the world – will have seen that something truly exceptional is happening in Madrid.
If the Duke of Edinburgh passes the odd ethnically dubious comment, it is simply because he "wants to stir things up" and longs "for something exceptional to happen".
It was losing the everyday dramatic tautness that had once prevailed: the expectation that almost perfect baseball would be played, inning after inning, and that winning a game would therefore require something exceptional to happen out there.
