Urmson himself wrote 'As a member of the very last generation of undergraduates to attend Prichard's lectures and informal instruction, I learnt to admire his patience as a teacher, his philosophical acuity and, above all, his quite exceptional intellectual honesty and independence.' (This is in his introduction to his Prichard collection, reprinted in MacAdam, p. x).
Indigenous People's Day (formerly known as Columbus Day) is likely to be a threat to those who claim the ideology of American Exceptionalism as their doctrine and faith - but what is more exceptional than honesty, repentance, and committing to a future of treating others with the dignity and respect due every human being?
There's a reason why we have more than twice the weight of CNET, at no. 2 and the NY Times at no. 3. It's because we have an exceptional reputation for honesty and hard work, and we spend all our time in the community building friendships with the people who are driving this industry forward.
Dre is described as a sulking perfectionist, and Iovine as someone with exceptional taste whose withering honesty can seem mean or dismissive.
He was an acute critic and arguer, with an exceptional degree of intellectual honesty for his, or any, period; philosophy for him was not only a matter of abstract speculation but also a way of life in which, through an exacting intellectual and moral self-discipline and purification, those who are capable of the ascent can return to the source from which they came.
He added: "He is a politician of exceptional quality, of competence, of humanism, of honesty.
Many American reviews of Dreams From My Father singled out the exceptional grace of Obama's prose, its honesty and freshness.
In what amounts to a concerted challenge to the judicial system, the president's wife, Bernadette, has chimed in, describing Juppé as "a great statesman", while Mr Chirac called a "politician of an exceptional quality of competence, humanity... and honesty".
What "Friday Night Lights" supplies instead is emotional honesty and fidelity to an exceptional text, which is not necessarily something that football fans, let alone moviegoers, tend to value.
