Vonnegut, who wrote 14 novels, managed to combine an exceptional humanity with a remarkably blasé pessimism, and presented his despair at human life in such engagingly simple terms that even Charlie Brown would have found it persuasive.
We shall always miss her zest for life, her unconditional friendship, her readiness to help everyone, her exceptional humanity.
Directed by Fábio Barreto from a screenplay by Daniel Tendler, Fernando Bonassi and Ms. Paraná, the movie presents Mr. da Silva, who is now 66 and is being treated for throat cancer, as an unblemished working-class hero and natural leader of exceptional intelligence and humanity.
They are both countries which believe in their own special destiny and which see their culture as an exceptional gift to humanity.
Wolfe traces the origin of humanity's exceptional susceptibility to these novel pathogens back millions of years to when the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees developed a taste for monkey meat.
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".
In fact, it strikes me that the academic humanities are exceptional among skilled professions in that they involve comparatively little collaboration with this deeply Tory external world.
Although he praised their "sublime" poetry and claimed that the "Jewish race" contained "imagination, romance, loyalty, probity and humanity in an exceptional degree", he also thought that centuries of persecution had led some Jews to exhibit "avarice, servility, falseness, cunning and the rest".
It has of course become a moral imperative that any modern representation of war demonstrates the suffering that spans battlelines, but it takes an exceptional writer to deliver a message of common humanity without descending into the trite.
"Returning health workers are exceptional people who are giving of themselves for humanity," he said.
"Returning health workers are exceptional people who are giving of themselves for humanity," a spokesman for Mr Ban said in a statement.
