GameSpot called the game's sounds exceptional, praising its variety of car noises such as the "warning beeps when the bus goes in reverse".
In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan described Short Term 12 as "a small wonder", "a film of exceptional naturalness and empathy", and "moving and intimate", offering particular praise to the film's honesty and plausibility.
Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company called Arctic Monkeys' run an "exceptional achievement", while praise for the album itself has been equally effusive.
BT unveiled Clare Balding as a marquee signing after her exceptional and widely praised broadcasts during the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Lt Col Robin Lindsay, the soldiers' commanding officer, described Cpl Savage as an "exceptional soldier" and praised "his composed and professional approach (which) had a calming influence on his platoon".
Mr. As Sy said UNICEF's early response to this extraordinary challenge was exceptional and he praised all UNICEF's partners and national committees for their work.
In its latest quarterly report, the IMF praised Ireland's "exceptional" efforts to meet its targets, but this praise comes at a time when the fiction of a reward for good behaviour is falling apart.
According to Pedreira, Jack Cox, who had praised her "exceptional skills" as a therapist in his performance evaluations, broke into tears when telling her the news.
Three C.M.A.s sent out a gloss of Obama's movement at a campaign event, praising his exceptional Flow, an indicator of empathy: "At one point, a woman handed him a baby..
Chair of the judges Anne Stevenson praised "an exceptional year for poetry, with a record number of entries", and said that the judges had "agreed on a strong shortlist which is unusually eclectic in form and theme".
