"The basic perception that we're having an exceptionally sharky year is wrong".
It's also exceptionally fucked up and wrong, though, isn't it?
The guy who did everything exceptionally well and almost nothing wrong.
At the weekend, Dr Atkinson described James's killing as "exceptionally unpleasant", but said it was wrong that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were 10 in 1993 when they were charged with the murder, were tried in an adult court.
Ray Leonard was in some ways his generation's Floyd Mayweather Jr – an exceptionally talented, brash, cocky boxer who rubbed many opponents and some fans the wrong way.
Livesey's last major evening contribution – Bump Club – was a quite exceptionally badly thought-out piece of radio, with tone, time and presenter all wrong for the subject matter.
In theory, there's nothing wrong with paying a babe on stilts to bring bottles to your table if you're exceptionally rich or exceptionally lazy.
The right norms, in other words, could raise a group's collective intelligence, whereas the wrong norms could hobble a team, even if, individually, all the members were exceptionally bright.
But while Herbert may be exceptionally well qualified to talk about issues of race, many feel he has gone about it in entirely the wrong way.
It's difficult to go wrong with the color and style: tall, short, buckle, no buckle, ornate or minimal embroidery all work exceptionally well.
