During the last several years, the government has undertaken an extraordinary construction boom — roads, housing, government buildings, soccer stadiums, schools, etc.
To improve things, he suggests that public intellectuals should pay more attention to social (particularly economic) realities, spare us their value judgments and post their columns on university websites (where colleagues will supposedly spot and correct their errors).What are we to make of this extraordinary construction, with its artificial-vanilla-flavour assumptions?
It took an extraordinary $10 million fund-raising effort by a retired advertising executive named Jack Connors, and an equally extraordinary construction effort by workers who at times pitched tents and slept on the island to get the camp ready for the kids by the start of this summer.
With delight, Martin shows me an extraordinary construction – a puppet machine account of the essentials of the Snow White story.
One of the first Western visitors to the temple was António da Madalena, a Portuguese monk who visited in 1586 and said that it "is of such extraordinary construction that it is not possible to describe it with a pen, particularly since it is like no other building in the world.
This kitchen makes every dish extraordinary, lacing artful constructions with unexpected and often inscrutable flavor from fruit, vegetable and herb emulsions and reductions, like pomegranate molasses, kaffir lime oil and black truffle vinaigrette -- all geared to balance the salty, sweet, bitter and sour qualities of a dish.
The extraordinary pace of building construction in Beijing since the mid-1990s produced a vast number of new and gleaming medium- and high-rise buildings.
For civilians, Schulz noted, extraordinary noise like construction blasts or jackhammering can often be anticipated and protected against, but "in the military that's not the case.
After an extraordinary era of construction and renovation, demolition and replacement, there will almost certainly come a long period in which little to nothing gets built.
On the hill at the top of the town is the Lunenburg Academy, an extraordinary mansard-roofed construction built in the 1890's, a sort of Charles Addams nightmare, only white.
