The extraordinary feel-good factor of the Games in Glasgow is beyond dispute, but the actual sporting quality of what we are seeing is a legitimate talking point.
The Creators Project likes to keep its eyes on the excess of infographics floating around the web, though there are often so many out there that singling one out as extraordinary feels like a misstep (though, it's worth noting that the handmade pie graphs from The Hairpin are always gold).
"I felt an extraordinary feeling that I was in the place that I was meant to be," he later recalled.
He knew he wanted to act at the age of 9 when he was on stage and "felt an extraordinary feeling that I was in the place that I was meant to be," he told The Guardian in 2000.
The passage of time makes extraordinary events feel ordinary.
So it's a pleasure to be able to report that this adventurous and extraordinary album feels like a new pinnacle in Youssou's career.
Whatever self-deprecation the extraordinary Spaniard feels compelled to bring to the victory podium, he is at a plateau beyond the reach of even Roger Federer at the moment.
I remember realizing when I was a student that I could make a measurement of an object in the sky, and how extraordinary that felt to me, as if it were a way of reaching out and connecting with something so far away.
From Alexander Pope's disconcertingly perfect and pretty script to Byron's slapdash rapidity to Sylvia Plath's wobbly yet decisive jottings, struggling to find invisible lines and margins, handwriting seems to show us how an extraordinary person felt as well as what he or she wrote.
That extraordinary session feels like a lone day of success in his Ryder Cup career.
