Some historical moments generate extraordinary forms of critical and artistic reflection, reminders of writerly freedom, in which comedy provides the most daring kind of engagement.
The team of physicians treating Betancourt determined that he was in a vegetative state and, reportedly in consultation with the hospital's ethics committee, sought to forgo extraordinary forms of therapy, such as dialysis and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Many millennia of adaptation has earned domestic dogs an extraordinary form of inter-species intelligence.
Meanwhile, Blomkvist gets his own research hireling in the extraordinary form of Lisbeth Salander, a computer whizz with zero social skills but an incandescent sense of purpose.
"It's an extraordinary form of federal involvement," Kara P. Dansky, the executive director of the Stanford University Criminal Justice Center, said of the ruling.
Gordimer addressed the moral and political dilemmas of her own and her children's generations in a society finally released from the terrible grip of an extraordinary form of control and exploitation.
He hits low tide no more than a couple of times – in the long diversion about Thomas Paine's bridge-building ambitions, for example, and in some of the more maddeningly meandering asides – but high tide comes in the extraordinary form of Robert P McCulloch, chainsaw entrepreneur and outboard-motor maker, who founded the city of Lake Havasu in the Arizonan desert in the early 1960s.
The really exciting news of the first day was the extraordinary form of the BMW-Sauber — which finished fastest in the morning, with Robert Kubica, the test driver, at the wheel — and the comparable attack of BMW's former partner at Williams, with its new Cosworth V8, which finished third in the afternoon session, less than half a second behind Schumacher.
This one won a Thirsk maiden last summer and did well enough next time to suggest he can win off his present rating, but he has generally been frustrating and would have little enough to recommend him, but for the extraordinary form of his new trainer, Geoff Harker, who has had four winners from his last five runners, including good old Nuit Sombre at 28-1.
Some commentators reduce it to a form of knowing, albeit an extraordinary form of knowing.
It is an extraordinary form of soft power which will endure even if the looming powerhouses of China, India and Brazil come to overshadow America's global economic dominance.
