Committee chairman John Whittingdale described it as an "extraordinary lack of curiosity".
As I said it, I immediately thought about Chris Gayle's extraordinary lack of ambition.
This shyness bred an extraordinary lack of ego and with it a fundamental understanding of the predatory nature of photography.
His engaging simplicity and extraordinary lack of vanity were expressed in a favourite saying, "I am but a man".
Last month, a parliamentary select committee lamented his "extraordinary lack of curiosity" about Newsnight's investigation into Savile last December.
Heavy Hands...his attention was focussed on his instructor--Kate Gyllenhaal, an attractive young woman who was doing the exercises with an extraordinary lack of effort.
It wasn't so much the horrifi c crime itself, but what came afterwards, that made it so extraordinary - the lack of a body, the bungling police, press and public opinion turning on Lees, then suspicion falling on her, the way the real killer was so luckily stumbled upon, and the trial, at which Lees still refused to play the role that was expected of her.
"It is an insight into his extraordinary determination, and lack of bitterness and self-pity, that the show isn't a painful, disconcerting exercise in sentimentality, or something even odder and sadder, but a buoyant and inspiring performance that never once suffers from a failure of nerve or a loss of concentration.
When will someone within the Obama Administration publicly acknowledge that whatever troubles Snowden caused the intelligence agencies were outweighed by the public service he provided in illuminating the extraordinary reach (and lack of oversight) of the surveillance state, that his whistle-blowing was justified, and that the charges against him should be dropped?
I myself have written, since July of 2015, literally dozens of articles characterizing his authoritarianism, his extraordinary dishonesty, his lack of principle, his thirst for revenge, his sadistic pleasure in humiliating people, his disregard for fundamental American norms, etc. etc.
With the election unfolding against the backdrop of an extraordinary economic crisis, a lack of confidence in government, and two wars, the survey described a very inhospitable environment for any Republican to run for office.
