Traversing dust-blown deserts and majestic mountains, taking in glitzy cities and dystopian landscapes, Dark Shadows conjures up Kazakhstan as a living, breathing place, full of extraordinary people living extraordinary lives.
The living of our ordinary and, at the same time, quite extraordinary lives is, once realized, the real reward of life.
These were decades of extraordinary lives and extraordinary stories.
Vincent's two biggest hits have been about what she calls "ordinary people living extraordinary lives".
They are not necessarily inspirational, but they are, every last one of them, living extraordinary lives.
This Life is an ongoing series about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.
He's the author of From Silk to Silicon, The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives.
Faced with the records of all those extraordinary lives, what do you save and what do you throw away?
Pakula's biography makes it clear that Madame Chiang lived one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century.
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (Hutchinson, £25).
Which is to say, how can people living extraordinary lives depict ordinary ones?
