Sentence examples for extraordinary meaning from inspiring English sources

This is the Traditional form of receiving and is actually still the "ordinary" (meaning proper, as opposed to "extraordinary," meaning permitted but not exactly encouraged) form.

The election also carries extraordinary meaning for the Democratic Party, which has long dominated California politics but last month suffered a humiliating defeat when Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was elected governor with the votes of many Democrats.

And this, perhaps, is the most radioactively ironic aspect of Allen's fate: he may be a gossamer-touched director, able to elicit extraordinary meaning and humour from the most slight of vignettes.

We neither undermine nor compromise the extraordinary meaning of this remarkable presidency by holding it to every standard of peace and justice that brought us to the Obama campaign.

Further adding to the misery of disrupted passengers today, the Civil Aviation Authority told the BBC it considered the event to be an "extraordinary circumstance" — meaning airlines aren't obligated to pay financial compensation.

Monday, he held an extraordinary political meeting (meaning it was off the record) with 98 members of the Senate attending.

The company described the costs of the restructuring (announced in November) as an "extraordinary loss" — meaning abnormal, not eye-popping, though it is both.

Franklin writes that when she studied Chinese bronze casting as a metallurgist, "the extraordinary social meaning of prescriptive technologies dawned on me.

Over time, they came to be known as kabuki, meaning something extraordinary or shocking.

They both started the day tied for fifth, but 10 strokes behind Spieth, meaning something extraordinary would need to happen to see either of the two challenge for victory.

I found myself reaching instead for the opposite end of the spectrum of meaning –for the extraordinary, the inexplicable, the confounding.