Sentence examples for extraordinary notion from inspiring English sources

It is an extraordinary notion.

Its hero, Liberace, as portrayed (or, rather, channelled) by Michael Douglas, is a ludicrous figure, a talented pianist who plays drivel, whose stage persona exudes self-satisfied vanity, whose shtick is woefully corny, whose garish taste is painful to the eye, whose boasts of innovations (including the extraordinary notion of putting a candelabra on his piano) are trivial.

But his mother is thinking of all sorts of painful things, none of which can be expressed: An extraordinary notion came to the Freifrau Auguste, that she might take advantage of this moment, which in its half-darkness and fragrance seemed to her almost sacred, to talk to her eldest son about herself.

Paediatricians, though once as misogynistic as the rest of the medical establishment – it was not until 1945 that women were permitted to join the British Paediatric Association, the forerunner of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – have consigned to history the extraordinary notion that the sex of a doctor matters.

Long before the buzzer sounded on the corrupt officiating career of Tim Donaghy, extraordinary notions of result-rigging occasionally took root in the minds of chagrined fans, in the stomachs of coaches dying a thousand playoff deaths and especially in the simple everyday language in and of the game.

In a defence of his actions in Iraq, Blair attacked as "extraordinary" any notion the country would be stable if Saddam Hussein had stayed in power.

But we should not confuse the fact that they took extraordinary actions with the notion that they lived in extraordinary times.

Ken Burn's video series entitled The National Parks Americas Best Ideaa, profiled individuals who exhibited extraordinary conviction regarding this notion.

By the turn of the 20th century the notion of the extraordinary morphological heterogeneity of the CNS glia was also firmly established.

It's pretty amazing how such a simple notion can be quite extraordinary when exercised.

For example, the notion of "extraordinariness" and the notion of "out of expectation" are analyzed as following: Extraordinariness Semantic element: Situation E Semantic relation: Situation E is abnormal or extraordinary (Guo 郭锐 2008: 10) Out of expectation Semantic element: Situation E Semantic relation: Situation E is unexpected to the speaker or to the listener (Guo 郭锐 2008: 10).