Similarly, The Betrothal in Santo Domingo exerts an extraordinary page-turning force while transcending mere gruesome entertainment, this time playing on racial prejudice.
There's an extraordinary page of legs: well-muscled legs, the bones of the pelvis and legs – apparently human in proportion but a bit horse-like in their shape.
You turn from a mechanical lion, whose design has been teased out of allusive skeletal drawings in a notebook, to an enormous display on which you leaf through one of the extraordinary codices, page by page, touching the gnomic text to allow translations and animated machinery to spring from the ink marks.
An extraordinary front-page newspaper editorial on Sunday in Ciudad Juárez cast a chilling light on the mortal dangers faced by journalists in Mexico's escalating drug wars.
Outraged, Covali wrote, by hand, an extraordinary twenty-page statement laying out, in great detail, his relations with the Moldovan police.
In an extraordinary 109-page motion, the officers' lawyers said all six may sue Mosby and mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for arresting and detaining them unless the city pays them tens of thousands of dollars in damages.
On to affairs here in Britain, and the Mail on Sunday (MoS) has an extraordinary front-page story stemming from the results of an inquiry into the much criticised maternity unit at Furness general hospital in Cumbria.
On Wednesday, The Washington Post ran an extraordinary front-page article that began: "For four days, Senator John McCain and his allies have accused Senator Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true".
That includes Bill and Denise Richards, who watched as their eight-year-old son was brutally blasted to death and their seven-year-old daughter lost her leg, and whose extraordinary front-page statement in the Boston Globe asked the US Attorney's office to spare Tsarnaev the death penalty if he agrees to waive all rights to appeal.
In an extraordinary 50-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock wrote that he viewed the ongoing pursuit of the case as "overkill " -- the "improvident invocation of federal criminal felony process when alternative administrative sanctions more closely tailored to the significance of the misconduct are available and adequate.
