"It has to do with the fact that you have an extraordinary scholar there".
"He was really just an extraordinary scholar and a marvelous writer who chose to use biography as his avenue of expression," Mr. Plotkin said.
I sat back in my seat, amazed and haunted by this extraordinary scholar, out there in the desert, gathering and patterning a work of words that might keep us from slipping off into abstract space.
Someone might be an extraordinary scholar, philosopher, or philanthropist.
Dr. Hedda Bolgar, an extraordinary psychoanalyst, scholar, teacher, supervisor, lecturer, speaker, author and social justice activist, died peacefully Monday at her Brentwood home.
Author, architect, scholar, extraordinary flyfisher and above all, conservationist, Ernie's legacy will beneficially influence generations of future anglers and our environment.
The imbroglio also seems to have dimmed Vatican enthusiasm for an unrelated I.B.M. project to digitalize the library's entire archive of 150,000 rare manuscripts, an extraordinary boon to scholars.
I owe an almost inexpressible debt to Charles Ryskamp, an extraordinary museum director, literary scholar, and a man of unlimited generosity.
His family, friends, colleagues and students mourn the loss of an extraordinary teacher, noted literary scholar, devoted husband, and loving father and grandfather.
"In the case of leaders who work so closely together, this is extraordinary," Norman Ornstein, a Congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said of Mr. Frist's incursion.
Saying the Supreme Court seems likely at some point soon to consider the right to arms for the first time since 1939, these experts are touching off an extraordinary battle that has scholars flinging insults at one another over such arcana as the meaning of stray comments during English parliamentary debates in the 1600's.
