And how extraordinary, speaking of risk factors, that the rotten luck of our fellow humans still perplexes us almost as much as the luck of that petrified reptile.
"But Obama's rocket ride to the White House, his extraordinary speaking skills, and his smooth, I-don't-sweat style had some people calling him 'the one,' a once-in-a-generation political leader who could rise above his predecessors' foibles".
There's a glut of new shows opening this week – and do remember the web broadcast of Forced Entertainment's extraordinary Speak Bitterness tomorrow night.
Aleksandr Baunov, in a recent essay for the magazine Slon, said even Mr. Putin's extraordinary public speaking — he called him the "Cicero of the people" — had lost the power to make Russians listen.
The New European's editor, Matt Kelly, called the diaries "extraordinary" and spoke of it being "a great coup for us to serialise them".
Sometimes Mr. Marker lets his extraordinary material speak for itself: here is an American pilot, nattering away as he bombs a suspected Vietcong encampment; here is Che Guevara, wandering dispiritedly in the Bolivian jungle.
His extraordinary record speaks for itself.
The Toronto Rave Community would have our heads if we omitted the one and only Andy C, but to tell you the truth, his extraordinary talent speaks for itself.
"These extraordinary surveys speak volumes about the challenges facing women and girls in Afghanistan," Bellamy said.
It's a gratifying sign of normality in a life that is, at least statistically speaking, extraordinary.
The tilt of the big, square head, the idiosyncratic body language, the gimpy gait and the extraordinary range of speaking voices are reproduced in a virtuoso performance that brings to life the image established by Lee Friedlander's many famous photographs of the singer in his prime.
