Sentence examples similar to extraordinary stops from inspiring English sources

But he has attracted most attention as a brilliantly athletic fielder, earning himself a heap of highlight reel appearances, with plays such as an extraordinary stop during the Twenty20 World Cup in 2009, when he leaped over the boundary rope to parry back into play a shot that looked certain to go for six.

Many bets were placed on the Golden Lion going to Anomalisa, the extraordinary stop-motion animation directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, but instead it took the Grand Jury Prize – although it was by far the most innovative and artistically haunting film of the festival.

One of the most striking things about this year's Golden Globes nomination list is that two of the year's most successful films are duking it out in the best animation category: Inside Out, the dizzying drama of a girl's inner mental world versus Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman's extraordinary stop-motion study of a psychological breakdown.

It will take something extraordinary to stop them now.

Like that extraordinary work, "Stop-Loss" is devoted to the men's hidden wounds — the wired-up tensions and nightmares that lead to drunkenness, fights, smashed love affairs and marriages.

But his talents are too many and too extraordinary to stop.

Britain acknowledged today for the first time that US planes on "extraordinary rendition" flights stopped on British soil twice.

They passed the blue line, and my view was extraordinary: the Soviets stopped suddenly and got into position — pieces in a chess match.

Franklin took extraordinary measures to stop his addiction, such as writing to betting chain chief executives demanding he be banned from their shops.

More votes will be counted in Florida under the order of the Florida Supreme Court, unless the United States Supreme Court acts with extraordinary speed to stop the counting.

2008 Britain acknowledges for the first time that US planes on extraordinary rendition flights stopped on British soil at least twice.