You are an ordinary person undertaking an extraordinary task.
"Everybody says this is an extraordinary task, it's a difficult task, it can't be done," he said.
Portillo said that Adiga "undertakes an extraordinary task - he gains and holds the attention of the reader for a hero who is a thoroughgoing villain".
PAGE A3 Weighing Pain of Holocaust A judge in Brooklyn is facing the extraordinary task of deciding how to distribute what may be $400 million to more than 70 groups representing victims of Nazi persecution.
Salt Lake City has faced the extraordinary task of reinventing security procedures in the few months since Sept. 11, bringing them up to a standard that will protect and reassure everyone, athletes and spectators alike.
But experts on those programs say the judge in Brooklyn, Edward R. Korman, is facing an extraordinary task as he sorts through proposals from more than 70 groups, social service agencies and international coalitions.
The volunteers seem more skilled and self-sufficient than the usual screeching Big Brother showoffs but building a society from scratch – with no electricity and only the most basic resources – still seems like an extraordinary task.
In the story, Mitchell, you write, "had become uncomfortably aware that he was performing only the simplest, least demanding tasks at the Home … While Mitchell gave head massages, he watched people who looked in no way extraordinary perform the extraordinary task of cleaning and wiping the sick and dying".
While Mitchell gave head massages, he watched people who looked in no way extraordinary perform the extraordinary task of cleaning and wiping the sick and dying men who populated the Home, bringing them back to their beds with their hair wet, their spindly bodies wrapped in fresh bedclothes.
