Sentence examples for if not exceptional from inspiring English sources

Musically, it's taut and entrancing, if not, exceptional.

This was good, if not exceptional, Mozart playing.

At least the 200 is now a contender, if not exceptional.

A good player, certainly, if not exceptional, and likely to join a professional National Football League team later this year.

More enjoyable, if not exceptional, were the appetizer of brandy beef tartare flavored with orange and lemon, and the veal osso buco entree with saffron risotto.

The 8.1 megapixel camera on the back of the Z4 Tablet is decent, if not exceptional, and is probably one of the best fitted to a tablet.

Alas! how dreary would be the world if America were not exceptional.

If they're not exceptional -- especially after earning the highest score for ice dancing, ever, at the Olympics -- I'm done.

Zawahiri is not exceptional; if anything, he is typical.

Six novels in 15 years is an impressive if not an exceptional rate of production; what's exceptional about Miller's work is its unfailingly artful, continuously resourceful shaping of a fictional world.

Has any British sports star squeezed so much pith and pulp from high class – if not truly exceptional – natural talent?