Why should it seem exceptional, or an exception to the rule?
And the Quakers, after all, became known for their reliability precisely because it seemed exceptional.
Stop making it seem exceptional that a girl of a darker complexion is actually attractive.
It certainly seems exceptional so far, but what has allowed Newton, Dalton, Tebow, Ponder and even Gabbert to find (at least some) success in their first year while so many past first-year quarterbacks have foundered or tanked?
On the face of it, this transformation seems exceptional to Amazon.
Nazism, he says, no longer seems exceptional, as once it did.
In contrast, the high alumina glass found at Sardis seems exceptional in that it was the only mineral soda and high alumina glass published by Dussubieux and colleagues that occurred exclusively outside south and south-east Asia [39].
The Relotius case seems exceptional in its excesses, and deeply pathological.
Mr. Crain's 20-something alter ego may be uninformed on such matters, but "Necessary Errors" seems exceptional among recent American novels in how smartly it turns over the economic metaphors in so much American thinking.
The normal seems exceptional – free education, the rule of law, a relatively uncorrupted democracy, liberal traditions.
Herodotus understood, to a degree that seems exceptional for his time, that he was living in a globalised era.
