They include several varieties of etched carnelian and long barrel beads made with extraordinary skill and accuracy.
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" and, for that matter, most superhero movies are prodigious feats of intelligence, made with extraordinary attention to detail.
The people in his work, their passions and dramas, are true and recognizable — and rarely more deeply felt than in "Moonrise Kingdom" — but they exist in a world apart, one made with extraordinary detail, care and, I think, love by Mr. Anderson.
The decision to fire a missile was made with "extraordinary care and thoughtfulness", he insisted.
And perhaps it says so much about the extraordinary impact the young Ulsterman made with his extraordinary US Open victory that golf's biggest question mark no longer follows the name "Tiger Woods".
My second favourite thing in life is eating spaghetti alle vongole, and they do the best version of that too – made with rosemary, which is extraordinary but utterly delicious.
Of course, his interests weren't limited to current events, as seen in his 1948 adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play "The Human Voice" — and the films he made with Bergman represented an extraordinary new artistic turn in his career.
You've probably had fattoush, the Middle Eastern salad of toasted bread with vegetables and greens, but Khechemyan's version is extraordinary, made with purslane, both leaves and chopped stems, dressed lightly with lemon and oil, tossed with herbs and crumbles of feta and served with cracker-crisp triangles of toasted pita ringing the plate, ready to be crumbled into the salad.
Can you make someone with extraordinary skill but with deep-seated insecurities believe that he can thrive in the last two minutes?
Ms. Silverton, who started her career as a pastry chef and is an accomplished baker, makes crusts with extraordinary character: softly chewy in spots, crisply charred in others, ever so faintly sweet, even more faintly sour.
And, of course, there is a puddle of thick sambal, the extraordinary Malaysian condiment made with chillies, shrimp paste, garlic, ginger, sugar and lime… you know, all the good things.
