Detonating a bomb at a bus stop on a Sunday evening is heinous on a different order.
But this current crisis in Somalia is on a different order of magnitude than the typical calamity, if there is such a thing.
The Cunningham app, on a different order of magnitude, took about a dozen people, $60,000 and two years to put together.
The atmosphere on 11 September 2001 was of a different order, an extraordinary sensory event in my life.
The question that the prime minister will now put to MPs on Wednesday is of a different order.
But in soundly defeating the one-term incumbent, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, for the Democratic nomination for mayor last week, Mr. Gray, 67, takes on a challenge of a different order.
The attacks on New York and Washington are of a different order of savagery not only to the earlier bombings, but to the Palestinian hijackings and terror campaigns of the 1970s and even the cult of extreme violence in the Iraqi leadership of Saddam Hussein.
While shows with big-name stars like Mr. Richards, Bette Midler and John Goodman (in the Fox comedy "Normal, Ohio") have stumbled or fallen flat this season, "C.S.I". is prospering on star power of a different order: William Petersen, of films like "Manhunter," and Marg Helgenberger, formerly of "China Beach.
In this way, Dolezal's claim on black identity is of a different order than the hollow declaration of a Hollywood scion or anyone else who opted to be Negro for a season.
There are reservations too, though of a different order and on different subjects, about the Liberal Democrats.
Nobody occupies the White House without criticism, but Trump is besieged by doubts of a different order, centering on the overt, specific, and, at times, bipartisan discussion of whether he will be engulfed by any one of myriad problems before he has completed even one term in office and, if he is, how he might be removed.
