Sentence examples for own exceptional from inspiring English sources

One is its own exceptional quality; the other is a reliable standard of mediocrity, against which it can be measured.

To a family record of scientific, literary, mathematical, and administrative achievement, Patrick brought his own exceptional skills.

"I've told him to his face many times, 'You're the greatest safety ever to play the game,' " said the Pittsburgh Steelers' own exceptional safety, Troy Polamalu.

The extreme lines of his choreography answered to her own exceptional suppleness and strength, but she also brought her own high-pitched intensity to the work's mathematical rigour.

I hope that the great Thespis will reward her for this with a role that uses her own exceptional skills to better effect.

They are also often outsiders.America was once the quintessential triple-package nation, convinced of its own exceptional destiny, a chosen people with a strong Protestant work ethic and yet riddled with insecurity in the face of Europe's cultural imperialism.

In other contexts, with a tall declarer owning exceptional eyesight, the play in spades, against the odds, would be called a Peeking Duck.

Given the pressure that legal aid lawyers are under, the decision of the LAPG committee to resist the temptation to mark the tenth anniversary by honouring one of their own – an exceptional lawyer – and honour an exceptional client instead was as generous as it was fitting.

Maybe, just maybe, some younger Americans are realizing that the United States has lessons to learn from something other than its own supposedly exceptional history.

The furniture is a combination of her own designs, exceptional antiques (ancient Chinese, northern European, older English pieces) and yards and yards of fabrics (cashmere, heavy linens and lots of Fortuny).

Indeed, private investigators from Pfizer surveying the Russian market found fakes that were, by the company's own admission, of exceptional quality.