Culture gives rise to a number of such paradoxes, such as the fact that it is precisely our exceptional ability to co-operate that makes us the most divided species on the planet.
Situations in which an incubation period can be precisely documented are exceptional for listeriosis.
More precisely, hypogonadism was exceptional in our group; there were no cases of verified infertility, and more than 50% of our patients had offspring in all cases without induction.
Its principal constituents, the wealthy entrepreneurs of the valley, like to think of themselves as exceptional — except that some of its tactics have been criticized here precisely for reflecting an unexceptional Beltway approach.
It isn't because she's not exceptional, but precisely because she is.
Achievements like the deduction of DNA's structure etch our imagination precisely because they are exceptional.
Without slipping into moralizing, the movie suggests that Isaac's adventure is innocuous, even therapeutic, precisely because it's exceptional, a one-night-only off-ramp from his new and better life.
And the Quakers, after all, became known for their reliability precisely because it seemed exceptional.
Novels too proceed in this fashion, but what is distinctive about the form is precisely the concealment of those exceptional moments that serve as the motor of narrative.
In " 'A Shining City on a Hill': American Exceptionalism and the Supreme Court's Practice of Relying on Foreign Law," a 2006 article in the Boston University Law Review, Professor Calabresi concluded that the Supreme Court should be wary of citing foreign law in most constitutional cases precisely because the United States is exceptional.
Exceptional pop creates a precedent precisely by abrogating the presumptive rules.
