Sarries have conceded just four tries in their six Premiership games, remarkable even by their standards and even more impressive given the absence of key backline figures such as Owen Farrell, Alex Goode, Duncan Taylor and Chris Ashton.
By beating Leeds United they made a notable inscription in their own annals and confounded an equally remarkable feat by their famous neighbours - that of achieving promotion despite a 15-point penalty and setting out on a march back to their former heights.
The intrinsic unfairness of this situation is made all the more remarkable by the fact their work and effort saves the public purse £119bn a year - more than the whole budget of the NHS.
Newcastle, like Pardew, are back from the dead after a display that capped off a quite remarkable week, even by their standards.
Moreover, to understand why some perpetrators are traumatized while others engage in killings without remarkable distress caused by their own atrocities, we propose that a differentiated view of the perception of cruelty could be crucial.
Led by Shane Warne and Mark Waugh, this clique shared a set of attributes - risk-taking, flamboyance, cockiness that verged on arrogance - that was buoyed up by their remarkable sporting talent.
Some, like two white ground vases of the type called lekythos, were sheer rarities, made more desirable by their remarkable condition.
Reading these stories over again, one is struck by their remarkable consistency of voice, recognizable through a wide spectrum of circumstance and character.
They are distinguished from the cold bloods, the heavy draft horses, and racehorses, or hot bloods, by their remarkable temperaments and lithe movements.
But here were musicians palpably involved with a shared conception of a remarkable work, and inspired by their dynamic conductor into urgent, intense and often ravishing playing.
