Sitting in the audience, the view was slightly different: extraordinary, exceptional, but not quite the jolt of modernity that "Galliano the gardener" might have hoped for when he collaborated with Nick Knight, photographer and digital image maker.
The food can be exceptional or slightly unsuccessful, but it's all on the adventurous side.
She made sure, too, that her four children had exceptional – if slightly rarefied – survival skills.
To see him gaze up at it is to see a parent fondly regarding an exceptional, if slightly different, child.
Nature has devised the perfect metaphor for the burden of unionhood, forcing Europeans to recognize, like it or not, that they are bound together, a family of nations, albeit with Iceland as the exceptional and slightly alarming cousin at the end of the dining room table who still believes in elves.
Ward-level ST data will therefore be extracted from the HSCIC for the same time period as primary data collection to explore whether wards retain their exceptional or slightly above-average performance levels.
In fact what would normally be counted an exceptional result was slightly less brilliant than the forecasts.
Borobudur's satays ($9 ,99 or 10 skewers served with a sweet, slightly spicy peanut sauce, are exceptional, crisp around the edges yet tender within.
No less exceptional, but perhaps slightly more nauseating, is hedge fund superpower Steven Cohen's art collection.
