But with the exception of a terrific performance from one paceman and another outstanding fielding display, this was an indifferent England, several notches below the complete game they managed in Adelaide.
Quick!" Amanda Murray of Sputnikmusic felt that, "with the exception of the terrific title track,...Baby One More Time is a collection of either competent pop songs underwhelmingly executed or underwhelmingly written pop songs competently executed"....Baby One More Time debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 selling 121,000 units, replacing DMX's Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1998).
She continued: "With the exception of some really terrific stand-up comedians that can use that language -- but are not using it to shock -- it doesn't work.
(Jade Wu, as a woman of fierce stubbornness and unhappiness, is the exception as Naima; she's terrific.) "Barriers" overall has the unfortunate tone of an educational film that might be shown at a sensitivity workshop.
The exception was Dexandro "D" Montalvo's terrific Ocean, whose throbbing electronic score shot through with industrial sounds did not require a sound system any finer than that at the Cowell.
There is an exception: Felicia Day's Charlie Bradbury was a terrific addition to the "Supernatural" universe, and I'd love to see her again.
There have been exceptions -- the 50th anniversary special was pretty terrific -- but the overall decline has been troubling.
On his terrific new album, The Party, he handled all instrumental duties with the exception of the strings, which heighten the sense of melancholy melodrama.
With the exception of those few CEOs who were sacked, most had terrific air cover: "Our stock may be down 50% but so is everybody else.
Exception must be made, though, of Brie, Feather, Margarita and all the other terrific pooches in SCENT OF MURDER (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95) and of their savvy literary handler, Cynthia G. Alwyn, as well.
