An unexceptional place of unexceptional happenings.
When it achieved independence 50 years ago, Singapore was an unexceptional place, other than for its challenges.
But affection extends even to the unexceptional horses.
"I am glad to see the home secretary's unexceptional reply to your unnecessary letter," wrote Jeremy Isaacs, C4's chief executive, in 1984, responding to some dyspeptic jeremiad.
Physical chastisement of women at home was once unexceptional, racist name-calling "a bit of fun", and bottom-pinching at work an everyday occurrence, something to be endured, because it was not going to change.
It stands out not only because it is on a rise, but because the grand houses around it, most in the multimillion-dollar range, are the safe and unexceptional variations on Georgian- and Colonial-style homes for which this city is known.
Family history, mostly, is unexceptional stuff.
Supersize parties are unexceptional in a country where "go big or go home" may as well be an immutable verity, a place where religious pilgrimages, like last year's Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, routinely draw scores of millions.
His journey from there was unexceptional: catering college, stints at local hotels in and around his home town, the best part of a year at Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir which he describes "as very hard.
She was raised in Africa and home-schooled by her zoologist parents; through her eyes, the unexceptional appears strange and novel.
But Yogi Berra, holder of those conferred venerations, isn't up to coming south from his home in New Jersey anymore to advise the — shall we say — unexceptional gentlemen currently competing for the starting catching position.
