Sentence examples for unusually prized from inspiring English sources

The book's intended readers may not realize they are reading about anything unusually prized, but they will recognize they're on to something quite splendid.

Literature and scholarship are unusually prized in Tamil culture indeed, it was partly for their love of learning that Sri Lanka's Tamils were favoured by the British.In 1948, when Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon) gained independence, Tamils represented 16% of the population but their English-speaking elite filled over 60% of civil-service jobs.

The new play "A Kid Like Jake," about raising a child in the world of Manhattan privilege, has won the 2013 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, an unusually structured prize that provides $50,000 to the writer and an additional $100,000 toward the production costs for the show's premiere.

The fact that many more people enter lotteries when unusually big prizes are announced, keeping risk more or less constant, is evidence for this.

Unusually, no prize was awarded that year.

First, their unusually aggressive behaviour may simply reflect the fruit's status as a highly prized food item.

He was also a neighbor who prized discretion: the Rancadore home, painted white and semidetached, is distinguished by unusually tall hedges and closed-circuit television cameras.

Unusually, his Nobel prize for literature in 1971 was celebrated in every Chilean household.

Unusually, the Folio prize has decided to be transparent and name all the books it considers, which means we know that big names such as Martin Amis, Sarah Waters, Peter Carey and Booker-winner Richard Flanagan all failed to make the shortlist.

Because of stipulations in a settlement of a lawsuit, publicity on the prizes was unusually understated.

He is fairly sanguine now, but the failure of the British Museum to come through felt "like a total catastrophe at the time", he said when we meet the morning after the prize – the artist looking unusually bright-eyed and alert for a post-party Turner prize-winner.