Sentence examples for very exceptionalism from inspiring English sources

From the federal takeover of health care to the nationalization of student loans, Obama has demonstrated, argues Gingrich, that he is dedicated to destroying the very exceptionalism that has made America great.

As our Washington bureau chief writes in his survey this week, "A nation apart", the very phrase "American exceptionalism" that is so often heard these days was first coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835-40, when that brilliant Frenchman wrote his "Democracy in America".

They represent the real American exceptionalism.

And the novelistic character is the very Houdini of that exceptionalism.

I have to hand it to Palin, she may be onto something in her batty way: the election is very much about American exceptionalism.

Who used the "greater good" – the nebulous ambition to "raise cancer awareness" – to feed the individual glory, the very epitome of American exceptionalism.

For Northern Ireland's Protestants, even the buildings of Stormont, with its proto-fascist architectural grandeur, its sweeping grand vistas, are the very embodiment of their exceptionalism within the United Kingdom; a hubristic monument to the rightness of the Protestant cause and the decades of unbridled rule from the 1920s to the 1970s, in defiance of Dublin and Westminster.

And freedom is at the very heart of American exceptionalism.

I, for one, was drawn to Barack Obama early on because he spoke boldly of the need to tackle the myriad problems both inherited and imminent, and because he appealed to the very unique aspect of American exceptionalism that makes us feel that we indeed can tackle any problem or set of problems if we just roll up our sleeves get to work.

American exceptionalism might really be a form of cultural insularity.

But as Neuhaus notes, Dewey was "only one step away from the Protestant pulpit" and was very much in the tradition of "American exceptionalism".