Sentence examples for were exceptional for from inspiring English sources

(Eric Fischl's cinematic, psychologically charged paintings of domestic sex scenes in the '80s were exceptional for their Freudian candor).

But the Nazis and Hutus were exceptional for making the extermination of a people essential to their politics.

At the time, the couple were exceptional for the experimental range of their partnerwork, starting out with passages of transparent simplicity, like the slow mirrored body work in the opening sequence and building up to the audaciously elaborated and expanded lift sequences at 2.45 and 3.45 and that tumbling, spinning somersaulting climax at 5.33.

As early as the 9th century, plainsong manuscripts had the signs "c" (celeriter, "quick") and "t" (trahere, "slow"), but such indications were exceptional, for the musical repertory was well known to the performers, and written sources served purely for reference purposes.

Our response rates, while modest for the Directors' survey, were exceptional for the Coordinators' survey.

I thought they were exceptional for the 75 minutes that we had to defend.

His sets are exceptional for their congeniality.

The result is exceptional for various reasons.

Maddie is exceptional for a reason.

The River Mountains Trail is exceptional for its vistas, history and wilderness.

In the following period he has been exceptional for me.