extraordinariness

But he was too young to know his own extraordinariness."

Should we not then judge the moral character of the act rather than its extraordinariness?"

I was expecting some recognition of my extraordinariness and there was nothing."

And his skills, about to undergo the test of his life, look undiminished in their extraordinariness.

Another goal for the director was to communicate "the extraordinariness and the ordinariness of these mobsters' lives," she says.

In serious songs, when her voice is not working, there is not enough personal extraordinariness to make the lack seem unimportant.

The extraordinariness of Portmeirion was due to its being simultaneously a profoundly real but unreal place.

Extraordinariness is another thing.

There's an ordinariness about her appearance and an extraordinariness about her performance that I think people identify with."

Gooden said that any perceived extraordinariness was the result of the health of his shoulder and thus comfort in his mind.

The extraordinariness of human being is this being un-homely that is also a becoming homely.

By definition, the primary measure of surprise is "a certain feeling of wonder . . . arising from extraordinariness."

Messiaen's subject was the joy, the extraordinariness, the shock and also the charm to be felt at eternity's visiting earth in the shape of a baby.

Mr. Blessing contrived three generations of odd women who expect extraordinariness from themselves and from each other (though Dorothea says, "We never come close").

Is it the unrootedness of people, the extraordinariness of the landscape, the lack of seasons that untether you from the past?

He was dressed simply enough, just a kind of T-shirt as far as Angela could see, but if anything that only emphasised the gross extraordinariness of his features.

The notes also praise the film's "democratic respect for the extraordinariness of the ordinary" and calls it "the most public and touching work of a profoundly political film maker."

As the inhabitual, the extraordinary, the extraordinariness of skill, it exceeds the ordinary, but it can do so as that which governs the ordinary and the habitual.

Focusing on a small cohort of children with I.Q.'s above 180, Hollingworth's case studies couldn't supply clear-cut evidence that a high-testing childhood was a precursor of later extraordinariness.

His painterly vision, which encompassed a fascination with nature and the ability to reveal extraordinariness in ordinary life, was heavily indebted to the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

It became yet another example of Joey's extraordinariness: while the other mothers lamented the sense of entitlement with which their kids demanded cash, Patty did laughing caricatures of Joey's chagrin at having to beg Walter for funds.

A victim of the Westbrook women's unequivocal expectations for extraordinariness - "It's like having a disease" - it is Echo who, in the end, must reach out to her mother, not by telephone, but that's only a playwright's reconciliatory fumbling, mired in multiloquence.

Paul VI summarized his view of what he called the "extraordinariness" of Escrivá's sanctity in this way: "He is one of those men who has received the most charisms (supernatural gifts) and have corresponded most generously to them."

These contemporary observations and descriptions present Tubman at once in her ordinariness and her extraordinariness, render her as both real and impossibly heroic, and offer us the best opportunity to begin to understand how and why Harriet Tubman "rocked the world."