Adjective : extraordinary costs. ,extraordinary speed; an extraordinary man. ,minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary. From Dictionary.com.
Also, it might cheapen the extraordinariness of having powers. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Eren’s Review Forum] Reference
The ordinariness of Barbara's problems overwhelms the extraordinariness of their setting. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
"Extraordinary Minds" I say I think we are at the beginning of a science of extraordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness] Reference
As such, Judge Miller had acquired many of those unusual tics and quirks that give federal judges such an air of rarified extraordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
But this revelation of the extraordinariness of the ordinary cannot come, or at least cannot come easily, if a person does not first escape. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
A "saintly life story" (hailger wandel) is defined precisely by its extraordinariness and so cannot be judged by standards of "normal" behavior. 29. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
And it makes me realize that the ordinary itself is a sort of illusion we create, a mask to hide our discomfort with the extraordinariness of reality. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasy and Realism] Reference
But none of these musings and reflections could capture, perfectly, the extraordinariness of this experience, of these nine months and the nine months that preceded them. From Wordnik.com. [Of a Joy Which Can’t Be Words* | Her Bad Mother] Reference
So the whole notion of sexuality and extraordinariness is -- it's not a-- it's not a preoccupation of mine, but in this day and age one has to at least touch on those issues. From Wordnik.com. [Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness] Reference
These artifacts would find their way into the hands of collectors, who put them all together, showcasing their extraordinariness and trying to deconstruct what they were about. From Wordnik.com. [Quick Links: Coraline Boxes and the Antikythera Mechanism Reborn] Reference
Reading about him when I was a young person, I was struck mostly by the variety and extraordinariness of his experiences, and the fascinating idea that math had such concrete applications. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
And so the atheist needs to do more than simply beg the question as to the supposed obviousness of materialist naturalism, and the supposed extraordinariness this would allegedly require of evidence of design. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Study in Scientific Discovery] Reference
"Dan has captured them in a way that brings out their extraordinariness.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Its extraordinariness fades, says technology analyst Roger Kay of Endpoint. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
However, extraordinariness, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
The extraordinariness of the feat would then be but indifferently commented upon. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
They show ordinary people how to cope with the ordinary extraordinariness of pain. From Wordnik.com. [Just Another Pretty Farce] Reference
Maybe this year, you will discover more of the extraordinariness of your ordinary life. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Its extraordinariness fades, says technology analyst Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates. From Wordnik.com. [Can Apple thrive without its visionary CEO? - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
I entirely disown any personal contribution but I would never deny the extraordinariness of the insects themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Before people can comprehend the newness of a new thing, they need to be awakened to the extraordinariness of the old. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
And such polarized opinions don't come up as a surprise, since this album does have something of out-of-this-world extraordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
However, the use of the mind-altering, hallucinogenic drug from the datura plant is what adds the touch of extraordinariness to the case. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
What I would like them to contribute is to the recognition of small and big miracles of nature and consciousness about its extraordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [we make money not art] Reference
It seems to me that if you have one ordinary man judging, it is not his ordinariness that appears, but it is his extraordinariness that appears. From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
At some point, I assume, all this will become the routine backdrop to my life, but I hope I never take Jerusalem's extraordinariness for granted. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Rather, it zeroes in on the uncertainty of the journey of life, on the life-sustaining quality dreams are made of, and on the extraordinariness of ordinary men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Screen News] Reference
The speech did introduce to Americans a candidate who will campaign on the ordinariness of her origins, the extraordinariness of her achievements, and on the personality of a pugnacious outsider. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
That does seem an appropriate image: this colossal tower grows without constraint, without purpose, its scale revealed by the little houses below, whose ordinariness makes visible its extraordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
As neither its subject, nor its extraordinariness as a feat, nor its method, will withstand a searching examination, we must endeavour to discern if transcendent poetic merit be discoverable in the treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
"Most extraordinary in its ordinariness, and most ordinary in its extraordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
Should we not then judge the moral character of the act rather than its extraordinariness? ". From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
"As to the probation itself, you see that it is divided in three parts, viz. the extraordinariness of the malefices; the probability of the concurring adminicles; and the clearness of the positive probation. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
It is the message of extraordinariness. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Schwager: The Message of the One] Reference
3) The dust jacket of The Second Child calls the book “a meditation on the extraordinariness resident in the everyday – nursing babies, missing the past, knowing when to lead a child and knowing when to let go.”. From Wordnik.com. [2007 March 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
"good talker" with added points for "extraordinariness.". From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
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