exceptionalness

Obama co-opted that messaging tonight, calling on the public to draw on our collective exceptionalness -- is that a word?

First thoughts on President Obama's State of the Union Speech Chris Cillizza 2011

You get this, too, reading Thoreau, who was still quite a young man, I think just twenty-seven years old, when he went to Walden, and you can easily see, reading his writings, how positively exhilarated he was by his own exceptionalness.

Interview with Environmental Activist and Consumer Advocate Mr. Grinch: On the Christmas Story and the Post-consumer era 2008

They are trapped in the Murdoch bubble, in its exceptionalness.

The Secrets of His Succession Wolff, Michael 2008

You see a lot of young people now trying to return, and their attempts are energized by a sense of novelty, with the thrill of their own exceptionalness.

Interview with Environmental Activist and Consumer Advocate Mr. Grinch: On the Christmas Story and the Post-consumer era 2008

So instead of being a story about the sheer preposterousness, the zaniness and lunacy, of the notion of Rudy as president — the exceptionalness of the whole enterprise — it was about, in essence, the logic of perception.

Crazy for Rudy Wolff, Michael 2007

They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

One such assumption was that, even if the transcendental claims of Christianity have been denied, any serious thought about morality must acknowledge the absolute exceptionalness of men, the unique dignity and worth of this species among otherwise speechless, inattentive things, and their uniquely open future.

A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

Of course he knew that Sonia’s position was an exceptional case, though unhappily not unique and not infrequent, indeed; but that very exceptionalness, her tinge of education, her previous life might, one would have thought, have killed her at the first step on that revolting path.

Chapter IV. Part IV 1917