8 sentences with 'exceptional'
Example sentences and phrases with the word exceptional and other words derived from it.
• « But the immortality of an exceptional teacher is nothing more or less than the words that decades later are still repeated by her former disciples to their own students, their spouses, their children, their friends: "My teacher used to tell us..." »
• « An exceptional case was that of a force of archers used as city guards in Athens who were slaves from Scythia (present-day Ukraine). »
• « All students and professors were male, as the sole purpose of the studies was supposed to be to create better ecclesiastical officials; although some women became important medieval thinkers, they were either exceptional individuals who had been tutored by men or were nuns who had access to the (often excellent) education of the convents. »
• « While Hildegard of Bingen was exceptional in her range of intellectual output, many other women within the Church also contributed to medieval learning and scholarship in general. »
• « The Renaissance is remembered primarily for its great thinkers and artists, with some exceptional individuals (such as Leonardo da Vinci) being recognised as both. »
• « Her father, the court astrologer to the French King Charles V, was exceptional in that he considered it important that his daughter receive the same quality of education as was given to the elite men of the time. »
• « Moreover, while actual wars between Protestant sects were rare (the English Civil War of the 16th century was exceptional), the different Protestant groups tended to detest each other. »
• « These were exceptional laws; new legal protections for workers took decades and constant struggle by emerging socialist groups and parties to achieve. »