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Their bodies are so attached to their performances that shouldn't they be able to revel in exceptionalness through art?

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2024

Its exceptionalness — the sheer blinding drama of it all — seems to have determined my reading preferences, repeatedly guiding me toward topical subjects.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017

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

From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith

The exceptionalness, the significance, of the case lay wholly in the fact that she had formulated them all and then rejected them....

From The Long Run 1916 by Wharton, Edith

And this reversal of all the world's opinions and prejudices was to me singularly delightful; I loved the sense of unreality that the exceptionalness of our life in this studio conveyed.

From Confessions of a Young Man by Moore, George (George Augustus)