This can provide us higher confidence that prior reports of global warming were accurate and that we presently live during a somewhat exceptional period of warming. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Many Hungarians like to believe that their nation is and has always been sovereign apart from a few exceptional periods in history (e.g. Soviet and Nazi occupation, Habsburg absolutism, Ottoman yoke, Mongol invasion). (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Then again, Inglourious Basterds was not nominated either (as in the CDGs), so perhaps even exceptional period work is not enough any more; same for Jenny Beaven's contribution on Sherlock Holmes. (clothesonfilm.com)