The writer himself cited Cilibi Moise, a Wallachian Jewish peddler and aphorist, as an early influence, recalling how, as a child, he used to read his one-liner jokes, and treasured them as exceptional samples of concise humor.

Over thirty of the buildings in the district are considered exceptional samples of their architectural style.

Sweeney had had no experience of women, but he was nevertheless convinced that Mike was an exceptional sample.

Geologically exceptional samples are known in which the isotopic composition lies outside the reported range.

More significant finds on this site are the fragments of the stone plastics with various ornamentation of which some are the exceptional samples of early Christian sculpture in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It includes Sonet negru ("Black Sonnet"), which Braga calls an "exceptional" sample of "feverish tensions, infinite searches [...], obscure impulses":