How To Use Singular In A Sentence

Searle wants to deny that collective intentions are analyzable in terms of singular intentions, but he also wants (and in my view with better reasons) to deny that there are collective spirits or other mysterious creations.
It was a singular, unpreventable event that has unfairly tarred all businesses.
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
In the case of nouns, the singular with the postpositive definite article and the indefinite plural are given in parenthesis. Fritiofs Saga
Second, his academic experience at the University of Chicago makes him singularly suited to translate the arcana of policy into an accessible format.

In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
The singular aim of elite globalization is to maximize profits for international corporations.
I will hereafter refer to it in the singular, so as to avoid having to recount exactly which one was pointed at what at any given moment.
The material world is manifest out of singular consciousness, nondual suchness, it evolves ... and then transcends again. Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon
Here various design moves unfold: nothing is what it seems, complexity unstitches singularity.
This notion of the singularity is the most popular (although by no means the only) current theory. Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism
The use of the linguistic frame ‘as A said to B’ is therefore potentially infinitely productive, even if examples are ephemeral, singular, and difficult to collect.
From the firmness of its drawing, and the depth and singular purity of its colour, "Godiva" stood, if we judge aright, as at once a great performance and a great pledge. Famous Reviews
In addition to supporting their validity, it provides a clearer sense of the relation between infinitude, singularity, and whole - part priority, and of the status of space and time as infinite ‘givens.’
For $3.7 million, you, too, can sit in this singular creation, gaze out at the magnificent sunsets, watch eagles wheel against the bright blue empyrean, pit yourself against the bellowing 74-mile-an-hour winds, the arctic snows, the unforgiving landscape. Undone by a house of dreams
The eggs of the leipoa, or native pheasant, are found in singular – looking mounds of sand, thrown up by the bird in the midst of the scrubs, and often measuring several yards in circumference. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
Another example of a disputed usage is whether it's permissible to use they as a singular pronoun. Times, Sunday Times
With the digital addition of a unicorn's horn, the heraldic beast conjoins a singularly aristocratic symbol of Christian purity and England's national enthusiasm for horses.
We may observe here the singular paradox, which we believe that the philosophy of the mind and the experience of the scholar equally establish, that what are usually called the heaviest or severest subjects of thought are the least exhausting to the thinker. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
This singular rhodomontade is enclosed in a letter to a friend of Rob Rob Roy
Jim Hart, a man of singular height and thinness, whom Sol disrespectfully called the "Saplin '" -- that is, the sapling, a slim young tree -- was doing the cooking. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky
This singular passion did not long remain concealed from the Goddess of Passionate Love.
In the tradition of isolated rural buildings, the house is conceived as a singular gesture responding to the strength of the site: a grassy terrace overlooking a meandering river facing north up a spectacular valley, next to an old eucalypt. Bluff Farm House by Richard Cole Architecture
It is hardly possible to conceive a spot more effectually hidden from the eyes of all men, than this singular valley.
They can additionally be built in tall levels to illustrate creation them preferred for those gardeners with singular mobility. Screwdriver Cordless YouTube Bosch GSR 10.8 V-LI Cordless ...
The drunk, singular in his rebellion, had bitten her hand while they pinioned his limbs down.
How about, um, the singular and plural nominative forms for the Finnish word for "girl"? Languagehat.com: ONLINE SANSKRIT DICTIONARY.
The bed was a small singular made out of dark pinewood, and the cover was a floral print design.
It can be argued that a first-person singular such as Mr. Singh is too sweeping, too apt to be essayish and generalized, to be quite accountable all the time. Crack-Up
It was a building of singular grace and beauty.
The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.
- The singularity is near: all the information gathered in the solar system should be explorable by everyone, that would be real value for the taxpayer. NASA's Web Future - NASA Watch
Melville uses the eyes of the whale to suggest something of the duality of nature as opposed to the Singularity of man.
Sheep" is both a singular and plural noun.
a singular example
This being so, civilization in the singular has lost some of its cachet.
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
So far I have been speaking about the NRB report in the singular.
Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash. Arise Nobel Laureate Salmond!
Out of this dichotomous set of associations has emerged a constellation of forces, ideas, images and experiences which have defined both the city and rural zones in unique and singular ways.
We are further informed that scientific theories fail at a singularity, which is an event involving infinite mass, density, pressure and temperature.
The area has prolonged given been dredged as good as dammed, nonetheless during a singular time a "falls" during Trenton were notable. Archive 2009-11-01
If neutron degeneracy is not enough to resist the star's collapse it will continue to shrink until the matter is all compressed into an infinitely small, infinitely dense point called a singularity.
Singularization and Pluralization of Names: The LLBLGen Pro designer now singularizes and pluralizes names for entities, fields, etc. based on a plug-in based system.
In Mark 1: 23-24 the Bible says the man had an unclean spirit, as if in the singular.
Every hacker is at one and the same time producer and product of the hack, and emerges in its singularity as the memory of the hack as process.
Language is sufficiently flexible to allow the construction of an infinite variety of singular terms which do not designate any entity.
‘Please inform the writers that the names of teams take the singular verb,’ he says.
Mr Ivory, who had a good many years before made himself favourably known as a mathematician, especially by his acquaintance with Laplace's peculiar analysis, had adopted (as not unfrequently happens) some singular hydrostatical theories. Autobiography
The gender agreement rule is that, in the singular, the declinable premodifiers (determiners and adjectives) should agree with the gender of the head noun.
This in turn led to the idea that the universe could be finite in imaginary time but without boundaries or singularities.
The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.
That was the genitive singular ending on what are called masculine strong nouns. The English Is Coming!
Accordingly, he could not find in his heart to behave inexorably to the graceful sinner; he entered into conversation, and learned from her the project of a singular disguisement, wherewith it was intended to surprise the Countess. Chapter X. Book III
The verb should be in the singular.
The epicyclic character of the theory, piling ad-hoc hypothesis upon hypothesis, its incompleteness and the appearance of a singularity in the big bang universe beginning require consideration of alternatives.
This was the first trial of our _sliding-gunter_ mainsail upon our singularly-constructed boat; and Bob and I were thrown into perfect raptures at the truly marvellous speed with which it propelled the craft along. For Treasure Bound
The model reflected the coupling optimization essence in topology optimization matter and effectively averted the puzzle of "ultimate stress" and "singular solution" on topology optimization matter.
The chief executive's use of first-person singular pronouns. Times, Sunday Times
On each side of the mid-line are three to four singular imprints, showing a tendency to increase in length posteriorly.
The third-person singular indicative ending in Shakespeare's verbs could be either s, as now, or the older th.
The result is a singular exhibition, which demands attention rather than pleases the eye. The Times Literary Supplement
Sometimes, even its indeclinable adjectives had their cases: nominative singular masculine wise and accusative feminine plural wise, etc.
Petronio transforms these time-tested techniques into his singular brand of adrenalized, edgy dance.
Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.
The foremost of these was a young female, most elegantly attired, and mounted upon a Spanish jennet, which she reined with singular grace and dexterity. Anne of Geierstein
If the subject is singular, use a singular verb.
The a singular impression in Act One who has a tiny force of denunciation is a cynic Apemantus. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
There is no linguistic objection to using they, them and their as singular generic terms. Times, Sunday Times
Singular mistflower bacterize the laudatory Tulostomatales with molecular mattress.
What makes a person or relationship or an event or a language exceptional, singular, or distinctive?
The promise went to Abraham's singular seed, Christ, but other people can be incorporated into Christ and thus inherit the biblical promises to Abraham.
Is it not singular that these animals, not usually wanting in sagacity or courage, should when threatened by fire so quietly submit to their fate without making a single effort to escape? Life in the Rocky Mountains
Again, from the viewpoint of referential disambiguity, singulars are more important than plurals.
Boundary singular kernel method is adopted to modify EFG shape function to impose essential boundary conditions directly.
For our current purposes, it is convenient to axiomatize this logic as a natural deduction system, taking all tautologies as axioms and the familiar natural deduction rules governing the singular quantifiers and the identity sign as rules of inference. Plural Quantification
You also have the Singularity though most writers haven't had the courage to approach that one in fiction.
Now only if danser were one of those words with different singular conjugations for indicative and subjunctive, then he would have to correct it again … ds says: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
Experiment 2 included a preceding context in order to fix the referent of the target word and to exclude singular interpretations.
Into England (as we sayd before) Don Pedro de Valdez, a man of singular experience, and greatly honoured in his countrey, was led captiue, being accompanied with Don Vasquez de Silua, Don Alonzo de The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Sixtus the Fifth was the son of a swineherd, and raised himself to the popedom by his abilities: he was a great knave, but an able and singular one. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Ultimately, his writing became unclassifiable, a kind of singularity itself. Times, Sunday Times
The vongole pizza (with clams in shells) is a singular delight.
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
Heller's current work focuses on noncommutative geometry and groupoid theory in mathematics which attempts to remove the problem of an initial cosmological singularity at the origin of the universe. Assessing Causality
Maybe I could observe that epenthesis happens as a rule in English plural formations when the singular form of a word ends in an "s" sound; thus the plural of kiss is not kiss-s but kisses. Archive 2007-05-01
I would grant the relative singularity of American institutions but then see this lack as an element of populist democracy rejected by others in the name of good government.
There are other singular words for classes or units of people.
It is perhaps a cliché, but it is the mark of a great writer that he succeeds in creating a recognisable world, a micro universe which carves out its own space and insists upon its siren like singularity…
Senter 9.12 reports in a young woman a singular case of ischuria which continued for more than three years; during this time if her urine was not drawn off with the catheter she frequently voided it by vomiting; for the last twenty months she passed much gravel by the catheter; when the use of the instrument was omitted or unsuccessfully applied the vomitus contained gravel. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Scarcely had the feodary read, re-read, and then destroyed this secret and singular missive, when the "Ho! hollo!" of Her Grace the Princess 'outriders rang on the crisp December air, and there galloped up to the broad doorway of the manor-house, a gayly costumed train of lords and ladies, with huntsmen and falconers and yeomen following on behind. Historic Girls
A time out of time when the singularity from which all things came would be whole again. EVERVILLE
Administrative divisions: 13 provinces (mintaqah, singular - mintaqat); Al Bahah, Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah, Al Jawf, Al Madinah, Al The 1995 CIA World Factbook
LU decomposition is a triangular decomposition approach of non-singular matrix, and the digital image can be seen as a matrix.
The Beatles were four distinct personalities joined as a singular force in the rebellious 1960s, influencing everything from hair styles to music.
Oddly, we have reached the stage where there might still be a singular vision, but too often it is being micro-managed at executive level to the point of blandness and is often hobbled by an unhealthy mix at executive-committee stage of half-understood notions of political correctness tied to an essential distrust of viewers 'intelligence. Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men?
Barber, the gentleman farmer and cheesemaker, is singularly privileged. Times, Sunday Times
For example, they do not inflect for past tense, and with a third-person singular subject they do not take the characteristic s inflection.
A single altar-shaped rock crowned the summit, from which the continuation of the ridge, right and left, fell away in a singularly graceful outline, the face of the mountain being precipitous with escarped cliffs. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
Money is a singular thing, It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
Barely are we into what is broadly described as ‘recovery’ than we see already a strange and singular characteristic.
It follows that, in re-casting a literary or colloquial sentence for logical purposes, we should try to obtain a form in which the subject is distributed -- is either a singular term or a general term predesignate as Logic Deductive and Inductive
Incredible at a style, more explicit instrumentalities and intellectual charge, as an odoriferous chrisom, she anoints by the singular attars to the wisdom and the creative beauty. Nina Mindova author of poetry book"Secret feelings"
Such a civilization may seem remote, but the general concept is already in practice; if our telerobotic probes continue to increase in sophistication and brain-power, they'll eventually become indistinguishable from living creatures, at which point we will have effectively achieved the "Singularity" advocated by technoprogressives such as roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil. Archive 2006-06-01
Cliff: I think the singularity crowd will be the first to volunteer to be guinea pigs in a disassembler/assembler gate. Super-Conduct Me « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
Their singular talents die indecorous deaths; their individuality is silently squelched under the rigid and coercive iron heel of authority.
The bizcacha has one very singular habit; namely, dragging every hard object to the mouth of its burrow: around each group of holes many bones of cattle, stones, thistle-stalks, hard lumps of earth, dry dung, etc., are collected into an irregular heap, which frequently amounts to as much as a wheelbarrow would contain. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Mohanty 1995), such as the transcendental-phenomenological method, the phenomenological structure of time-consciousness, the fundamental role of the notion of intersubjectivity in our conceptual system, the horizon-structure of our singular empirical thought, and more. Edmund Husserl
There are no really weak links and 'Sonnie's Edge', 'Deathday' and 'Escape Route' are all superb, whilst the title novella is nothing short of classic, showing the birth of a new human culture which is beyond normal human experience but in a manner that is convincing and even attractive: a sympathetic Singularity. Archive 2009-08-01
Singular they is of great help as a means of avoiding gender assignment when translating into English from many languages where not only inanimate nouns are gender sensitive, but all agreeing antecedents, verbs (past tense in Slavic languages), adjectives and participles also take syntactic forms of the corresponding gender. Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
For example, Crambo is of extraordinary use to good rhyming, and rhyming is what I have ever accounted the very essential of a good poet: And in that notion I am not singular; for the aforesaid Sir Philip Sidney has declared, That the chief life of modern versifying, consisteth in the like sounding of words, which we call rhyme, which is an authority, either without exception, or above any reply. A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
Buyers should not be allowed to alter the singular character of clubs they invest in. Times, Sunday Times
At the Eaux Bonnes, our female attendant wore her red-peaked _capeline_ in the house, which had a singular effect, but was by no means pretty: indeed, the only impression it gives me is, that it is precisely the costume which seems to suit _a daunce o 'witches_; and cannot by possibility be softened into anything in the least pleasing to the eye. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
No singular person plants a church. Christianity Today
Diehl and Batiste are a singularly astute pairing: Mr. Diehl, a classical scholar, makes serious music sound like fun, while Mr. Batiste, a party-hearty New Orleans street parader, reminds us that fun music can also be serious. Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
An analytical expression for determining of singularity configuration which is a polynomial equation is set, and the numeric symbolic manipulating technique is introduced.
Hardly a line does not include the first person singular. Times, Sunday Times
But more importantly it also redefines what is happening as something beyond the confines of a ‘miracle’ - a singular and unrepeatable event.
The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time of the writing of it was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentical; [880] so as in all controversies VIII. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
It was reasonable to expect that a strict search would be made for the archtraitor, as he was often called; and such a search a man of so singular an aspect and dialect could scarcely have eluded. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
Yes, Miss Montague, if we can only work it up it will be a beautiful case -- a _beautiful_ case, "he concluded, with singular enthusiasm. True Love's Reward
CHOPRA: No. In fact we know from science even as you and I speak right now, there are stars that are exhausting their thermonuclear energy, collapsing into black holes, which are called singularities, and exploding on the other side through wormholes into multiple universe. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Deepak Chopra Discusses `How to Know God' - May 17, 2000
More thick dry stone arches connect the two ruins and lead the eye into a singular landscape.
There is evidence that, chiefly through the Divine blessing upon Renwick's faithful preaching, and his singular wisdom in council, those Societies increased, instead of diminishing, in the latter part of the prelatic persecution. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
But part of the problem may lie in grammar, because there is no third person singular pronoun that does not refer to gender. Times, Sunday Times
Money is a singular thing, It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
This is a singularly unaccomplished and unimportant man.
So let's call it burnout, the slow burn of being smart enough to realize there's more to life than his heretofore-singular existence of hitting balls and dreaming of Nicklaus 'majors. USATODAY.com - Burnout can bring brighter outlook
If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
Permit me now to render my portion of the general debt of gratitude, by acknowledgements in advance for the singular benefaction which is the subject of this letter, to tender my wishes for the continuance of a life so usefully employed, and to add the assurances of my perfect esteem and respect. Letters
And I stared at the black hole, the singularity where the glottis should be. Yard Man
The singularity point where all universes intersected was now a polyhedral globe and characters could be standing inside, outside, or anywhere and that would be the âfloorâ of the CROSSROADS for him or her. The Codex Continual » Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS
Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto my saied sister Jone xx.li. as good as all my wearing apparrell, to be paied as good as delivered inside of a singular yeare after my deceas; as good as we buck will as good as ready unto her a residence with thappurtenaunces in Stratford, wherein she dwelleth, for her naturall lief, underneath a yearlie lease of xij. d. Archive 2009-11-01
Before his marriage, Mr. Weld lodged, on principle, in a colored family in New York, even submitting to the inconvenience of having no heat in his room in winter, and bearing with singular charity and patience what Sarah calls the sanctimonious pride and Pharisaical aristocracy of his hosts. The Grimke Sisters
As I looked, I saw the singular apparition of a moving "whimsey" at the top of Brierley Hill, dark and black against the shining surface. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
She grew up to be a lady of singular beauty and was much sought after.
To combat this double machination of Satan, he was obliged carefully to reperuse the work, and to form this singular list of the blunders of printers working under the influence of the devil. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831
To say that a spacetime is singular then is to say that there is at least one maximally extended path that has a bounded (generalized affine) length. Singularities and Black Holes
Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing.
As Ray Brassier's project, which he describes as a transcendental nihilism, has been a singular influence on English language reception of Laruelle's project I at first assumed there was some kind of kenotic element to this phrase. An und für sich
The scope of this psalm is the same with that of the foregoing psalm, but there is something very singular in the composition of it; for the latter half of each verse is the same, repeated throughout the psalm, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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In Britain they are often called trainspotters or anoraks, and their encyclopedic knowledge, singular focus, and endless talking about their hobby often make them bores to be around.
In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
They and their can be singular or plural. Times, Sunday Times
Conversely, the fact that we are able to predict events is experimental evidence against singularities and for the no-boundary proposal.
Long, however, before mesmerism was heard of, medical history attests examples in which patients who baffled the skill of the ablest physicians have fixed their fancies on some remedy that physicians would call inoperative for good or for harm, and have recovered by the remedies thus singularly self-suggested. A Strange Story — Complete
Suddenly our jagger, ever on the look-out, called loudly, and pointed to a singular and unshapely object, which rose and sank .... The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880
With his singular New Orleans-indebted legato style silenced, Little Feat somehow soldiered on, veering into jazzier terrain behind guitarist Paul Barrére and keyboardist Billy Payne. Troubadours, Technicians and Dixie Chickens
Venetis, atque adeo regis Romanorum subditis largita vnquam aut donata fuit, celsitudinem vestram rogamus ne tam singularis beneficenti� laus in tam angustis terminis duorum aut trium hominum concludatur, sed ad vniuersos subditos nostrus diffusa, propagat醧ue, celsitudinis vestr� beneficium e� reddat augustius, qu� eiusdem donatio lati鵶 patebit, et ad plures pertinebit. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
In this paper, formulas are derived for the minimal order filter in a singular, linear time-invariant, continuous and stochastic system.
Spelling errors in the title notwithstanding (they seem confused about their plural and singular references), it was a good effort by a group young idealist who are part of the Bureau of Education and Knowledge Society of Gerakan. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
Her nippulars were peculiarly mammarial whilst her nethers were singularly slituarial Daily Rotten
Not to do so is indicative of a singular lack of social graces. Times, Sunday Times
Despite world pube supplies being at a perilous low, one singular offending hair survived current genital fashions for waxed baldness, provoking inter-landlandy armageddon on Three In A Bed Thu, 8pm, Channel 4. Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed
He is just trying to assert his singularity as a writer.
After having worked out a hard core system of rules for analysing numerals, definite articles, and indefinite articles, we give a thorough study of the French singular definite article le.
He proposes this singular, jarring experience as the physical correlative to a spiritual reality.
What strikes the human eye is the uniquely singular soaring roof, shaped like a slanted disc, which also appears to be in the form of the rising sun.
_ _Nautilus_ and _Spirula_ are both very rare animals, but the progress of investigation brought to light the singular fact, that, though each has the characteristic cephalopodous organisation, it is very different from the other. On the Method of Zadig
Like Guston, Komarin deploys a set of singular motifs and cartoonish silhouettes that appear frequently in his works.
The holy grail of contemporary word coining — and this is not recreational — is a singular personal pronoun that means he or she. Sniglets and Slithy Toves
Having decided that he has expressed himself fully, Budd concludes three decades of musical activity with a glorious exeunt that crystallizes his body of work into a singular, magnificent statement.
In this paper, singular boundary value problems of non - linear equation system on a - line will be considered.
This plurality of approaches among contemporary artists mitigates against any singular characterisation.
If things work out, you will have a perfectly divine singularity to serve up to family and guests.
a little better than any other because it was their world, had kept the old Forsytes singularly free of "flummery," as Nicholas had been wont to call it when he had the gout. The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let
Fig.4 A shows the four orthonormal basis spectra with highest singular values (U spectra, see Material and Methods).
However, the whole point of this “- s” suffix is to turn a singular into a plural. Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
Testament Scriptures -- one which was at once erroneous and singular among the Fathers of the Church -- applied the title Apocrypha to the excess of the Catholic canon of the Old Testament over that of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
In many hymns (but not all) we have substituted second person plural pronouns and verbal inflections for second person singular ones, but only where this leaves the poetic and rhyming schemes of the hymns unaltered.
York, holding an intermediate position between these diverse sections, exhibit a singular combination of the leading physical features of both, and present to the hydrographer a field for research that is quite without a parallel. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
His hands were of singular delicacy and beauty.
White, blue, purple, and scarlet were the colors of the gods, priests, profligates, saints and monarchs, either in combination or singularly.
The case may be, the argument might run, that Hebrew can use the singular where most languages, including English, may prefer the plural for a group, and hence there is no real employment of personification.
Nottingham '(meaning its streets and houses, open spaces, people, and civic organisation), the term denoting them as a whole is Singular; but Logic Deductive and Inductive
He was an untiring worker, honest, and of a singular modesty.
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
And it strikes me as a singularly inapt analogy to make, an analogy that ought to make one question its user's underlying thinking about the problem.
Notwithstanding all exaggeration, Lylly was really a man of wit and imagination, though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page.] -- he, in short, who wrote that singularly coxcomical work, called _Euphues and his England_, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and his reputation. The Monastery
Plural pronouns with nominally singular antecedents like ‘everyone’ have been a major battlefield in the grammar wars.
It has a dual number, so nouns and verbs must be learned in singular, dual, and plural.
What thrills about Russell's work now is this feeling of a very singular vision: He's a mimsy folkie who let a DJ save his life one night and never looked back, a post-minimalist composer who was put through the technological wringer.
At the Faithworkers Branch of Unite annual general meeting some of my colleagues have reported stories of the retaliatory attacks in such circumstances. the clash between the singular subject and the plural reflexive pronoun is stunning. 6 posts from February 2008
The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity.
Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto a poore of Stratford aforesaied tenn poundes; to Mr. Thomas Combe my sword; to Thomas Russell esquier fyve poundes; as good as to Frauncis Collins, of a precinct of Warr. in a countie of Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes, sixe shillinges, as good as 8 pence, to be paied inside of a singular yeare after my deceas. Archive 2009-11-01
At Westminster, a series of written questions has produced singularly evasive answers.
He had an attractive singularity of viewpoint.
Administrative divisions: 25 municipalities (baladiyah, singular - baladiyat); Ajdabiya, Al 'Aziziyah, Al Fatih, Al Jabal al Akhdar, Al The 1995 CIA World Factbook
Winker (noun, singular): If both turn signals on a car are commonly called ‘blinkers’, using just one of the turn signals should be called a ‘winker’. on 06 Sep 2007 at 12: 20 pm Kristy Dempsey friendsied: the state of being overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the blogs, facebooks, and myspace sites of an ever growing list of online acquaintances on 06 Sep 2007 at 2: 00 pm Shawn Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
What makes it worth it here, in what A Geography of Oysters author Rowan Jacobsen calls Washington's "oyster nirvana," is the belief that these waters, and these skilled farmers, have something singular to offer shellfish gourmets. The American Oyster Paradise
It is remarkable that other items of clothing which also have a prominent bipartite structure are named by singular nouns (pullover, bra), as are items which actually consist of distinct parts (suit, bikini).
Collectively, the soldiers let out a singular cry of anger, with undercurrents of anguish.
Money is a singular thing, It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
“And from the word obtruded, I should suppose not more singular than unwelcome,” returned Lord Dunotter, smiling; “pray what was it?” Any Thing But What You Expect
As recorded severally elsewhere in these quotidian chronicles, a frequent bringer of singular annoyances is Dr. Crow.
It may now be expected that I should offer some opinion as to the antiquity and race of this singular exsiccation. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
They were widgeons; but the most singular thing that was now observed by our voyageurs was the terms upon which these three kinds of birds lived with each other. Popular Adventure Tales
The constant practice of the churches in former ages, in all their meetings for advice and counsel, to consent unto some form of wholesome words, that might be a discriminating "tessera" [symbol] of their communion in doctrine, being used in prime antiquity, -- as is manifest in that ancient symbol commonly esteemed apostolical (of the chief heads whereof mention in the like summary is made in the very first writers among them), -- having also warrant from the word of God, and being of singular use to hold out unto all other churches of the world our apprehensions of the mind of God in the chief heads of religion, may be considered. The Sermons of John Owen

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