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  • 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
  • Second, his academic experience at the University of Chicago makes him singularly suited to translate the arcana of policy into an accessible format.
  • 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.
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.
  • Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash. Arise Nobel Laureate Salmond!
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  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.
  • 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
  • Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so.
  • Barber, the gentleman farmer and cheesemaker, is singularly privileged. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is a singularly unaccomplished and unimportant man.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her nippulars were peculiarly mammarial whilst her nethers were singularly slituarial Daily Rotten
  • 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
  • White, blue, purple, and scarlet were the colors of the gods, priests, profligates, saints and monarchs, either in combination or singularly.
  • 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
  • At Westminster, a series of written questions has produced singularly evasive answers.
  • Forsytes singularly free of "flummery," as Nicholas had been wont to call it when he had the gout. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
  • That analogy is singularly inapt to this particular situation.
  • As a professed radical, he was to prove a singularly jaded observer of parliaments, parliamentary processes, and parliamentarians.
  • He affirmed that the juries were the most singularly obtuse and obstinate bodies he had ever encountered; and that the courts were, beyond all question, the most incurably opinionated tribunals that ever were formed. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
  • [The one with singularly thick, firm, and rigid leaves, a foot long, linear attenuated at each extremity, pubescenti-sericeous, striated: the other with white acerose leaves pinnated in two pairs. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Gettman, who teaches at Shenandoah University and lives in Lovettsville, Va., calls it the "atomization" of marijuana cultivation that fuels a singularly American fixation for growing crops to maximize yield. Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization
  • In one place, this superb basin was lined with quays, where stately dromonds and argosies unloaded their wealth, while, by the shore of the haven, galleys, feluccas, and other small craft, idly flapped the singularly shaped and snow-white pinions which served them for sails. Count Robert of Paris
  • National Public Radio is singularly effective in promoting a national culture nationwide, reaching where no other institutions penetrate.
  • I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great nebula in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • The congenital hairs are on the head, the eyelids, and the eyebrows; of the later growths the hairs on the pubes are the first to come, then those under the armpits, and, thirdly, those on the chin; for, singularly enough, the regions where congenital growths and the subsequent growths are found are equal in number. The History of Animals
  • But marching at ease was such a singularly inappropriate expression for men who were dragging a heavy nuggar up a cataract under a blazing sun that there was a general laugh, and even Tarrant relaxed into a grin. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
  • At times he half-rose from his chair, and fell vacuously into it again; or he chuckled in the face of weighty, severely-worded instructions; tapped his chest, stretched his arms, yawned, and in short behaved so singularly that Richard observed it, and said: "On my soul, I don't think you know a word I'm saying. Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4
  • The spectroscope is a singularly beautiful and delicate instrument, consisting, essentially, of a prism of glass, which, decomposing the light of any heavenly body to which the instrument is directed, presents The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
  • With a chronically malcontent mother and a father for whom all of life's best opportunities appear to have passed him by, is singularly determined.
  • That experience was to prove singularly rich in its diversity and in its legacy of Sussex church architecture.
  • Leaving her, I went to our rendezvous, near Broadway and Astor place, where I found Irving, who handed me over his "boodle" (as he termed it), remarking confidentially that I was to give him on my return his share into his own hands; and, singularly enough, each of the others did precisely the same thing. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude
  • But all as in most exquisite pictures they vse to blaze and portraict not onely the daintie lineaments of beautye, but also rounde about it to shadow the rude thickets and craggy clifts, that by the baseness of such parts, more excellency may accrew to the principall; for oftimes we fynde ourselues, I knowe not how, singularly delighted with the shewe of such naturall rudenesse, and take great pleasure in that disorderly order. Shepheardes Calendar
  • This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw, gave the dead man a singularly simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by. his writhing, unnatural posture. A Study in Scarlet
  • I rewound a film that had been in my camera since last year and took it to be developed and was singularly unimpressed with the results.
  • And telling us that they have binned the anthem and the flag and the word ‘constitution’ will not do, nor will trotting out the singularly psittacine mantra of 'the constitutional concept is abandoned'. Archive 2007-09-09
  • For a government supposedly obsessed by the dark arts, it can be singularly cack-handed at spin.
  • Paragot's travesty of mountebankery or rags, but which singularly enough seemed hidden beneath his conventional garb -- the inborn and incommunicable quality of the high-bred gentleman. The Belovéd Vagabond
  • Well, the US eastern seaboard is singularly devoid of precious metal ore deposits, which kept Spanish attention to the south, seeking more lucrative immediate spoils in Mexico and South America. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Giving Thanks For the Lack of Gold and Silver
  • The visitors had discovered what the home side had singularly failed to do in the first half, that long territory guzzling kicks using the wind and slope would apply the pressure.
  • Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive.
  • was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess
  • If it had been pride that interfered with her accepting Lord Warburton such a betise was singularly misplaced; and she was so conscious of liking him that she ventured to assure herself it was the very softness, and the fine intelligence, of sympathy. The Portrait of a Lady
  • The horse Winston was singularly unimpressed by any of these aspects; in fact, he looked extremely sulky.
  • Moreover, the use of the adverb ‘suddenly’ in the context is singularly inapt to describe the nature of the change to which the respondent's daughter would be exposed if she were now to be required to move school.
  • Nevertheless, there is something singularly stupid about racing to the video store at closing time.
  • While some of the acting is as starchy as the stiff upper lips on parade, the movie has a singularly home-grown charm. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a professed radical, he was to prove a singularly jaded observer of parliaments, parliamentary processes, and parliamentarians.
  • Why anyone would demonize Gays as being singularly incapable of behaving civilly is in itself a crime. Think Progress » Donohue: ‘There’s a connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse of minors.’
  • The trouble with the meals, however, was not only that we were all kept at a very high strain of alertness and attention, singularly inconducive to the enjoyment of food or to the sober business of digestion, but that they were of such interminable length. An Adventure with a Genius
  • He was a singularly modest man with a passion for accuracy and a gift for the lucid exposition of difficult and abstruse problems.
  • Similarly and singularly, 1980s Men at Work hits return on Man at Work, an acoustic paring down by the band's former frontman Colin Hay.
  • We did some singularly boring experiment.
  • It has been a singularly rude awakening for France and the country has embarked on a deep, soul-searching, introspection on how things could have gone so horribly wrong.
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.
  • Whatever consideration, at any time or season, may seem to have had an efficacy upon the minds and wills of men under the like sacrament and designment to the service of truth with yourselves, to incite and provoke them to a singularly industrious and faithful discharge of their duty, is eminently pressing upon you also; and you are made a spectacle to men and angels as to the acquitment of yourselves. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • They reject classical liberalism's singularly optimistic view of international relations.
  • To single out the Jews as being singularly separate and disloyal from the rest of America is the very soul of anti-Semitism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
  • But with the world economy slowing, it is singularly ill-timed nonetheless.
  • The Millennium Bug, you may remember, was first erroneously applied to the Year 2000 bug, which singularly failed to cause any particularly big problems when the year clicked over to the 1st of January 2000.
  • The citizens of Tours spoke of him as "an eccentric," but he was greatly annoyed when the term reached his ears, for, good Gascon that he was, and proud of himself, body and mind, he felt that it was singularly humiliating to be treated with so little respect. Honore de Balzac
  • The loss of men, in each ship, was fearfully great, and singularly equal.
  • His eyebrows were of a more than wonted shagginess, growing together at the bridge of his nose, so as to form a thick excrescence of hair that bore an unsettling resemblance to a member of that singularly repellent variety of arthropod commonly known as the centipede. Nevermore
  • Sometimes it's the Republicans who infuriate you and sometimes it's the Democrats whose bone-headed nitwittery is singularly depressing. Harry Reid: Pretend Stupid or Truly Stupid?
  • This malignant and terrible contortion, combined with the low forehead, blunt nose, and prognathous jaw gave the dead man a singularly simious and ape-like appearance, which was increased by his writhing, unnatural posture. A Study in Scarlet
  • The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour. King Candaules
  • That experience was to prove singularly rich in its diversity and in its legacy of Sussex church architecture.
  • [14] We have laboured to preserve his delightful air of antiqueness, which is singularly appropriate to the Saint's work. Treatise on the Love of God
  • In any event, his estate seems singularly disinterested in pursuing it. The LNN interviews Paul Blake from ToyVault : The Lovecraft News Network
  • But, as the chemist prefers distilled H2 O in testing solutions to avoid complications and unwarranted reactions, so the Black Woman holds that her femineity linked with the impossibility of popular affinity or unexpected attraction through position and influence in her case makes her a touchstone of American courtesy exceptionally pure and singularly free from extraneous modifiers. A Voice From the South
  • When his bronze statue was erected, there were dark murmurings about why the great man had been planted with his back to the sea, a singularly inappropriate position for a noble Hawaiian waterman?
  • Thus you are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced by the Nepeta cataria, vulgarly called catmint, on the feline race; and, on the other hand, to quote an example whose authenticity I can answer for. Madame Bovary
  • St. James's, a singularly fascinating man, was protocolist to the Here, There and Everywhere
  • He singularly fails to mention the fact that this ban was implemented following protests from the green lobby that the funicular would disgorge hundred of thousands into an easily damaged alpine environment.
  • The _part_ in the hair is singularly continued in the part between the wings of the golden butterfly ornamenting the head, the eyes are just sufficiently turned aside to give them the appearance of avoiding a direct gaze, and the tight-fitting gown is of white Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • This individual has, apparently, a singularly murky gangsterish past which was the subject of a posting on the blog of former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray who there gave chapter and verse about the man. Don't Mess With Us, Mr. Usmanov
  • Moreover, it has appeared that different species show a tendency to variability in special directions, and probably in different degrees, and that at any rate Mr. Darwin himself concedes the existence of an internal barrier to change when he credits the goose with "a singularly inflexible organization;" also, that he admits the presence of an _internal_ proclivity to change when he speaks of "a whole organization seeming to have become plastic, and tending to depart from the parental type. On the Genesis of Species
  • THE Democratic Review not long since contained a singularly wild and spirited poem, entitled the Norseman's Ride, in which the writer appears to have very happily blended the boldness and sublimity of the heathen saga with the grace and artistic skill of the literature of civilization. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
  • If Mr Stæhlin was not grossly imposed upon, what could induce him to publish a map so singularly erroneous, and in which many of these islands are jumbled together in regular confusion, without the least regard to truth; and yet he is pleased to call it _a very accurate little map_. [ A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
  • Descriptions about religions throughout the book are invariably ahistorical, fail to inculcate any rational enquiry and singularly ignore the time and space contexts.
  • The contest was close and heated, and resulted somewhat singularly in the election of a mixed ticket -- two Secessionists being returned, and one Co-operationist, Mr. Huntingdon, owing to personal popularity. Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
  • No doubt the glowing septet differed singularly from the candid sonata; the timid question to which the little phrase replied, from the breathless supplication to find the fulfilment of the strange promise that had resounded, so harsh, so supernatural, so brief, setting athrob the still inert crimson of the morning sky, above the sea. The Captive
  • [The one with singularly thick, firm, and rigid leaves, a foot long, linear attenuated at each extremity, pubescenti-sericeous, striated: the other with white acerose leaves pinnated in two pairs. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Among the singularly interesting Old Red fossils of Mr. Duff's collection I saw the impression of a large ichthyolite from the superior yellow sandstone of the Upper Old Red, which had been brought him by a country diker only a few days before. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • Lodz was cruel and unusual. Singularly picturesque with its dilapidated buildings, dilapidated staircases, dilapidated people.
  • At the time of the first Kinsey study on sexuality, H.L. Mencken wrote, "All that humorless document really proves is (a) that all men lie when they are asked about their adventures in amour, and (b) that pedagogues are singularly naïve and credulous creatures. Dirty talk? New sex survey's surprising stats
  • The broader tradition is a typically nationalist one, seeing national liberation through war as honourable and singularly justified.
  • It seemed a singularly ill-judged enterprise for Truman to undertake.
  • The common name of "cow-spit," with the implied indignity to our "rural divinity," becomes singularly ludicrous when we observe not only the frequent generous display of the suds samples, thousands upon thousands in a single small meadow, but the further fact that each mass is so exactly landed upon the central stalk of grass or other plant -- "spitted" through its centre, as it were. My Studio Neighbors
  • Sometimes the wavelets did the kneading and rolling so clumsily that the nodule was malformed, but the majority were singularly symmetrical, evidencing nice adjustment between the degree of adhesiveness of the “pug” and the applied force of the wave. My Tropic Isle
  • Here in Melbourne, listening to what's colloquially called, Drive Time Radio, is a singularly unedifying experience.
  • We did some singularly boring experiment.
  • It was beastly hot and the tape of Greek bouzouki music I had in the player was singularly appropriate.
  • We have, through the long and complicated processes of teleological argument, abstracted from a class called God, which was assumed to be multiply instantiable in objects called gods, to another class, also called God, which is assumed to be only singularly instantiable. Archive 2007-04-01
  • Nobody was going to waste their time spying on my nakedness; it's a singularly unedifying sight. GALILEE
  • The first grows in the open pine forests, in tufts or clumps, a large conical strobile disclosing its large coral red fruit, which appears singularly beautiful amidst the deep green fern-like pinnated leaves. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
  • I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great _nebula_ in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
  • For a government supposedly obsessed by the dark arts, it can be singularly cack-handed at spin.
  • It is singularly cased. Although, she was examined by X-ray spinal canal graph, CT scan and enhanced scan image diagnosis, our hospital and others still diagnose it is tuberculosis of the spine.
  • A fine pianist and singularly persuasive interpreter of his own music, Head was famous for his one-man recitals of his vocal music.
  • This embraces a beautiful and perfect round tower, a singularly interesting ruined church commonly called the cathedral, the ruins of a second church beside a holy well, a primitive oratory, a couple of ogham inscribed pillar stones, &c., &c. Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda
  • That interior was singularly restful, pleasant, after the confused and dishevelling night. The Three Black Pennys A Novel
  • Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone
  • What it doesn't say is what to do if it persists in boiling over, while singularly failing to caramelise – as with Claire's recipe, with a pan packed full of fruit, it's rather difficult to assess the exact colour of the liquid beneath. How to cook perfect tarte tatin
  • The President notified Congress when this program went on line and they appeared to be singularly uninterested in loosening FISA to allow surveillance of enemy telecommunications. Balkinization
  • The other looks like the plaything of a singularly unexpressive individual, a billionaire from nowhere near London.
  • Whatever consideration, at any time or season, may seem to have had an efficacy upon the minds and wills of men under the like sacrament and designment to the service of truth with yourselves, to incite and provoke them to a singularly industrious and faithful discharge of their duty, is eminently pressing upon you also; and you are made a spectacle to men and angels as to the acquitment of yourselves. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • Northerner observed this injunction by robbing the slave-owner and stealing away the slave -- all in the name and for the greater glory of God! Singularly enough, the parents of these moralists -- who teach the negro the unapostolic christianity of stealing himself -- were those who stole from their homes, and sold for the highest penny, the Angola ancestors of our present slaves. Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,
  • At a time when probes in the country are yielding great harvests, Pat's name has been singularly unsullied, which confirmed the impression of him as an honest, detribalized Nigerian. Vanguard
  • The theory that thimerosal is singularly culpable in bringing about autism is only one of three upon which courts will decide," the news media report. Federal court hears case of potential autism-vaccine link
  • For example, the one on linked lists discusses singularly linked lists, doubly linked lists and circular lists.
  • In an old court of the old town lived a certain elderly personage, perhaps sixty, or thereabouts; he was rather tall, and something of a robust make, with a countenance in which bluffness was singularly blended with vivacity and grimace; and with a complexion which would have been ruddy, but for a yellow hue which rather predominated. Lavengro
  • And soon from street to street you hear the 'clarion' of the garrison, that singularly wild and sweet trumpet-call which sends Prose Idylls, New and Old
  • What makes his books so popular is that he presents what he does find in a singularly trenchant and forthright manner.
  • In February, 1955, Mr. Martin delineated for us Canada's importance as a world partner and said, The Empire Club of Canada, which takes its name from history's most successful association of free nations, is a singularly appropriate forum for the expression of the ideal of brotherhood in the community, national and international sense. Some Considerations in Canadian Foreign Policy
  • We passed near the castle of Chillon, which is singularly situated, being built on some rocks in the lake, by which it is completely surrounded. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium
  • His modesty, urbanity and frankness were at once apparent; at the same time his sound sense, and the touch of humour or flash of wit with which he would often enliven a formal conversation, made him singularly attractive.
  • Magic ultimately brings only disaster to those in thrall to it; the denizens of faerie are singularly deceitful and inhumane; mankind is the better for having forgotten how to conjure and bewitch.
  • The telescopist should not be deterred from observation by the presence of fog or haze, since with a hazy sky definition is often singularly good. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
  • That experience was to prove singularly rich in its diversity and in its legacy of Sussex church architecture.
  • Teaching undergraduate education does not singularly focus on skills and competencies.
  • John was now preparing for his visit to Ireland, and his singularly unfelicitous attempt at royalty. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
  • Looking at the strange inscriptions in an unfamiliar tongue, he was singularly touched with the few cheap memorials lying upon the graves -- like childish toys -- and for the moment overlooked the papistic emblems that accompanied them. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
  • Blasket itself, the height of the mountains round the bay and the sharpness of the rocks making the place singularly different from the sounds about Aran, where I had last travelled in a curagh. In Wicklow and West Kerry
  • *] [* The one with singularly thick, firm, and rigid leaves, a foot long, linear attenuated at each extremity, pubescenti-sericeous, striated: the other with white acerose leaves pinnated in two pairs. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • His first compromise comes when backing is supplied by mobster Nick Valenti (Joe Viterelli), on the condition that his singularly untalented, shriekingly nasal girlfriend Olive (Jennifer Tilly) gets cast in the play. Dying For A Broadway Hit
  • The under part of the bulb is singularly depressed: from this depression issues a small, mousetail-like root. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • This treatment was singularly inappropriate in her case.
  • Evidently, the secondary exposure to Hollywood through this man, who hobnobs with the greats there every week, had left his audience singularly untouched.
  • A man of a singularly disinterested and modest disposition, he was temperate in speech and act, but zealous for the social and political reforms which were the aims of the radicals in his day.
  • The script was singularly uninspired.
  • They can seem crusty, Eighties phenomena who have singularly failed to get out of their pinstripes, Jermyn Street shirts and carefully-knotted ties.
  • Euphemia," announced Lady Augusta, "is well, and I _trust_" as if she rather doubted her having so far overcome old influences of an evil nature, -- "I _trust_ improving, though I regret to hear from her preceptress that she is singularly deficient in application to her musical lessons. Vagabondia 1884
  • If strong winds occur during the cool months, among the wreaths of broken seaweed thrown on the beach may be found unbroken and fresh specimens of a singularly beautiful and fragile univalve known commonly and most appropriately as the Tropic Days
  • He chose a singularly inappropriate moment to make his request.
  • The term hog appeared singularly inappropriate as applied to him. Vane of the Timberlands
  • Michael Kinsley's Slate column repeats an argument that I've always found singularly unpersuasive.
  • At such times, electronic music presents a singularly cold shoulder, disco is too upbeat, jazz too knotty, new wave too garrulous.
  • This embraces a beautiful and perfect round tower, a singularly interesting ruined church commonly called the cathedral, the ruins of a second church beside a holy well, a primitive oratory, a couple of ogham inscribed pillar stones, Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore
  • It seemed a singularly ill-judged enterprise for Truman to undertake.
  • The broader tradition is a typically nationalist one, seeing national liberation through war as honourable and singularly justified.
  • cantankerousness," to use one of his own words, he was a singularly steadfast and loyal friend. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
  • So far as the majority of their acts are considered, crowds display a singularly inferior mentality; yet there are other acts in which they appear to be guided by those mysterious forces which the ancients denominated destiny, nature, or providence, which we call the voices of the dead, and whose power it is impossible to overlook, although we ignore their essence. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
  • At a kind of easel at the farther end of the hall, a dwarf, misshapen in limbs, but of a face singularly acute and intelligent, was employed in the outline of that famous action at Val des Dunes, which had been the scene of one of the most brilliant of William's feats in arms -- an outline intended to be transferred to the notable "stitchwork" of Matilda the Duchess. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09
  • It seems matter of regret that we cannot persuade this illustrious depredator to take the command of our police force, that body of life-assurers and property-protectors which has proved so singularly ineffective as a preventive service in the present case. Robbery Under Arms
  • The reader may, perhaps, recall the high forehead and the singularly long black eyebrows that give such a Mephistophelian touch to his face. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
  • I sat there, unable to eat my singularly unappetizing sandwiches, and after a while a steward came and took them away. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • While some of the acting is as starchy as the stiff upper lips on parade, the movie has a singularly home-grown charm. Times, Sunday Times
  • ESC research presents a possibility for cure that if ignored or deliberately shelved would be the singularly greatest indicium of an abnegation of human rights and an abjuring of the true meaning of a right to life. Lionel: Let's Enact "Tony's Law" -- a Federally-Backed, Full-Court Press Againt Disease Through Embryonic Stem Cell Research
  • But before the accolades and universal acclaim, Kahanamoku was going to do something very small and singularly important for American sports.
  • Anyone who has read the script for the film knows that it's a singularly brilliant piece of writing, but the rub is that screenplays are written to be filmed, not to be read.
  • The doom of the Regent and Council shows singularly the total interruption of justice at this calamitous period, even in the most clamant cases of oppression. Ivanhoe
  • HONEY, a most assimilable carbohydrate compound, is a singularly acceptable, practical and most effective aliment to generate heat, create and replace energy, and furthermore, to form certain tissues.
  • Here you are to observe, concerning Count Gualtier himselfe, that he was a most compleate person, aged litle above forty yeeres, as affable and singularly conditioned, as any Nobleman possibly could be, nor did those times affoord a Gentleman, that equalled him in all respects. The Decameron
  • The ad took an imaginative approach to attracting plaintiffs and packaged it in a singularly unimaginative format.
  • Now there is something exceedingly captivating in a pair of soft blue eyes -- not that there may not be something quite as captivating in a pair of brown or black or grey eyes -- but there is something singularly captivating in the peculiar style of captivation wherewith a man is captivated by a pair of blue -- distinctly _blue_ -- eyes. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
  • By the end of hour three, during which John was singularly focused on "boning" one of the female characters and nothing much else happened, I was beyond bored. Ed Martin: HBO's New Oddity: John from Cincinnati
  • That sheep dip is singularly disagreeable to a golden eagle is one reason for its rarity.

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