Word: singular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovered the power of the court, the entertainment value of the obscure doings in the shadowy marble chambers at the far end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The Justices became good television; the collection of gossip in the book The Brethren was worth big money on the publishing market. In singular fashion, the court was raised still higher on its public pedestal...
...Museum of American Art in "Disney Animations and Animators." Preliminary character and background sketches, animators' roughs of entire sequences, eels (the finished ink and paint drawings that the camera photographed), even film loops in which roughs and completed films are juxtaposed-all are there. The show provides a singular insight into the painstaking work of the talented artists who competed to realize Disney's dreams...
Haig's ideas of the world rise to the surface in bursts of singular intensity, punctuated by his high-pitched laughter. A few days ago, the Secretary devoured a filet with the gusto of a field commander and downed a good claret with the finesse of an ambassador; he concluded that his foreign policy was in pretty good shape but admitted that his Washington policy needed some repairs. He sees the Soviets as even more concerned than the U.S. about nuclear war. The creaking and groaning heard round the world (nowhere louder than in Washington) as the U.S. changes...
Colegate handles her large cast of guests, servants and outsiders so that everyone seems singular, from the lord of the manor to the local poacher. When these sharply etched characters gather in the field for a hunt, they seem to inhabit a fine old photograph, illuminated from behind by an approaching flame...
...beginning to worry about his policy (or lack of it) and is even entertaining a few doubts about how far his magnetism can take the country. A few weeks ago, it was accepted that Reagan's charm was a formidable weapon. It still is, but in the singular chemistry of Washington, there is concern that too much charm without more substance can create doubt...