Word: singularize
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...most flamboyant Doctor was No. 4, Tom Baker (1974 to 1981), whose halo of brown curls and 20-ft.-long scarf had a singular appeal for female fans...
Each inhabits his own singular combat zone. Yet a provocative phrase cropped up in news reports: "Not since the end of the war in Viet Nam. . ." Some of the analogies were impressionistic and wrong: the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean are not Indochina. But some of the bench marks were plain, blunt facts. Not since Viet Nam, until Beirut, had so many U.S. servicemen been killed in a single day. Not since then, until Grenada, had U.S. servicemen launched a combat operation of such size. Not since then, until a Navy A-6 was shot down over Lebanon...
...worry. What may, at first, be a commercial inconvenience will surely, in the end, turn into an artistic coup. Terms of Endearment does work off the conventions that rule more ordinary movies, but only to enrich its own singular voice. Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. Terms comes to at least glancing terms with almost every problem a person is likely to encounter...
...insane German inflation of 1923 was in part a singular event, a product of such particular circumstances as military defeat...
...heavy a weight of meaning on single symbolic figures or forced one or two individuals to represent the qualities of many, his work is for the most part a model of sensitive, sensible adaptation. It also succeeds on two other basic levels: as a movie that sets a singular rhythm, a sort of ambling rush in which with no significant lack of narrative tension or dearth of suspenseful action, time is found for the telling details, behavioral, scenic and technical; and as a work that with its evocations of a half-forgotten movie genre, the aviation picture, suggests some sources...