Word: singularizing
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...town college? Name one, sweetheart, and I'll get you right in. A diaphragm? Of course, precious. I'll ask your mother to pick one up for you on the avenue while she's out shopping." Greenfield's oscillation between third and first person is singular without being wholly successful, but he manages that most difficult recipe: a blend of acrimony, humor, regret and hope. Soothing it's not; memorable...
...singular stoop that forces his chin down, perhaps the result of an injury. Part of his right eyebrow is missing. His voice is middle range. He does not appear weak, nor does he appear robust. He has a gracious manner with strangers. His handclasp is firm, his hair gray. He is less bulky than the stereotyped Soviet leader, but not thin...
...anyone paying New York restaurant bills, such advice is invaluable, and Sheraton's singular dedication to her work makes her tops in the field. She eats out 40 times or more a month. She goes to extreme lengths not to be identified, in the belief that anonymity will help her make sure that she receives the same treatment as any other patron. After six years on the bistro beat, she finds anonymity hard to come by. Sheraton is a familiar face at all the bigger and more fashionable eating places in Manhattan; the attention lavished on her at such...
...people do. I think he would rather not do anything wrong, whether on a moral or an artistic level. He is what you would call a man of conscience-not necessarily of judgment, but of conscience. I don't know any actors like that." Susan Newman considers her singular father and says with an innocent smile, "Who knows? None of us in the family has a handle on how Old Skinny Legs made...
...singular virtue of Gandhi that its title figure is also a character in the usual dramatic sense of the term. As portrayed by Ben Kingsley, 37, an actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company making his film debut, Gandhi must age some 50 years. In the process he must convert himself from the vigorous, somewhat arrogant, somewhat dandyish young lawyer who first caught the world's attention with his nonviolent resistance to South Africa's racial laws, to the saintly martyr who finally captured the world's conscience as he willed a nation into being. It is impossible...