Word: singularizing
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Original Sins is an old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the term. It propels singular, interesting characters through a panoramic plot. Alther takes risks that sometimes fail. She is willing to sacrifice plausibility for a comic effect, to put her characters through paces that occasionally seem dictated rather than inevitable. But such lapses are more than offset by the novel's page-turning verve and intelligence. Alther knows that no theory or ideology can account for the cussed complexities of daily life. As Emily, Raymond and the rest stumble from one ism to another, their author both...
...Boston. Of course, in deference to the PBS network one might point to the very real possibility that many zealous Americans might have been outraged by a program that concerned itself with the plight of one Iranian much to the exclusion of the American hostages, but the film's singular focus, its preoccupation with the trials of Kazem Ala, is its very strength. Unwilling to provide a simple reiteration of the revolution and the seizure of the American embassy, the directors instead trace further back in time to concentrate on one individual and the circumstance leading up to his torture...
...defense also cast doubt on the confessions, which were signed without the presence of the defendants' lawyers. The case finally hinged on the singular is sue central to nearly every rape prosecution: the victim's degree of resistance. The case posed special problems for the prosecution because Anna had voluntarily accompanied some of the boys to their surfside tent - and smoked marijuana with them - before the attacks began. The prosecutor asked, "How much torture must a woman endure before she is believed?": But Anna's imprudence was apparently enough to stir a shadow of doubt...
...obscure Eastern law school, but the fact that it takes place at Harvard has a lot to do with this attitude. The vast majority of the people in this country only know Harvard as the Law School, and its graduates are accorded the esteem that only truly singular achievment can surpass. The show should be kept in perspective for what it is, a group of people getting together to have a good time. But a narcissistic effort of an elite to distinguish itself should be perceived also...
...rhetoric when it is unaccompanied by the work of organizing, of creating support. "During the final year of SNCC's existence, staff members became increasingly dogmatic and isolated. Formerly controversial ideas became cant and posturing. SNCC's demise as a national organization merely confirmed the earlier death of its singular spirit and of the black struggles that had produced that spirit...