Word: singularizing
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Here lies the problem. The Sunlight Man also offers a singular viewpoint, based like Agathon and Grendel on a belief in a "cosmic order...indifferent to man." But where Agathon, Grendel, and their stories become complete in themselves, exclusive of and only supplemented by other devices, the Sunlight Man is lost in the shuffle of overburdening plot and structure complexities that never really hold their...
...happens to all Presidents. But it has happened to Nixon sooner than to others. Perhaps it is another reflection of his thin national popularity, which still haunts his stewardship. It also is an accumulation of singular circumstances. There is Watergate. The people involved, including the White House, simply will not tell the truth because it is too embarrassing...
...asked, most Harvard students probably could not identify 60-year-old Tip O'Neill, but they soon will become aware of his singular personality. Moving into the office of former Majority Leader Hale Boggs, (D-La.), whose plane vanished over Alaska last October, O'Neill is suddenly being thrown into the media spotlight...
...ceremony was as determinedly British as it might have been in the era of the Raj. In a singular display of military punctilio, the new field marshal even received a congratulatory cable from the Pakistan army chief of staff, General Tikka Khan, who was military governor of East Pakistan when the war with India began. Like Manekshaw, Tikka Khan is a graduate of the Indian Military Academy, India's equivalent of Sandhurst. It was all, as the British might say, "a jolly good show...
Lenny is an emotional deadbeat, but he is possessed of singular determination and ambition. He pursues Kelly past the obstacles of her granite father (Eddie Albert) and a divorce from his own weepy Lila, chases her down on campus in Minnesota, where he woos, wins and finally weds her. The ceremony is posh Protestant, the reception elaborate, and that same soft-drink jingle plays brightly in the background...