Word: singularizing
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...still forgive this self-conscious direction because of the simple, undeniable power of what the characters say and what they’re driven to do. Their self-hatred and denial as Jews, interwoven with their singular affirmation of faith— “shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad,”- Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One— is a stark and brutal statement that stuns...
Hollywood could not have dreamed up a more singular tale. Lynch, a onetime Miss Congeniality winner in the beauty pageant at her county fair, enlisted in the Army out of necessity, to help pay for the college education she needed to become a kindergarten teacher. Her odyssey began on the evening of March 23, when she and 14 other soldiers from her convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company were ambushed on or near Highway 1, a main north-south artery into Baghdad. Though the details of that night and the following days remain hazy, at least five of the soldiers...
...there, along the bottom, where the general is tapping his pointer--a human body? The orbiting camera has reached its limits, but the mind continues to zoom in until it's looking the dead man in the eye. The big picture no longer matters, just this small one--singular, piercing...
John Singer Sargent had a singular talent for swathing his portrait subjects in an exotic and provocative mystique...
...left a pair at the door with my shoes, but could only find one when I left. I suspect the other has already been sucked into Swaffield's vortex, a pungent complement to those toads, another piece of everyday destined (I'd like to imagine) for transformation into something singular and extraordinary...