Word: singularizing
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...which has made for a singular irony: the only people left on the sidelines are the Americans. According to a White House source, the Clinton Administration doesn't feel the changes in Cuba have been substantial enough to justify a diplomatic rapprochement, while the conservative Republicans now in control of the U.S. Congress--pressured by Miami's community of Cuban Americans--are bent on keeping the door to Cuba firmly closed to U.S. companies. Just last week Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms introduced legislation that would tighten the 33-year-old economic embargo even more...
...paintings and engravings, more than 300 of them, amount to a sort of Ice Age Noah's ark-images of bison, mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, of a panther, an owl, even a hyena. Done on the rock walls with plain earth pigments-red, black, ocher-they are of singular vitality and power, and despite their inscrutability to modern eyes, they will greatly enrich our picture of Cro-Magnon life and culture...
...maybe not. For when Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore) charges Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas) with harassment after he rejects her advances and then risks his future at DigiCom, the software company where they're jostling for position, by leveling the same charge at her, their case starts to become more singular than paradigmatic. For it develops that she has something other than a desktop (or should one say laptop?) frolic in mind when she invites him up to her office for an after-hours meeting--she's trying to turn him into a corporate fall...
Their doubts quickly settled on the government's informant. According to lawyers close to the defense, he is none other than Qubilah's school friend Michael Fitzpatrick, whose life since those days has followed a singular course. In 1977 the 17-year-old was arrested in the bombing of a Soviet bookstore. Subsequently, according to court documents, he turned government informer and betrayed co-conspirators in a second attempted bombing: the Associated Press quoted a former acquaintance as calling him "a setup artist." The government sent him to Minneapolis as part of the witness- protection program and assigned...
This restlessness saves Hardy the poet from his obsessions -- you might even say his monomania. His singular stanzaic shapes, his deliberately bumpy meters, his weird triple rhymes (frowardly/untowardly) all enliven and diversify his subject matter, which otherwise would be claustrophobically narrow. The number of his poems that concern romantic triangles, with, typically, one of the three parties represented by a ghost, must surely run into the hundreds...