The phrase "a singular phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a phrase that is unique or distinct in some way.
Example: "In linguistics, we often analyze a singular phrase to understand its meaning and usage in context."
Alternatives: "a unique phrase" or "an individual phrase".
Indeed, to enlarge on Wallace Stegner's singular phrase, the West is America, only more so.
In her singular phrasing, we hear wickedness, wit, defiance and yearning.
Influenced by guitarists as well as by senior harmonica players, he brought a singular variety of phrasing to the blues harmonica.
"Suffered attack" is an odd phrasing, and in any case, "neither" is singular.
I must have heard every iteration possible of "Imagine". I remember traveling home to Boston to visit my boyfriend at the time and going to see singer/songwriter Ellis Paul at Club Passim, his voice a singular raw nerve, the phrase "Anti-terror machine" scrawled in black sharpie on his guitar.
I remember traveling home to Boston to visit my boyfriend at the time and going to see singer/songwriter Ellis Paul at Club Passim, his voice a singular raw nerve, the phrase "Anti-terror machine" scrawled in black sharpie on his guitar.
In its cadence and resoluteness, the phrase evoked a singular moment of political cinematic camp, when, in the Sorkin-scripted "The American President," from 1995, Michael Douglas, playing the embattled President Andrew Shepherd, calls a press conference to address attacks issued by his political challenger, Bob Rumson, played by Richard Dreyfuss.
The remarkable French musician Lise de la Salle excels in such works as "Aprÿs une Lecture du Dante," "Lacrymosa" (after Mozart's Requiem), and the Ballade No. 2, revealing a singular combination of digital dexterity, impetuous phrasing, and lofty, delicate expressivity.
On her album "Liszt: Lise de la Salle" (Naïve), the remarkable French pianist excels in such works as "Après une Lecture du Dante," "Lacrymosa" (after Mozart's Requiem), and the Ballade No. 2, revealing a singular combination of digital dexterity, impetuous phrasing, and lofty, delicate expressivity.
