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I once told her I wanted to write a biography of her called The Dandy and the Rabbi; she quickly substituted the word "Priest", since (like Proust) she preferred the "universality" of Catholicism to what she perceived as the singularity of Judaism.

Blasting aside conventions, archetypes, and stereotypes, Jenkins conjures the birth of an individual's consciousness, the forging of a complex and multifaceted identity; he restores complexity to the very idea of identity, of the multiplicity as well as the singularity of being oneself — and he conveys his own primordial sense of wonder that art itself can conjure it.

But at this moment, it was as if the singularity of the human spirit had bridged the gulf between victor and vanquished.

This is, perhaps, as good an introduction as any to the singularity of the brand-new opera, based on the play and film by the great German dramatist Rainer Werner Fassbinder, by Irish composer Gerald Barry that will launch ENO's new season next Friday.

Just as photography undermined the singularity of painted portraits, so online book publishing complicates the notion of a book as a fixed, enduring object.

All this comes as background to the singularity of vision and blindness and the means by which he has continued to paint.

This suggestion is bolstered by the fact that local measures of curvature do in fact blow up as one approaches the singularity of a standard black hole or the big bang singularity.

Several procedures adopt as stop criterion the singularity of FIM (Fisher Information Matrix) (e.g., Weijers and Vanrolleghem [ 19]; Sandink et al. [ 20]; Li et al. [ 21]; Secchi et al. [ 14]; Lund and Foss [ 22]; Thompson et al. [ 8]; Alberton et al. [ 18]).

Making a list is not merely a numerical act but also a polemical one, and the best of this year's films are polemical in their assertion of the singularity of cinema, as well as of the art form's opposition to the disposable images of television.

Much as with the example of firefighters and the unsafe burning house, we find it morally unacceptable to treat them as disposable, because of the singularity of their lives and their right to exist as individuals.

He has created new restaurants as though they were each his first and only — the singularity of a place always as important as the food.