"The Talent Show of the Damned," a Guardian columnist called the final debate last week, acknowledging that the change has come at a singularly difficult time for a troubled country.
John Burnside Novelist In a very good year for fiction, Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me (Faber £16.99) stood out: adroit, compassionate and beautifully written, it set the bar very high and offered a tantalising glimpse of what riches are still to come from this singularly gifted writer.
Judge poets by the sturdiness of their defense of poetry, and today's poets come off as singularly shallow.
Given the variety of different backgrounds French Muslims come from, attempting to singularly define their positions may ultimately a difficult, even impossible task.
And some came with a singularly hedonistic purpose - stand up Kerry Robinson, who was indeed the life and soul of the party.
It was clear that the insight required to observe and portray all of these lacerating details came from a singularly sensitive mind.
Worse came when the singularly nasty Johnny Baylor – and his infamous bodyguard "Boom Boom" – muscled his way into the Stax fold after clinching a distribution deal for his Koko label.
The New Yorker, August 28 , 1954P. 76 Native Dancer's retirement, announced at Saratoga last Sunday after an old injury to his right forefoot began to act up again, came at a singularly inopportune time.
By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, August 28 , 1954P. 76 Native Dancer's retirement, announced at Saratoga last Sunday after an old injury to his right forefoot began to act up again, came at a singularly inopportune time.
So the prospect of America's hitherto untravelled president going abroad, at taxpayers' expense, on an adventure of untold, untellable cost, comes at a singularly bad moment for the individual states - and especially for Washington, whose New Economy tax-base has been steadily shrivelling over the last two years.
