Such as? "I won't tell you," he says, on the ground that he -- perhaps alone among New Yorkers -- does not want to spin the story.
WHEN I VISITED Tan at his oceanfront hotel in Santa Monica, Calif., the day before the Academy Awards ceremony, he was perhaps alone among the nominees in wondering out loud whether winning the Oscar would be a good thing.
He was also perhaps alone among Oscar nominees in preferring a book to his own filmed adaptation of it.
Of course, President Obama has long acted as if he and perhaps he alone has unique leadership skills.
Or perhaps, alone late at night, when he isn't reminiscing about his football career at Stanford, or batting his eyes at voters, he becomes nothing more than a computer geek, desperate for a broadband Internet connection and a chance to pour out his heart online.
David Platt, perhaps alone in realising the seriousness of what he was watching, desperately tried to placate them by admitting the penalty that wasn't probably evened things up.
Perhaps alone among American playwrights of his generation he uses history as a character, letting its power fall on his protagonists as they stumble through their own and others' lives.
Tebow, perhaps alone in the N.F.L., seems to understand that.
Perhaps alone among the fair's attractions, the New York State Pavilion captured the ironic stance.
Tennis, perhaps alone among sports, does not necessarily thrill to a hard-luck tale.
California, perhaps alone among the states, is big enough and misunderstood enough to qualify.
