OKLAHOMA CITY — Kobe Bryant kept firing, deep into the night, as if he alone could postpone the inevitable, defy physics and push his personal dynasty into another spring.
But to make the audience feel as if he alone can convey their sentiments across space and time, each sonidero must establish an auditory style of his own.
The professor prides himself on living without any illusions at all (one of the greatest of vanities), and Hoffman, roughening his voice, launches into some blistering tirades, as if he alone were in possession of the truth.
"There are laws of economic gravity, and if he alone says, 'I'm willing to accept higher deficits,' the risk is high that the markets will force him to give in".
During foot-and-mouth Blair was quick to don a yellow jumpsuit for photographers and intone as if he alone stood between an illness (that is in fact harmless to humans) and armageddon.
More importantly, though, Johnson states – rather arrogantly, it must be said, as if he alone has stumbled upon a Eureka moment – that he is an "empiricist" and that "something appears to be up with our winter weather".
