In a 37-year career that began before World War II, Mr. Botsford gained increasing responsibility for maintaining a singular staff of nonfiction writers, from Janet Flanner and A.J. Liebling to Joseph Mitchell, Roger Angell and, in later years, his wife, Ms. Malcolm.
What I'm learning may not always be of great social value, but I'm at least gaining some new knowledge — by using devices in ways that, sure, also distract me from maintaining a singular focus on any one thing.
From a remarkably faithful recreation of the Geneva train station to the way he made sure that the street signs and banners in a Shanghai street scene were in correctly rendered Mandarin, Hergé strove for realism while maintaining a singular style.
That is to say, rather than perfecting the product they have and maintaining a singular focus on what they want to accomplish, they keep adding new features either because rivals are doing them, or because users are suggesting them.
Just as Barry maintained a singular political style that endeared him to Washington voters, go-go music was a unique Washington sound that became the outlet for black youth living in the nation's capital.
The DJ, producer and nightlife favorite maintains a hyperactive schedule that keeps her bouncing from one singular gig to the next.
As in natural philosophy, Gregory maintains a non-realist position that universals are formed by the soul and only after the mind has previous apprehensions of singular things.
Whereas the neuronal activations preceding singular reward started late and reached high peaks, the activations with flat instantaneous reward probability started earlier and maintained a modest plateau until reward probability dropped with stimulus offset.
After more than a century, the Millrose Games maintain their position as a singular event in track and field.
However, Dolly Madison did not want Coca-Cola to maintain its singular position in the opening of A Charlie Brown Christmas now that it was co-sponsoring the special, so the early scene was excised and a Dolly Madison voiceover was added to the end of the special following the "Merry Christmas from your local Coca-Cola bottler" bit.
