Tucholsky was too immobile to join the handshake line at the end of the game Saturday, but her family has been in touch with Holtman, photographs have been exchanged, the two teams are wrapped in a bond of good feeling we can only wish did not seem so singular, so remarkable.
The kernel of Kripke's criticism rests on the intuitive idea that a sentence containing a referring proper name expresses a singular proposition about the referent independently of any qualitative characterization of the referent but that a corresponding sentence containing a description does not so express a singular proposition.
Harry, violent and contemptuous, is singular not so much because of his feelings, as because his feelings become speech and action.
In which case, maybe it's sad that pretty much every fateful encounter in music turns out not to be quite so singular after all.
Even in California, it isn't every day that so singular a figure as Arnold Schwarzenegger is solemnly invested with supreme executive power, especially under such astonishing circumstances.
Thomas Pynchon, whose Gravity's Rainbow two decades ago seemed the end-point of a strenuously enigmatic approach to literature a book that seemed not so much filled with meaning, singular, as booby-trapped with meanings, plural.
Because the elements of Φ are so well-behaved, Φx may contain elements that are not so well-behaved, some being singular or improper functions (such as Dirac's elta function).
Perhaps there are clues in Kotelko's genome that will help explain the thing that is so singular about her — not speed or power or prowess in any one event, but the resilience to endure all the stress of hard physical activity, year after year, without a hint of breakdown, and no end to the pattern in sight.
Like most fathers, he finds it inconceivable that his daughter may not be singular; that she may be lovely and funny and smart but not so exceptionally so as to obliterate all the other contending girls.
It really does seem as though singular, plural, mass, and generic descriptions are not so different in kind.
Recognizing its limitations, the Singular Self is quick to ally with others, but not so quick to acknowledge -- let alone compensate -- them for their contributions.
