Sentence examples for of a single thing from inspiring English sources

I couldn't think of a single thing to say.

He could not think of a single thing his team did right.

"I don't know of a single thing in our report that should not be public after ten years," Kean said.

Char-grilled squid with a rich squish of sweet red-pepper peperonata (£16) is too much of a single thing.

And Sleep can be too much of a single thing, but on Saturday it made refined, shapely, totally mesmerizing music.

I cannot think of a single thing he did to enhance the lives of the ordinary people of this country.

"The idea that you would devote a good deal of time to a single thing or a single poem or a single piece of data seems like it would be a waste of time because you could be multitasking," said Joan Gussow, a professor at Columbia Teachers College.

Never in my life has anybody accused me of doing a single thing because of who supported me".

"You can't pin it down to a specific influence or reference," said Yann Le Coadic, a freelance interior designer in Paris, who says the French call the look faux coordonne -- meaning something appears to have been conceived of as a single thing but "on close inspection is composed of elements coming from different sources".

Socrates professes the greatest veneration for such a master: "If I believe that someone is capable of discerning a single thing that is also by nature capable of encompassing many, I follow 'straight behind, in his tracks, as if he were a god'".

What Willis and Gillen expose is that too often we talk about "education" as if students were faceless automatons and the body of knowledge were a single thing, a set of settled truths, a desirable accomplishment that promises an end to poverty and a happy life.