Sentence examples for once is it from inspiring English sources
The piano writing is spare, mostly linear and never showy; only once is it allowed to break into sparkling, cadenza-like cascades.
A narrow turntable moves with the scene changes, but only once is it employed by Mr. Arye to optimal effect, in a scene in which Ami is slowly revealed to be kissing his girlfriend, Dassi (Efrat Ben-Zur), behind a screen onto which a Charlie Chaplin movie is being projected.
"The thing about flying," he said to me over dinner once, "is it combines romance, adventure, science, and exploration".
"The thing about flying," he said to me over dinner once, "is it combines romance, adventure, science, and exploration". A heartbeat of stunned silence later I managed to retort, "Well, that sounds terrible," but the damage was done.
The notion of the identity of objects is not a settled matter – the classic example is Theseus's Ship, but a simple one is of an axe: if you replace the handle twice, and the head once, is it still the same axe?
It's an interesting question that I can't ever answer completely — and perhaps it's many answers all at once: Is it art to provoke? (Certainly).
Maybe it once was; it's not now.
"To do it once is extra special.
Once -- was it just over two months ago?
It is not what it once was.
