Sentence examples for singular as a from inspiring English sources

"Although his name doesn't translate easily into adjectives, there is a Bennettian view of the world that's every bit as identifiable and as singular as a Pinteresque one".

"People have said that this play is a tribute to theatrical collaboration, but I also feel there's a voice here that's as singular as a fingerprint," Ms. Freed said.

"You can never be singular as a black actor," says Dyer. "You have a responsibility for your success in a way that you can't really explain to anyone who isn't black".

At times, the moralizing aesthete came close to self-parody: "If we understand morality in the singular, as a generic decision on the part of consciousness, then it appears that our response to art is 'moral' insofar as it is, precisely, the enlivening of our sensibility and consciousness," and so on.

According to the theory of linear elasticity, asymptotic stress near the tip of a sharp interfacial corner is generally singular as a result of a mismatch of the materials' elastic constants.

This result is historically significant because it brings Burley's later theory of knowledge into line with the other great epistemological doctrines of the fourteenth century, almost all of which were aimed at re-evaluating the singular as a possible object of knowledge.

Although "tefillin" is technically the plural form (the singular being "tefillah"), it is loosely used as a singular as well.

I am sure that you were not addressing me in the singular, as an individual, but in the plural, as one of the writers who had shed light on your course.

Brink believed that Mandela was "not addressing me in the singular, as an individual, but in the plural, as one of the writers who had shed light on [Mandela's] course".

This one sounds tricky and it is, central to this is that consciousness is not singular (as in a single entity) but many processes occurring simultaneously.

"She's Gotta Have It," after all, is as much a piece of deep nostalgia for a time when Lee's voice was fresh and singular as it is an exploration of black female sexuality and autonomy.