All Gladwell's books focus on singularities: singular events in The Tipping Point, singular moments in Blink, and singular people in Outliers.
"It's not singular events we're focused on, not individual films," Mr. Pace said.
Baseball spaces out its openers now, but the others feel like spectacles, singular events.
Some festivals are singular events, while others recur annually in the same location.
"We simply have to be very careful not to react to singular events like the Google I.P.O.," Mr. Breyer said.
"How do you remember?" Mr. Kornblum answered, "It's one of those singular events in a person's life".
It is a dangerous and possibly futile exercise to extrapolate broad meaning from singular events, and Carrère understands that.
People often deal with "stone-eating organisms," as if they are singular events, he added, rather than as adaptive beings.
Mr. Obama's approval rating has thus far experienced relatively few ups and downs linked to singular events.
Modern collection tends to concern itself with singular events: for example, Columbia University is collecting personal narratives of 9/11 and its aftermath.
Even enumerating them in the plural is a little silly, because it implies the ability to isolate them as singular events or things.
