Sentence examples for singular figures from inspiring English sources

One of the most singular figures in US cinema, Carruth made a mind-bending debut in 2004 called Primer, a no-budget, time-machine story that looped itself into vertiginous narrative fractals, and sparked a whole online subculture of explanatory diagrams.

I have ached to hear the collected output of the minor soul-music legend Barrett Rude Jr., "one of the most elusive and singular figures in pop-music history," according to the critic Dylan Ebdus (as imagined by Jonathan Lethem in "Fortress of Solitude").

His new English-language film, This Must Be the Place – starring Sean Penn as Cheyenne, a retired goth rocker living in Dublin – has superbly elegant and distinctive forms: looming camera movements, bursts of pop, deadpan comedy, quasi-hallucinatory perspective lines in landscapes in which singular figures look vulnerably isolated.

13 years ago today, James Stinson, one of the most singular figures in electronic music passed away.

More important however is UTEMS existence as part of a counter-narrative to the "great-man" theory of electronic music that technological advancements were dependent on singular figures like Bob Moog.

Hawthorn was in every way a singular figure.

There is no denying that Javier Bardem cuts a singular figure.

Holbrooke was not unaccustomed to being a singular figure.

With his penchant for quoting his favourite poet, Rilke, Weissman cuts a singular figure.

Mr. Perry has become a singular figure in the world of American show business.

Mr. Fortuyn was perhaps a singular figure, but the anxieties he mobilized are widespread.