The main definition of the singular form -- humanity -- refers to being "humane" and is synonymous with civilized and well-educated.
Because he holds the codes to, on his own, launch nuclear weapons, he is a singular threat to humanity..
The banana popsicles either chill my heart or stab it, and I think back on the despair of that era, about how this simple gesture fused compassion and desperation into a singular act of humanity.
The Paris performances had been a diversion from his main artistic project, a crowdfunded effort to play his piano in each of the world's capitals, spreading a singular message of shared humanity.
Ryan is a singular person, but his humanity portends football's future.
It's hard to imagine more compelling proof of music's singular power to connect humanity across time and space than to hear, say, Enrico Caruso singing an aria such as Una Furtiva Lagrima in the early 1900s only to follow it with a modern tenor such as Joseph Calleja singing it over one hundred years later and it moving us in completely different yet resonant ways.
His sensitive draftsmanship was well suited to the handling of such larger-than-life personalities, but he was equally adept at monumentalizing ordinary people, as in "Woman Worker , a portrait that captures the humanity of a singular, if anonymous, person who also symbolizes strength and endurance.
Kitson's new show, lasting nearly two hours if he gets carried away, is a masterpiece of stand-up; his appeal is unquantifiable and unquotable, but lies in a singular alchemy of intelligence, integrity, humanity, honesty and a sense of being at home in his own skin that gives the audience complete confidence in him as a performer.
Humanity is not singular.
