But the notion of masculinity examined here isn't confrontational or imposing; rather, it is exploratory, a collection of singular interests: think of Gavin Pretor-Pinney's cloudspotting project, or this paper's Patrick Barkham and his butterfly pursuit, even when it's taken to its limits and dramatised into an all-consuming obsession, as in Robson Greene's Extreme Fishing TV show, or Top Gear.
Acting like men have singular interests and women have singular interests is already creating barriers in communication.
This brings your opponent into thinking of the two of you as a single unit with singular interests, rather than driving you apart.
Legacies are made when a person pursues a singular interest with an unwavering, laser-focus and then has the wherewithal to trust and surround themselves with equally talented colleagues.
Debates about the behavioral toxicity of food colors continued but did not arouse singular interest.
Beauty contests and auctions are concerned with (orderly, proper or best use of, or concern for) a singular relevant public interest, in our case that of sustainable energy, which nonetheless poses a policy challenge as it is an ex ante 'wicked' and 'ill-defined' problem.
Moreover, assuming that a rearrangement invariant space X is embedded into Lp, 1⩽p<∞, and that the inclusion operator I:X→Lp fails to be strictly singular, we are interested in what we can say about the properties of subspaces on which the norms of X and Lp are equivalent.
He was a remarkable, truly memorable man of great wit, singular intellect, wide-ranging interests and an accomplished songwriter.
Every person is a strange and singular tangle of distinctive interests, desires, impulses, tones, and overtones, carried in the voice, the physique, the bearing.
Perhaps Egypt will be different, but even so, full democracy there must someday challenge the military's autonomy, economic interests and singular role as the source of legitimacy and authority — items the officers will not give up willingly.
The importance of finding singular configurations (singularities) of mechanisms has become clear since the interest of the scientific community for parallel architectures arose.
