Sentence examples for singular meaning from inspiring English sources

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Any effort to apply a singular meaning to him will inspire counter-arguments, which means that depictions of LBJ in our pop culture are unlikely to end anytime soon.

For generations, the New York Times strove for singular meaning and significance.

Despite the obvious freakishness of the situation, a dim sympathy arose within Robert as the surreal backed into the practical, the impossible losing its singular meaning.

In top suburban schools across the country, the valedictorian, a beloved tradition, is rapidly losing its singular meaning as administrators dispense the title to every straight-A student rather than try to choose the best among them.

And so there, packed into the kitchen of my house two or three days after she had died, more than 100 of us listened to her speak of its singular meaning – and then we sang it for her.

The transcript, as far as I can tell, has yet to be leaked online, but the video (God bless the Queen) shows a genuine, moving moment that highlights what Angelou does so well as a poet: speak with singular meaning to a collective of mostly disparate people.

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Strossen argues that pornographic works do not have singular meanings, nor do they command only sexist understandings.

Therefore, maps that originate from the alleged attempt at being descriptive and reducing reality's complexity become prescriptive and establish singular meanings and interpretations that become themselves part of reality and the background for interpretation of the world (Wood 1992; Wood and Fels 2008).

The Israelites probably borrowed the Canaanite plural noun Elohim and made it singular in meaning in their cultic practices and theological reflections.

Avery's compositions could be likened to a poet's expression: engaging and thought provoking, enlightening and ethereal, never singular in meaning and always individual to those willing to hear, or in Avery's case, look.

The disjunction between the grammar (singular) and meaning (plural) is the reason why many people, when they need a pronoun to go with everyone, choose they, them and their (Everyone came to the party with their husband or wife).Everyone is hardly the only case where grammatical number and actual meaning part ways.

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