Sentence examples for singular people from inspiring English sources

All Gladwell's books focus on singularities: singular events in The Tipping Point, singular moments in Blink, and singular people in Outliers.

There are singular people posting things, not just millions and millions of tweets a day.

They were a "singular people," as journalists were apt to put it, combining Indian, African, and European features: high cheekbones, aquiline noses, dark skin, red hair.

The gift for having fun — it was perhaps the best trait of this singular people, Trudy and I agreed on the long, long, long walk home.

Singular people, they say, are fascinated by twins because that is what they are searching for in life – a soulmate or a double.

He would say, when they sent down his ice from the hotel bar (he was in a cottage below the main building, flowers heaped upon it; envying a little the unencumbered mountains of the Sierra Madre) and when he had chilled his mescal — warm, it tasted rotten — he would write that in 1947, when he was living in Paris, he knew any number of singular people.

Unlike in photography, with its singular moment, people here are caught in the process of having an expression.

I am not talking about, say, trousers – which are plural for normal people, singular for fashionistas, or perhaps plural at the bottom and singular at the top; I mean singular in the sense of unusual.

"Having a deterrent on a structure like the Golden Gate Bridge, that has a singular attraction to people who want to jump, is crucial," said John Brooks, whose 17-year-old daughter Casey leapt to her death in January 2008.

In rose-tinted retrospect there was perhaps an ideal texture to that bunch of players, who had the ballast and good practical sense of central contracts, without having grown up entirely within the machine, entering it instead with some healthy rough edges intact, and seeming – from a distance and with all due exceptions - a more likeable, un-homogenised, singular group of people.

Kaufman's originality and audacity caught on; the term "Kaufmanesque" was coined to evoke his singular style; other people's quasi-Kaufmanesque projects got greenlit (eg Stranger Than Fiction, in which Will Ferrell discovers he's a character in a novel); books on screenwriting craft were rewritten to accommodate the radical counterintuitiveness of his approach.