At 9 sharp, the jukebox, which had been playing the latest New York salsa hits, suddenly stilled, and a Japanese woman stepped up to the mike in front of the room and began to sing the old Cuban chestnut "Sabor a Mi". Voila -- another perfect, unexpected, and singularly Tokyo experience.
Shelley's most overt feminist statement in the French Lives comes when she criticises Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761), writing "his ideas ... of a perfect life are singularly faulty.
During the late 1950s, Peng developed a personal dislike for Mao's efforts to promote his own image in Chinese popular culture as a perfect, infallible hero singularly responsible for the Communist victories of his time.
The Germans, though, were singularly ready to utter the unspeakable.
I hadn't been able to concentrate since my audition at lunch, having been singularly focused on whether I would get to play that perfect, beautiful, slutty raging alcoholic or not.
It turned out to be the optimal recipe for Chinese middle-class appeal — Weibo gold — the perfect mix of conscience, consumerism, and comedy that has attracted her singularly large following.
It turned out to be the optimal recipe for Chinese middle-class appeal Weibo gold the perfect mix of conscience, consumerism, and comedy that has attracted her singularly large following.
In the end, or what may well have been the prelude to it for the Spurs, a team so admired for its precision and purpose — the perfect basketball unit, it has often seemed — lacked the one player to singularly rise to the occasion.
First staged in New York in 1986, "The Widow Claire" offers a near-perfect balance of the compassion and dispassion Foote always blends so singularly.
