And some came with a singularly hedonistic purpose - stand up Kerry Robinson, who was indeed the life and soul of the party.
But what boggled my mind the most was that many of the websites that devoted themselves to tracing the Pope's Jewish ancestry did so for one singularly evil purpose: to discredit Pope Benedict XVI - by establishing him as a Jew - and not just any Jew, but a Jew who descended from a golem-fashioning sorcerer, which is to say (as these sites claim), a Jew who may in fact be the Antichrist.
Like all psychopaths, the firm is singularly self-interested: its purpose is to create wealth for its shareholders.
Besides, studies show that low-fat diets are singularly ineffective for the purposes of weight loss in the long term.
2. That these lands are affected with heat, as surmised, is evident, because in the mountains of Cumæ and at Baiæ, sweating places are excavated, in which the hot vapour rising upwards from the intensity of the fire, strikes through the earth, and so escapes in these places that they are singularly beneficial for the purpose.
Our next major action, whether a march or strike, needs to singularly announce as its purpose the emergence of our unified movement, and nothing less.
Ponting has offered an overdue spark of hope and purpose to this singularly gloomy summer at Taunton.
He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose), and he danced, and shook his fists, and called us all the English he knew.
In their own way, they added a challenging dimension to an already challenging game, whose aim, as Winston Churchill famously remarked, "is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose".
Winston Churchill once quipped that golf clubs were "singularly ill designed" for the purpose of hitting a small ball into an even smaller hole.
"Shakespeare is in the singularly fortunate position," Auden once observed, "of being, to all intents and purposes, anonymous".
