Of course, we in the West can hardly single out Chavez for unsavoury alliances.
We need hardly single out the president for such common usage to appreciate that it sits uneasily with placing so much weight on another solitary word, "citizen".
This is hardly the "single-mindedness" we are after.
Orwell's sentences are so forceful that hardly a single one of them escapes political incorrectness of one type or another, yet he remained on the left to the premature end of his life, in 1950.
During his 12 months in office hardly a single one of his economic promises came to fruition.
Walk by any deli case today and you'll see bowl after bowl of salads made with pasta, but hardly a single one made with rice.
In fact, Aldiss's description is so specific and limiting that I can think of hardly a single novel it applies to, other than Kraken and Triffids.
Even more odd is that hardly a single examiner seems to have either noticed or challenged this.
There is hardly a single weird store left on Broadway from Forty-second Street to Forty-sixth Street — hardly a single place in which a peculiar passion seems to have committed itself to a peculiar product.
