The duet (20), owing to the singularity of the situation, differs materially in character from an ordinary love duet.
It was not for want of industry or care; it was that he did not feel the necessity for mastering this important side of musical representation, and the fact affords fresh testimony of the singularity of his musical organisation.
Then I thought of getting a hat the natural color of the fur, but the apprehension of being looked upon as one affecting singularity felt uneasy to me.
The plants belonging to this division are rarely seen in British gardens; but when they do occur, they are well worth examining, from the singularity of their formation.
It is not singularity or affectation, but the discovery of new and valuable truth.
It has both properties, then, of giving an extraordinary impulse to the mind by the singularity of its appearance, and of riveting the imagination by its intense beauty.
It consists in seeing and thinking for one's-self: whereas singularity is only the affectation of saying something to contradict other people, without having any real opinion of one's own upon the matter.
There are some who always fall in with the fashionable prejudice as others affect singularity of opinion on all such points, according as they think they have more or less wit to judge for themselves.
Originality implies independence of opinion; but differs as widely from mere singularity as from the tritest truism.
Illustration] There is a singularity in this cut which may well excuse a short digression.
The king is struck with thesingularity of the admonition.
Antiquity after a time has the grace of novelty, as old fashions revived are mistaken for new ones; and a certain quaintness and singularity of style is an agreeable relief to the smooth and insipid monotony of modern composition.
He displayed extreme tenderness, beauty, originality, and delicacy of fancy; all he wanted was manly strength and fortitude to reject the temptations of singularity in sentiment and expression.
When we were conveyed, on our entrance, (in the cabriolet of the Diligence) beneath the arch to the upper part of which this old fashioned clock is attached, we were lost in admiration at the singularity of the scene.
He who wishes to be astonished by the singularity of a scene, connected with trade, should walk leisurely down the RUE DE ROBEC.
A remnant of the sect, the Jezreelites, lingered on for long at Chatham, remarkable for the general singularity of their manners and appearance.
They had a brother, a major in the Army, 10th Regiment, who was much annoyed at their singularity of costume, and offered to increase their allowance if they would discontinue it; but this they refused to do.
He was a first astonished at the singularity of my request; but, finding no ill consequences likely to attend it, readily complied, and with the assistance of his sister the matter was easily accomplished.
But though thus deviating in her actions from the usual customs of the young and rich, she was peculiarly careful not to offend them by singularity of manners.
He stopt; and Cecilia, who had listened to this narrative with a mixture of compassion, admiration and censure, was too much struck with its singularity to be readily able to answer it.
The scene presented by these annular reefs is equally striking for its singularity and beauty.
For one thing, there appears here again that noble shrinking from any singularity of this kind within herself, and from all notice on the part of others.
The singularity of the request did not seem to occur to Lizzie.
The singularity of Mrs Parker's bearing seemed to take him entirely by surprise.
Completely ignoring the singularity of Hollis's manner I did my best to make clear how the delay had been caused.
On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance.
I say the singularity of this coincidence absolutely stupefied me for a time.
Having received this impression at so very early an age, I cannot, of course, say with certainty whence I derived it; but I am inclined to attribute it chiefly to the singularity of my father's conduct toward myself.
This persuasion,” he says in a note, “is no singularity of mine, but the doctrine which I have learned from divines of great learning and judgment.
But around this character he has thrown a singularity of daring, a grandeur of sufferance, and a ruined splendour, which constitute the very height of poetic sublimity.
This last peculiarity was, undoubtedly, one cause of a remarkable singularity of speech, which seriously impaired his natural facility of conversation.
The history and the works of Shakespeare, and perhaps the singularity of the poet's character in respect to his own writings, are some of the most startling paradoxes in literary history.
The singularity of these "Lays" consists in coming down to us in a written form, evidently with great care and fondness, bearing their author's unknown name.
The singularity of the subject, which gives no bad picture of the hurry of a disorderly mob, and the felicity of an old translation, induce me to preserve a partial extract from the manuscript.
This singularity is accounted for by the author himself.
Grave men censured him for the absence of all gravity; and some imagined that the singularity of his facetious disposition, which sometimes seemed even ludicrous, was carried on to affectation.
An x dropped in the date of the impression would account for the singularity of a book printed before our Caxton had acquired the art.
The genius of this new Machiavel rose with the magnitude of the subject and the singularity of the occasion.
His contempt of outward forms and personal honours, his voluntary poverty, his fearlessness of death--all these afford ample evidence that the singularity of the man himself was as remarkable as the work he produced.
The mere singularity of the names alone ought to decide the point.
While he was yet pondering on the singularity of the incidents which had occurred, all within the space of three or four minutes, the company poured back again to the coffee-room.
Happy love is not disposed to assume disagreeable duties, and Raymond Benyon's love was happy, in spite of grave presentiments, in spite of the singularity of his mistress and the insufferable rudeness of her parents.
But he felt at the beginning what he did not feel at the end, that her singularity took the form of a charm which--once circumstances had made them so intimate--it was impossible to resist or conjure away.
The present heroic Sir John Dinely has, however, made his name conspicuous by stepping into a new road of fancy, by his poetic effusions, by his curious advertisements for a wife, and by the singularity of his dress and appearance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "singularity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
