Conversely, in the English language as a whole, singular verb forms can often be used with nouns ending in "- s " that were once considered plural ( for example: " Physics is my favorite academic subject ").

A good example of such a metonymic shift in the plural-to-singular direction is the following sentence: " Mathematics is my favorite academic subject.

Kit Carson's alliterative name, adventurous life, and participation in a large number of historical events has made him a favorite subject of novelists, historians, and biographers.

Merovingian themes were the painter's favorite subject up to the mid-1860s.

Ben K. Green ( 1912 – 1974 ) wrote about his favorite subject, the not-so-old American west.

The Tale of Genji became a favorite subject of Japanese woodblock artists for centuries with artists such as Hiroshige, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro illustrating various editions of the novel.

Mission San Juan Capistrano has served as a favorite subject for many notable artists, and has been immortalized in literature and on film numerous times, perhaps more than any other mission.

This event was a favorite subject for Italian painters.

The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favorite subject in ancient and Renaissance sculpture.

" Lubitsch was the subject of several interviews at that time, and consistently cited The Shop Around the Corner as his favorite of his films.

Having successfully caught the Boar, Heracles bound it and carried it back to Eurystheus, who was frightened of it and ducked down in his half-buried storage pithos, begging Heracles to get rid of the beast, a favorite subject for the vase-painters.

Her private life has become a favorite subject of paparazzi and gossip magazines, and her breakup from actor Mauricio Islas was well published.

Rush Limbaugh is a favorite caricature subject, although he usually talks through a radio and is not personally shown.

Her favorite subject was " natural philosophy ," especially what later become known as physics.

Etymologies, often very learned and far-fetched, a favorite trope of antiquity, form the subject of just one of the encyclopedia's twenty books, but perceived linguistic similarities permeate the work.

Next month the ship arrived in San Francisco and he soon started Pacific Business College just to experience American life ( business was not his favorite subject ).

Although his health would not allow him to serve in the military, during World War II, Kelly also worked in the Army's Foreign Language Unit illustrating manuals, including several on language — a favorite Kelly subject — and one manual on the use of tools depicting his friend Ward Kimball as a caveman.

The elegance of her character is further underscored by the contrast between her favorite subject, ancient writing, and her least favorite, modern society.

In Gillot's studio Watteau became acquainted with the characters of the commedia dell ' arte ( its actors had been expelled from France several years before ), a favorite subject of Gillot's that would become one of Watteau's lifelong passions.

His favorite subjects were grizzled old men, “ perfected with age, like a gnarled oak tree .” Another favorite subject was the circus — but always the big tops, never the people.

Collectors of average means may collect works by a favorite author, first editions of modern authors, or books on a given subject.

This was a favorite subject for O ' Keeffe, who once said, " I painted it often enough thinking that, if I did so, God would give it to me.

This methodology was one of Edward Bernays ' favorite techniques for manipulating public opinion by the indirect use of " third-party authorities " to influence the public, without their conscious cooperation.

It was a favorite anchorage of Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard.

Edward of Norwich, Earl of Rutland, the first son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, fifth son of Edward III of England, favorite of his cousin Richard II, had been created Earl of Cork in the Peerage of Ireland during his nephew's personal reign.

Pundits predicted foot-dragging by the Speaker after President Kennedy's 30-year-old brother Ted won a Senate seat from Edward J. McCormack, Jr., the elder McCormack's favorite nephew, the highest Democratic officeholder in the state, and a logical candidate.

Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work.

In 1903 a new preparatory school was opened at Royal Naval College, Osborne, which was Queen Victoria's favorite residence but was not a favorite of her successor Edward VII who had donated it to the nation in 1902.

While looking in the mirror, he seeks advice from his “ three favorite men ”: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson.

He was one of the great nobles offended by the rise of Edward II's favorite Piers Gaveston, and helped secure Gaveston's 1308 banishment.

His brother, Edward Chodorov ( 1904 – 1988 ), was also a playwright, author of the perennial favorite of amateur groups, Kind Lady.

According to many people involved in the film, Wayne was an intelligent and gifted director, despite a weakness for the long-winded dialogue of his favorite screenwriter, James Edward Grant.

Three of Hardy's photos were used in Edward Steichen's famous Family of Man exhibition and book, though not his favorite photo — which shows two street urchins off on a lark in Gorbals — it nevertheless has come to represent Hardy's documentary skill.

In 1930, following the death of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Edward Terry Sanford, Kenyon was considered by some as a favorite to succeed him, but President Hoover instead nominated John J. Parker ( who failed to win Senate confirmation ) and then Owen Roberts ( who was confirmed ).

The title derives from Quatrain XI of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which is one of Richard's favorite poems.

Rogers was philanthropist Edward Harkness's favorite architect, and Harkness would often condition a gift for a new academic or medical building upon the institution's agreement to hire Rogers for the project.

Yet another legend says that when Glooscap finished painting the splendor of the world, he dipped his brush into a blend of all the colours and created Abegweit, meaning " Cradled on the Waves " — his favorite island ( Prince Edward Island ).

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During an interview, Edward Gorey mentioned that Bawden was one of his favorite artists, lamenting the fact that not many people remembered or knew about this fine artist.

There, he joined with other members of the political and economic elite including King Edward VII, at fashionable events including thoroughbred horse races, the favorite pastime of English royalty and nobility.

Edward II gave several of her dowager lands to the favorite including Berkhamsted Castle.

He had been a favorite of King Edward II of England until he was displaced by Hugh the younger Despenser.