The particularity of human situations. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
More poking and prodding at POWERS this morning, reframing sections already written from first-person POV to third, and adding more "particularity" to the scenes as I go along. From Wordnik.com. [Gray, but brightening] Reference
Then they're specific enough about who, what, why, and when to nail "particularity". From Wordnik.com. [No Audit At All: Deloitte and Bear Stearns - Francine McKenna - Accounting Watchdog - Forbes] Reference
Does it minimize the particularity of the war against the Jews?. From Wordnik.com. [After The Survivors] Reference
Dryden generalizes all this particularity -- and therein greatly errs. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
You will be shut up in yourself and your own particularity and ugliness. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
Ada did not remember that Sunday in much particularity, one out of many. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
What are the employments of heaven we cannot know with any particularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
We lack space to describe any but the most remarkable with particularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
Mr. VENTURI: (Through translator) There's a particularity about this line. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Stations And Boyhood Love On The Paris Metro] Reference
It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
"They saw the body as the carrier of particularity, including gender and race," Bynum says. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking The Resurrection] Reference
"I think he should resign, out of concern for the institution and the particularity of the allegations.". From Wordnik.com. [Maxine Waters will go to trial rather than settling potential ethics charges] Reference
It is unnecessary to describe with much particularity the events of the period beginning about Sept. 10. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
But we need to make sure that the particularity provisions articulated in the Fourth Amendment are honored. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001] Reference
As he was leaving Walcott inquired politely for Mrs. Dean, then with great particularity for Miss Underwood. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
These bodies present this remarkable particularity, that they contain among their elements sulphur and phosphorus. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
Beauman had made no serious pretensions, but his particularity indicated something more than fashionable politeness. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
There is no one, in ever so menial position, about her person, who is not mentioned with kindness and particularity. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
And also we have a particularity as well at the Burj Al Arab is very amazing service we give in our suites to all our guests. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2006] Reference
An ice ax is the last thing a mountaineer is ever going to get rid of, particularity on terrain like that where it's critical. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2006] Reference
Will you kindly advise us, in confidence and with whatever particularity you find convenient, what you consider his credit rating?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
The circumstances of his election and trust, so honorable and dignified, are happily told with sufficient particularity on our own. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
And also, we have a particularity as well at the Burj Al Arab is the very amazing service we give in our suites to all our guests. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2006] Reference
Christopher laughed aloud, and the wood-measurer looked at him with amazement; for such particularity generally provoked a quarrel. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
And the particularity of this suite category is this fantastic window, where you can actually really see Dubai, you know, at your feet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2006] Reference
Professor ROBERT LUSKIN (University of Virginia School of Law): This time around, Congress has got to legislate with some particularity. From Wordnik.com. [High Court Sides With Ex-Enron CEO Skilling] Reference
Why dwell tediously upon one particle, when the value of it consists not in its particularity, but in its harmony with the rest of the universe?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
It is not my intention to weary the reader with the details of each day's travel; indeed, my limited space would not admit of such particularity. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
The good old man describes the beauty of plants and trees with the same delightful particularity which he spent on his neighbors and the buried dogs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
The one element of particularity which every idea lacks is the reference to the transmitted transmutation to which the sensible phenomenon owes its origin. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
The whole story is told with great particularity by the chronicler, and it was represented in stained glass in the cloisters of the abbey, as described hereafter. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
But one set of figures, available for everybody, and indicating with sufficient particularity the needs of our forces in the field, is supplied by the casualty lists. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
They furnish excuse, too, for what may appear to learned agriculturists an unnecessary particularity in what might seem the well-known facts relative to tile-drainage. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
You, as a representative of the other system, do not lay so much stress upon these things, but do take cognizance of the symptoms in each case with surprising particularity. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
I turn my face from this town towards your house I will let you know, and for your part I would have you write me everything with the utmost particularity, whatever its nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
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