Sentence examples for particularise from inspiring English sources

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While I don't, in the end, side with them – we mustn't particularise rape still further, and make our faith in the women still shakier – I do see the arguments for anonymity.

To quote the American farmer and essayist Wendell Berry – a man who in my experience speaks the crash-tested truth – "people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love, and to defend what we love we need a particularising language, for we love what we particularly know".

Well, Homes certainly has something important to say about contemporary life – its cynicism; its dearth of affect – but for me her writing is too richly particularised to function as state-of-the-nation satire.

The human element is not particularised, however.

The tradition of minutely particularised middle-class interiors dominated British literature for nearly a century and a half, and can still be seen at work today.

Because the particularising impulse is literature.

Around 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected "he" as the generic pronoun ("in order to avoid particularising man or woman, or in order to express either sex indifferently", he wrote in his notebooks), settling on "it" as an ideal, neutral solution.

Harris's book tells the story of English art's journey away from pure abstractionism to a tactile, particularising concern with the local and the contingent, with "stones and leaves".

Because the particularising influence is literature.

The novel - at its best - is driven by ideas, by the realisation that the most important ideas can only be explained and particularised through the fiction provided by the medium of novel.