Sentence examples for utterly specific from inspiring English sources

"utterly specific" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the way something is very exact or precise. For example, you could say: "This description of her clothing is utterly specific - down to the brand of shoes she's wearing."

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The images are at once utterly specific and hauntingly otherworldly.

Sometimes a novel bursts out of the gate with a premise that's utterly specific and original.

Even as these moments of stillness formed, they were already dissolving and shifting, like out-of-context memories: utterly specific, but how to place them?

He argues that "there are no good examples of 'superb lyric poems' that at once 'have something to say' utterly specific to a poet's 'experience' and can speak for all".

"What we call places are stable locations with unstable converging forces," she writes in her opening essay, and so her atlas records a vision of San Francisco as utterly specific but also involved with wider networks and flows (of capital, species, migration, language).

"Though big in physical scope and of a beauty that suggests a kind of drunken, barbaric lyricism, 'Ran' has the terrible logic and clarity of a morality tale seen in tight close-up, of a myth that, while being utterly specific and particular in its time and place, remains ageless, infinitely adaptable," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.

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The photographer Marc Atkins and the poet Rod Mengham are together making a study of English arable land, responding to fields "that all look the same to some extent", but that have undergone "utterly different specific histories", from battlefields to prisoner of war camps to sites of execution.

Utterly vague and ridiculously specific ministry directives we have aplenty.

Featuring quick-flash contributions by a cadre of serious musicians — including the pianist Orestes López, Cachao's brother — the performances sound era-specific but utterly timeless.

It's an utterly beautiful if lyrically non-specific paen to defiant self-reliance – "And there ain't no one going to turn me round," the chorus insists – by rights it should be an equally celebrated, if slightly more tasteful, parallel to I Will Survive.

Farage is no catch-all populist; his appeal is concentrated in specific groups and is utterly alien to others.

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