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?
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.
"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.
The cooking here is utterly specific; each dish tastes so distinctly of its particular ingredients.
In Stray Light Grey, I experienced a quintessence of one utterly specific state of mind, an intensity of this state of mind that one might call wakefulness-plus.
circumstances specific to.
Not specific to children.
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.
