Richard Nixon was a particular object of his venom.
Samogitia (Lithuanian: Žemaitija), lying between Prussia and Livonia, two lands already in the hands of the German Crusading knights, was a particular object of German expansion.
James allowed Catholics to occupy the highest offices of the Kingdoms, and received at his court the papal nuncio, Ferdinando d'Adda, the first representative from Rome to London since the reign of Mary I. James's Jesuit confessor, Edward Petre, was a particular object of Protestant ire.
To them, the castle is a particular object of fascination, a magnificent confection that must not be tasted.
Marko Milosevic is a particular object of hatred, for his children's park called Bambiland (named after a brand of cookie, not a deer) in the family hometown of Pozarevac, and for his reported black-market trading in gasoline, oil and cigarettes.
While I agree wholeheartedly with Virginia Heffernan's assessment in The Medium that the partying, out-of-control woman is a particular object of fear and revulsion, I find it unfortunate that she used my comments as grist for her argument.
Generally, beginners will be introduced and establish a practice using FA techniques, where there is a particular object to focus attention on (e.g., the breath), whereas OM meditation does not require an object of focus, but an aware and nonreactive acknowledgment of moment to moment awareness.
If we had a precise philosophical account of what it is for a statement to be about a particular object or subject matter, then we could define a topic-neutral statement as one that is not about anything or, perhaps, one that is about everything indifferently.
'This water', on a demonstrative occasion, refers, but, "my contention is that this water, unlike this or that drop, is not a particular object" (1972, p. 4).
For the former, they were asked whether a particular object was present in the array; for the latter, they were asked about the spatial relation between two objects in the array, i.e., whether an object was located above, below, left, or right of another object.
It is natural to construe these claims on the model of the essentialist claims we have so far considered: it is essential to a particular object, namely the species cat, to be such that all of its instances are also instances of the kind animal; it is essential to a particular object, namely the kind water, to be such that all samples of it are composed of molecules of H20.
