particularity

Example Sentences

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His bronze “Bust of a Woman” from 1851 has the particularity of a portrait, but she came to be identified only as “African Venus.”

From New York Times

You better attend to the special teams, too, in all of their role-playing particularities and tedium, or you will get rolled.

From Washington Post

But at its core, Hanukkah is about celebrating our Jewish particularity, relishing our differences from the wider world.

From Washington Post

The field's sensitivity to historical particularity and cultural difference makes the application of the same code to widely diverse artifacts utterly illogical.

From Salon

Instead, a generation of Jews is confronting head-on the tension between Jewish universalist principles and the idea of Jewish particularity — that Jews possess special obligations toward one another.

From New York Times