particularization

The filmmaker’s Cinderella story is one of the best embodiments of what critic Manny Farber called “Termite Art” — creations that “feel their way through walls of particularization, with no sign that the creator has any object in mind other than eating away the immediate boundaries of his art.”

The multiplication and particularization of criminal behavior creates increasing complexity without commensurate benefit.”

The multiplication and particularization of criminal behavior creates increasing complexity without commensurate benefit.”

Particularization is the alone distinction of merit.”

Lord Kaimes defines love to be a particularization of the general passion, but this is the love of sensation, of sentiment—the absurdest of absurd vanities; it is the love of pleasure, not the love of happiness.