How to Use particularity in a Sentence
particularity
noun- The particularities of the job take some time to get used to.
- The actors studied all of the particularities of the script.
- She described the scene with great particularity.
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Behind the new wave, there was a lot of thinking about the limits of cinema as an art, and about its particularities.
— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023 -
There are two factors that determine the severity of wine teeth: the nature of red wine and the particularities of your tooth enamel.
— Rachel Sugar, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018 -
And the particularity of the tone is psychoanalysis at its best—nothing to say.
— Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books, 1 Apr. 2020 -
But there is little attempt to engage with the particularities of the period or with Sor Juana’s ideas.
— Brian Seibert, New York Times, 4 June 2023 -
The Dalai Lama’s practice is rooted in the particularities of Tibetan Buddhism.
— Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 7 Apr. 2020 -
Something that could help give character and particularity to the space.
— Ted Loos, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016 -
The bears are particularity active right now due to raspberry season in the region.
— Amanda Jackson, CNN, 20 July 2021 -
Again and again, a reader is drawn into their mundane particularity and, again and again, one remembers the explosion that cut those five futures short in 1944.
— Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 14 May 2021 -
Still, what is on one level an encounter with the reality of the workshops of Litzmannstadt is on another level the erasure of its particularity through the return of the Moirai.
— Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021 -
On Friday night, though, Faye was a particular girl with all of her own particularities.
— Carol Motsinger, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020 -
Eminem is so obsessed with the particularities of rhyme that his songs can lack forward momentum.
— Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017 -
Against these threats Ms Groff sets the particularity of individual lives, love and above all language.
— The Economist, 21 June 2018 -
Tensions were made worse by particularities of French law.
— Alexandra Marshall, Vogue, 17 May 2019 -
After 12 years of living in Florida, Groff can render the state's particularities — lizards that stick to screen doors, the running routes of Gainesville — with stunning clarity.
— refinery29.com, 15 June 2018 -
But in the pamphlet that emerged, the particularity of Spain – its history and traditions; the nature of its political scene – often fell by the wayside.
— Sarah Watling, Time, 13 July 2023 -
Then within that there are particularities to each country in terms of altitude and climate.
— Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019 -
The societal and lifestyle particularities that define the Fremen outside of single-minded struggle are of no use to Dune: Part Two.
— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 May 2024 -
Rat Saw God is all the pride and grit and particularities of geography, but also the shame, too, in certain sociopolitical terms.
— Maria Sherman, SPIN, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Yes, the series is an urban crime drama, and the Baltimore on the show represents corrupt cities across the country — but the city is unlike any other, too, and the show amplifies those particularities.
— Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023 -
The whole point of the métier, in fact, is to craft beautiful garments that suit individual bodies, with all their particularities.
— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 July 2023 -
Because of the particularities of the playing surface, grass-court tournaments are less likely than others to be rescheduled later in the season, if and when the tour resumes regular play.
— Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020 -
For all the particularities of life in China, its big cities offer a familiar cosmopolitanism.
— Adam Greenfield, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2018 -
The thematic repetition — and the sincere, direct tone in which most are written — can make the essays blur together, through no fault of their own, despite the particularities of each story.
— Megan Marz, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020 -
Instead, focusing on Saeed and Nadia, and removing the particularities of the city, the country and its customs, Hamid aims to increase the depth of a reader’s empathy for characters who can be, or should be, just like the reader.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017 -
The carrier has been in on-and-off conflicts with labor unions over pay, and the two sides have called in a mediator to end the disruptions, particularity as the busy travel Easter travel season beckons.
— Benedikt Kammel, Fortune Europe, 21 Mar. 2024 -
The restaurant provides a snapshot into the particularities of the Los Angeles dining scene, where a hotspot can be located in a drab, rather mundane minimall.
— Max Berlinger, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024 -
That tension between repetition and particularity is one of the peculiar pleasures of looking at the pictures as a group.
— Immy Humes, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
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