Word: genericizing
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...classical music buffs who are tired of the same old generic sounds of Richter, Brendel, Horowitz or Gilels, Ugorski promises to be a real treat...
...Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend to be generic rather than specific -- "a nymph" rather than Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn...
...things in the Square that hasn't become completely generic--this and Elise's," says Steven D. Nelson, a second year graduate student in fine arts...
...showstopper, I'm Lost. Levine's writing partner, Peter Kellogg, also a beginner, deftly focuses the story on Anna's forced choice between romantic love for Vronsky and maternal love for her child by her husband Karenin. But Kellogg nearly wrecks the enterprise with lyrics so blandly generic that they convey hardly any specifics of character -- especially frustrating when the source, Tolstoy's novel, provides some of the most vivid characters in world literature...
There was another reason for the separation of church and state, which no amount of pious ranting can expunge: not all the Founding Fathers believed in the same God, or in any God at all. Yes, the Declaration of Independence refers to a deity, but only in the most generic terms -- "Nature's God," the "Creator," "Providence" -- calculated not to offend the doubters and deists (who believed that God had designed the universe, then left it to nature to run). Jefferson was a renowned doubter, urging his nephew to "question with boldness even the existence of a God." John Adams...