Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love to call professional athletes selfish, but NBA players have the particular and ironic distinction of carrying at least a chunk of the banner for an entire race of people. It sounds like naive overstatement, but a chunk is all you need for the proposition to turn frightening...
Developing a model of the structure of themolecule at the particular instant was also madepossible by X-ray crystallography--Chopra'sspecialty--which provided the necessary data...
...Ermo, in particular, secured [Zhou's]reputation as one of the most important filmmakersworking in China today," Jia and Xu wrote, addingthat the film was voted the best feature film atMexico's Cancun Festival...
Stoles have a very particular meaning in Roman Catholicism: they signify ordination. But Ramerman is a woman and, according to church doctrine, cannot be ordained. It did not help that she stood next to the priest during Mass, read the preface to the Eucharistic prayer and raised the chalice of wine at the end of the prayer--activities that are the purview of the ordained. For years the Vatican peppered the Bishop of Rochester with complaints about Corpus Christi and probably made its feelings clear during his official visit to Rome this year. The message: Such heresies must...
...heard Harvard professors define "postmodernism" in two ways which have seemed satisfactory. The first definition is that postmodernism is everything that comes "after modernism." This doesn't sound so great at first, but at least defining the word by associating it with a particular time constraint gives it some concrete meaning. The second definition adds to the previous one by saying that postmodernism is really a problem, not a statement or a set of values. It's a problem of how we can express ourselves, and of how we can understand the expression of others, in the often confusing...