The companionship of so many seemed to make a joint-stock of their suffering; it was next to impossible to individualize it, and so bring it home, as one can do with a single broken limb or aching wound.
He delineates himself so perfectly in his various writings that the careful reader sees his nature just as it was in all its essentials, and has little more to learn than those human accidents which individualize him in space and time.
This is implied in Hufeland's aphorism: "The physician must generalize the disease and individualize the patient.
She told me her story once; it was as if a grain of corn that had been ground and bolted had tried to individualize itself by a special narrative.
One thing more must be particularly remarked because it serves to individualize the character from the beginning to the end of the poem.
Writing descriptive of a character and his mannered words function together to individualize the person for a reader.
The conflict, of course, is not between two disembodied attributes, but between two persons, and the writer of such a story must individualize them.
The writer endeavors to reveal the natures of his people and to individualize them in a more superficial but equally important sense.
Unnecessarily distorted spelling, for instance, employed in an attempt to be too strictly phonetic, will call attention to itself rather than individualize the speaker, that is, it will destroy the illusion of the story.
I have reference to the necessity that the writer individualize and vitalize the people of his story so that the significant situations of the fiction may have maximum effect on a reader.
The second use of his characters' words to the writer of fiction is to individualize them.
Their speech may be made to reveal their spiritual natures, and it may be made to individualize them.
The artist seeks everywhere the traits that individualize and characterize, and neglects all others.
There is no compromise, for the vast totality we individualize as the environment is stern and unyielding, and it never relents for even a moment's truce.
It is because we individualize all of the complex totality of the world as "Nature" with a capital N that so many people unconsciously come to think of it as a human-like personality.
Defn: A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.
The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison.
When it passes on to the vegetable and animal kingdoms it will inhabit vegetables and animals of that type and of no other; and when it eventually reaches humanity it will individualize into men of that type and of no other.
As long as fashion takes the place of taste, and extravagant chic supersedes grace and beauty, we must not hope that fine designs to individualize dress will be called for.
Here design to individualize the living-room comes into play, and is most conspicuous for good or for evil effect.
But in penetrating into these individuals, it must inevitably individualize itself.
In order to distinguish and individualize itself, this sub-clan needs a special totem or, consequently, a sub-totem.
It is true that in incarnating themselves in individuals, collective ideals tend to individualize themselves.
Just as the characteristic attributes of the mana are found in the soul, so secondary and superficial changes are enough to enable the mana to individualize itself in the form of a soul.
The souls, in their turn, are only the form taken by the impersonal forces which we found at the basis of totemism, as they individualize themselves in the human body.
Just as there is no society without individuals, so those impersonal forces which are disengaged from the group cannot establish themselves without incarnating themselves in the individual consciousnesses where theyindividualize themselves.
Some figures it is all but impossible to individualize without this means.
They say that the only thing which can individualize or perpetuate a commonwealth is to have a history; and they ask which of the States lately in rebellion, except Virginia and South Carolina, had anything of the kind?
The more we can individualize and personify, the more lively our sympathy.
It is difficult, if not impossible, for any mind to really comprehend so large a sum, and the only way to appreciate it is to divide it among families, or individualize it.
Or, to individualize it, divide this sum by five, and you have the sum of $126.
