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• v  be specific about
• s  directed toward a specific object
  particularized thinking as distinct from stereotyped sloganeering

• The enemy is never particularized, so we never have a sympathetic thought for them.
• Speed has terrified (and nicely particularized) passengers, a resourceful hero (Keanu Reeves), a gutsy heroine (the always appealing Sandra Bullock) and a terrific villain .
• Lucy's quirks and foibles her craving to be in show biz, her crazy schemes that always backfired, the constant fights with the Mertzes became as particularized and familiar .

• specify
• particularize
• particularise
• specialize
• specialise
• particularised

• generalize

News & Articles

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• The Government Is Spying on America with Drones, Too
  FBI director Robert Mueller said the government has used surveillance drones in the U.S. — though "in a very, very minimal way, very seldom" — at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. "It's very seldom used and generally used in a particular incident when you need the capability," Mueller said before the judiciary committee. "It is very narrowly focused on particularized cases and particularized needs ...
  June 19, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr. in BusinessWeek
  Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. wrote that the foundation "has sufficiently pled a concrete, particularized and legally protected injury to at least one of its members."
• Carol Corrigan in Sacramento Bee
  Therefore, the age of the vehicle, without additional particularized suspicion, would not have supported the stop,Corrigan wrote.
• Antonin Scalia in MWC News
  In the FFRF case Justice Antonin Scalia added, "Is a taxpayer's purely psychological displeasure that his funds are being spent in an allegedly unlawful manner ever sufficiently concrete and particularized to support ...... standing? The answer is...