"Waterland" is able to recognize the tragedy in this without universalizing it, so that the film remains deliberately idiosyncratic and small.

Studies of sexuality and space has been criticized for universalizing a Western-centric position that has minimal relevance beyond the urbanized Western world.

I say "probably" because Pynchon is less interested in vindicating his characters' suspicions of plots than in universalizing and, in a sense, depathologizing the paranoid structure of thought.

Nonetheless, she disagreed with his position of "establishing universal definitions of paganism as a world religion or an essential practice", arguing that in doing so he was "gloss[ing] over significant differences" between different religious groups by "universalizing" them under cover-all categories.

To universalize from the specific has been her great gift.

Some say the challenge in universalizing such projects may largely be one of marketing.

It was established with the objective of universalizing primary education beyond Male'.

Death, it turned out, was a powerfully universalizing experience.

Indeed, the very process of ritualizing them freezes time and universalizes the experience.

Their names are embedded in theater legend; why universalize them so obviously?

"We're trying to educate people that they can universalize and globalize their business at no cost," he said.

Stage 6 - "Universalizing" faith, or what some might call "enlightenment".

The cellular phone universalizes the intrusiveness of every little phone call.

This necessitates practical self-reflection in which we universalize our reasons.

Providing kids with preschool education (universalizing Head Start, for example) was too costly, we were told.

"In this case, it localizes and universalizes the story.

The current High-Cost program is not designed to universalize broadband.

"If you believed that you wouldn't be working so hard to universalize the new conformity."

Elsewhere, though, Eliot deliberately pruned away details so as to universalize his imagery.

Because the "Rest" are so different, the professor contends, it is an error to try to universalize such Western concepts as human rights.

Recent stage dramatizations of such works represent one attempt to modernize or universalize Bach's message.

The challenge is in universalizing her monomania while holding on to her unique psychological strength.

Setting a target clarifies where the United States should focus its resources to universalize broadband.

In universalizing Jewish ethics, reformers were able to build a bridge to Christian colleagues.

Only by universalizing or typologizing the life stories of the biblical protagonists could most people stand to think about them.

Miss Nakajima is different, in that she succeeds in universalizing the personal.

"It's another step towards Christianizing or universalizing the Holocaust.

"The global spirit of universalizing would never admit the pedantry that insists on analyzing each shape for its specificity."

Mr. Hanna's music gives it all a heroic quality that helps to enlarge and universalize these small lives.

In a word, it is the task of the Paraclete to universalise the presence of Jesus.

Not only was the Spirit to universalise the person of Jesus to future believers, he was to do the same to the unbelieving world.

When writing in French, Beckett stripped his text of biographical detail in an attempt to universalise his characters.

The new idea was expounded in the Report on the necessity and means to annihilate the patois and to universalise the use of the French language.

Marx believed that intellectuals aim to universalise their ideologies 'then turn about and expose the partiality of those ideologies.'

The maxim is not moral because it is logically impossible to universalise it - we could not conceive of a world where this maxim was universalised.

The first major thrust came in 1982 when Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dr. M. G. Ramachandran, decided to universalise the scheme for all children up to class 10.

But gradually, as I noted in Chapter One, he came to think that one cannot universalise judgements coherently, without this amounting to the development of a universal sympathy with the desires of all affected by one's action.

All real working gods, one may remark, all gods that are worshipped emotionally, are tribal gods, and every attempt to universalise the idea of God trails dualism and the devil after it as a moral necessity.

Kant's theory looks at the act only, and not at its outcomes and consequences, and claims that one is ethically required to consider whether one would be willing to universalise the act: to claim everyone should behave that way.

This attempt to universalise the process of empire-building also has politically loaded connotations in a time when Italy had just failed to regain the Roman Empire, thwarted by the dwindling imperial powers of Britain and France and the new empire, America.

He had written many famous love poems, among them "Strawberries" and "The Unspoken", in which the love object was not gendered; this was partly because of legal problems at the time but also out of a desire to universalise them, as he made clear in an interview with Marshall Walker.

For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction, and this implies that one should not accept them at all, since one cannot universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them.