generalising

You and I have to generalise, as we say, when we try to extend our affections beyond the limits of household and family and personal friends, and the generalising is a sign of weakness and limitation.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

I'm British, and I can assure you cannot say "in Britain" to make this kind of generalising point.

The David Brooks column about Joe Biden brings back a memory of my grandfather and makes me ask a question about Wilmington, Delaware. Ann Althouse 2008

There is also Spazio, the kind of generalising exhibition with which museums like to open.

The Guardian World News Rowan Moore 2010

'generalising' about the intellectual stupor of the local inhabitants, i'd say, you may attempt to hide an elephant behind a lampost, but don't expect it to be hidden.

Asian 2009

Love-language has been pulled differently in different eras between the great generalising symbols – the heart, the rose, the fixed star – and language's opposite capacity: finding words to capture the unique specificity of the loved one, inside her real moment in history.

Love in literature 2011

'Love-language has been pulled differently in different eras between the great generalising symbols – the heart, the rose, the fixed star.'

Love in literature 2011

She is the slave of the law, unwittingly generalising upon sex-impressions against the day when she must identify the male who most nearly completes her.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Tolstoy here only wants to capture the mystery of that generalising, transcendent yearning and then correct, as the story unfolds, for its likely interactions with the real.

Love in literature 2011

Writing in the Guardian today, Alan Johnson attempts to make it clear he is not generalising the whole of the youth drinking culture, but for those who do step out of line, even though he does not consider the reasons for why they may be doing so, will possibly face “banning from particular streets or areas, or even banning from buying alcohol or drinking in public.”

"It will be jelly bean Asbos for sugared-up kids next"… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009

Writing in the Guardian today, Alan Johnson attempts to make it clear he is not generalising the whole of the youth drinking culture, but for those who do step out of line, even though he does not consider the reasons for why they may be doing so, will possibly face “banning from particular streets or areas, or even banning from buying alcohol or drinking in public.”

2009 August « My Political Ramblings… 2009