Hence the minuteness of detail in the painting. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He examined the essay with the greatest minuteness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : minute differences. ,a minute examination. From Dictionary.com.
'Rienzi,' and writes prose better than poetry, and transcends rather in Dutch minuteness and high finishing, than in Italian ideality and passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
'Our Village 'than of' Rienzi, 'and writes prose better than poetry, and transcends rather in Dutch minuteness and high finishing, than in Italian ideality and passion. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Recalling our minuteness in God's wide and wonderful creation only underlines our central role in God's plan for the salvation of the whole world. From Wordnik.com. [Clerical Whispers] Reference
Her death, and the respect paid to her memory, are related with a circumstantial minuteness which is truly honourable to her character. From Wordnik.com. [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I] Reference
'limitation of abode,' and the 'minuteness' ascribed to Brahman, are merely for the purpose of meditation. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
It is like Ari in its minuteness and accuracy; like. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The greatness and the minuteness of Nature pass all understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
It is honourable of the advertiser to mention the minuteness of the cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
This tendency has been in the direction of minuteness and accuracy of detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Montevideo, which he described with the ponderous minuteness of a guide book. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
These pictures are said to have the minuteness and fidelity of daguerreotypes. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Their movements are keenly watched, and often chronicled with surprising minuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Europeans prefer complexity and nuance, the Japanese revere minuteness and minimalism. From Wordnik.com. [Does the Future Belong to China?] Reference
Swiggs commences describing with great minuteness the appearance of Mr. Tom Toddleworth. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
By this means it is possible to realise a minuteness and accuracy unobtainable in wider fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The liturgy reminds one of the ancient civil law on account of the minuteness of its prescriptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
He is astonishingly industrious, and his minuteness is without end, but he never warms to his subject. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
National Gallery, painted in 1644, all on panel, and finished with the care and minuteness of Gerhard Dow. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
These Pictures, for minuteness of Detail and Truth in the Representation of Natural Objects, are unrivalled. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
But the delicacy and minuteness of Greek work is of course most obvious in the reliefs of coins and in gems. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
With their abominable minuteness of detail, the anonymous letters gave me even the address of their rendezvous!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mr. Soloman had doubtless described her with legal minuteness in the bond of security for the two hundred dollars. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The sayings and doings of the young adventurers are recorded with the minuteness that to older heads seems tedious. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
The necessity for this minuteness of examination has been fully shown in some of the curious discoveries that have been made. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
On account of the minuteness of their structure, the capillaries were beyond his sight, aided as it was by a magnifying glass merely. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
As an example, take the minuteness of the episternals and xiphisternals in birds, as contrasted with the huge size of the entosternal. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Their rarity in a perfect state may render an accurate description, though lengthened by minuteness, of some value to the bibliographer. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Albumenised paper, for printing from glass or paper negatives, giving a minuteness of detail unattained by any other method, 5s. per Quire. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
I should not shrink from the labour involved; nor do I entirely approve the growing demand for German minuteness and exactitude in editors. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
Albumenized paper, for printing from glass or paper negatives, giving a minuteness of detail unattained by any other method, 5s. per Quire. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
These little figures are not more than three-quarters of an inch high, but are worked with such minuteness that even the tiny features are shown. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Better than all, we gain a test of the minuteness with which the sculptors worked, and an idea of how close the adherence to a type was required to be. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference
It is said that in moments of great peril sometimes the whole course of the past life, past but not obliterated, is summoned up in the most vivid minuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
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