How To Use Minutia In A Sentence
-
The minutiae of meetings remains private, but the general gist is that it was a problem and it has been addressed.
-
Those letters dealing with the minutiae of politics are much less self-conscious than the diaries and have the value of immediacy.
THE GUARDSMEN
-
By night, he toils on his self-indulgent solo art film, obsessively documenting the minutiae of his life while the bigger picture-the growing distance between him and his foxy French lady friend Marlene-eludes him.
-
In most academic classes, a lot of dense factual and conceptual information can come at you rapid-fire, and when one is taking 15 – 19 credit hours, I know that I certainly could not have recalled minutiae from a spare outline, even if I had been fully engaged.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Laptops in Class Redux
-
He added it was only possible to iron out the minutiae of the details once the centre was open.
-
Frankly, I find the minutia of everyday life much more interesting than the glaring important life changing events that shape our lives.
-
The tunnel problem might seem far-fetched, but the minutiae of motoring demand a moral compass.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Yet whenever the reader begins to tire of historical minutiae, the author throws in charming tidbits of bibliophilic lore.
-
The committee studied the minutiae of the report for hours.
-
As someone who has made her name deconstructing the minutiae of the high street, she was disconcertingly long on concept and short on detail of her own business.
TV review: Mary Queen of Frocks; Transplant
-
Maybe I'm a sad Norman Mailer harboring a castration fear about the long, epic wiener of my important statements being "cut short" into a "microblog" about minutiae.
Pitchfork: Latest News
-
Much of his early work is concerned with the minutiae of rural life.
-
Comedy is so often based in the minutiae of everyday life.
-
More important to him are the minutiae of his footnotes, the precision of his research and the translations of documents.
-
Not a theologian, he was unconcerned by doctrinal minutiae; far from encouraging popery his one known theological work was a stout defence of the church against Catholicism.
-
Thanks to the Internet and its blog-happy pages, we see people obsessing, everyday, on the minutia that makes for the discovery of previously unheard of entities.
-
Most of us have been too caught up in the everyday minutiae to be bothered.
-
In addition, a novel attribute, the number of ridges between minutiae and the fiducial point, is introduced and it is invariant to transition, rotation and nonlinear distortion.
-
Some make merry with the minutiae of our short lives.
Times, Sunday Times
-
They're self-taught experts in the minutiae of day-to-day medieval life, tracking down recipes, studying forgotten languages, practising metalwork or sewing.
-
Never before has there been so much of interest in the minutiae.
-
Despite this, we trust both media to be the repositories of our cultures, to store the minutiae, the details and experiences that define our milieu.
-
His balancing of minutiae and theme is unerring.
-
During my degree, I had to attend a series of lectures by one of my favourite tutors (nice cravat, that man) in which he explained in painful detail the minutiae of humour, and the parts of the brain it affected.
-
The fact is that he had a huge capacity for understanding the minutiae of problems without effort so he did not need to strain himself.
-
Today's businesses are managed by individuals who are obsessed with the minutiae of manipulating financial accounts.
-
Stuffed with obscure allusions and historical minutia, his novels are not the type you take to the beach.
-
Of course, there's only so much one can include ... and furthering the story was probably more important than getting bogged down (excuse the pun) in minutiae.
REVIEW: Flood by Stephen Baxter
-
I have always told you the consequence of attending to the minutiae, where art (or imposture, as the ill-mannered would call it) is designed — your linen rumpled and soily, when you wait upon her — easy terms these — just come to town — remember (as formerly) to loll, to throw out your legs, to stroke and grasp down your ruffles, as if of significance enough to be careless.
Clarissa Harlowe
-
Delegate or eliminate non-essential tasks. Sometimes we get mired down with minutia and lose sight of what we really need to be doing.
-
I have a disturbing fascination with minutiae, general knowledge, pointless facts and other trivia.
-
The online will allows you to detail the minutiae of your funeral service alongside the photos of you drinking tequila from a traffic cone.
Times, Sunday Times
-
quibbling over doctrinal minutiae
-
That makes it a cooperative project between me and the readers -- I pitch, they catch -- and I think that makes it a more "real" experience than if I had gone into minutiae of how buildings are constructed and the particular design embellishments on an aircar.
MIND MELD: Worldbuilding
-
Where Jackson had sketched his case in broad emotional strokes, she dwelled on the minutiae of blood spatter, "GSR" (gunshot residue), "tape lifts" and other forensic details.
Celebrity Justice
-
Now, the ethically-minded man is not a pedantic micrologist who wastes his time on the minutiae of conduct.
The Essentials of Spirituality
-
But then you could spend decades of your life here without fully grasping the complex minutiae of the Malagasy existence.
-
Then came the Revolution -- and a change in emphasis from the minutiae of rural life to the national struggle.
Mariano Azuela
-
We can analyze the minutia ad infinitum, point our fingers of blame at Tea Party politics and assail the rhetoric of the right wing more broadly.
Morris W. O'Kelly: Time for President Obama to Channel Samuel L. Jackson
-
The tunnel problem might seem far-fetched, but the minutiae of motoring demand a moral compass.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Understanding the minutiae is part of the game.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Both the Tories and Labour appear locked in a struggle to out-do each other in the minutiae of their policies which, at a macro level, are virtually indistinguishable in too many areas, from PFI to public sector job cuts.
-
Yet it's clear he was steeped in political minutiae and imposed few limits on what he was willing to do to get the job done.
-
Plus the chat function means that you can expound about all of the banal minutia you'd like in regards to the song playing, what it means to you, or the absurdity of the entire situation.
Conan Neutron: Why Turntable.fm Might Just End Up Saving Music
-
He had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code.
-
There's little point discussing the minutiae of ossicle evolution if you reject that reptiles and mammals share a common ancestor.
A New Book
-
We're loading our lives with so much minutia that our creative thinking suffers.
-
The committee studied the minutiae of the report for hours.
-
The dem solution is to put stronghanded regulations on the financial community and engrain the government in the minutia of the system so that in times of potential trouble, they can swoop in like faux-superman and 'save the world '– or when they need political points.
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
-
For most of his career at the top of rugby he left the minutiae of coaching to others, and only began to tout his tactical influence when his team started winning.
-
This control of minutiae, of the void, and of the illusion of representation presented as the control of ‘nothing,’ is what determines and shapes our relationship within an evermore digitized society.
-
The minutiae recorded and cataloged by the historian serve as signposts that guide him through the maze of historical events and provide a means of testing out his hypotheses.
-
The fact is that he had a huge capacity for understanding the minutiae of problems without effort so he did not need to strain himself.
-
The Friedmans had been very quick to embrace home movie technology - so much so that they videoed the minutiae of their daily lives.
-
It's about the routine of the police blotter, school board debates over the luncheon menu, the fluctuation of stock prices and all the other routine minutiae of life incur complex society.
-
He was cut out neither for religion nor for the dry minutiae of algebra and he idled away his days in long country rambles around Oxford, collecting curiosities for his own natural history collection.
-
If anything, this is a lively book that doesn't bog the reader down in minutia, or gloss over important details.
-
he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code
-
We recognize the particular way that heartbreak, for all its immensity, inheres in minutiae - in a T-shirt, a voice mail, a notation on a calendar.
-
Interesting trivia and movie minutia will grace your screen as you watch the film.
-
Six months in jail would certainly remind those handling the minutiae of our lives that what's private should stay that way.
-
He is good on paramusical minutiae – record contracts, PR, style subcultures – but shaky on music itself calling a chord progression a "march tempo".
Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction reviews
-
To be fair, I know a fair amount of minutiae about a lot of things, being a trivia magnet.
-
I apologize to any readers who spent valuable minutes reading limitless minutiae about my mundane existence.
-
The vast majority of voters may not be following the minutiae of the Chilcot process.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The lack of acknowledgment that keeping track of all the mundane minutiae is important.
The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother
-
By the way, maybe it’s just me, and maybe my understanding of the abortion coverage minutiae is faulty or incomplete, but the Senate bill’s restrictions actually seem more onerous and draconian than the House (Stupak’s) bill’s language.
Matthew Yglesias » Catholic Health Association Head Backs Reform
-
She noticed herself absorbing details, cataloging the minutiae in the library of her mind.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
-
It is packed with fascinating minutiae, and yet it is curiously lacking in some details.
-
They could pass as marginalia, ephemera or mere daily-life minutiae unworthy of serious attention.
-
The tunnel problem might seem far-fetched, but the minutiae of motoring demand a moral compass.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Today, he's still marvelling at minutiae.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It is a riot of minutia.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The tunnel problem might seem far-fetched, but the minutiae of motoring demand a moral compass.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Cliff Benjamin taps large paintings to portray minutiae and outer space panoramas, all connected to images in the natural world.
-
So much of my day is taken up with triviality, frustration, and minutiae!
-
I am afraid that kind of minutiae is not my responsibility, though I admit your name does sound familiar.
There Goes The Neighbourhood
-
Dons in uniform like R. W. Chapman and John Sparrow, when they weren't cracking codes at Bletchley Park, exchanged erudite aperçus about textual minutiae in Trollope's novels.
-
This dissertation use fingerprint minutiae features and geometric similarity to identify fingerprint image basing on previous studies, and design fingerprint identification system.
-
And the minutiae of their verse practice can help us to think about large ideas such as intention, as well as its own laws and allowances.
The Times Literary Supplement
-
School officials say they don't list individual fees on their Web sites out of concern for burying parents in minutiae.
Athletic fees are a large, and sometimes hidden, cost at colleges
-
Six years of reporting on every minutia linked to the financial meltdown has been tricky, and exhausting.
Times, Sunday Times
-
It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display.
-
It is not surprising that the records of such a marvel, grounded upon the testimony of men and women bewildered first with grief, and next all but distracted with the sudden inburst of a gladness too great for that equanimity which is indispensable to perfect observation, should not altogether correspond in the minutiae of detail.
Miracles of Our Lord
-
Most people are not interested in the minutiae of the research, just its conclusions.
-
I apologize to any readers who spent valuable minutes reading limitless minutiae about my mundane existence.
-
As time went on, I saw the vast amount of resources - and everything is now distilling into minutiae compared to what it was before.
-
In the unrelenting drizzle of budget minutiae about enterprise allowance credits and reliefs, here was a clean and simple New Idea.
-
I think a lot of people are, like the 11th circuit, getting caught up in minutiae rather than looking at the big picture.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Eleventh Circuit Decision Largely Eliminates Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail
-
This play, along with Blood Wedding and Yerma, forms Lorca's "Rural Trilogy, " which respectively depicts the tragic minutiae of women's lives in Spain.
-
What I stumbled to convey by employing the word "minutiae" is the fact that we hardcore these days often have our nose pressed up so tight against the glass that we can't see out the window.
Archive 2008-11-01
-
The writing I love to read is full of details – about people and places, some might call it minutiae, but for me the details are what make the story and the era come alive.
Write on Wednesday-Detail Oriented
-
I won't discuss the minutiae of the contract now.
-
Although readers will not get bogged down in irrelevant minutiae, there are occasional places where detail is lacking, as with unexplained abbreviations or unlabeled figures.
-
Unless you have an obsessive interest in the minutiae of American politics, it is unlikely that you will have heard of Mr Shrum.
-
Today, he's still marvelling at minutiae.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Comedy is so often based in the minutiae of everyday life.
-
The tunnel problem might seem far-fetched, but the minutiae of motoring demand a moral compass.
Times, Sunday Times
-
He was a stickler for discipline and the minutiae of dress.
Times, Sunday Times
-
But he has difficulty letting go of interesting cultural minutiae and fails to keep the story moving along.
-
I won't discuss the minutiae of the contract now.
-
The contemporary interest in the subtleties and minutiae of colours, whether in the fine arts or in fashion fabrics or interior decoration and so on, reveals a shift of attitude in the whole outlook on colour.
-
The daily political press is filled with more than a few time-servers and many more who have difficulty seeing beyond the narrow minutiae of what they're covering or the iron chains of conventional wisdom.
-
In addition, a novel attribute, the number of ridges between minutiae and the fiducial point, is introduced and it is invariant to transition, rotation and nonlinear distortion.
-
Some of the minutiae he examines would, in the hands of another author, make for somewhat dry reading.
-
Carter would frequently be lampooned as overly concerned with minutiae, most notably in a 1979 Atlantic article that said he busied himself with matters as trivial as classical music play lists and reservations for the White House tennis court.
In church or in print, former president Jimmy Carter still preaches policy
-
I have always told you the consequence of attending to the minutiae, where art (or imposture, as the ill-mannered would call it) is designed -- your linen rumpled and soily, when you wait upon her -- easy terms these -- just come to town -- remember (as formerly) to loll, to throw out your legs, to stroke and grasp down your ruffles, as if of significance enough to be careless.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
-
Bick spends too much time on the minutiae of the ride itself and at times strains to be didactic, which is unnecessary with such a good story.
-
Cooper's constant references to research show that, like her husband and his boss, she is a policy wonk obsessed with the minutiae of people's lives.
-
Understanding the minutiae is part of the game.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Even the minutiae of the airline business obsessed him more than the minutiae of the record business ever had.
-
I don't get as wrought-up about minutiae, but I also probably miss some of the transient highs of people whose lifespan is limited to here and now.
INTERVIEW: C.J. Cherryh
-
John's tight personal hold on the legal and administrative reins of power were as much driven by a need to raise money as they were by his personal obsession with the minutiae of government.
-
Lots of it is just minutiae, but now and then there's something pretty big.
