Lexicographical Neighbors of Minutenesses
Literary usage of Minutenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fine Art, Chiefly Contemporary: Notices Re-printed, with Revisions by William Michael Rossetti (1867)
"Since art was art, the aim which now exists of representing natural facts, both
in their general effect on the eye and also in their literal minutenesses, ..."
2. Essays and Postscripts on Elocution by Alexander Melville Bell (1886)
"When we read all the minutenesses which Quintilian recommends to form an accomplished
speaker, and compare the effects produced by oratory in our own day ..."
3. William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries by Charles Kegan Paul (1876)
"This is the faculty which makes the man, and not the miserable minutenesses of
detail about which the present age is so uneasy. ..."
4. Quintilian's Institutes of Eloquence by Quintilian (1805)
"Who can venture to pronounce, that a want of attention to those minutenesses is
not the chief reason, why we never yet have seen an orator that can rival ..."
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