36 Metaphors for detail

Perhaps a nation with more power of application and less of imagination would have schooled itself to the thought that these sordid, obtrusive details were the key to the splendours of the future, and would have devoted itself to the systematic amelioration of the cramped area which it had already secured for its own.

Recent details were, however, imprecise.

" I had by this time, of course, guessed the name of his client, since these details had long been a matter of public notoriety, and, I need hardly say, listened to the story with a heightened interest.

We should premise, that, the details of it are a little altered, with the view of adapting it to "ears polite;" for without some process of this kind, it would not have been presentable.

The details of the progress and the failure of this celebrated attempt are so thoroughly the province of English history that they would be in this place superfluous.

Hence these details can never be foretold.

The detail is not unfrequently Gothic, especially in the pointed windows; but the feeling of the whole structure, in its airy space and lightness, delicate terra-cotta mouldings, and open loggie, is truly Cinque Cento.

The most interesting detail in the church is a series of wall paintings, including one of the martyrdom of St. Thomas à Becket.

The detail over which these monks went mad with joy was the universe itself; the only thing really worthy of enjoyment.

The minute details in the Pilgrimage of Childe Harold are the observations of an actual traveller.

Here at Steve's cottage with what details were 'Randa and Connie busy?

The apprentices understand the great provisions of the new system, such as the number of hours they must work for their master, and that their masters have no right to flog them, &c., but its details are inexplicable mysteries.

The detail may be uninteresting, while the general effect may have been impressive.

It may look desolate and uncomfortable enough to others, because the central detail is neither bed nor wardrobe, sofa nor armchair, but a good solid writing-table that does not wriggle, and that has wide elbowroom.

Naval battles are the same, bloody and desperate, and the details of the fight with the Macedonian are the details of all others.

The details of the hours that followed remained blurred memories in the minds of Alice and her rescuer.

The indisputably artificial detail in her elegant appearance was her hair; its tinting, which had to be made stronger year by year as the gray grew more resolute, was reaching the stage of hard, rough-looking red.

The result is a mapped-out chart of living figuresa vast pattern, each detail of which is a masterpiece of modelling.

All the details of Mary's wardrobe were the perfection of neatness.

He calmly denied everything connected with the cession of Louisiana until even the details became public property, and then admitted them with unblushing equanimity.

What truth there was in the charges we do not really know, but Cicero defended him successfully, and in this way we come to know the details of this unsteady life.

Detail, my child, detail is the soul of induction.

Perhaps the only convincing detail in the latter part of the book is the heroine's miserable end.

The details and passages in question are page 27 concerning the white and black hairs of Vishnu, page 34the lyrical description of Krishna's life in the forest, page 46Akrura's meditation as he goes to visit Krishna, page 68the drunken brawl and page 69 the deaths of Balarama and Krishna.

And a very curious detail that he always mentions just at this point is the fact that it never occurred to him to wonder what her surname might be, or whether, indeed, she had one at all.

36 Metaphors for  detail