The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
I don't think there's anybody that has such a keen sense of vocal production and attention to detail as Dre.
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.
Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.
