This interesting rite, usually solemnized with great formality, in the presence of assembled friends and relations, is detailed with minuteness by Sahagun and by Zuazo, both of them eyewitnesses.
Its minuteness will depend on the character of the case, as when the person is unknown, or when suspected to have died from unnatural causes.
The cathedral of St Paul's is described with great minuteness of detail, and the expense of its erection stated at seventy-three lakhs of rupees, (about L.
It is not a wholly pleasing book, but it is an interesting one; it gives a better picture of the man than any other book or article, simply by the great minuteness with which it enters into details.
Their works under ground are no less extraordinary: Azara has described with his usual minuteness the various species which he fell in with.
Pitiscus, in 1613, not only completed Joachim’s intention, but carried the minuteness of calculation a good deal farther.
And if we had to stop here, it might seem an unnecessary minuteness to take notice of the diversions of schoolboys, especially as the same is recorded of other teachers besides Udal.
His fancy teems exuberantly in minuteness of circumstance, like a fertile soil sending bloom and verdure through the utmost extremities of the foliage which it nourishes.
It is the purest specimen of the Corinthian order," says a writer on architecture, "that has reached our time, whose minuteness and unobtrusive beauty have preserved it almost entire among the ruins of the mightiest piles of Athenian art.
One of these villanous hostelries, in which Dr Tschudi several times attempted to sleep, is described by him with a minuteness that will rather startle the squeamish amongst his readers.
The great secret of his success is the minuteness and fidelity of his painting, and the graphic power with which heart-stirring events occurring within a very short period are painted.
On what scenes does the romance writer dwell with transport--where does he paint with force and minuteness but in those incidents, generally few and far between in his volumes, which form the fit subject of dramatic composition?
They are marked by a broad and simple treatment, which attains a large effect without excessive minuteness or laboured detail.
Compared with Greek gems, it will be seen that what at first sight is attractive as refined and delicate is after all an exaggerated minuteness of execution, entirely devoid of the ancient spirit.
Its minuteness doubtless causes it to be generally overlooked, N.
Inquiries of this nature, and often the most trivial objects set off with a singular minuteness of description, tempted the laugh of the scoffers.
They are very inexpert at finishing and polishing the plain parts, hinges, screws, and the like, being in this as much excelled by the European artists as these fall short of them in the fineness and minuteness of the foliage.
He displayed his judgment in eschewing minuteness which would have been tedious and prosaic; the frail, superficial show could only be imposing in a general view.
Greatness can only be rightly estimated whenminuteness is justly reverenced.
It's first principles are still drawn from the general appearance of the objects; and that appearance can never afford us any security, when we examine, the prodigious minuteness of which nature is susceptible.
No approximation of the magnitude of telescopic stars can be arrived at; many of them may rival Sirius, Canopus, and Arcturus, in size and splendour, their apparent minuteness being a consequence of their extreme remoteness.
The Pole Star itself is of the second magnitude, but its companion is only of the ninth, and on account of its minuteness is regarded as a good test for telescopes of small aperture.
The very names of these forms will suffice to give evidence of the care and minuteness with which the framers of this remarkable language have endeavoured to express every shade of meaning.
This earnestness and circumstantial minutenessthrow an air of reality around his most grotesque creations.
Geoffrey wrote an account of the traditionary British kings down to Cadwallader in 689 with as much minutenessand gravity as Swift employed in the Voyage to Lilliput.
The accessories of Christian worship are frequently introduced into the Heaven of mediæval legends, though seldom with such minuteness as in our text.
The experiences of the soul after death are described with great minuteness and copiousness of detail.
Yet he never refused, on any occasion, to answer with minuteness the inquiries of the smallest child or most insignificant dependant.
The accessories are painted with "such strong minuteness of reality and diligent, though never paltry, emphasis of detail, that their due subordination to the whole and to the personages would seem impossible.
The details he executed with the utmost minuteness and skill; and he is remarkable also for his careful and truthful landscapes.
Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1892--remarkable for the preciseness and microscopic minuteness of hand displayed in it.
Hence the minuteness and finish which characterise their work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minuteness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
