Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That it is the work of Titian all the critics who have seen it, with remarkable and unusual accord, agree. The noble design is his invention, and no one but he could have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils...
...breaking it to pieces, which was secession. The other, and equally dangerous, is to destroy the component parts by building up at the centre a great federal bureaucracy to care for every detail of local and State administration and life...
...appeared to be interested to know in detail why America . . . had rejected the League of Nations and the World Court. I explained the issue as best I could but it did not appear convincing to him though he politely refrained from comment...
Seven years of court business since the South Braintree murder. Ought we not as citizens, unable to follow in detail the enormous mass of this argument, respect the work of our courts and be satisfied with this sentence...
Despatches of the past two years have taught U. S. newspaper readers to picture the sky over Germany as crossed and criss-crossed and streaming in all directions with aircraft, like a big duckmarsh at dawn. Last week a new detail entered the picture, a chain of airplanes hooked up like railroad express cars. As the flying train passes over a city, the rear plane is uncoupled. It circles noiselessly to earth. Passengers alight. Their train has vanished down the sky to leave other passengers at other cities. At some terminal city the "locomotive" will descend. ... In an experiment...