Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of the CRIMSON will first address all the candidates, briefly explaining the paper's purpose, general methods of work, and what is expected of each candidate. The men will then separate into three groups, business, news, and photographic. The work of each competition will be explained in detail to the respective groups of candidates by the business manager, managing editor, and photographic chairman...
Then there are a few excellent descriptions, a few good character analyses. The rest is commonplace; a matter-of-fact and generally uninteresting story of a generally uninteresting life. There is too much detail--vulgar detail, frequently--and an almost morbid view of life at times...
...only because their revolted stomachs bid them turn over the groaning pages to the more common unhappinesses that lie beyond. In particular he dwells on the mental anguish which Arlie Gelston, the heroine, goes through while she is endeavoring to conceal her misfortune from family and townsfolk. No detail is too gruesome for him; he fairly revels in the vivisection of her soul...
...find a bias, a slant towards one point of view with which the author is best able to deal, and in this case it is towards the Philosophical. One feels often, as one does in reading the "Achievement of Greece," that too few great artists have spoken in detail on the sculpture, the architecture, the painting and the pottery of the Achaeans. For Genius may talk to Genius across a waste of years, and without words; everyday man can only mechanically analyze and expose--which is, in sum, not art, but archaeology. But this is not said in derogation...
When asked to describe his plan in detail, however, Major Moore became noncomittal...