Word: detailism
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...There's still no obvious Thai look. Some designers target Bangkok teenagers, others Paris socialites; some are foreign-educated, others are self-taught. But there are certain shared qualities: an attention to detail, a preference for handmade materials and designs, and a taste for natural textiles and light fabrics made from silk and cotton. Much of what distinguishes Thai fashion, in fact, is in the details?made possible because of the country's vast supply of skilled craftspeople, whose traditional styles get incorporated into utterly contemporary final products...
...considered using the form for an earlier novel but "it got too complicated. [For Night Watch] it suddenly made sense." Waters maintains her trademark plot-twisting - the full connections between some of the characters aren't revealed until the reader meets them in 1941 - and her attention to detail. She focuses on seemingly ordinary things that were luxuries at the time - a birthday orange, tins of meat, gin gimlets - to bring home a sense of the austerity of the period and the extraordinary situations Londoners found themselves in. Her meticulous revivals range from the mundane ("Their stockings were darned...
...hotel's attention to detail is masterful: from the 16,000 handpainted roses on the ceilings and walls to the delectable handmade biscotti accompanying a sinful hot cocoa that my 5-year-old daughter dubbed "Willy Wonka's chocolate river in my throat." In 2005, the Cristallo won Italy's Leading Ski Resort at the World Travel Awards?like a rock legend, this hotel knows how to thrill, seduce and keep fans coming back for more...
...cozy, wood-paneled Tyrolean room in which Chef Luigi Sarsano serves up local cuisine. His menu features handmade ravioli stuffed with beetroot and spinach, a falling-off-the-bone baked shank of pork with sauerkraut, and fish shipped in daily from Venice's market. The hotel's attention to detail is masterful: from the 16,000 handpainted roses on the ceilings and walls to the delectable handmade biscotti accompanying a sinful hot cocoa that my 5-year-old daughter dubbed "Willy Wonka's chocolate river in my throat." In 2005, the Cristallo won Italy's Leading Ski Resort...
...that's has been Cheney's Achilles' heel as veep-he doesn't hear the politics of things anymore. He didn't hear them in the first term much when he held secret meetings with energy lobbyists, refused to detail the sessions and then fought the matter through the courts as White House aides cringed. He didn't hear them on torture and ran way past the fence line last year in trying to prevent the enactment of John McCain's reasonable insistence that Army interrogators stick to the rulebook. And I'm betting he didn't hear them last...