Word: detailism
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Holden’s brisk, kind voice accentuates his innate attention to detail. He treats every sentence out of his mouth with delicate precision, as if it is to be his last, and often frames them with dramatic gestures. During conversation, he interacts with his environment almost as much as the individual he is talking to, often wiping or scratching the table in between words and phrases...
...meeting and in an interview yesterday, Hoffman-Bray would not detail budget cuts under consideration...
Powell may make more of an impact on the Security Council by emphasizing another kind of evidence that may sound dryly technical but that cuts to the heart of the U.N.'s authority: he'll detail the ways Washington believes Iraq is cheating on inspections. For the Administration's case, the great value of Resolution 1441, authorizing the inspections, is the clarity with which it states that obstructing its terms constitutes a material breach that would provoke "serious consequences." The Administration feels that if the U.S. can showcase invidious, systematic defiance of inspections, the Council--including skeptical nations like France...
...favorite of the choir, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates lectured about his Encyclopedia Africana, which documents the entire history of Africa in detail...
...ever met,” Kosslyn wrote in an e-mail. “He’s more than just casually interested: he goes out and meets the people doing the cutting-edge work, and gets to know both them and their research in detail...