Word: detailism
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Many are the wonders of modern tourism--economical packages, efficient tours, reliably standardized accommodations, every detail adjusted to make the traveler feel at home while abroad. The drawback, of course, is that it's so bland and formulaic (museum, monument, gift shop, beverage! Repeat!). Hence there are vagabond travelers who remain determined to avoid all that--to seek out destinations that offer interest and beauty but don't seem geared for the masses. While living in Scotland a few years ago, I was one of those. I wanted to travel to the farthest reaches of Great Britain, far away from...
...have to spell out everything in the most precise detail when you don't have kids, since there is no logical line of succession," Malek says. "Although you may not want to think about it, you really must give more thought to your health needs and well-being...
...regards the surfaces of her sculptures, the intricate detail that goes into each piece of her work, she seemed hesitant to point to any one inspiration. “The sources of the things that are most important to us are impossible to talk about,” she said...
...Seventeen stories by the Irish-born Canadian author ransack what Donoghue calls 'the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life' for razor-sharp vignettes of the fates of women in judgmental male-dominated societies...These jewel-like stories vibrate with thickly textured detail and vigorous period language. Donoghue's colorful, confrontational historically based fiction is making something entirely new and captivating out of gender issues. One of the best books of the year thus far. Like Andrea Barrett, Donoghue has staked a claim to her own distinctive fictional territory...
...huge attraction of the book is the chance to live the lives of these strange and subtle people in such detail and for so long. Do we know them by the end? Thanks in part to this latest translation, we do?as well as we know ourselves...