Word: detailism
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...course, this approach does not resolve every detail. Not every student performance group will be lucky enough to move from a dusty basement upstairs to the Pudding. But the task of selecting these groups, as well as designing the other aspects of the building, would be capably handled by a committee comprising both students and administrators...
...certain levels, the university teaches close analysis: to imagine in detail the places we are, to consider their intricacies. But the in-between places, the difficulties of journey, are somehow eased. The secret of flight is both a quick and far-reaching connectedness and a selective sight. Use wisely, we can bypass all kinds of roadblocks; use poorly, we become blind to what we have passed over...
Perhaps the most intriguing unknown, however, concerns the cosmic role played by intelligent life itself. As the physicist Freeman Dyson notes, "It is impossible to calculate in detail the long-range future of the universe without including the effects of life and intelligence." Much of the earth has been transformed, for better and worse, by the presence here of an intelligent species capable of manipulating its environment for its own benefit...
...changes] were to come up, it is something that we would go over in minute detail, [but]it's not the essence of the current changes," she said...
...Steve, on my right, began recounting a hook-up he'd had in exquisite detail, so while I don't know the girl, I know all about her physique. My sense of female solidarity was insulted. Are women not critical enough of their own bodies...