Word: detailism
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...wasn't aware of the rather large number of organizations on campus of the activity that has been going on by way of conferences, lectures and so on, nor in any fine grain detail of the more particular needs of students for outreach and support type activities," Goldfarb said...
...council members said they did not discuss in detail with Green several other issues mentioned in their February proposal, including the development of a gay and lesbian studies program in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Rebecca M. Wand contributed to reporting this story...
...present day West and Midwest and narrated by a young, unnamed heroin addict, the short stories in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son etch in steely detail a world where pain, violence and profound isolation are as regular as Happy Hour at the local bar. Beauty and horror alike commingle in visions of lyrical grace in the mind of the tortured hero. He ends the first story, "Car Crash," with a vivid hallucination and a cry to the reader: "And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help...
First, the program took advantage of Adobe Systems' PostScript, developed to facilitate professional typography on the Mackintosh. PostScript allows programmers to describe to great detail how type-face should look when displayed on the screen and printer...
These gaps, aside from sparing the reader from a slow and detail-burdened story, also free the reader to make his or her own narrative choices...