minutiae

Example Sentences

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Asked whether the Palisades should be spared from permit fees for grading, pools or retaining walls, she responded: “I can’t say that,” calling such details “minutiae.”

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Ella is fiercely committed to her job, burrowing into the minutiae of legislation to become deeply connected to it emotionally.

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Baumbach has always had an impeccable sense of detail, understanding the tiniest minutiae of behavior and character psychology.

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The result is a window into the pleasures of friendship and those days when the minutiae of your loved ones seems like the stuff that true connection is built on.

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But in focusing on the minutiae of what happened and recommending mostly narrow or technical improvements, it failed to answer the deeper question: “Why, after all these years, don’t we do this any better?”

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