Petty formal detail

Usage examples of technicality.

Gore effort to challenge absentee votes on a legal technicality, especially since the intent of these voters was quite clear.

The article interested him more than most, being familiar himself with the geography of knees owing to his own torn cruciate ligaments, but he was soon lost in the technicalities of the protocols and thumbing listlessly through learned articles on hyperthyroidism, shingles, and sundry -ectomies and -omas.

With the careless mechanicism of human speech, the technicalities of practical mumming were retained in these productions when they had ceased to be concerned with the stage at all.

San Francisco had written to warn him that the Railroad might be able to take advantage of a technicality, and by pretending that neither Quien Sabe nor Los Muertos were included in the appeal, attempt to put its dummy buyers in possession of the two ranches before the Supreme Court handed down its decision.

Boston University and the backing of both the University of Mississippi chancellor and the law school dean, but Ole Miss trustees rejected him on the technicality that his undergraduate degree was from an unaccredited institution.

Perry launched into a flow of the technicalities used in ordnance and ballistics, and described with sweeps of his hands what would happen to a shell unlucky enough to be constrained by an inversed-cube type acceleration.

But the repulsive technicalities of Germany were not equally prevalent in Holland, and scholasticism refused to affiliate with the Reformed much longer than with the Lutheran church.

Cadmus had brooded the better part of his life on the trivial technicality which had elevated Trewe to rank and debased Cadmus.

During the ride, Rouleau eagerly inquired of Edge what else he knew about balloons and the technicalities of ballooning.

There are many technicalities, both mathematical and silvicultural, and unfortunately most of the available figures for the Northwest, obtained by the Forest Service, have not been generalized enough for wide popular value.

The Wygnin did not have the proper warrants, and Jamal might be able to fight that on some kind of technicality.

He launched into technicalities and Alethea poured his second cup of coffee and listened with one ear, while she speculated as to whether Mr van Diederijk would ask her out again.

At the same time an account of the current theories of Apparitions is offered, in language as free from technicalities as possible.

But technicalities could be smoothed over with a little cash, and Mick wanted the Hayes woman for himself.

It followed her to the Sabbath-day catechisings, where she repeated the answers about the federal headship of Adam, and her consequent personal responsibilities, and other technicalities which are hardly milk for babes, perhaps as well as other children, but without any very profound remorse for what she could not help, so far as she understood the matter, any more than her sex or stature, and with no very clear comprehension of the phrases which the New England followers of the Westminster divines made a part of the elementary instruction of young people.