What is "minutiae"

Usage examples of "minutiae".

For these feminist critics, the literary text is never primarily a representation of reality, or a reproduction of a personal voice expressing the minutiae of personal experience.

Not only do we multitask, but we apply sophisticated critical-path scheduling algorithms to the second-by-second minutiae of daily life.

I have my reasons for giving these minutiae, as otherwise the reader would have some difficulty in guessing at the details which I am obliged to pass over in silence.

Consequently, the Sabbath became more an observance obsessed with the minutiae of the law, and the Shekina, once Goddess of Babylon and then of the Jews, went underground.

A seventh volume, white with the Farseer Buck on the front, was where he penned his day-to-day minutiae.

It struck her as absurd, this intense preoccupation with form and appearance, with the minutiae of rituals formalised as slow ballets.

I would argue that, for neurobiologists concerned with learning and memory, the legacy of this period of experimental psychology, always excluding Hebb, is not its theoretical constructs, its painstakingly accumulated phenomenology, the minutiae of schedules of reinforcement or of conditioning chains.

That part of the rule concerned the details of the procedures employed in recognizing, collecting, mixing, preparing, and caring for the power plants in which the allies were contained, the details of other procedures involved in the uses of such power plants, and other similar minutiae.

She then exhibited herself as an Anglicized matron, perfectly familiar with all the requirements, great and little, of her guests, and, when minutiae were once settled, capable of meeting ladies and gentlemen on terms of equality in her drawing-room or at her table, where she always presided.

Y'ang-Yeovil's eyes, sharpened to detect and deduce from minutiae, caught the change in attitude.

Nevertheless, if it has been in the least informative to our Sovereign, or to any extent edifying in its plethora of bizarre minutiae and arcana, we will try to persuade ourself that our patience and forbearance and the drudging labors of our friar scribes have not entirely been a waste.

I wasn't exactly fulfilling my childhood ambition to uncover the secrets of the Angels -- and I had fewer opportunities than I'd hoped to get side-tracked on the ecopoiesis itself -- but once I started delving into the minutiae of Covenant's original, wholly undesigned biochemistry, it turned out to be complex and elegant enough to hold my attention.

Tall Eyebrow had managed to beg off meetings about minutiae, preferring to save himself for constitutional debate and conversations about trade.

Volo swallowed, picked a crumb out of his neatly trimmed beard, took a napkin and wiped his mouth, refilled his mug with ale in case any parchness beset him during his lecture, and began to fill his boon companion in on Mulmaster minutiae.

When he was a teenager the rigid drills of schooling had made him think that mathematics was just felicity with a particular kind of minutiae, knowing things, a sort of high-grade coin collecting.