Sentence examples for about minutiae from inspiring English sources

The most remarkable aspect of the recent vice-presidential debacle is that the press is dogging the White House about minutiae.

The people inside were record-store people, which is to say that they (like me) were inclined to wander over to the cash register and get caught up in discursive conversations about minutiae.

The main issue for students is economic recovery so they can find work after they graduate, he says, though many are also concerned about minutiae such as the price of petrol and the paucity of parking spaces.

It is hard to imagine Mr. Volpe commuting to the suburbs every day in his new corporate role as director of strategic development and sitting through meetings about minutiae like where to put loading docks and what color to make aisle carpeting.

His mixes are lined up next to Albini's on the box set, and the differences now seem like so much hoo-hah about minutiae.

Or do we just plod along day after day, moaning about minutiae?

Instead, he talks about minutia.

Disinterest often runs high among students who have had little sense of academic success, and it can be difficult to convince students why they should care about minutia like mitochondria or xylem and phloem, particularly when the material is presented simply as a list of facts to be memorized.

"Being chief executive makes it sound like you're about to talk about the minutiae of strategy," Hincks said.

"Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking about the minutiae," he told me.

There's an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.