Parts of the book are funny, and Leith has a nice eye for apt detail, as when Alex eats at a greasy spoon in Tupelo, Miss.: "A baked potato... came soggy-skinned, waxy-fleshed, wearing a tinfoil leisure suit and a pompadour of whipped butter".
Mr. Mardirosian has a clever way with self-revealing dialogue and a keen eye for apt detail, even when he is digressionary, as in his casual reference to 47th Street Photo as "that place on 45th Street". This is at least partly a comedy about doctors.
Survey firms routinely publish details such as polling dates, sample size and margin of error, but are less apt to share details about weighting.
Detailed APT studies showed Cr shells around oxide particles of all sizes in the Fe Cr Ti Y2O3 alloy, that a range of cluster compositions are present and that the particle chemistry varies with cluster size.
The brothers are a pair of brilliant oxymorons: shaggy-dog formalists, at once obsessed with every detail and apt to let their stories run wild.
(The sofa is pecked bald in places, as is the parrot, who has an anxiety disorder and plucks his own feathers, a detail so apt as to seem taken from one of Chast's own cartoons).
That the acquisition of Doctoralia is being billed as a merger is interesting and apt, although no further details are being disclosed.
Generally speaking, the description of any Utopia that involves many details is apt to be an unconvincing way to present a principle which can be applied effectively in practice with immense flexibility as to details... (Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to Henry James, July 10 , 1924 Papers, Regional Plan Association, Cornell University).
In his use of carefully calibrated, achingly lovely details and apt images, he strikes a balance between the world we know with our senses and those occult regions we are only intermittently privy to -- realms we partly crave and partly fear the very mention of.
(Some details were so apt that Mr. Taubman demanded changes by Mr. Dunne).
The example of Balanchine is continually apparent — as is some of Mr. Andersen's Danish heritage — and the creativity of Mr. Andersen, an apt pupil, emerges in bright details rather than bold or breathtaking new ideas.
