Sentence examples for arbitrary details from inspiring English sources

Prochnik provides fascinating, if occasionally arbitrary, details of the historical and social context ("In a typical American meal circa 1909, starch was king"), but his narrative is strongest when it depicts Freud outside his element — trying to play his first game of tetherball, struggling amid campers who hike, sing, and play dress-up games at dinner.

Concentrating on one day, from the seas off Singapore and Svalbard to the mountains of Madagascar and the ice-cap of Antarctica, from glimpses of the farthest galaxies to the afterglow of a strangely close gamma-ray burst, is a way of celebrating that quest for knowledge in a day's worth of arbitrary details.

This approach is necessary because all available data are needed right from the start to enable the user to switch rapidly between a coarse overview and focus of arbitrary details.

The first chapter, set in the novel's present day of 1980, proceeds with wilful leisure, alighting here and there on arbitrary detail.

Consequently the behaviour of an arbitrary detail can be estimated by scaling the behaviour of the reference detail up or down using a constant value.

People stepped through the familiar choreography of the art museum: lean in to look for explanatory wall text; when you don't find it, elegantly shift your lean toward the painting to scrutinize some arbitrary detail.

The CityEngine (Figure 1) is a tool that allows for efficient modeling of 3D scenes at large scale and in arbitrary detail while retaining the flexibility to adapt the model at hand for future changes as knowledge about a site gets refined (for example, as an excavation campaign progresses).

Freud, however, shows a way to assimilate the most contingent and arbitrary mimetic details into the realm of meaning.

In 2000 Gladwell released his first book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, which contends that social epidemics result from a combination of seemingly arbitrary contextual details and the actions of a few key types of people.

We shall say that Q is a causal operator, or nonanticipative, if the following property holds: for each couple of elements of E such that (u(s) = v s)) for (0leq s leq t), there are the results ((Qu)(s) = (Qv)(s)) for (0 leq s leq t) with (t < T) arbitrary; for details, see [1].

It is unexpected, virtuosic, funny, arbitrary, subtle, detailed, poetic.