Sentence examples for humble detail from inspiring English sources

If anything, it's the attention to humble detail that is his poetry's most disarming feature.

Souleiman achieved the humble detail by lightly massaging the scalp, "just to bring out these little imperfections," he said.

On its Web site, Belmont calls itself "the Town of Homes," the kind of quirky, humble detail that seems intended to appeal to a novelist of Mr. Perrotta's sensibilities — as does the fact that the journalist Sebastian Junger (who grew up in Belmont) once wrote a book suggesting that the Boston Strangler had struck here in the 1960s.

In the most humble detail, he sees wonder.

We see the folds in clothes, Aunt Carmen's fussy ceramics collection, the worn paint on a bench and other humble details.

At times I had the sense that I was watching a documentary, following the random path of a hand-held camera and catching the humble details by accident.

(In the opening passage of his budget address in February, he offered even humbler detail: "Mom was raised on a farm where they didn't have indoor plumbing").

The scale is humble, but the architectural detail is rich: eyebrow windows, stick-style trusses.

Attention is paid to the smallest design detail; the humble clothespin that holds the menu on a piece of black board, the small wooden spatula that serves as butter knife speak to the prettiness of utility that you see in much of Finnish design.

Two biographies on Kerry Stokes detail his humble beginnings.

He builds evocative tableaux from humble materials, and the detail is extraordinary, from the clothes of the little figures, to the artfully arranged props, to the precise way the light and shadows play out in his photographs.