Sentence examples for merest detail from inspiring English sources

That was the merest detail in the perennial tangle of official precedence.

Then along comes another performer in another work, and the merest detail — a step, a shift of weight — becomes galvanizing, intoxicating.

This is no mere detail.

Mr. Bush's order is not a mere detail.

Clegg's insistence that the difference between the two position is "mere detail" is simply unsustainable.

"This is life; the rest was mere detail," he said, laughing.

But this is a mere detail to be brushed aside as neighborhood gentrification proceeds apace.

"This is life; the rest was mere detail," he said with a chuckle.

Such incompetence is no mere detail: thousands of Iraqis have died as a result and hundreds of American soldiers.

Earlier this month he repeated a comment made in 1987 that the Nazi gas chambers were a mere "detail" of history.

What matters above all else is to be religious: how exactly you do so is mere detail.