On closer inspection, they revealed minute distinctions.
Another reason is the extraordinary subtlety of the English class system, and the minute distinctions and exaggerations that are always brought to the question of social precedence.
The speaker, probably dead from the avalanche he described, remembers the minute distinctions and gradations of judgment that the living use to pass the time.
But such minute distinctions are secondary to the overriding principle emphasized to referees: to not blow the whistle for offenses deemed trifling.
The novel loves dynamism as well as the defeated; the spirit of colossally audacious vauntings and of minute distinctions, of plotting, above all, unites the monstrous anti-heroine and the supposedly fastidious figure of the novelist.
Such essentially military weapons they come in many brands, with the minute distinctions among them a source of excitement to gun fetishists were involved not only in Orlando but in many of the most recent major gun massacres, including San Bernardino, Newtown, and Aurora.
In so far as the arts mobilize the whole range of our faculties, they improve our ability to discern minute distinctions that otherwise would go unnoticed.
