Sentence examples for selected detail from inspiring English sources

Again what I learned was the power of accurate, vivid, highly selected detail.

Once a specific disposal system is selected, detail design is undertaken.

Her narratives are rigorous, partial to the present tense, and untempted by the small change of contemporary realism (abundant and superfluous dialogue in quotation marks, sharply individuated characters, tellingly selected detail).

Describing the experience of seeing the actor Robert Blake play Perry Smith in the 1967 adaptation of his book, Capote writes: Reflected reality is the essence of reality, the truer truth … all art is composed of selected detail, either imaginary or, as in In Cold Blood, a distillation of reality.

Even so, Capote is right to suggest that any narrative representation of events is an accumulation of "selected" details, and that the process of selection and arrangement through which a writer converts disparate facts into an absorbing story entails an inevitable measure of artifice.

He selected details from photographs to create the impression he had been somewhere or seen someone, when he had not.

It's these carefully selected details — and the easy identification with Beattie's ambivalence about houseguests — that makes the piece such a pleasure.

Griffin, an MEP for north-west England, used his Twitter account to publicise selected details of his "fact-finding" trip, calling the Syrian capital a "modern, bustling city".

The line is carefully controlled, and the composition and highly selected details both illustrate and expand effectively upon the nature of the text.

If you're worried that your breadth of experience is out of step with the role you're applying for, and you might seem over-qualified, you can dilute or minimise selected details.

It's more that real life might occasionally produce a certain tone or feeling in me, and then I find myself mimicking or alluding to that feeling in the story, using very highly selected details from real life.