Example sentences for: minutiae

How can you use “minutiae” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Which leads me to: a prig “irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree,” while a pedant “unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation of knowledge.”

  • Fleming's poker face is perfect for making you giggle at offhand insertions of Watergate minutiae or urban-paranoid compositions cribbed from Alan J. Pakula's film of All the President's Men (1976).

  • I don't know how a director whose central theme is the loss of humanity can be so uninterested in the minutiae of human speech and behavior.

  • They waste too much time on minutiae and too many of them have abandoned grand free-market principles for statism.

  • But these actors also convey the sense of an internal furnace of pain and anxiety that gives fevered glow to such minutiae" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). However, the play itself is found wanting.


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