Detailist

"Detailist" in a Sentence (14 examples)

In cost department work ability as a detailist is exceptionally desirable in the work of making entries.

Dr. Kober has always been a great detailist without being small or petty, a particularist without being narrow or prejudiced.

He is the scientist, not as particularizer and detailist, but as the forceful synthesizer of a truly vast amount of apparently unrelated objects, events, and structures.

The whole thing must have been rehearsed many times, for the detailist would overlook no detail.

The simple art of the detailist would compel him to draw every flower that he saw : the suggestive artist, with his more vigorous appeal to the imagination, would get the effect by setting a few in the immediate foreground, and still fewer scattered over the middle distance.

The detailist fills his canvas with work and interest; the full-souled painter concentrates his detail upon a few salient points.

His canvases are worked over with painstaking care, not as the detailist works to delineate buttons and boot-straps, but for harmonies of tender color and the charm of reflected light.

Impressionism is the generalizing of the subject-matter as a whole and the expression of only its salient features. The extreme realist or detailist of the Ruskin type has for years been insisting that a spade was a spade and should be painted to look like a spade; that a spade was not a spade until every nail in the handle and every crack in the blade became apparent.

But when we come to examine the fundamental reasons for nature's supremacy over all art, even the noblest, we find it in the fact that nature is the transcendent detailist.

The lawyer-like regulatory systems exhibit qualities and flaws not unknown in the parent profession. They are moral and preachy, careful and slow, professional and inbred, studious and detailist.

Strengthening these aspects would also free law teaching from too detailist knowledge.

This question is not only concerned with detailist information, but in terms of its stem, all answers are correct except kingdoms, for phyla are, indeed, divided into all of the last four categories, even though the student is supposed to ferret out (4) as the immediate sub-division concerned...

What can be said, though, is that it contains more unplotted detail than its predecessors. It is more vulgar—more detailist—than any prior realism.

I should again say that, when I speak of Miró's sparing use of shadows in his detailist work, I refer to shadow that falls away from the object that casts it, rather than to the shadow that models an object.

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