anecdotic
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Its sentiments are more broadly human, and the programme that Strauss has followed never loses itself in picturesque or anecdotic details, but is planned on expressive and noble lines.
From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock
In discussing catastrophes, the Duke indulges in statements, partly scientific, partly anecdotic, which appear to me to be somewhat misleading.
From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
But as a novelist he does not seem to me to be of much importance, nor even as a tale-teller, except of the anecdotic kind.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
The naive, picturesque, and anecdotic illustrations of common life, which are so plentiful in Egypt, are almost completely wanting to the art of Chaldæa.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
Neither of the development of national life, nor of the clash of nations, did he really know anything that was not inessential and anecdotic.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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