circumstantiality

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For it is only as language that the picture or the statue avails anything, and this circumstantiality of expression is tolerable only so long as it is the only expression.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various

With such detailed circumstantiality of rugs and quilts, too?

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Written nearly a hundred and thirty years after the supposed events which it narrates, this story is damned by its circumstantiality.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

We instinctively answer, that it is, in fact, inconceivable; and, even apart from any such refinements as those noticed, the circumstantiality of the stories is quite sufficient to catch an unworthy critic.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

When Bach's recital with all its circumstantiality and its simulated completeness of strange and illuminating details became known, there lacked but little to hailing the imaginative scamp as a deliverer.

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various