circumstantiality

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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

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

It seemed to her almost as if he took pleasure in the pleasing broad circumstantiality of the story as he told it.

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Kohn, Spiegfried

Papers from New York and Philadelphia assert most positively, and with circumstantiality, that Hooker recrossed the Rappahannock since the battle, and is driving Lee toward Richmond, with which his communications have been interrupted.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp