circumstantiality

Example Sentences

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Then followed a description of the process, narrated with horrible circumstantiality.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred

For they both had, not without reason, a great terror of the rector's circumstantiality.

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz

"There is about that a picturesque air of circumstantiality, combined with a fanciful inaccuracy, equalled only by things one reads or hears with reference to my right hon. friend, and revered leader."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various

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

This myth comes to us from Germany—at all events, Mr. R. A. Proctor traced it there with much circumstantiality.

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin