anecdotic

He was absorbed in the handling of his material, not in the lyric, dramatic, anecdotic, or rhetorical elements.

You see, Julia is like a game of tennis, or a pleasant picture of the anecdotic kind.

Among the artists identified with this movement there was The pre-Raphaelites. little really in common except in impatience of the prevailing modes of empty academic convention or anecdotic frivolity.

Be that as it may, I never was accused of relating a garbled, broken, and disjointed tale, and for the honor of my anecdotic powers, I resolved not to do so.

This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.