minuteness

The story was told with a minuteness of detail and dexterous use of technical phrases that not only imposed upon the ordinary reader, but deceived and puzzled men of science to an astonishing degree.”

But despite the minuteness of the research, her aim was not verisimilitude – Bonham Carter, for example, does not look much like Princess Margaret, nor ever will – but about allowing a performance to take place.

“To create a predatory machine, you foster an appreciation of the natural world and our minuteness upon its canvass… We are as nothing and that permits us to do anything.”

Atoms, in other words, exist on a scale of minuteness of another order altogether.

On my first try, I was too busy telling my brain to keep my eyes open and watch the show to take in the finer points and minuteness of the mise-en-scene.