essential details

The statement said this was because it had been a public meeting and it had been considered appropriate to only share essential details.

A common mistake was oversimplifying information, stripping out essential details and glossing over unknowns, said Nuzzo.

Here is a rundown of all the essential details.

It’s not possible to take in everything at once in a skinny panorama six feet wide, as it might be in a more conventional 8-by-10 print, since you can’t see both ends unless you move to the other side of the room, now too far away to take in essential details.

More essential details in this week’s Style Conversational, wapo.st/conv1479.