circumstantiality

The almost dreamlike film that seems to cover his paintings, softening and refining reality, is swept away in the drawings on view, which have the immediacy, the circumstantiality, of life itself.

Two Complementary Quests James Gardner 2011

He goes on to note that Carlyle's narrative cuts rapidly "from individuals, often humble and seen only momentarily, and highly particular situations, rendered in full concrete circumstantiality, to cosmic and world-historical perspectives, with many intermediary points in between."

The Chroniclers Who Bring the Past Alive 2008

Mrs Chivery derived a surprising force of emphasis from the foregoing circumstantiality and repetition.

Little Dorrit 2007

One would almost have supposed he must have been their contemporary, and have actually beheld the passages which he related, so much had he identified his feelings and opinions with theirs, and so much had his narratives the circumstantiality of an eye-witness.

Old Mortality 2004

Also, it was not, she began to grasp, a case of stating a simple fact, in simple words; it meant all the circumstantiality of complicated explanation; it meant a still more murderous tearing up of emotion.

Maurice Guest 2003

What they could not forgive, or get over, was the extraordinary circumstantiality of the fictions which with she had gulled them: to be able to invent lies with such proficiency meant that you had been born with a criminal bent. —

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

I have set down, and that, too, with all the circumstantiality of an eye - witness. 2 2

The Purcell Papers 2003

His movements were of an impossible circumstantiality, out of all proportion to the trifling service she had asked of him; for, at heart, she cared as little about the rushes as about anything else.

Maurice Guest 2003

He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the offspring of an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that of the street she lived in, they omit to mention.

Don Quixote 2002

An attempt is made in it, by simplicity of style, minuteness of nautical descriptions, and circumstantiality of narration, to give it that air of truth which constitutes the principal attraction of Sir

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