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At the same time biographical and anecdotic details please most people, and if they are not allowed to shoulder out criticism altogether, there can be no harm in them.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
You see, Julia is like a game of tennis, or a pleasant picture of the anecdotic kind.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
Its sentiments are more broadly human, and the programme that Strauss has followed never loses itself in picturesque or anecdotic details, but is planned on expressive and noble lines.
From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock
"That taste for story-telling—that anecdotic habit—is quite vulgar; nobody does it now."
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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