unsignificant
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A picture differs from a photograph mainly in its artistic repression of the unsignificant; it exhibits life more truly because it focusses attention on essentials.
From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
The Defect of Caricature.––But just as a character may be ineffective through being merely typical, so also a character may be unsignificant through being merely individual.
From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
But just as a character may be ineffective through being merely typical, so also a character may be unsignificant through being merely individual.
From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
A picture differs from a photograph mainly in its artistic repression of the unsignificant; it exhibits life more truly because it focuses attention on essentials.
From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
Once for all, a themal coherence of symphony must lie in the main lines, not in a maze of unsignificant figures.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
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