unsignificant
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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 Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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 Philip H. Goepp
The story must be told; every essential phase must be brought out; but unsignificant words can only do their bit toward spoiling the desired effect.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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 Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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 Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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