Example Sentences

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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 focuses attention on essentials.

From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews 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 focusses attention on essentials.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

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 Dowst, Robert Saunders