The answer came to me as if from above : cosmononplusation, " the vague, speechless awe one experiences upon gazing up into the cosmos and contemplating the pathetic minuteness of one's being ."
22.
From the minuteness with which I have traced Waverley's pursuits, and the bias which they unavoidably communicated to his imagination, the reader may perhaps anticipate, in the following tale, an imitation of Cervantes.
23.
It helped my pilot friend, who thought of God as an impersonal force, to realize that an average six-foot man is the midpoint physically between the magnitude of our physical world and the minuteness of microscopic life.
24.
And, as the minuteness of Boltzmann's constant indicates, the changes in for even tiny amounts of substances in chemical and physical processes represent amounts of entropy that are extremely large compared to anything in data compression or signal processing.
25.
He " dissects the most trivial objects " with " microscopic minuteness "; and he " deals in incessant matters of fact . . . of the most familiar, the least animating, and the most unpleasant kind . . . ."
26.
Its contents are rich, though the form is simple . " story telling, joke cracking, music playing and aria singing " are the performing techniques, while " reasoning, tastes, unexpectedness, interest and minuteness " are the artistic features.
27.
He thinks and writes as one whose interests are wrapped up in his house; and the unique interest of his work lies in the minuteness with which it describes the policy of a monastic administrator who was in his own day considered as a model.
28.
The generally small scale of the medieval pictures has led secondly to an etymological confusion of the term with minuteness and to its application to small paintings, especially portrait miniatures, which did however grow from the same tradition and at least initially used similar techniques.
29.
The minuteness of his narrative detracts from its interest; though his arrangement is generally good, here and there the reader finds the thread of a subject broken by the intrusion of incidents not immediately connected with it, and does not pick it up again without an effort.
30.
From the minuteness with which the poet describes the jewellery displayed on Queen Anne's entry, it appears that he had a special technical knowledge of such matters, and there is thus every reason to suppose him to have been identical with John Burrel of the king's mint.
