While Mr. Ascherson writes well about historical minutiae, his book lacks a solid narrative base and story line to connect his many observations.

He devoured historical minutiae, and Chuck Yeager was one of the greatest pilots of twentieth-century Earth.

Often this type of graffiti is dated and is left untouched for decades, offering a look into local historical minutiae.

For all its players and historical minutiae, "George III" is really a character study, with the King being the only person presented in depth.

Unsworth's style is not heaped in historical minutiae, "I don't really care how many buttons someone had on his waistcoat.

As that case dealt with slavery, abolished in the United States almost a century and a half ago, some commentators thought that Bush's reply was a rather strange bit of historical minutia.

Its interior is reportedly "bursting with interesting historical minutiae" and its decorative style balances the "tasteful" with the "sympathetic".

Each of these sections is interesting for the historical minutiae Mr. O'Malley brings to light.

In a project that began in the Watergate era and still continues, Dr. Gehring has devoted 30 years to translating long-overlooked historical minutiae.

As disquieting as its message may be, "Terrorists in Retirement" is not a gripping movie, and it is bogged down by the inevitable and necessary historical minutiae.