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Despite their anecdotal character these evidences do not seem to be unworthy of some regard.
If an anecdotal review is bad, it is because it is badly done, not because it is anecdotal.
In light of these documented facts, the hundreds of anecdotal accounts were reduced to a few.
Her letters formed a sort of anecdotal history of the politics and literature of her times.
The reading should be biographical, anecdotal, thrilling dramas of human achievement, rich with human interest.
This reading should be biographical, anecdotal, thrilling dramas of human achievement, rich with human interest.
For the historical part of the book, the authorities, grave and anecdotal, are too numerous to mention.
The book called the Acts of the Apostles (an anonymous work) belongs also to the anecdotal part.
His conversation, which was entirely anecdotal, consisted of an elaborate endless chain of more or less historical "stories."
Much might be written of the old-time visitors to the town, but very little anecdotal matter exists.
These characteristics are fully illustrated in the numerous anecdotal books which have been written concerning crime and criminals.
Whilst I am anecdotal, perhaps I had better say something about books into which my stories have been pressed.
These anecdotal attacks worried his wife, who feared for her hot food; but the others encouraged him.
At the same time, we would warn the reader that the present volume is not historical, but merely anecdotal.
In truth, interviewing discharged patients would have meant anecdotal information, probably not rigorous enough for use in a definitive book.
Reece's observations were not frequent, but when they came, did so for the most part in anecdotal shape.
His sermons were of the anecdotal type, full of quaint, pathetic, and dramatic stories of the triumph of innocence.
All the same, the talk was anecdotal, and that can never be as stimulating as when it is spontaneous.
John was not naturally an anecdotal person, but his mind had been of late stored and fed with experiences.
There is nothing that I know within the whole scope of anecdotal history more affecting than the present narration.
That his structural form is more than anecdotal can be shown by an analysis of almost any of his plots.
It has often treated indifferent subjects in a grand style, and it has too easily beheld life from the anecdotal side.
The selections in this group consist of anecdotal sketches, brief biographies, extracts from longer works, and a few poems. a.
Clare Jerrold presents in anecdotal fashion incidents both tragic and comic in the career of the Kaiser Wilhelm and his ancestors.
The book is written in a lively anecdotal style; the author has a keen sense of humor and a profound conception of the value of a good story.
Before Dr Hill's death he gave me permission to take from his pages such material as I cared to incorporate with my own shorter, more anecdotal story.
Manet painted single figures and simple images devoid of all anecdotal significance, out of his pure love of his medium and his sheer delight in tone and contour.
Children's talk is always valuable to a psychologist; and for my part I would be glad of as many anecdotal records of their sayings as I could collect.
Having known him personally and intimately for many years, I shall attempt such sketch, making much of it anecdotal, for which purpose material is not wanting.
Like him, they dwelt entirely on the illustrative aspect of painting, and were altogether swayed by the humanity of a picture, by its dramatic or anecdotal interest.
Is this indeed sufficient to give it the facial, anecdotal, and local feeling that we expect from Rembrandt when he paints the places, things, and men of his time?
Taken separately, they may be reproached with a certain anecdotal character, but we cannot fail to agree that taken altogether they constitute an important chapter in the sciences of life.
Easy to read, anecdotal and descriptive, the volume is just one to place in the hands of those who wish to know more about the Army than can be learned from general reading.
The artist, however, will do well to practice this principle with due restraint, avoiding, on the one hand, what may be called anecdotal design, and, on the other, an over subtle symbolism.
Even a century later than Raphael, among the Flemings and Hollanders, the best pictures are the simplest, the least dependent for their interest upon anything dramatic or anecdotal in their subject.
North of the Ohio the anecdotal genius diminished, he declared, as one moved toward the Great Lakes into a region where there had been an infusion of population from New England and the Middle States.
Secondly, I was far from suspecting that a book written with a purely literary purpose could acquire at a bound such anecdotal importance, and bring down upon me such a buzzing swarm of complaints.