Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes ofdetail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
(uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice.
2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, inBBC Sport[2]:
Attention todetail was said to be one of the secrets of Gerrard's success as a player.
A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
I don't concern myself with thedetails of accounting.
(countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
The arresting officer asked the suspect for hisdetails.
2022,Gary Gerstle, chapter 7, inThe Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order[…], New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:
Frequently members of the small policedetail dispatched to the scene joined in.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealeddetails of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
Anarrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
1816 June –1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 6, inFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:[…][Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818,→OCLC:
"I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared thedetail to another would only impress more deeply."
1992, Janice L. Doane, Devon L. Hodges,From Klein to Kristeva, page53:
On the cover of Julia Kristeva'sBlack Sun: Depression and Melancholia is adetail from a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, “Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Elizabeth Binzenstock, and Her Two Children, Philip and Catherine.”
2001, Maryan Wynn Ainsworth,Early Netherlandish Painting at the Crossroads, page110:
Shrubbery and the hand of Christ (detail of plate 12)
2001, Charles Russell,Self-taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art, page100:
Eight years later, the outstanding exponent of Memory Painting was herself publicly commemorated by a six-cent postage stamp showing adetail from one of her most patriotic works,July Fourth (1951).
2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, inThe Guardian[4]:
It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Eachdetails the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
2020 October 30,Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, inThe Guardian[5]:
Two years after England’s World Cup victory, Stiles was at Wembley again to help Manchester United become the first English team to win the European Cup final. Again Eusébio was one of his opponents, playing for Benfica, and again Stiles wasdetailed to keep him quiet.[…]
