Wouwerman's fine paintings - displaying delicate, subdued colours, a cool atmosphere and a wealth of witty, anecdotal details.

The anecdotal detail is less important than the values on which it was built: loyalty, dignity, love and fortitude.

So his particular brand of reductionism requires not just prodigious research but also good instincts for anecdotal detail.

The Edinburgh Evening Dispatch carries some anecdotal details of the fatalities in their report.

Blustein demonstrates with an overwhelming wealth of anecdotal detail that the guardians of the world's financial stability were often making it up as they went along.

He began to use subtle lighting and shadow effects and also added numerous anecdotal details to his drawings.

Such anecdotal details as these were embroideries upon the reputation of Daedalus as an innovator in many arts.

Two professional journalists have constructed a surpassing account of the 1988 bombing, rich both in drama and in anecdotal details.

The legend could be bunk, but people in these parts believe it, bolstered by a few anecdotal details.

He combined a spirit of fantasy with anecdotal details.