Sentences with phrase «peripheral details»

Insurance companies will also take peripheral details into account.

In females, the drug did the converse, interfering with their ability to recall peripheral details, like the fact that the boy had been carrying a soccer ball.

As psychologist Thomas Gilovich of Cornell University observed in his 1991 book, How We Know What Isn't So, reporters almost always sharpen the central point of an article and leave out peripheral details.

Never mind the peripheral details, the author seems to suggest.

Dennis Bock imagines the life of the historical Norman Bethune, keeping the essence of history intact but playing fast and lose with some of the peripheral details, which some readers might consider rather central - such as the fact that the entire novel is addressed to Bethune's daughter who he never met (but historically never had).

Barth harnesses these peripheral details as both the subject and departure point for this series, a method to create composition and, at the same time, challenge our very perception of it.