hair-splittingly

With extremely minute, unimportant, or imperceptible differences or details. (Used before an adjective.) I think it's clear to see that the defendant's work is only hair-splittingly distinct from that of my client. Does anyone else see how hair-splittingly unimportant all of this is? Ugh, what a waste of time! Thank you for your hair-splittingly detailed assessment, Joe. Now I see why "Brown Coffee" is the better paint color choice than "Café Noir."

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Barber suggests buying hair-splittingly sharp knives, a wooden rice tub to cool and gloss rice, a bamboo strainer, shellfish tools, a pressed sushi mould and a bamboo rolling mat.

Raw TALENT

Buchloh's dilalectical elaboration seems so attenuated, so hair-splittingly niggling, that the wished-for sublation comes dangerously close to an equation.

Pas de trois

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