She was as consumed by the minutiae of daily life -- cooking, cleaning, taking care of her children -- as by the stories she was writing in her head in the deadness of early afternoon.
The minutiae of it, the joy of it, the tragedy of it, the paradox and contradiction of it in every moment, and that's what you're supposed to do as an actress.
As the narrator states, the passions he once had have been completely worn down by the minutia of the bureaucratic machine and the meaningless business it breeds, leaving him but an empty shell of a human being.
It was a worn whisper, dry and papery, and it brushed so distinctly across the ear that, by the accustomed, the material minutiae in which it originated could be realized as by touch.
Moss doesn't leap at you, it doesn't arrest you like a pine's needles or an oak's arms; even when it appears marvellous, it doesn't sustain your interest long enough to observe its minutiae.
That's just to examine if the prints came from the same person or not – to match an exact fingerprint to an exact fingerprint, you would still need the minutiae.
And even when you removed a lot of the detail, including the minutiae, and you were left with just this orientation, it was still right about 75% of the time.
Instead of examining the minutiae, like a human analyst does, the machine focused on the subtle curved shape and different angles of ridge lines in the center of the fingerprint.