Definition of anecdotal in English:

anecdotal

adjectiveˌanɪkˈdəʊtlˌænəkˈdoʊdl

1(of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.
（记述）轶事的
while there was much anecdotal evidence there was little hard fact
传闻性证据多，确凿的事实几乎没有。
Example sentencesExamples
- Until recently, documentation of elevated cancer rates in the area was limited to such anecdotal accounts.
- The evidence so far is anecdotal rather than statistical, but the trend can't be denied, he says.
- Historic accounts of this era give no indication of any negative impact to fish populations and in fact, anecdotal accounts reflect quite the opposite.
- Much of the information and government decisions concerning goldenseal are based on anecdotal rather than quantitative information on population status.
- There is a reliable anecdotal account that, in my opinion, gives a partial answer to the question.
- His team culled anecdotal accounts on videoconferencing and case studies of various applications of the technology.
- Nursing literature is full of anecdotal accounts of the distant approach that doctors have towards patients and their carers.
- Early accounts were mainly anecdotal, reported by clinicians and interpreted mainly as psychodynamic processes occurring during early development.
- To date, the social science literature on New Age phenomena has been dominated by case studies and anecdotal accounts.
- I have my own theories on this, but they are based purely on anecdotal evidence.
- Instead of relying on anecdotal accounts, psychologists could provide better information to assist the resolution of such a case.
- This paper therefore is based mainly on my own thoughtful experience and informal anecdotal research.
- Theory is paraded as fact, anecdotal accounts as hard data.
- Reviewers of manuscripts sometimes reject research because it is anecdotal, based on a case study, or founded on too small a sample and therefore not generalizable.
- It is a fluent and largely anecdotal account, which captures the woman and her work most vividly.
- Wisely, Shakeshaft does not base her conclusions on evidence that comes so close to anecdotal accounts.
- Some effect measurements are based on anecdotal evidence.
- In contrast to this scholarly account, the evocatively-entitled Tin Horns and Calico is a lively account, based on anecdotal information and data from private sources.
- Having regard to both personal experience and anecdotal evidence, I suspect that the answers to these two questions are YES and NO respectively.
- Insights, while not necessarily inaccurate, are frequently based on anecdotal evidence and hence impressionistic.
Synonyms
informal, unreliable, based on hearsay
unscientific
1. 1.1 Characterized by or fond of telling anecdotes.
  多轶事的；爱谈轶事的
  her book is anecdotal and chatty
  她的书以讲述轶事趣闻为主，跟聊天似的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She previews this approach to war in her short, anecdotal work Paris France, written just before Mrs. Reynolds and Wars I Have Seen.
  Are we in for a pleasant, anecdotal account of Didion's family connections with a pioneering past, you wonder.
  Other exceptional sherpas are given their place in the sun too in a narrative that has no great pretensions to literary skill or scholarship, but is enthusiastic and often wonderfully anecdotal.
  He elicited and compared details and wrote up his findings almost immediately in a highly readable, anecdotal narrative style.
  Unfortunately, most writings on Katchor emphasize literary and anecdotal content over artistry.
  Many of them are anecdotal and the poem, ‘Making Sambar’ could well have been featured as a ‘middle’ on the editorial page of a newspaper.
  In a witty, anecdotal and at times serious speech, Pierce said he was the eldest male member of a family of eight - seven boys and a girl.
  What he writes about York corresponds uncannily with my memory of what actually happened and includes anecdotal material which I have not seen written down anywhere else.
  In the late, anecdotal tradition he is credited with introducing suspension of judgment.
  I have quoted part of the petition at length, because its anecdotal and tonal qualities are lost in summary.
  The two tropes are geology and archaeology integrated into an anecdotal, memorialising narrative form that demands admiration for its adroitness.
  As with most actor commentaries, the former is more light and fluffy and anecdotal, while the latter is more technically-oriented.
  The narrative is tangential and anecdotal, a linear mosaic of small failures and smaller successes, interspersed with laugh out loud one-liners.
  I suspect that The Edifice Complex is so readable because his scholarly theme, brilliantly researched, is well peppered with anecdotal insights.
  I have tried to introduce personal anecdotal narrative into the book because I became very involved in my investigation into the naturopath.
  The Trade Center attack will not alter the autobiographical, anecdotal, therapeutic poems of the workshops; it will merely add another subject.
  Most of the articles have serious points to make, and only J. T. Bonner's amusing essay largely devoted to his social encounters with Haldane is purely anecdotal.
  David Gordon Green and Jamie Bell deliver an amusing and anecdotal commentary, relaying the many misadventures that took place in the production.
  Born to Buy would have benefited from more narrative, anecdotal sugar in the form of compelling characters to make the medicine go down.
  While anecdotal, the narrative captures what is probably a common experience of those participating in discipline-based PFF programs.
2. 1.2 (of a painting) depicting small narrative incidents.
  （绘画）描绘轶事的
  nineteenth century French anecdotal paintings
  19世纪法国风俗轶事画。
  Example sentencesExamples
  From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
  It is their freedom from the traditional literary, anecdotal, or moralistic associations of painting that has caused him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern art.
  Schad's graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle.
  Over the next 20 years his anecdotal paintings of peasant life, based on a close study of Dutch 17th-century genre painters, were universally admired.
  The impeccable and perceptive draughtsman Ingres is represented by one of the anecdotal pictures in which he delighted, The Betrothal of Raphael, and the last of his four versions of Oedipus and the Sphinx.
  The film combines anecdotal minimalism with extremely careful attention to the image and the actors - with a single exception, all non-professional.
  During the 1940s, Haley began writing short anecdotal sketches about the coastguard, some of which he published in Coronet magazine.
  Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal.
  Synonyms
  narrative, full of stories, packed/crammed with incident

Derivatives

anecdotalist

noun

He's not an historian, he's not an archivist, he's not an anecdotalist.
Example sentencesExamples
- As one interviewer noted: ‘He's not a barrel of chuckles to talk to - not a anecdotalist like Ben Affleck.’
- One the most accomplished anecdotalists was Henry McKenzie, author of The Man of Feeling, who counted among his friends Robert Burns, a past master of cutting wit.
- She is a terrific anecdotalist, telling each story as if for the first time.

anecdotally

adverb

In every indicator I get - anecdotally, talking to friends in all these swing states, looking at early voting patterns - is that this will be an extraordinarily large turnout.
Example sentencesExamples
- I have been told, anecdotally, that Maldon is one of the most vibrant and healthy towns in Essex, if not the east of England.
- We know anecdotally and through research that some women will return to work as soon as their maternity income stops.
- While I have no statistical evidence to support this, I have noticed anecdotally that ‘local’ students in Ph.D. programs are among the least likely to complete the dissertation.
- Parents will tell you, anecdotally, that many schools do not follow up absences, just as many parents do not necessarily report their child's absence to schools.

Rhymes

sacerdotal, teetotal, total

Definition of anecdotal in US English:

anecdotal

adjectiveˌanəkˈdōdlˌænəkˈdoʊdl

1(of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.
（记述）轶事的
while there was much anecdotal evidence there was little hard fact
传闻性证据多，确凿的事实几乎没有。
these claims were purely anecdotal
Example sentencesExamples
- In contrast to this scholarly account, the evocatively-entitled Tin Horns and Calico is a lively account, based on anecdotal information and data from private sources.
- Some effect measurements are based on anecdotal evidence.
- Reviewers of manuscripts sometimes reject research because it is anecdotal, based on a case study, or founded on too small a sample and therefore not generalizable.
- Historic accounts of this era give no indication of any negative impact to fish populations and in fact, anecdotal accounts reflect quite the opposite.
- Much of the information and government decisions concerning goldenseal are based on anecdotal rather than quantitative information on population status.
- To date, the social science literature on New Age phenomena has been dominated by case studies and anecdotal accounts.
- His team culled anecdotal accounts on videoconferencing and case studies of various applications of the technology.
- Nursing literature is full of anecdotal accounts of the distant approach that doctors have towards patients and their carers.
- Wisely, Shakeshaft does not base her conclusions on evidence that comes so close to anecdotal accounts.
- Having regard to both personal experience and anecdotal evidence, I suspect that the answers to these two questions are YES and NO respectively.
- There is a reliable anecdotal account that, in my opinion, gives a partial answer to the question.
- Until recently, documentation of elevated cancer rates in the area was limited to such anecdotal accounts.
- Early accounts were mainly anecdotal, reported by clinicians and interpreted mainly as psychodynamic processes occurring during early development.
- It is a fluent and largely anecdotal account, which captures the woman and her work most vividly.
- Instead of relying on anecdotal accounts, psychologists could provide better information to assist the resolution of such a case.
- Theory is paraded as fact, anecdotal accounts as hard data.
- This paper therefore is based mainly on my own thoughtful experience and informal anecdotal research.
- I have my own theories on this, but they are based purely on anecdotal evidence.
- Insights, while not necessarily inaccurate, are frequently based on anecdotal evidence and hence impressionistic.
- The evidence so far is anecdotal rather than statistical, but the trend can't be denied, he says.
Synonyms
informal, unreliable, based on hearsay
1. 1.1 Characterized by or fond of telling anecdotes.
  多轶事的；爱谈轶事的
  her book is anecdotal and chatty
  她的书以讲述轶事趣闻为主，跟聊天似的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I suspect that The Edifice Complex is so readable because his scholarly theme, brilliantly researched, is well peppered with anecdotal insights.
  The narrative is tangential and anecdotal, a linear mosaic of small failures and smaller successes, interspersed with laugh out loud one-liners.
  He elicited and compared details and wrote up his findings almost immediately in a highly readable, anecdotal narrative style.
  Most of the articles have serious points to make, and only J. T. Bonner's amusing essay largely devoted to his social encounters with Haldane is purely anecdotal.
  While anecdotal, the narrative captures what is probably a common experience of those participating in discipline-based PFF programs.
  Born to Buy would have benefited from more narrative, anecdotal sugar in the form of compelling characters to make the medicine go down.
  I have quoted part of the petition at length, because its anecdotal and tonal qualities are lost in summary.
  The Trade Center attack will not alter the autobiographical, anecdotal, therapeutic poems of the workshops; it will merely add another subject.
  I have tried to introduce personal anecdotal narrative into the book because I became very involved in my investigation into the naturopath.
  She previews this approach to war in her short, anecdotal work Paris France, written just before Mrs. Reynolds and Wars I Have Seen.
  Other exceptional sherpas are given their place in the sun too in a narrative that has no great pretensions to literary skill or scholarship, but is enthusiastic and often wonderfully anecdotal.
  David Gordon Green and Jamie Bell deliver an amusing and anecdotal commentary, relaying the many misadventures that took place in the production.
  In a witty, anecdotal and at times serious speech, Pierce said he was the eldest male member of a family of eight - seven boys and a girl.
  Are we in for a pleasant, anecdotal account of Didion's family connections with a pioneering past, you wonder.
  As with most actor commentaries, the former is more light and fluffy and anecdotal, while the latter is more technically-oriented.
  The two tropes are geology and archaeology integrated into an anecdotal, memorialising narrative form that demands admiration for its adroitness.
  What he writes about York corresponds uncannily with my memory of what actually happened and includes anecdotal material which I have not seen written down anywhere else.
  In the late, anecdotal tradition he is credited with introducing suspension of judgment.
  Unfortunately, most writings on Katchor emphasize literary and anecdotal content over artistry.
  Many of them are anecdotal and the poem, ‘Making Sambar’ could well have been featured as a ‘middle’ on the editorial page of a newspaper.
2. 1.2attributive (of a painting) depicting small narrative incidents.
  （绘画）描绘轶事的
  nineteenth-century French anecdotal paintings
  19世纪法国风俗轶事画。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The impeccable and perceptive draughtsman Ingres is represented by one of the anecdotal pictures in which he delighted, The Betrothal of Raphael, and the last of his four versions of Oedipus and the Sphinx.
  The film combines anecdotal minimalism with extremely careful attention to the image and the actors - with a single exception, all non-professional.
  It is their freedom from the traditional literary, anecdotal, or moralistic associations of painting that has caused him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern art.
  During the 1940s, Haley began writing short anecdotal sketches about the coastguard, some of which he published in Coronet magazine.
  Over the next 20 years his anecdotal paintings of peasant life, based on a close study of Dutch 17th-century genre painters, were universally admired.
  From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
  Schad's graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle.
  Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal.
  Synonyms
  narrative, full of stories, crammed with incident, packed with incident

词汇	anecdotal
释义	Definition of anecdotal in English: anecdotal adjectiveˌanɪkˈdəʊtlˌænəkˈdoʊdl 1(of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research. （记述）轶事的 while there was much anecdotal evidence there was little hard fact 传闻性证据多，确凿的事实几乎没有。 Example sentencesExamples Until recently, documentation of elevated cancer rates in the area was limited to such anecdotal accounts. The evidence so far is anecdotal rather than statistical, but the trend can't be denied, he says. Historic accounts of this era give no indication of any negative impact to fish populations and in fact, anecdotal accounts reflect quite the opposite. Much of the information and government decisions concerning goldenseal are based on anecdotal rather than quantitative information on population status. There is a reliable anecdotal account that, in my opinion, gives a partial answer to the question. His team culled anecdotal accounts on videoconferencing and case studies of various applications of the technology. Nursing literature is full of anecdotal accounts of the distant approach that doctors have towards patients and their carers. Early accounts were mainly anecdotal, reported by clinicians and interpreted mainly as psychodynamic processes occurring during early development. To date, the social science literature on New Age phenomena has been dominated by case studies and anecdotal accounts. I have my own theories on this, but they are based purely on anecdotal evidence. Instead of relying on anecdotal accounts, psychologists could provide better information to assist the resolution of such a case. This paper therefore is based mainly on my own thoughtful experience and informal anecdotal research. Theory is paraded as fact, anecdotal accounts as hard data. Reviewers of manuscripts sometimes reject research because it is anecdotal, based on a case study, or founded on too small a sample and therefore not generalizable. It is a fluent and largely anecdotal account, which captures the woman and her work most vividly. Wisely, Shakeshaft does not base her conclusions on evidence that comes so close to anecdotal accounts. Some effect measurements are based on anecdotal evidence. In contrast to this scholarly account, the evocatively-entitled Tin Horns and Calico is a lively account, based on anecdotal information and data from private sources. Having regard to both personal experience and anecdotal evidence, I suspect that the answers to these two questions are YES and NO respectively. Insights, while not necessarily inaccurate, are frequently based on anecdotal evidence and hence impressionistic. Synonyms informal, unreliable, based on hearsay unscientific 1.1 Characterized by or fond of telling anecdotes. 多轶事的；爱谈轶事的 her book is anecdotal and chatty 她的书以讲述轶事趣闻为主，跟聊天似的。 Example sentencesExamples She previews this approach to war in her short, anecdotal work Paris France, written just before Mrs. Reynolds and Wars I Have Seen. Are we in for a pleasant, anecdotal account of Didion's family connections with a pioneering past, you wonder. Other exceptional sherpas are given their place in the sun too in a narrative that has no great pretensions to literary skill or scholarship, but is enthusiastic and often wonderfully anecdotal. He elicited and compared details and wrote up his findings almost immediately in a highly readable, anecdotal narrative style. Unfortunately, most writings on Katchor emphasize literary and anecdotal content over artistry. Many of them are anecdotal and the poem, ‘Making Sambar’ could well have been featured as a ‘middle’ on the editorial page of a newspaper. In a witty, anecdotal and at times serious speech, Pierce said he was the eldest male member of a family of eight - seven boys and a girl. What he writes about York corresponds uncannily with my memory of what actually happened and includes anecdotal material which I have not seen written down anywhere else. In the late, anecdotal tradition he is credited with introducing suspension of judgment. I have quoted part of the petition at length, because its anecdotal and tonal qualities are lost in summary. The two tropes are geology and archaeology integrated into an anecdotal, memorialising narrative form that demands admiration for its adroitness. As with most actor commentaries, the former is more light and fluffy and anecdotal, while the latter is more technically-oriented. The narrative is tangential and anecdotal, a linear mosaic of small failures and smaller successes, interspersed with laugh out loud one-liners. I suspect that The Edifice Complex is so readable because his scholarly theme, brilliantly researched, is well peppered with anecdotal insights. I have tried to introduce personal anecdotal narrative into the book because I became very involved in my investigation into the naturopath. The Trade Center attack will not alter the autobiographical, anecdotal, therapeutic poems of the workshops; it will merely add another subject. Most of the articles have serious points to make, and only J. T. Bonner's amusing essay largely devoted to his social encounters with Haldane is purely anecdotal. David Gordon Green and Jamie Bell deliver an amusing and anecdotal commentary, relaying the many misadventures that took place in the production. Born to Buy would have benefited from more narrative, anecdotal sugar in the form of compelling characters to make the medicine go down. While anecdotal, the narrative captures what is probably a common experience of those participating in discipline-based PFF programs. 1.2 (of a painting) depicting small narrative incidents. （绘画）描绘轶事的 nineteenth century French anecdotal paintings 19世纪法国风俗轶事画。 Example sentencesExamples From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus. It is their freedom from the traditional literary, anecdotal, or moralistic associations of painting that has caused him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern art. Schad's graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle. Over the next 20 years his anecdotal paintings of peasant life, based on a close study of Dutch 17th-century genre painters, were universally admired. The impeccable and perceptive draughtsman Ingres is represented by one of the anecdotal pictures in which he delighted, The Betrothal of Raphael, and the last of his four versions of Oedipus and the Sphinx. The film combines anecdotal minimalism with extremely careful attention to the image and the actors - with a single exception, all non-professional. During the 1940s, Haley began writing short anecdotal sketches about the coastguard, some of which he published in Coronet magazine. Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal. Synonyms narrative, full of stories, packed/crammed with incident Derivatives anecdotalist noun He's not an historian, he's not an archivist, he's not an anecdotalist. Example sentencesExamples As one interviewer noted: ‘He's not a barrel of chuckles to talk to - not a anecdotalist like Ben Affleck.’ One the most accomplished anecdotalists was Henry McKenzie, author of The Man of Feeling, who counted among his friends Robert Burns, a past master of cutting wit. She is a terrific anecdotalist, telling each story as if for the first time. anecdotally adverb In every indicator I get - anecdotally, talking to friends in all these swing states, looking at early voting patterns - is that this will be an extraordinarily large turnout. Example sentencesExamples I have been told, anecdotally, that Maldon is one of the most vibrant and healthy towns in Essex, if not the east of England. We know anecdotally and through research that some women will return to work as soon as their maternity income stops. While I have no statistical evidence to support this, I have noticed anecdotally that ‘local’ students in Ph.D. programs are among the least likely to complete the dissertation. Parents will tell you, anecdotally, that many schools do not follow up absences, just as many parents do not necessarily report their child's absence to schools. Rhymes sacerdotal, teetotal, total Definition of anecdotal in US English: anecdotal adjectiveˌanəkˈdōdlˌænəkˈdoʊdl 1(of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research. （记述）轶事的 while there was much anecdotal evidence there was little hard fact 传闻性证据多，确凿的事实几乎没有。 these claims were purely anecdotal Example sentencesExamples In contrast to this scholarly account, the evocatively-entitled Tin Horns and Calico is a lively account, based on anecdotal information and data from private sources. Some effect measurements are based on anecdotal evidence. Reviewers of manuscripts sometimes reject research because it is anecdotal, based on a case study, or founded on too small a sample and therefore not generalizable. Historic accounts of this era give no indication of any negative impact to fish populations and in fact, anecdotal accounts reflect quite the opposite. Much of the information and government decisions concerning goldenseal are based on anecdotal rather than quantitative information on population status. To date, the social science literature on New Age phenomena has been dominated by case studies and anecdotal accounts. His team culled anecdotal accounts on videoconferencing and case studies of various applications of the technology. Nursing literature is full of anecdotal accounts of the distant approach that doctors have towards patients and their carers. Wisely, Shakeshaft does not base her conclusions on evidence that comes so close to anecdotal accounts. Having regard to both personal experience and anecdotal evidence, I suspect that the answers to these two questions are YES and NO respectively. There is a reliable anecdotal account that, in my opinion, gives a partial answer to the question. Until recently, documentation of elevated cancer rates in the area was limited to such anecdotal accounts. Early accounts were mainly anecdotal, reported by clinicians and interpreted mainly as psychodynamic processes occurring during early development. It is a fluent and largely anecdotal account, which captures the woman and her work most vividly. Instead of relying on anecdotal accounts, psychologists could provide better information to assist the resolution of such a case. Theory is paraded as fact, anecdotal accounts as hard data. This paper therefore is based mainly on my own thoughtful experience and informal anecdotal research. I have my own theories on this, but they are based purely on anecdotal evidence. Insights, while not necessarily inaccurate, are frequently based on anecdotal evidence and hence impressionistic. The evidence so far is anecdotal rather than statistical, but the trend can't be denied, he says. Synonyms informal, unreliable, based on hearsay 1.1 Characterized by or fond of telling anecdotes. 多轶事的；爱谈轶事的 her book is anecdotal and chatty 她的书以讲述轶事趣闻为主，跟聊天似的。 Example sentencesExamples I suspect that The Edifice Complex is so readable because his scholarly theme, brilliantly researched, is well peppered with anecdotal insights. The narrative is tangential and anecdotal, a linear mosaic of small failures and smaller successes, interspersed with laugh out loud one-liners. He elicited and compared details and wrote up his findings almost immediately in a highly readable, anecdotal narrative style. Most of the articles have serious points to make, and only J. T. Bonner's amusing essay largely devoted to his social encounters with Haldane is purely anecdotal. While anecdotal, the narrative captures what is probably a common experience of those participating in discipline-based PFF programs. Born to Buy would have benefited from more narrative, anecdotal sugar in the form of compelling characters to make the medicine go down. I have quoted part of the petition at length, because its anecdotal and tonal qualities are lost in summary. The Trade Center attack will not alter the autobiographical, anecdotal, therapeutic poems of the workshops; it will merely add another subject. I have tried to introduce personal anecdotal narrative into the book because I became very involved in my investigation into the naturopath. She previews this approach to war in her short, anecdotal work Paris France, written just before Mrs. Reynolds and Wars I Have Seen. Other exceptional sherpas are given their place in the sun too in a narrative that has no great pretensions to literary skill or scholarship, but is enthusiastic and often wonderfully anecdotal. David Gordon Green and Jamie Bell deliver an amusing and anecdotal commentary, relaying the many misadventures that took place in the production. In a witty, anecdotal and at times serious speech, Pierce said he was the eldest male member of a family of eight - seven boys and a girl. Are we in for a pleasant, anecdotal account of Didion's family connections with a pioneering past, you wonder. As with most actor commentaries, the former is more light and fluffy and anecdotal, while the latter is more technically-oriented. The two tropes are geology and archaeology integrated into an anecdotal, memorialising narrative form that demands admiration for its adroitness. What he writes about York corresponds uncannily with my memory of what actually happened and includes anecdotal material which I have not seen written down anywhere else. In the late, anecdotal tradition he is credited with introducing suspension of judgment. Unfortunately, most writings on Katchor emphasize literary and anecdotal content over artistry. Many of them are anecdotal and the poem, ‘Making Sambar’ could well have been featured as a ‘middle’ on the editorial page of a newspaper. 1.2attributive (of a painting) depicting small narrative incidents. （绘画）描绘轶事的 nineteenth-century French anecdotal paintings 19世纪法国风俗轶事画。 Example sentencesExamples The impeccable and perceptive draughtsman Ingres is represented by one of the anecdotal pictures in which he delighted, The Betrothal of Raphael, and the last of his four versions of Oedipus and the Sphinx. The film combines anecdotal minimalism with extremely careful attention to the image and the actors - with a single exception, all non-professional. It is their freedom from the traditional literary, anecdotal, or moralistic associations of painting that has caused him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern art. During the 1940s, Haley began writing short anecdotal sketches about the coastguard, some of which he published in Coronet magazine. Over the next 20 years his anecdotal paintings of peasant life, based on a close study of Dutch 17th-century genre painters, were universally admired. From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus. Schad's graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle. Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal. Synonyms narrative, full of stories, crammed with incident, packed with incident
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