Sandy sees subtle nuances, the tilt of the head, how an ear looks, he picks up the tiny details that bring the sculptor to life.

Out of absolutely nowhere I felt a sudden, sweet shot of joy, piercing and distilled as the jolt I imagine heroin users get when the fix hits the vein. It was my partner bracing herself on her hands as she slid fluidly off the desk, it was the neat practiced movement of flipping my notebook shut one-handed, it was my superintendent wriggling into his suit jacket and covertly checking his shoulders for dandruff, it was the garishly lit office with a stack of marker-labeled case files sagging in the corner and evening rubbing up against the window. It was the realization, all over again, that this was real and it was my life. Maybe Katy Devlin, if she had made it that far, would have felt this way about blisters on her toes, the pungent smell of sweat and floor wax in the dance studios, the early-morning breakfast bells raced down echoing corridors. Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and the inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.

A contract portrait bronze commission takes roughly 12 to 18 months to complete.

I feel like the thing Ben does best in his writing is scripting the tiny details and the spaces in between. Like, I would never, ever have thought to write a song ('Title and Registration') that addresses lost love by way of the glove compartment.

We need to know how Vodafone One is doing. It looks good on paper, but we need some details now.

The game is starting to slow down in Adam's head. He was full tilt, pedal to the metal, get the ball and score.