Quite apart from all the pietistic [translating pietistischen] and mystical writers … we also encounter clear-sighted men averse to the fantastic who use this very inexplicability of the phenomena of dreams in their endeavours to support their religious belief in the existence and intervention of superhuman powers.

the Complutensian Bible

Meronyms: anterior inferior cerebellar artery, posterior inferior cerebellar artery, superior cerebellar artery

There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every circumstance which may throw discredit on his hero. […] Nothing has been too small to escape him, and you may be sure that if Charles Strickland left a laundry bill unpaid it will be given you in extenso, and if he forebore to return a borrowed half-crown no detail of the transaction will be omitted.