Expression: 'An attention to detail'

[Tom]

Hi

Could you please tell me what the phrase an attention to detail means? Could you use it in a sentence or two for me?

Tom

[Yankee]

Ahem!

Master Tom, what about you giving it a try?

"Attention to detail" basically means that a great deal of attention was paid to details when something was done. The word 'attention' is normally uncountable, so this would be one of those cases where you'd be "taking a few liberties," as it were.

Renoir painted those flowers with such an attention to detail that you practically smell the roses and jasmin.

Amy
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English