There is another strategy: anecdotalism and personal witness.

Although Homer's graphic works reflect his progress from anecdotalism to a simplicity and near grandeur, they remain period pieces.

He reserves much space for criticizing the anecdotalism of David Brooks, whom he accuses of "good-natured loathing" of the liberal elite.

Annalee Newitz of NPR gave the book a mixed review, calling The End of Men, "a frustrating blend of genuine insight and breezy, unconvincing anecdotalism" but also that "the book manages to register a cultural shift in the process of happening, which is an exceedingly difficult task."

Since there is no danger that any of my present readers have heard of Report on Probability A, I might as well say that one of my themes was a paralysis of time, which I pretended to detect and find exemplified in the anecdotalism of this canvas, and similar Victorian paintings.

Purposely out of tune with the times, the works he selected were the ones that made of their own awkwardness and their adversarial relationship to colliding traditions a new unity: but, doubtless aware of the anecdotalism of the subject, he cautiously avoided dogma, preferring to gesture at points of similarity than to rule on genre.