| He may start nitpicking over virtually every script point, insisting on protracted creative colloquies with his director. |
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| Well you could say it's a deal of nitpicking by pedantic scientists over detail. |
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| Hollywood turns brides-to-be into petty, vulgar, nitpicking obsessives. |
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| The government must thus take its role of an economic statesman and regulator seriously and stop nitpicking at micro levels. |
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| After months of nitpicking of this kind some movement towards translating words into deeds has at last taken place. |
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| To say this is not to take a formalistic approach towards jurisdiction and certainly not to indulge in any sort of legal nitpicking. |
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| We did not wait for all the little nitpicking points, where people wanted to get the is dotted and the ts crossed. |
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| Our businesses, our employees and our citizens do not want a nitpicking Europe. |
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| Therefore, they have no business saying that we are being paranoid and that we are nitpicking. |
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| However, since we're nitpicking in this list, discrepancies do exist, and they should be noted for clarity's sake. |
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| After many meetings and nitpicking debates, the managers arrived at a vision of which they were proud. |
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| And what are narrow legalities and nitpicking ethics rules among friends? |
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| Or find a nitpicking way to avoid making any decision until some more states have acted on their own? |
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| In any case, this is nitpicking, and, ironically, Klingman does the same thing in his essay. |
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| Three months ago, what was on display was the well-developed British talent for carping, sneering, and nitpicking. |
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| The local man insisted he was not nitpicking over the rules set by the commission. |
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| The U. S. must not, with nitpicking measures, block off or close their border or slow down road and commercial traffic between the two countries. |
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| By consulting the parties concerned, it should be possible, for example, to avoid nitpicking rules and rules which cannot be applied in practice. |
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| Masta's a monster of perfection. He freaks out a lot of singers with his nitpicking. |
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| I have heard people nitpicking about certain regulations or concerns about the bill. |
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| Musicians are usually more absorbed with performing the music than with studying its looks, so this nitpicking about typographical details may seem academical. |
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| I am nervous that people who sit on other House committees and have not watched this process go through for several years are going to propose nitpicking amendments and changes to the bill as we go through second reading. |
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| More broadly, I think the point is that these kinds of nitpicking arguments about constitutional technicalities intended to deny rights to certain people are the wrong way to think about what the constitution is for. |
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| Increase in bickering, nitpicking or blaming at meetings. |
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| History has no patience and no use for legalistic nitpicking, bureaucratic turf wars and those who see Europe as twelve stars rotating around their navel. |
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| Apart from a minor misjudgement of Kempton's first fence, it would demand the finickiest of nitpicking to find fault with his King George VI Chase win. |
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