| In the end it's only a teaser. so I'm probably being really unfair to all concerned by nit-picking it to death. |
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| The experience of the ongoing Leader programmes is a salutary lesson in the dangers of an excessively fussy, nit-picking set of guidelines. |
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| He can appear arrogant and suddenly nit-picking if his performance is not recognised by a superior he values. |
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| The complex, nit-picking French tax system has much to learn from Anglo-Saxon pragmatism. |
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| Even after logging countless hours nit-picking her work, there is no one I'd rather spend time with. |
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| I might be guilty of nit-picking there, but read the final paragraph, which comes close to a rational conclusion, then veers wildly. |
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| They are also completely missing the point with their penny-pinching and nit-picking and succeed only in making themselves appear ridiculous. |
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| It may therefore seem like philosophical nit-picking if I criticise some of his arguments for getting to those conclusions. |
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| But with regard to Winslow's receiving ability, any weakness cited is an exercise in nit-picking. |
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| A first-year student at Williams may well become frustrated with such fastidious nit-picking. |
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| Compromise, rather than dogmatic statements and dreary nit-picking over the constitution, can be the only way to maintain this progress. |
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| His friends enjoyed themselves and you got the feeling the celebs were only nit-picking because they were expected to. |
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| If she saw the film without you, don't take it out on her by nit-picking over peeves you never even noticed before. |
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| But it is also true that there have been times when we have seen behaviour on the part of the European negotiators as well as certain Member States which has been excessively bureaucratic, defensive and at times nit-picking. |
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| This is nit-picking. When CPIC began, security intelligence fell within the domain of the RCMP, and the people who carried out this work were peace officers. |
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| Instead, they have unleashed a storm of nit-picking and vilification. |
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| People are that much harsher with new writers, as though they cannot tell the difference between constructive criticism and plain old nit-picking. |
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| Maybe my problem with these films amounts to technical nit-picking. |
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| I hate that sort of nit-picking negativity about the smallest of events. |
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| This is not nit-picking with the translation. |
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| This kind of nit-picking, especially from Repubicans, is unhelpful. |
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| While compromise was reached eventually on another form of payment, ETC Group-which participated throughout the negotiations-contends that Canada's nit-picking came close to threatening the achievement of a treaty. |
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| They must know that the visa regime is being delayed not because of European nit-picking, but because they have not done their bit. |
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| Given modern communications, nit-picking calculations of significant demand are becoming less and less relevant in Ontario. |
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| With all that faultfinding and nit-picking, food-safety issues will be resolved in no time. |
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| Parliament's proposals are not nit-picking amendments. |
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| I understand the Spanish language very well, and I see this approach as a kind of parliamentary nit-picking, designed to all but bring the debate to a halt. |
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| Seriously, no less than seven days of unpacking, rearranging, bathroom and kitchen-scrubbing, discarding, laundering, and nit-picking went into earning that approval. |
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| Which sent me to nit-picking and its back-formed verb, nit-pick. |
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| If you have been reading the apparently nit-picking remarks in these sections, you will probably have recognized the potential for trouble in a source updating process. |
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| For these nit-picking details, you need a king-hell nitpicker. |
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