My cat, being a fully paid-up member of the fastidious feline world, now refuses to eat anything else. |
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With his frilly, fancy clothes and fastidious manner, Cantus always seemed like he belonged more at a poetry recital than in battle. |
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But the cusk is not fastidious as to bait, accepting clams, cockles, and herring readily. |
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A fastidious little cough from the dark side of the laurel bush interrupted her daydreams. |
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He was as fussy and fastidious as many great writers, prone to restless and often tiny adjustments. |
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And even the most fastidious eaters today are probably consuming gene-altered food against their will. |
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No blood and guts, please, we're a civilized people, fastidious about what we allow in our living rooms. |
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A first-year student at Williams may well become frustrated with such fastidious nit-picking. |
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They want you to do everything to them, but then are too fastidious to name it. |
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Aside from this fastidious attention to detail, the designer's work has few distinguishing features. |
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He's a detail man, obsessively fastidious to the point that he still handles the steady-cam himself, to get those shots just right. |
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For the fastidious reader interested in precise historical accuracy, these flaws are very substantial. |
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He made relatively few films and gained the reputation of being a fastidious and sometimes ruthless perfectionist. |
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He plays it deadpan, with impeccable style and fastidious attention to detail, but of course that only enhances the absurdity. |
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His playing is not only passionately alluring but also remarkably fastidious to the slightest detail in the scores. |
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The owner of our company is pretty fastidious in choosing products that are naturally and environmentally sound. |
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He is eloquent at description, fastidious about mythic details, but reticent about his personal life. |
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The mouse genome, it seems, is more fastidious with its housecleaning than the human. |
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One or two buckets will do for a clean bath for even the most fastidious person. |
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Rolls-Royce is obviously the epitomical buy word for fastidious luxury and refinement. |
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Leonardo was extremely fastidious, but Nicholl reminds us that his exquisite works were the product of titanic labours. |
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As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting. |
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Griffin is 32 and toothless and bone thin with wild dark eyes and a dark beard and fine, long black hair that he combs with fastidious care. |
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Cars that have been undersealed or wax-oiled are a sure sign that the previous owner was fastidious in their care. |
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Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing? |
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She was even faster than her father, who was rather fastidious about which neckcloth he wore on different nights. |
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A lyrical, a scholarly, a fastidious mind might have used seclusion and solitude to perfect its powers. |
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Where other songsmiths were personally flamboyant, he was fastidious, carefully barbered, turned out in the best suits he could afford. |
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His hair and beard were testimony to his fastidious nature and obsessive preening. |
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The food may be healthy, but the conditions under which it's made are far from the standards demanded by fastidious Westerners. |
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He dwelt with fastidious detail on her figure and the cleanliness of her fingernails. |
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He was a narrow, stumbling man, a clothes merchant by trade, whose clerkish character leaned towards the fastidious and wary. |
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Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred. |
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Well-organized, orderly, and fastidious, they try to maintain high standards, but can slip into being critical and perfectionistic. |
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Ask to be present during the tests on equipment before the meeting starts and be very fastidious on the quality of the sound. |
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Hence, to obtain some results, the voluntary exercises of the abdominal wall are fastidious and often dangerous. |
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The Romans, Egyptians and oriental women were known to have very fastidious cameleer and bathing routines. |
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Some fastidious or critical people may complain of unevenness in your writing because it is not sustained at a peak. |
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Several constraints limit the scope of the method which can be long, costly, fastidious and intuitive rather than rational. |
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This arduous and fastidious task is currently performed manually by specialized translators, with a cost in the region of 2 to 5 per entry. |
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Under campaign situations, the pressure to deliver on a tight schedule requires fastidious tracking. |
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In its overall design and fastidious attention to detail, the table reflects the concept of presenting a useful, industrially produced object that is a work of art. |
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The central characters are fastidious, scrupulous and articulate. |
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This Prime Minister, who is so fastidious about all matters, says that she was happy to leave the judgment on this issue up to her electorate office staff. |
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Shaped by the fastidious Harnoncourt, the central andante movement opens with a horn theme that whispers an affinity to the Largo from the New World symphony. |
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You were always a fastidious trencherman, and struck fear into the hearts of many a maitre d' and wine waiter, but when they knew you, they adored you. |
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When I started cleaning carpets, I realized early that my standards of cleaning weren't up to the level of some of the highly fastidious clients I was attracting. |
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It would be churlish to note the disparity between Spark's fastidious energy and the pedestrianism of this book, were the disparity not so glaring. |
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I've looked for holes in the armor but Donaldson's too fastidious. |
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He had to carefully attend to each customer's fastidious demands. |
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Now he straightened his embroidered jerkin and fluffed his lace cuffs with a fastidious air, and the strings of the balalaika on his back sang gently as he shrugged. |
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He always loves to have everything very chic and polished and fastidious. |
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Jeffries is apparently a frequent flyer as well as a fastidious and exacting one. |
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The publishers have also been extremely fastidious in their selection of the book's 325 illustrations, providing a pictorial record spanning over a century and a half. |
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He kept fastidious records, registering his name and address changes, lodging tax returns. |
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Margaret Thatcher's legacy is divisive, but never that bad within her party and she was a fastidious respecter of party procedures. |
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Public broadcasting services should operate in solidarity with viewers of more demanding or fastidious tastes as well. |
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He was an enfant terrible of culinary art, impossibly difficult to work for, fastidious about his creations and possessing a volcanic temper and savage tongue. |
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The latter was one of her best pictures, and she was in her element as a fastidious, slightly cruel and watchful woman, trying to keep control of life. |
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The switch looked spick-and-span now, like a pot or a pan belonging to a fastidious old woman. |
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On the other hand the customs formalities were fastidious, need for declaring all electronic hardware: GPS, CB radio, etc. |
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For instance, Haemophilus ducreyi, which causes chancroid, is a fastidious bacterium which cannot easily be cultured. |
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Combine the zapper with a decent electromagnetic cockroach expeller, and even the most fastidious individual should sleep peacefully. |
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He could be fastidious, not to say pernickety, about the placing of an inverted comma in some Arabic name. |
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Very rarely, though, that fastidious and precise pulse deteriorates into a disorganized scramble. |
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He was fastidious about the precise arrangement of his extensive library yet dressed like a slob. |
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Here we see a series of examples that combine maximum flexibility with a minimum of material and a fastidious expression of form. |
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No miracle thus, that especially these door-panels enjoy of increasing popularity with fastidious, trend-conscious owners. |
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Many customers are particularly fastidious when it comes to choosing suitable lights. |
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Before the accident flight, the pilot flying had a check-out flight with Parallel Seaplane's chief instructor and gained his confidence as a competent and fastidious pilot. |
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In return, it should be said, he demanded the same level of fastidious professionalism from collaborators, and a hallmark of his work is the outstanding quality of his fellow workers. |
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The experts were informed that, since July 2007, there is a daily transfer of data between SICOF and FABS which reduces considerably discrepancies in accounts and fastidious manual checks. |
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However, retailers are now even more fastidious regarding the location. |
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The commandments are not arbitrary or fastidious impositions by God, but are the expression of the true relation between Creator and creature, a relation based on free recognition of God's lordship. |
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He is fastidious, he has got an eye for detail, margins matter to him. |
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The translation work was almost complete at that point, with only the long and fastidious process of cross-comparison and final revision remaining. |
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It is therefore important for COMEST to consist of members drawn from different horizons whose reflection is sufficiently broad to escape from fastidious and strictly technical discussions. |
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Each encounter leads to a fastidious editorial work, which indispensable to communicate the essential data to the rest of the team and move forward in coordinating the initiative. |
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And what would the Sunnis in Iraq's centre gain once partition cut them off from Iraq's oil riches? As for America being less fastidious about democracy, this sounds commendably realistic. |
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Women should be gentle, fastidious and responsible. |
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The former is fastidious, and to be thus selective, thus picksome, is surely a virtue. |
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A guess: whoever lives here carries the baggage of inherited wealth, displays an anxious striving to be modern and distinguish himself, and is burdened with a repressive finickiness that borders on the fastidious. |
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He who criticises the subtleties and commentaries is the very one who, in a personal suit, becomes the most subtle and fastidious of commentators. |
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A specialist in fastidious and delicate restoration work, his knowledge of antique weapons is formidable, although admittedly halberd combat technique is of little practical interest to the Surnateum's explorers. |
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The nation stands between the partial menace of cliquism and the total scandal of a retreat from imagination, from style, from the fastidious. |
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As she cleaned the room daily, she knew it was against his fastidious nature to bring or have food in his room. |
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With Game's house and car seized, Bauer's fastidious search turned up one more tidbit that was to be the last nail in Game's coffin: a receipt for an industrial rental unit in Mississauga. |
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To learn what might drive tree descent, Pauli and other researchers compared a tree-descending species with a less fastidious, two-toed sloth. |
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SlovoEd dictionaries for Palm OS are developed to satisfy the most fastidious users, for both language professionals and learners, for both business applications and private usage. |
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Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush. |
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Mr Logue emerges as a discontented, contradictory, fastidious character, a conceited pontificator on the one hand, but sensitive, self-aware and observant on the other. |
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His fastidious nature had been evident in his careful snipping of a customer's hair and now he guided his pencil with the same adroitness. |
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He is fastidious, short-tempered, losing his teeth. |
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Mahler was a fastidious and brilliant orchestrator. |
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Domitian's administration of the Roman army was characterized by the same fastidious involvement he exhibited in other branches of the government. |
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Those that do not tend to be even more fastidious in some other way. |
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It's a love story with a fastidious overlay of real history. |
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The physician ought also to be confidential, very chaste, sober, not a winebibber, and he ought to be fastidious in everything, for this is what the profession demands. |
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This experience began the development of his fastidious taste and Anglo-Catholicism and gave him the basis for a career as an ecclesiastical architect. |
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She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty. |
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