| I do not wish to seem unduly pernickety but the point may have some relevance in future cases. |
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| Needless to say, there were a few of my pernickety readers who were quick to point out the folly of my ways. |
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| This is especially important for veggie or fussy diners who are pernickety about kitchen hygiene or the authenticity of their dishes. |
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| While kids shell out loadsamoney for ringtones, classical music buyers tend to be pernickety about recordings, and careful with their money. |
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| But some, especially one of the floor managers, got all narky and pernickety about the tiniest stuff. |
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| The French still top the list of tourists in Mauritius, so it is no surprise to find cuisine that will satisfy even the most pernickety Parisian. |
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| At last, those of us who are pernickety about our food can come out of the closet. |
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| Clearly, we would like there to be less pernickety bureaucracy and we would like to give business a bit of air. |
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| We are happy to admit it here: where quality is concerned, we at Artmodul can be very pernickety. |
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| Germans are always a bit pernickety and perfectionist: sometimes it's good for us, sometimes not. |
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| Bree's prim, proper, and pernickety worried-but-coping manner is beautifully delivered and finely nuanced by Huffman into a very believable performance. |
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| I thought he was just being pernickety, but I'll not argue in future. |
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| But is a rescue really the time and place to become pernickety? |
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| She is no longer pernickety about her house and her possessions. |
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| Jeff Rawle, star of Drop The Dead Donkey and I Saw You, plays the pernickety Father Peregrine, and Jesse Spencer is the handsome young ordinand Raphael. |
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| He assessed his questions with pernickety deliberation before replying. |
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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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| This widely spread fraud increases the suspicion of the claims officers who become more and more pernickety, engendering a perfectly vicious circle in which Insurance itself is the great loser. |
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| There is not only a need for pernickety specialists, but also for men that are able to communicate and to establish a relationship with the parents. |
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| Now the tale of the messy Oscar and pernickety Felix is going to take new heights as Matthew Perry and Joe Keenan will take the roles. |
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| It stars Brad Pitt as hitman Jackie Cogan, James Gandolfini as ageing hitman Mickey, and Richard Jenkins as pernickety mobster Driver. |
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| Does this pernickety process attract a certain personality type? |
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| And why, wonders pernickety Danny, did he not put it in a high interest account and get a good return on his investment? |
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| Rather than aiming for completism, Miles Ahead focuses on two specific periods in Davis's life, the 1980s and the late 1950s, aiming for wider truths, rather than pernickety accuracy. |
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| But Meldrew-maniacs could yet see the pernickety pensioner back on their screens. |
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| Foreign banks have become increasingly pernickety about opening accounts for Americans abroad. Mr Birkenfeld's huge payday will also have a galvanising effect on would-be whistleblowers. |
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| From now on, if we want to ensure that Europe is not perceived by our citizens to be a machine churning out complex and pernickety regulations, this is something we must change. |
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| Our citizens are fed up with being forced to be happy, of being hampered a little more every day in their activities by petty, pernickety and stifling red tape. |
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| Extending training for their benefit does not seem to me in any way a pernickety measure thought up by bureaucrats, but on the contrary, a protective measure. |
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| The same goes for funding and support of the arts and craft industry, a sector which creates many jobs, as long as it is not suffocated by unrealistic pernickety regulations, as has been possible for market traders. |
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| It took one back to the Victorian era, when people in the English-speaking countries were very pernickety about all things, especially about how they and others comported themselves. |
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| This seems pernickety but it is very agreeable to have the nicely browned sausages in the final dish, as opposed to the discoloured and largely tasteless boiled sausages. |
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| If that sounds like I'm being overly pernickety, then half an hour in the company of these two world-class hair-splitters will do that to a person. |
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| Do not blame the great game's demise on the fact that pernickety referees now impose rules that prevent the sort of tough-tackling that made our league such a thrill to watch. |
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| Torquemada's shop is more of a junk store than a clockmaker's, which loses some of the pernickety refinement that defines his milieu and character. |
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| Butcher was correct that the ref was not to blame for Hibs'display but Norris had a pernickety night, refusing to let the game flow and flashing cards far too readily. |
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