| He dropped all his other investigations and for two days solely observed this persnickety pulsar. |
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| Our tester's black-trimmed cabin looks anonymously inoffensive at first, but a few areas will rouse persnickety observers. |
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| And while she could occasionally be persnickety about certain things, she didn't need Dante telling her that. |
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| He is passionately persnickety in a way that Hollywood has typically undercut and portrayed as snobby. |
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| I watched them in disgust, thanking the Lord Almighty I am nothing near as persnickety as they are. |
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| No, Pickert isn't some persnickety homeowner with a penchant for one-of-a-kind wares, but rather a remodeler trying to do things the environmentally friendly way. |
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| We sat in the back of her persnickety 1966 Ford Falcon for a few hours. |
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| The only cultural feature they are persnickety about is well-drained soil. |
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| Trailing fuchsias are especially persnickety about their environment. |
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| This persnickety approach is forcing some companies to shape up. |
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| That was cruel but not off target for the co-parent of Cubism and the most persnickety of modern masters. |
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| Astaire, a professional dancer from the age of 7, did all of his own choreography, and he was as exacting about corrections as the most persnickety repetiteur. |
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| His keepers fed the beast copious amounts of port, champagne, and whiskey to pacify the persnickety pachyderm. |
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| The fact is that the persnickety strain, in computer animation, is a condition of the medium. |
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| How about countries whose fiscal and customs services are somewhat persnickety? |
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| The persnickety hand brake remains tucked under the dash to the right of the steering column. |
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| Radar acquisition has always been a persnickety thing to test properly on Earth. |
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| In the early years, she was regarded as persnickety but a helpful ally who returned calls promptly. |
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| He's such a persnickety guy later on – he always has to have the best of everything – so I thought it'd be great if when he was a kid, he was an absolute slob. |
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| Squinting through his rimless glasses, going thinner and grayer on top with each season, the head coach looked every bit the middle-aged man, and often a persnickety and demanding one at that. |
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| A persnickety attention to the tiniest detail. |
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| For diversity's sake, it's hoped that artisan farmers dabbling in truffles will remain undeterred by what's still a persnickety business. |
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| Besides, to the unsuspecting, Annisa's elegance isn't persnickety. |
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| You might think the persnickety rules of writing a Shakespearean sonnet, say, or a rondeau in iambic tetrameter, would be stifling. |
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| So, with the Republican nominating electorate increasingly persnickety about ideological purity, governors often are more disadvantaged than senators as candidates. |
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| De-moralizing the subject can be, quite simply, demoralizing, as stirring statements of ideals turn into persnickety rules with exceptions crying out to be loopholed. |
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| Well, it is about time an arms manufacturer tamed the persnickety. |
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| Tenured faculty aren't circus elephants too demoralized to perform, too persnickety to eat peanuts or too apathetic to do more than gaze longingly at retirement. |
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| Persnickety I have been accustomed to use in the sense attached to perjinkety, that is, over-fastidious. I do not know how the word was acquired or how common its use is. |
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