The complex, nit-picking French tax system has much to learn from Anglo-Saxon pragmatism. |
The experience of the ongoing Leader programmes is a salutary lesson in the dangers of an excessively fussy, nit-picking set of guidelines. |
His friends enjoyed themselves and you got the feeling the celebs were only nit-picking because they were expected to. |
They are also completely missing the point with their penny-pinching and nit-picking and succeed only in making themselves appear ridiculous. |
A first-year student at Williams may well become frustrated with such fastidious nit-picking. |
He can appear arrogant and suddenly nit-picking if his performance is not recognised by a superior he values. |