punctilio

"After the addresses and the punctilio there is little time for fighting."

The colorful ceremonies were played out below with great punctilio.

They will never know because the Daily Punctilio always gets their facts wrong.

He was followed by Tom, whom he at once presented, with great punctilio.

There was thus an artificial element in his punctilio that at times might almost raise a smile.

Harry Turtledove model of military punctilio, no matter what he said about them behind their backs.

This was no time to stand on punctilio.

He waited politely for Lewis to return the punctilio.

"Your masters are a curious mixture of punctilio and laxity," he said.

I don't think that such punctilio is really morally or professionally obligatory.

Humans were notoriously unsophisticated at the game of Galactic punctilio.

"They behave with dignified punctilio, then relax and flirt together at the back of a scene."

"Punctilio," Sunny said, holding up a torn and tattered sheet of newspaper.

I have ignored punctilio in order that I might report to you as soon as possible.

All the Focused were notorious about punctilio.

"The Punctilio got everything wrong," he said.

"You prayed for your lover's return," he said, conscious of his own punctilio and partially disentangling himself.

The preliminaries had been conducted with proper punctilio.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior."

The same intensity of punctilio was to be seen in the treatment of foreign diplomats in Russia.

Too correct for this world of 1962, which had sloughed off the final vestige of the old punctilio.

While he did not actually require that the personnel wear dinner jackets to meals, certain of his rules imposed an almost equivalent punctilio.

These were performed with great punctilio, nor did he forget to make civil inquiry after the state of Amabel's health.

Lack of punctilio can cancel some of the effect of elegant surroundings and good food.

Eventually the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death.