punctiliousness

You may have noticed that a new punctiliousness is upon the land.

The evidence of her punctiliousness as a trainer was everywhere.

From all that Americans now know, the air war has been conducted with unprecedented punctiliousness.

The restraint, the punctiliousness, made Reynolds feel uneasy; this was not what one expected in a police state.

Then, as if still not wholly able to comprehend his punctiliousness on this point, "But they can only see my back.

The ambassadors greeted Hay with the punctiliousness that his rank required.

The marquess was a model of impersonal punctiliousness.

But now such a punctiliousness in duty was shown that his topmates would sometimes good-naturedly laugh at him for it.

Edmund Morris, finishing his Reagan after a dozen years, is considered a model of punctiliousness.

Yet that moral punctiliousness is curiously selective.

Polite to the point of punctiliousness.

Well aware of the real reason behind this sudden espousal of sacerdotal punctiliousness, the House was not a bit impressed.

If anything, it made his punctiliousness in observing those formalities more important than it would have been for someone of less exalted rank.

Ellen laughed at my punctiliousness.

Everyone knows that you chose a tortoise as a symbol, no doubt, of punctiliousness and perseverance, but not really of revolution.

Janson had to admire the bureaucrat's punctiliousness in anticipating his ex-employee's every paranoid thought.

Geoffrey E. Schwartz's personal punctiliousness extends to his work, his colleagues say, and that's a good thing.

With dreamlike punctiliousness the door beside them opened and white fog swam and curdled about them.

In looking for clues to French character, the author explores everything from wine culture to cultural politics, movies, food and the higher eroticism, with the same punctiliousness.

But the magazine's editors, preoccupied with making a splashy debut with the test issue, didn't always respond to his punctiliousness with enthusiasm.

Mr. Kimbrough is an appealing actor - he looks and sounds like a younger Tony Randall here without the punctiliousness.

He had in common with Tony a certain punctiliousness of manner and a tendency towards turns of phrase which were inconsistent with his level of education.

Billingsley asked with a mocking punctiliousness that was intended to humiliate me, but the humiliation was my own fault for having challenged the policeman's lie.

"We are law-abiding to the point of punctiliousness," she writes, "not because we are plaster saints, but because criminals must deal with people constantly.

As he put on his sunglasses, the detective's pencil-thin mustache suggested to Dr Daruwalla a punctiliousness in shaving that the doctor had abandoned in his twenties.