I still want fastidious cleanliness, orderly family time, good grades.
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"They are so fastidious about protecting their animals," she said.
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Image credit: NASA / BoeingBoeing was fastidious about the suit's details.
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But I'm absolutely fastidious about there being an underlying truth.
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But Art Donovan stood out as a calming, fastidious presence.
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Coughlin's fastidious ways rubbed not only his players the wrong way.
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"It was the color that made the cleaners fastidious," she says.
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What motivates people to become fastidious custodians of their own health?
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This attention to detail is fastidious and most importantly, deeply loving.
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Fastidious, aloof and touchy, Chopin kept even friends at arm's length.
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In his best works, he is often agitated and fastidious. 8.
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Now, well, there isn't the funding to cater for the fastidious.
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She plays Tahani, a fastidious British socialite with a morally questionable past.
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Time to get fastidious and finish those to-do lists, astro buddies.
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Friends and former colleagues described him as affable and a fastidious banker.
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Modern archeology, with its fastidious excavations, seemed to offer a promising model.
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Try to stay six feet apart and be fastidious about cleaning surfaces.
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And I think as American people we're fastidious and we'll do this.
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It's a movement documented by booming media entities — like the fastidious TriniJungleJuice.
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His fastidious, historically sensitive renditions of Bach's unaccompanied suites were widely acclaimed.
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It's undeniably fastidious, but it seems NASA doesn't want to take any chances.
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Despite his old T-shirts and unruly hair, he could be so fastidious.
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Even certain bordellos in the Patpong district of Bangkok are more fastidious. Burn!
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Fastidious about things being neat, he grew weary of Beijing's messy brown grass.
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It was a trait that made me a good student, fastidious, and precocious.
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Or even if she'd taken her story to a less fastidious news organization.
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It was only through Kaspersky's fastidious triple-checking that it came to light.
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" Kindly, self-deprecating and prone to extreme thrift, Mr. Stillman explained his light domestic footprint this way: "Sometimes people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life.
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We're both quite fastidious people, and we don't like to leave any stone unturned.
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Her fastidious dedication to creating banger pop songs isn't a fluke; it's a gift.
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" And then, lest I think Brennan was a slob: "He is a fastidious character.
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In the populist vision, the critic is simultaneously fastidious and intimidating, comic and sinister.
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Khmer culture is even more fastidious about purity—at least when it comes to women.
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She's fastidious, curious, and ambitious — a different sort of self-possession than Smith's energetic confidence.
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Liberal democracies may insist on "meaningful" human oversight, but will every country be as fastidious?
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Being a nurse, she is fastidious about cleanliness and can clear up a crime scene.
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A fastidious filmmaker, Loznitsa spends a great deal of time composing and editing long shots.
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She also represented Pat Adams, a painter of fastidious astral abstractions, throughout the gallery's run.
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With this article, I'm going to give you the lenses of a fastidious digital advertiser.
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A fastidious oboist will check the instrument's pitch against an electronic tuner to be sure.
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Mice "are just not fastidious groomers," Dr. Ostfeld said, so their ticks tend to survive.
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Gabi: fastidious, attentive, academic, an early-education specialist who used to work at a preschool.
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Mr Mueller would not put it like this: the celebrated prosecutor is too fastidious and discreet.
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The Stasi may have operated on fear and silence, but they were also fastidious record keepers.
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Plastic bags nestled in a heap at their feet, neat little parcels tied with fastidious knots.
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He had the misfortune in life to be fastidious and to own a delicacy of feeling.
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"2001" is, in part, a fastidious period piece about a period that had yet to happen.
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In some cases, though, a bedbug encounter leads hotel guests themselves to become more fastidious travelers.
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Nor was Mr. Abse especially fastidious in his tactics; he often resorted to ruses and misdirection.
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Mr. Wenders himself looked fastidious, dressed with stylish austerity in a deep blue Jil Sander suit.
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The fastidious houseboy is dismissed as a delicate flower, mocked for simpering over Sara's young, virile brother.
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Had Gulliver not been so fastidious, Ryanair could have used any number of pretexts to deny compensation.
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And given the news of Comey's fastidious paper trail, there could be even more bad weeks ahead.
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He was actually a reluctant but fastidious ruler, obsessed with monitoring the rainfall of his arid nation.
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French achieves this look through a fastidious process that she documents in some of her Instagram posts.
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Yet I still kept fastidious track of what I consumed and felt terribly uncomfortable in my body.
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That's the way the art world is, and it doesn't pay to be too fastidious a viewer.
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He was very fastidious, he read the paper slowly, he read everything, he was a great cook.
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The dancing's purity and fastidious stylishness was Johnsian; its generous, cool range of mood was like Rauschenberg.
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"I wrote the part thinking of David Hyde Pierce and how fastidious Niles was on Frasier," he said.
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On Being Mary Jane, the title character's fastidious need for control filters into her approach to casual sex.
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I'm pretty fastidious now, so that job instilled in me the desire to keep everything neat and organized.
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He won't set the clocks five minutes back instead of five minutes forward, as the fastidious Coughlin did.
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Mr Duhigg is an effective storyteller with a knack for combining social science, fastidious reporting and entertaining anecdotes.
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It is true that China has been fastidious in capping its external liabilities (it is a net creditor).
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His teachers describe him as quick to smile and laugh, but his teammates see his scowling, fastidious side.
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Every image looks harmonious without being fastidious, which means that you see the picture rather than the intention.
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There is a fastidious effort to push through roadblocks and address tasks in a way that is sustainable.
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I was told you are very fastidious and careful about what you eat and drink on the road.
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That's part of why employees like Bennett feel confident that fastidious adherence to NRC guidance equates to safety.
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Recipes, techniques, and a fastidious dedication to time-honored traditions were passed down from elders to the younger generation.
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The food is thrillingly irreverent, so at first you don't notice how fastidious it is, how close to perfection.
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And workers at plants might also be less fastidious because they, too, are bearing the brunt of extreme heat.
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The fastidious Bryce is less than enthusiastic about his new charge, who keeps escaping his grasp like a greased piglet.
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She was fastidious, bordering on obsessive (daily ice washes, anyone?) about her beauty routine and a trendsetter for her day.
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New York magazine even took care to note how often his media profiles have fixated on his fastidious fashion choices.
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Muhammad Reza had always displayed fastidious respect for counsel and the letter of the constitution whenever his authority was weakest.
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This fastidious emphasis on language and how the world uses or misuses it involves Amis in some rather curious verdicts.
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He's a fastidious, resilient showman, fine-tuned and rehearsed down to the stage bows, key adjustments, and inter-song banter.
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Laugh at life as a shit show, instead of pretending it's just about meritocracy and that fastidious protestant work ethic.
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The fall 2001 Dior Homme collection epitomized the fastidious detail and dark sensuality that would become hallmarks of Slimane's aesthetic.
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This is a movie where Hanks' character, a fastidious neat freak, learns to let go and love that dog life.
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Mr. Farhadi has distinguished himself in his generation of Iranian filmmakers as an astute psychological realist and a fastidious storyteller.
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After the debate began, but shortly before Mr. Trump took the stage, graphics on both CNN and MSNBC suggested fastidious coverage.
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Works like Regretfully Yours show an internal contest between the artist's expressive painterly intuition and her fastidious tendencies as an illustrator.
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Not this particular renter in London, whose fastidious list of demands for a future roommate has gone viral over the weekend.
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His fashion sense, about which he is outspoken and fastidious, seems ripped from Gilded Age cartoons about predatory industrial fat cats.
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Consider the fastidious opossum, which, because it grooms obsessively and is expert at removing ticks, functions as a tick death trap.
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Although none of Cobra's clients have experienced any problems so far, he has inspired a few copycats who aren't as fastidious.
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Mount Everest has become something of a trash heap, as hordes of climbers have been less than fastidious in their ascents.
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Mr. Chang is not a fastidious French kitchen god, a high-energy American showman or an Anthony Bourdain-like poetic observer.
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Mr. McBride has more clean, fastidious power than almost any other bassist around — it makes him a kind of dream sideman.
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Her family lived on the second floor of a brick bungalow owned by a prim great-aunt and her fastidious husband.
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Your planetary ruler, fastidious Mercury, the planet of communication, spends its final moments in your sign before moving over on Saturday.
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Daniel's ideal day entails relaxing around the house or hearing live music; Joseph relishes yardwork and is fastidious about his car.
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And indeed, the most pressing cultural issues seeking remedy through legislation are met, expectedly, by the most fastidious and intense debate.
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His style is distinctive, hard to mimic even for the most fastidious clerk — though it was something we all aspired to.
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A fastidious student of the game, Lafrenière can still describe a personal favorite pass from Kane to then-teammate Marian Hossa.
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Kaine's Trump sounds a lot more brutish than the actual Trump, who often sounds like the fastidious hand washer he is.
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By fastidious design, the piece is the diametrical opposite of the action it is counterprotesting while still holding some aspects in common.
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In Kigali, Rwanda's fastidious capital, a street vendor died in May after being beaten up by security officers, who were later jailed.
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After all, as a chef, Monica likely would have been fastidious about keeping up with the latest in kitchen trends and technology.
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Well, we're going to go out on a limb and say it's perhaps a bit fastidious, as in this case in Australia.
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The two men trained for two years before they started their acrobatic performances, and, Mr. Segalla added, he was fastidious about safety.
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Morsal, 22286, was quiet and fastidious like him, while Madina, at 226 the youngest in the family, was impish and apple-cheeked.
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Sometimes The Post can be too fastidious, citing differences of opinion as evidence of falsehood, so let's cut the tally by half.
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And even during the worst of his drinking days, he had always been tidy and well kempt, fastidious in everything he did.
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With his deep-set eyes and fastidious manners, McKinley had a "demeanor of heavy quiet," Merry writes in a typically descriptive phrase.
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The researchers do not yet know why the liver oscillates, but Dr. Schibler suggested it's part of the organ's fastidious maintenance program.
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Furminator for Cats, available at Amazon, from $26.99Cats are fastidious, and in the process of grooming, they consume a lot of hair.
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The business jet (basically a less lavish private plane) entered service in earnest this year after two decades of fastidious, often-delayed development.
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There's no padding or sleeve for your laptop, drone, or camera gear, and the few pockets available are too deep for fastidious organizers.
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Debunking the notion that the 272-word speech was spontaneous or at least quickly written, he reminds us of how fastidious it was.
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With hundreds of objects arranged in symmetrical groupings, its altar is a study in spiritual neatness so grandly fastidious as to feel cosmic.
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John Lomax asked Crawford to help prepare an anthology of written arrangements of his field recordings, and she quickly became a fastidious transcriptionist.
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Tall and physically commanding, fastidious in his attire, he often built to a crescendo of indignation, gesturing firmly with long-fingered, well-manicured hands.
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Boettcher was a fastidious "Jeopardy!" student, playing the game from home with a makeshift buzzer and calculating her rate of accuracy in a notebook.
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What I Learned Shopping and eating this way is expensive, inconvenient, takes fastidious planning, and you'll often eat the same things over and over.
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"We're pretty fastidious about tagging all of these incoming messages, collating and entering and retaining the data that people are sending us," Butterfield said.
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Ms. Bell, who could turn a nimble line in "Veronica Mars," makes a natural sitcom lead, and Mr. Danson makes a fine, fastidious bureaucrat.
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Though Simpson's work initially reads as impersonal, almost clinical in its fastidious ordering of details, these sedate, finished surfaces mask obsession and personal memory.
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From that fastidious painter he may have learned the practice, uncommon at the time, of making preparatory drawings for work in more permanent mediums.
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Ms. Khusyaynova was fastidious, keeping detailed records of expenses for a budget that totaled more than $35 million from January 2016 to June 2018.
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Military-themed video games have been around for decades, but the heavy emphasis on fastidious weapon accuracy and customization is a surprisingly recent trend.
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Relatively little is lost in photographs of these smooth, even pictures; if anything, their fastidious seamlessness gains intensity with the aid of the camera.
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Like Blake, many of the artists of Turbulences dans les Balkans integrate their idiosyncratic visionary imagination (a psychological process) into their fastidious mark making.
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Fastidious little hoarders that they are, the squirrels took the nuts handed out from the single central location and sorted them into species-specific storages.
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Yet Mr. Becerra, who has been vocal about problems with Silicon Valley in the past, has remained fastidious about saying little about any potential investigations.
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For example, fastidious Virgos may have their calendar, checkbook, and contacts list under control, but their bulging carry-all bag could use a little attention.
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Shortly after Katrina, Lafitte began making pencil drawings of marching bands from the city's high schools, which he then colored, with fastidious precision, in marker.
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" He still thinks about his late son "all the time," Biden said during the interview, remembering Beau Biden as "the most fastidious, honorable, straight guy.
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Trump has revolutionized political messaging through his use of Twitter, leveraging the platform to break through the fastidious, tightly scripted politicking that defines contemporary politics.
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" On the other hand, he'd come to love Hui restaurants, finding the Hui to be great cooks and fastidious around food—"cleaner than us Han.
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These fastidious security measures signal that the Moon administration will: The Trump administration must signal to Seoul and Tokyo that they need to alter course.
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To avoid muddying the texture, pianists rely on a clean, detached style, and as a result the music too often sounds subdued, fastidious, even soporific.
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Poirot, fastidious and impeccably dressed, made his debut in 1920 in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" and appeared in more than 30 of Christie's novels.
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These flare-ups happen less than once a month, and I am fastidious about ensuring that my work is covered appropriately when I am out.
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While Chinese consumers are among the world's most frequent and fastidious washers of clothes, according to Novozymes researchers, they aren't as set in their ways.
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Barnum, meanwhile, made the rounds of New York editors, complaining that his plan to exhibit the mermaid had been nixed by the fastidious Dr. Griffin.
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Employing a fastidious hand-cast process to make these pieces, Graham's resin works are divergent in shape and aesthetic, but are always guided by conceptual precision.
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As the fastidious Star Wars droid C-3PO pointed out at the Oscars on Sunday night — that golden statuette does look a lot like him. Coincidence?
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He promised he wouldn't dismiss Mueller without cause, and added that he couldn't imagine the famously fastidious Mueller would do anything to give him reason to.
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He was stacking photocopies in an unnecessarily fastidious way, to draw out their few minutes together, before a guard oversaw the students' transfer through work exchange.
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On the stuff that's known, Blight is an attentive if sometimes fastidious guide, poring over speeches and texts with the critical equivalent of a magnifying glass.
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She is a comedian of manners, and a fastidious chronicler of her chosen country, whose map stretches from Anglican suburbia to country parishes and metropolitan London.
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Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause.
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The most fastidious monitoring of increasingly fickle ripeness doesn't insulate vintners from the added specter of pests, disease, and drought—all symptoms of prolonged warming patterns.
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His character is described as "a fastidious gangster who wears Tom Ford suits, is a vegan, drives a Tesla and murders people," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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But it's what comes before that feels revelatory — the film's fastidious attention to the training, the mistakes and the disasters that all led up to that moment.
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Known as a fastidious cattle rancher, Cortizo has vowed to fight corruption, improve health services, reform the education system and build a new University of Panama campus.
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Consider that, in this case, one fastidious weirdo's fixation on the finest of fine points erased an athlete's lead with a To Whom It May Concern email.
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They are so big and spacious you want to step into them, yet so finely wrought that you are happy to stay outside examining their fastidious surfaces.
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Singapore has won international praise for its fastidious approach in tackling the virus, which has included using police investigators and security cameras to help track suspected carriers.
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While high-end Western hotel properties are less fastidious about access control, visitors to Japan should be aware of occupancy restrictions at most hotels in the country.
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All the while, he has maintained a core group of musical associates, working up a productive tension between his fastidious vision and the will of his allies.
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Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, has spent more than 50 years climbing the ranks of the Catholic Church, building a reputation as a loyal churchman and fastidious teacher.
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She performs as usual with a trio led by Mr. Diehl, a fastidious and swinging pianist who has been her musical director for the last several years.
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This ranges from wearing the same clothes every day, Steve Jobs-style (thus avoiding wasting time deciding what to put on), to fastidious fitness routines and complicated diets.
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A perusal of the FIRE subreddit will drive home the point: Some followers are fastidious about every penny they spend, while others like to enjoy some luxuries now.
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The estimated 3,000 visitors viewed the fastidious and vibrant labor of over 60 street artists, who tagged the entirety of the four floor mansion in just two days.
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The mice also don't really mind the ticks, so they spend plenty of time together, unlike some other species that are more fastidious groomers and remove the pests.
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Two days later, before the second flight, from Moscow to Vladivostok, a fastidious employee weighed Viktor and declared him too tubby to continue to fly in the cabin.
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With its fastidious framing and angry-tough temperament, "Loveless" (a title distilled in a single image of a child's violated, unclaimed corpse) earns its air of careful foreboding.
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He researched plans before presenting them to players, such as the fastidious starting pitcher Trevor Bauer, knowing they could challenge him by looking up information on their own.
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So if authorities are too fastidious about refusing to bail out banks that have been irresponsible, it can wind up taking down banks that never did anything wrong.
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"We need to be more fastidious about putting away toiletries," he tells Jane, who promised to be tidier than Marie Kondo when she applied to be a tenant.
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Kay's fastidious approach to research yields conceptual art that challenges its viewers to push the boundaries of what they think they know about the basic functions of our world.
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For example, when parents are extremely overprotective, they may produce children who are obedient at home, but lack personal discipline and self-confidence when outside their parents' fastidious oversight.
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Prince of Peoria: NETFLIX ORIGINAL When an easygoing 13-year-old prince goes incognito as a U.S. exchange student, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fastidious overachiever.
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Old imperial powers, with deep pockets and grand ambitions, tend to be fastidious about their image as host and benefactor, and China has always set great store by ceremony.
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"They may be less fastidious while on vacation, leaving medications in open suitcases or on hotel tables or not childproofing a relative's house," said poll co-director Sarah Clark.
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Poirot, fastidious and impeccably dressed, made his debut in 1920 in Christie's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" and appeared in more than 30 novels by the British mystery writer.
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Research has shown that dog ownership raised the levels of 56 different classes of bacterial species in the indoor environment, while naturally more fastidious cats boosted only 24 categories.
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He was repelled by the slums, the open defecation (picking his fastidious way through butts and twists of human excrement), and by the failure of Indian civilisation to defend itself.
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With some fastidious planning and careful choreography, Buckley and the crew eventually managed to get the bear to do almost everything they needed it to do — with one unexpected wrinkle.
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The fastidious primate chose a well-balanced blend of caramel malt, cherries, Pilsen malt and wheat for his brew, also made in honour of a Brew at the Zoo event.
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One salesroom here boasted a brisk business in secondhand Japanese pianos, selling for $1,500 to $8,000 for fastidious, well-off North Koreans who sneer at the sound of Chinese instruments.
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But there was nothing in them that ever smacked of the predatory; on the contrary, it was his fastidious honesty, his euphoric interest in sexuality, that rattled and embarrassed me.
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One effect of this sea change was the critical rejection of pictorial Surrealism, along with such artistic practices as representational drawing, in which fastidious attention to detail plays a role.
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The smudgy, grimy urban landscape — emergency rooms, fast-food restaurants, blocks of modest, over-mortgaged, squeezed-together houses — is shot (by Sean Price Williams) with a fastidious avoidance of prettiness.
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His institute was known for fastidious research and for a weekly newsletter in which he directed scathing criticism at those he felt were falling short on their commitment to Latinos.
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Roy Cohn, who shares with the Angel and with Trump himself a certain fastidious disgust at the idea of intermingling, was in the '80s a signifier of violent, hypocritical homophobia.
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Her chronicling of the subway is just one part of this big, new black-and-white book of comics, fastidious drawings, and nonfiction passages about America's most densely populated metropolis.
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Australian brands, venues and particularly fastidious wedding organisers will be able to pay to put their personal touch on Snapchat after the company launched its on-demand geofilter feature Down Under.
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I think there was also a part of me that liked tempering my fastidious long-term planning, my conventionalism, my seriousness with their wild spirits, their rejection of every social expectation.
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So while Arc System Works has a tendency towards complex systems, they are also fastidious about mechanical and visual representation of the qualities that people love about the works they adapt.
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He is a fastidious, aloof man who keeps spotless the polished cement floors of his house and always wears the same uniform: light blue button-down shirt, jeans and Timberland boots.
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We have read about Ivan Orkin's fastidious—if highly personal—approach to ramen, and I think I can taste the obsession in the bowl's thin rye noodles and perfectly cooked egg.
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His desk is sparsely decorated and often covered with neatly arrayed note cards on which he has written, in fastidious red Sharpie, his daily to-do list or his talking points.
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In any event, it's doubtful that the fastidious Poirot, who sampled four bakeries before settling on the brioche from a small Danish patisserie, would be queuing up for a bag of Tescoissants.
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The show is fastidious in its period details, from movies on the marquee to the TV shows in the background to President Nixon and the names of NBA players on the radio.
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"My impression is we are a little more lenient now classifying things as storm related than they have been in the past, and certainly more fastidious in collecting the information," he said.
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Just across the passageway is the less fastidious, less expensive, less-hyped, almost-brand-new and truly sublime dining experience known as Gaa, where you don't have to book weeks in advance.
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"Der Einsiedler," a setting of Eichendorff, stands in for the whole: fastidious sensitivity; utter refinement; getting to the heart of every word and, through every word, to the heart of the song.
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And to the silence, when the death of a fastidious fire partner and a father to 8-year-old Isabella was felt by row after row of men and women in blue.
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Some find email burdensome and prefer a call (or text); others evidently detest the phone, keeping a fastidious inbox even as they can't be bothered to listen to a voice mail message.
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That it ended up drifting into Roth's archives and being neglected is not surprising, given a letter McKay wrote in 1941 that implies he was less than fastidious about even precious belongings.
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Except for its scenes involving animals, this handsome, excessively fastidious screen adaptation of Diane Ackerman's 2007 nonfiction best seller is a polite but pallid recycling of Holocaust movie tropes with epic pretensions.
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The soldiers re-enter, and one comfortably settles into a chair and rather too blithely proposes funeral arrangements to Michael, sketching in every detail with the fastidious attention of a wedding planner.
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Orbiting Jerry are his fastidious ex-wife, Pearl (Rebeca Miller, also playing a long-winded narrator); Pearl's sister, Michele (Michelle Uranowitz); Michele's twin brother, Earl (Derek Smith); and Boots (Jaime Wright), a stripper.
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She's so fastidious in her decision-making, says Davidson-Schmich, that she only performed physics experiments at her high school in East Germany after she'd determined it wouldn't waste her classroom's limited resources.
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If high-fashion goods such as designer purses, shoes and sunglasses can be counterfeited to fool fastidious consumers, it should be a piece of cake to fake something as grotty as rhino horn.
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But documents filed by his lawyers offer some clues as to how Brewer went from a "fastidious rule follower" and "kind-hearted" young man to someone who admired Hitler and wore Nazi paraphernalia.
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Her vision of Negro culture obviously didn't align with his; she demanded to be called Godmother; and she was prone to angry suspicion, demanding a fastidious accounting of how her funds were spent.
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In that time Bezos was not only hyper-focused on creating an outstanding customer experience, but he was fastidious about hiring the strongest employees possible, Wired reported in a 1999 profile on Bezos.
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The hire of the detail-oriented, fastidious Berman also indicates that O'Rourke plans to emulate Obama in building a technical campaign machine under the surface of what he hopes will feel like a movement.
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I'm fastidious about avoiding interest and late fees, and don't feel guilty canceling high annual fee cards once I've collected my bonus, thus I rarely hesitate to jump on a good sign-up offer.
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Technically, it was that, but she was also expected to file up to 50 to 60 descriptions of those handbags a day into a fastidious Excel spreadsheet that she would soon learn to dread.
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Certainly compared with other British video artists of his generation (think of Douglas Gordon, say, or Jeremy Deller), Mr. McQueen has been fastidious about what happens to his art films after the final cut.
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You CAN stick to the tighter schedule — and to be honest, fastidious oil changes in certain cars can help with resale value down the road, as some buyers want records to fussy prior ownership.
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A charcoal, "Study for 'The Poor Fisherman,'" has an uncharacteristic graphic freedom, while a rendering of a man's arm is a tour de force of fastidious description and shading, and equally out of character.
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He reminds me of other quintessential fastidious teen characters, like Brian Krakow of "My So-Called Life" or Alex on "Modern Family" — high-achieving rule-followers who sometimes feel let down by society's decrepitude.
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Not every company is fastidious about making sure its products are free of the banned compound THC, and some testing procedures may not be able to determine whether a substance is CBD or THC.
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There's a virgin, played by Bebe as a fastidious African princess; there's a needy girl, played by Aja; there's a fake girl, played by Trixie; and there's an oddly flirtatious host, played by RuPaul himself.
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A fastidious recreation of the show's Central Perk coffee shop set, the new toy comes as part of Lego Ideas, a fan-fueled think tank that allows Lego customers to submit ideas for future products.
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In Behr's fastidious and exhaustive essay, he supplements Rocca's depiction of loafing youth with tales of pizza vendors who'd set up tables on Neapolitan streets to hawk small pizzas or individual slices of larger pies.
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Those like Lionel Trilling, Susan Sontag and the older Saul Bellow recoiled in fastidious repugnance from its vulgar materialism and anti-intellectualism, turning back to Europe — or rather, upward, to European high culture — for refuge.
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And while many in the Democratic Party have been frustrated at how slowly the Iowa caucus results have been reported, I can confirm that the fastidious attention to releasing the right results is well-grounded.
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Paying fastidious attention to the minutiae of moods, appetites and sleep habits (or those of a pet) is an activity long enjoyed by the rich and underoccupied, from Edith Wharton heroines to the Kardashian sisters.
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She was known to be fastidious; when she once visited the port city of Incheon as president, officials had to install a new toilet specifically for her, according to a former mayor of the city.
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What sets Vogt apart is a fastidious attention to the logistics of how people — and companies — will interact with these cars, said Nabeel Hyatt, an investor with Spark Capital, which led Cruise's first financing round.
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On Friday evening, the 36-year-old former actress arrived with her mother, Doria Ragland, at Cliveden House Hotel wearing a navy blue Roland Mouret dress (as identified by the fastidious Markle style blog Meghan's Mirror).
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A different life might have turned out worse; in any case, no hypothetical alternative can outdo the one you have, with all its nuances and richness, "like the fastidious excess of a peasant scene by Bruegel".
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Nicknamed "Spreadsheet Phil" for his low-key and fastidious style as finance minister, Hammond campaigned for Britain to stay in the European Union ahead of the 2016 referendum, although he was long regarded as a euroskeptic.
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Despite my fastidious efforts, many experiments were ruined, either because the tissue culture plate became contaminated with bacteria or mould, or because a rogue cell from another experiment slipped into the confines of the petri dish.
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"On our college campuses, your folks are reading the labels, they won't put any sugar in their body, they don't eat carbs anymore, and they're very, very fastidious about what goes into their body," Conway said.
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They could not have been more different, Holt points out — Gödel so fastidious in his white linen suit, Einstein with his "pillow-combed hair" and enormous trousers (Holt is wonderful on the self-presentation of scientists).
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Instead, after fastidious internet research, I had decided I would switch to what the online sleep community refers to as a "biphasic schedule": sleeping from midnight to 4:30 AM, then napping from noon 'til half one.
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Action planet Mars clashes with your planetary ruler Jupiter, the planet of growth, and there is something impulsive and over-the-top happening here—a quick and fastidious leap toward something that can make you look good.
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But in a neighborhood that regards itself as the fastidious keeper of an American architectural aesthetic, many residents are worried that the house is a harbinger of a transformation of taste that they had hoped to avoid.
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Her experience exemplifies the fastidious approach taken to combat the outbreak in the city-state - which has included using police investigators and security cameras to help track and quarantine more than 230,4.53 people, and won international praise.
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Berlin is home not only to the Bundesarchiv, where the fastidious, half-mad files of the Nazi Party leadership can be found, but also to the Deutsche Dienstelle, where many of the German military's records are kept.
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Fixating on the iconography of Nazism—the jackboots, the swastikas, the fastidious SS officers twirling brightly polished canes (thanks, "SS-GB")—risks fencing off fascism to a corner of central Europe in the middle of the 20th century.
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That led to culturally high stakes for cassava cultivation, and informed how attentively and tenderly cassava was grown—the fields had to be organized, because the legend said that cassava were neat and fastidious when they were people.
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Hungry he may well have been (according to another friend, the composer could afford neither to eat nor to clothe himself), but "desperate" is a word almost impossible to associate with this most fastidious and discriminating of composers.
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They were too fastidious, and too smart, to discard the poise and economy of Conceptualism in favor of some inchoate, spontaneous "self-expression" — the construction of the self, after all, was one of the things they were pondering.
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Just as the paper runs Astead Herndon's incredibly astute reports from the trail alongside the very Cletus safaris to which they're a necessary corrective, some Times journalists and desks are fastidious about linking and crediting, and some aren't.
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Ishiguro began to gain attention in the 1980s for works such as "A Pale View of the Hills" and won global fame for "The Remains of the Day," a story of a fastidious and repressed butler in postwar Britain.
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While the Orthodox have grown more fastidious about making sure the products they consume are rigorously kosher, they also increasingly take notice of foods popular in the wider culture, adapting French, Indian, Italian and steakhouse dishes to kosher specifications.
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"At one point I even thought I'd do it as a novel," Scurr told Cambridge News last December, "but because he was so fastidious about the truth, I found it very difficult to start making things up about him."
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This fastidious portrayal of a wizened farmer and his deflated-looking female companion (wife or daughter?) standing before a white board and batten house with a Gothic-style, second-story window, was hailed as a truly, purely American art.
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As for the method, suffice it to say that Mr. Wells is extremely fastidious and has perfected a bucket system that is a concert of Howard Hughes-like moves involving two garbage bags, antibacterial wipes, gel alcohol and water.
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The final proof was read by no less than seven expert proofreaders, lest the slightest tremble in the tail of a comma or the faintest cast in a capital "I" offend the fastidious eyes of the Great American Public.
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Turns out that the famously tidy Germans aren't so fastidious when it comes to cleaning up after grilling, and towns across Germany are enlisting "rubbish scouts" to help prevent barbecue trash from piling up in city parks and other public spaces.
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But as the offense of navel-gazing has evolved to something more like tender and fastidious navel-grooming (I would know — I once had the most well-tended navel on the prairie!), I wonder if there's something being missed, here.
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The distinction between the two comes down to a piece of paper: Breeders who are fastidious about documenting the bloodline of their dogs participate in registries that guarantee parentage, but not all registries agree on a name for this particular dog.
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And there are the skilled underdogs, determined to break out of the pack: Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a fastidious moderate, said she has watched the crowded Republican primary debates of 2012 and 2016 to soak in the highly fluid format.
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Arts and Crafts The style of Peter Korn's lovely, patient and fastidious ode to craft, "Why We Make Things and Why It Matters," mirrors the technical precision and style he has used in his career as a furniture maker and teacher.
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Saban, after all, worked under Bill Belichick, the famously fastidious N.F.L. coach, from 1991 to 1994, and just last year, Belichick stunned much of the N.F.L. when he selected a long snapper with the New England Patriots' fifth-round draft pick.
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Grizzled bureaucrats, fastidious parents and cool young things fill them to hear the latest wunderkind—among whose number, in recent decades, have been Lang Lang, Li Yundi and Yuja Wang (pictured)—play some beautifully judged Bach or fiendishly hard Rachmaninov.
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" A slower approach was something of a godsend to Kinlaw, previously accustomed to less fastidious methods: "It was such a treat to chisel through something so mindfully; I've had way too many experiences with video that felt rushed due to equipment and rental.
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The more fastidious and reliable the ultra-black, the more broadly useful it will prove to be — in solar power generators, radiometers, industrial baffles and telescopes primed to detect the faintest light fluxes as a distant planet traverses the face of its star.
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David Kinch (season four), a fastidious chef who likes to daub his composed dishes with delicate flowers, recounts his horror of seeing a six-foot snapping turtle slaughtered when he was a 16-year-old novice at the New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace.
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Because Virgos are known as "the most fastidious sign," which "reads the fine print and hones in on small details," Broadly has asked this detail-oriented polymath about how to organize the goings-on of the slightly messier signs (read: every other sign).
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Triple Oscar winner Day-Lewis plays fastidious 1950s London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock whose self-centered life is disrupted when his latest muse, Alma (played by newcomer Vicky Krieps), falls in love with him and matters take an unexpected and sinister twist.
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Above all, though, she's stern and fastidious when it comes to her work as an advocate for black women—leading the core members of her group in self-defense training sessions, charity work in the community, and outreach to the at-risk youths of Dallas.
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This might be what's happening in the Netflix series "Russian Doll," in which a loutish white software engineer (the Harry) learns that her fate is conjoined, via a kind of wormhole (I know!), with that of a fastidious, depressed young black yuppie (her Sally).
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He studies Swift's literary motivations and professional contradictions: a man who disavowed political parties but became a Tory operative; a fastidious, conservative priest who became "king of the mob," rebelling against the established order with satire that delved into the stink of daily life.
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"On our college campuses, your folks are reading the labels, they won't put any sugar in their body, they don't eat carbs anymore, and they're very, very fastidious about what goes into their body," Conway said at a youth forum hosted by the White House.
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But their fastidious efforts to act like "acceptable," upstanding Western leaders led them, even if unwittingly, to perpetuate political habits ingrained during white rule—favoring the interests of the already-wealthy, spouting high-flown language about principles that resulted in too little for the country's poorest.
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The contradictions continue: Now this champion of fastidious French tradition is returning to the United States in a partnership with Stephen Starr, the protean Philadelphia-based restaurateur who has the reputation, fair or not, of being more a blockbuster crowd-pleaser than a mentor to culinary brainiacs.
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I can't tell you how pleased I was tonight to see the return of Majid Javadi, the fastidious and ferocious butcher of Season 3, who became a C.I.A. plant in Tehran after Carrie and Saul threatened to make his history of embezzlement known to the Iranian government.
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Kitchen criticism is a term that should be revived, because its unlovely first word might have the merit of persuading the fastidious to make themselves scarce until they can accept that there is an initial level of manufacture at which the potatoes have to be peeled.
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Leslie Knope refuses to be beaten by Jeremy Jamm (spoiler alert: it is strongly hinted that Knope becomes President after the end of Parks and Rec.) Even Election's Tracy Flick, whose name has become a byword for precocious, fastidious, no-fun politicking, is a winner in the end.
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After two years of fastidious trial and error, Young Rival have released a video for the song "Elevator," in which every frame of a digital video was reproduced on Oki Data Turboline 320 dot matrix printers before being scanned back into a computer to create an epic moving image.
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Specifically, Corellium serves up what it touts as a perfect digital facsimile of a broad range of Apple's market-leading devices—recreating with fastidious attention to detail not just the way the operating system and applications appear visually to bona fide purchasers, but also the underlying computer code.
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The story of Jackson's sad and difficult career is told with more vividness and in some ways with more intimacy in an earlier biography, Judy Oppenheimer's "Private Demons," which came out in 1988, and which Franklin, though a careful researcher and fastidious about sources, never mentions in the text.
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Mr. Hetfield howls his tidings of looming catastrophe over a fastidious, fine-tuned thrust and roar; Mr. Ulrich's drums, Mr. Hetfield's rhythm guitar and Robert Trujillo's bass hurtle through riff after riff, fast and hard, behind Mr. Hetfield's muscular growl and Kirk Hammett's screaming, wriggling lead guitar solos.
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Everyone who works on the show is incredibly fastidious, to the point where Peter Ackerman — the writer of "Clark's Place" — wanted to include a Trivial Pursuit question he found online about I Love Lucy, but cut it when he learned it wouldn't have been in Stan's March 1983 edition.
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And insisting that blood is thicker and all that, he wants to be put up in the fancy Manhattan apartment David shares with his sleek and fastidious wife, Molly (Annie Parisse), and his son, Jeremy (a very good Alex Wolff) — a freshman at Brown, home for the Christmas holidays.
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As the fastidious Southerner standing before her carefully laid out his vision of social justice, my mother listened rapt, feeling as if he were speaking not just to her but from her, putting into words the inchoate jumble of thoughts that had been stirring in her mind for years.
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Coleman is a hyper-realist, who not only paints every element in fastidious detail but also crams every picture with data, and produces an image of all-over intensity which, given his characteristic subject-matter, can make the work at once a scrumptious meal and hard to stomach.
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Many houses have thrived this way—Random House under Bennett Cerf (he was the one always on TV) and the shy Donald Klopfer, for example, and, for a while, anyway, the British house owned by the glad-handing, social-climbing George Weidenfeld and the cautious, fastidious Nigel Nicolson.
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They're not exactly the most fastidious eaters—they devour everything from every manner of insect to other birds (and their eggs) to whatever they can scavenge from parking lots and garbage cans—and you don't want that stuff coming out the other end of those birds and on to your car.
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Many people would be able to blow off a defect like this:User submitted photo of stuck pixel, IMGUR But, for others that little flaw might be just the kind of thing that nags at their fastidious nature and makes it impossible to spend hours staring at the relatively expensive little screen.
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I mean, be reasonable: How often, as Derek Jeter's retirement approached in 2014, were we made to endure the squealing ecstasies of television announcers too bedazzled by the fastidious delicacy of his dainty coupé-chassé en tournant on grounders to his right to notice his minuscule range or flimsy arm?
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Richard Florida, a professor at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto and the author of "The New Urban Crisis," cautions against reflexively dismissing these fastidious private developments, and romanticizing New York City's grittier past, even if it was chockablock with authentic "third places" like seedy bars and diners.
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The incredible stress aside, industry experts noted the financial burden of retaining a third star — including maintaining a refined décor and employing a small army of fastidious staff — at a time when French cuisine has been democratized and many French people do not want to spend a fortune on dinner.
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A White House official said Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general who is known for his fastidious nature, wanted Scaramucci removed from his new role as the communications director because he did not think he was disciplined and had burned his credibility after a salacious interview he gave The New Yorker magazine.
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FLORENCE, Italy — For his debut at Pitti Uomo, the twice-yearly men's wear trade fair that draws 1,222 brands and accounts for an overwhelming portion (some say as much as 80 percent) of the sales volume in this particular and expanding part of the fashion business, Matteo Martini dressed with fastidious care.
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Viewers of the film who have managed to tear their eyes away from Day-Lewis—he has won three Academy Awards for Best Actor, and is nominated again, for his performance as Reynolds Woodcock, a fastidious couturier—may have noticed Glasgow, who appears in two scenes in his role as Nigel Cheddar-Goode.
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" After the years Ng spent laboring over "Everything I Never Told You" — part of her fastidious process included making a panoramic chart on the walls of her office with index cards and color-coded string — the sale of her debut moved swiftly: "The whole thing, start to finish, took just under two weeks.
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Every element of The Night Of drips with fastidious quality, from the perfectly framed shots (mostly courtesy of series co-creator Steven Zaillian, though The Theory of Everything director James Marsh drops by for an episode) to the quietly literary scripts by crime novelist and series co-creator Richard Price (with occasional assists from Zaillian).
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Me: I don't want to write a whole fastidious first-person thing about itIt feels too...on-the-noseBut I like the idea of showing a glimpse of how I REALLY figure out how I feel about sex stuffWhich as often as anything is talking with youHim: That's a good column ideaMe: Haha thanks.
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In the course of questioning on this matter, he also did note this, fastidious as ever: With a day of testimony from Dr. Ford and himself scheduled for tomorrow, and a vote on his fitness to be presented to the full senate for confirmation scheduled for Friday, here's to hoping he takes another couple Ls.
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On separate composer portraits released by Etcetera, works by Louis Andriessen, Theo Verbey and Otto Ketting benefit from the conductor's fastidious approach, as does Tristan Keuris's Symphony in D. Most bracing is the Norwegian Rolf Wallin's enormously powerful "Act" (Ondine), a 10-minute battering ram recorded with the Oslo Philharmonic that rumbles along with pounding ferocity.
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Fletcher" is lit up by flashes of acute observation—the fastidious way, for example, that a character who has just chowed down on hot wings pulls a napkin from a dispenser and, instead of wiping his face, "unfolded it very carefully and laid it over his plate, like he was covering his bones with a blanket.
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In fact, Viking warriors were known at the time not just for their war-time savagery but for being extra-fastidious in their appearance, combing their hair every day, bathing once a week, and changing their clothes frequently, all as a means of seducing the married women and daughters of the noblemen whose lands they conquered.
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The fastidious Italian TV crew, bent on extracting every bit of seismic drama, had a cameraman focused on one very slowly advancing tongue of lava while the sound engineer lowered his boom mike over its leading edge, capturing every crick-crick-crick of the lava as it fell over itself, advancing at about an inch an hour.
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Directed by veteran Doctor Who director Douglas Mackinnon, it's a funny, warm treat that fans of the book will find familiar and endearing, from the strong ensemble cast — Michael Sheen in particular shines as the fusty, fastidious angel — to the slightly kitschy production design, which flits between a litany of pleasantly clichéd English aesthetics, from P.G. Wodehouse to Harry Potter.
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Of course, I'm fully aware that I'm entirely the same person with or without makeup, that I'm just as good at my job with my bare face revealed, and (hopefully) just as attractive to my boyfriend, but having given up my fastidious makeup routine in the past couple of years, I've realized that subconsciously it has made me feel slightly differently about myself.
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Her fastidious commitment to the curation of every aspect of every album has never faltered, making the exhibition both a cohesive look at the Grammy-nominated artist's diverse oeuvre, which calls upon fashion, film, architecture, and the visual arts to complement music, and a forum for the then-unreleased material that accompanied Björk's eighth studio album, the cerebral and deeply visceral masterpiece, Vulnicura.
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According to The Washington Post, Bolton's mustache might have cost him the secretary of state job because President-elect Donald Trump is fastidious about the grooming of his employees: Several of Trump's associates said they thought that John R. Bolton's brush-like mustache was one of the factors that handicapped the bombastic former United Nations ambassador in the sweepstakes for secretary of state.
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At once babyish and solemn, Platt is 25-years-old but easily passes for a fussy and fastidious kid, his puppy fat and cartoon eyes making what ought to be unwatchably repellent—a character fueled by ruthlessness, self-certainty, and an attitude towards his immediate peers that verges on the sociopathic—bearable for a full season of high-voltage and high-volume television.
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The movie was adored for its endearing, if ungainly interaction between its two main characters: a fastidious, erudite African American pianist (Mahershala Ali, who won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar in two years Sunday playing Don Shirley) and the coarse, big-hearted white nightclub bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) chauffeuring him on a concert tour through the racially segregated South of the early 1960s.
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Otherwise fastidious news outlets keep making unthinkable blunders, and their one common denominator is that they always involve attacks against President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump conversation with foreign leader part of complaint that led to standoff between intel chief, Congress: report Pelosi: Lewandowski should have been held in contempt 'right then and there' Trump to withdraw FEMA chief nominee: report MORE or conservatives.
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With their fastidious scripts, loopy erudition and pitch-perfect sets (from the rumpled sofas of a Park Avenue living room in "Metropolitan" to the Greek Revival village that was the fictitious college of "Damsels in Distress," out in 2012), a Stillman movie presented such a particular worldview — the inner lives of the over-educated — that he was quickly and inevitably dubbed the WASP Woody Allen.
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Before joining the Momofuku stable, she worked in the formal and highly fastidious kitchens of Daniel, Le Bec-Fin and Per Se. She later returned to South Korea, where she had lived until she was 12, for advanced studies at the Seoul restaurant Gaon and at the kitchen of the Chunjinam hermitage, presided over by Jeong Kwan, certainly the most celebrated cooking Zen nun in her country.
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"There's a lot of hope involved," said Timothy Smith, 48, who lives in a three-bedroom house in West Orange, N.J., with his wife and two daughters and has a fastidious leaf-management system that involves a tarp, a hefty rake and headphones, so he can entertain himself listening to Bone Pool Radio, a local station, as he creates a neat leaf pile on the street.
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Included in the 15-minute film are check-ins with Liam Neeson and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, back on the Thames park bench; Keira Knightley, again answering her door to Andrew Lincoln and his cue cards; Rowan Atkinson as the world's most fastidious gift-wrapper; Bill Nighy as rock idiot Billy Mack; Colin Firth and Lucia Moniz and a car full of their kids; Laura Linney as the lovesick Sarah, now home in the U.S.; plus cameos by Patrick Dempsey and Kate Moss.
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FX's spy drama is a meticulous recreation of '80s-era espionage, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as a pair of undercover Soviet agents posing as an American married couple living just outside Washington, DC. By way of a canny combination of fastidious fact-checking and creator Joe Weisberg's past experience working for the CIA, The Americans has become a valuable portrait of the personal stakes and grueling work inherent to the world of undercover intelligence — a portrait that remains just as relevant today.
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