It's kind of persnickety, like an audiophile would think it sounds better.
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Kanye West is famously persnickety about just about everything in his life.
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This is the kind of distinction that only the most persnickety lawyer could love.
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More prosaic answers included high carrying costs, bad tenants and persnickety co-op boards.
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" He said she was just being persnickety "because you know it pushes my buttons.
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To be persnickety about it, the problem here is that Clinton is somewhat herself.
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The results, beginning in 1969, are like violent collisions of persnickety objectivity and mad abandon.
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Mr. Lopez is flanked by the expected comic foils: a hulking sidekick, a persnickety neighbor.
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In this case, the drifter is Josh, a persnickety, self-abnegating student living in Melbourne.
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"The persnickety rep at @FisherPrice who thought this was a great idea should be demoted."
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There are aspects of my personality that are a little persnickety, I guess one could say.
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If you take the long view of history, it makes sense we're more persnickety eaters these days.
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The persnickety "guest" also mentioned that cups of tea could have been provided in a more timely manner.
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I may be one of the most persnickety survey respondents around, but there is a reason for that.
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But we weren't always so persnickety; we used to buy pickles or crackers or penny nails from bins.
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The buyer of a house will encounter no persnickety co-op board to scrutinize his or her finances.
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CBD is also persnickety when it comes to sun exposure, so clear packaging will hurt its shelf life.
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But, "as people started getting more persnickety with each other, the leaders didn't tell them to stop," he said.
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Maybe because I had tried journaling before, and my persnickety attitudes towards handwriting and grammar had scuttled that effort.
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Many privately owned lots have other obstacles, including persnickety landowners, tax liens or other hurdles that limit potential building.
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The law isn't the so-called problem being addressed here, though; it's all that persnickety speech outside the political establishment.
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A nihilist is above you and your persnickety arguments in the same way that Trump fancies himself above the law.
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What makes Mr. David's persnickety character so bracing is that he rarely cringes himself after making a social faux pas.
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AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I MENTIONED, ALL HAD THEIR PERSNICKETY ISSUES, BUT THEY WERE ALL INCREDIBLY COMPETITIVE, INCLUDING ELON.
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The Pixel 3 seems to have persistent and persnickety RAM management issues (and a positively doofy notch on the XL model).
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But Mexico was persnickety and leveled yet again deep into stoppage time thanks to a header off of a corner kick. Hoooweee.
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But they will probably also be right, because a Cheese Plate Person is generally as lovable and persnickety as cheese plates themselves.
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They make deals, unencumbered by caviling aides and persnickety diplomats, as he and Mr. Trump will be when they meet in Helsinki.
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Just 15 years ago, when he was perceived as precocious but persnickety, he was ridiculed by crowds at American major golf championships.
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The difference isn't huge — we'll have an extra day to deal with by 227 — but it's enough to bother some persnickety calendar mavens.
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The remote was also somewhat persnickety in registering button presses, requiring somewhat precise aim at the speaker (which houses the active input indicator LEDs).
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In July, the task force issued a report, but did not release minutes or reference materials—the persnickety documentation that usually accompanies government reports.
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Cap's earnestness and discipline meant he'd never be sleekly persnickety, like Iron Man; nor empathetically emo, like Spider-Man; nor morally murky, like the Punisher.
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Rosemary's Baby (1968) garnered a Supporting Actress win for persnickety Satanist Ruth Gordon, but no other wins, which seems nearly impossible to believe in retrospect.
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The conversation has been reframed to be about persnickety details over what constitutes a dangerous, person-killing gun versus one with a somehow nonlethal use.
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The work is earnestly charming, but this endearing feel is achieved because it's persnickety in its material details, layered in its meanings, and visually bountiful.
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Emily, a Jack Russell terrier with a persnickety temper but a heart of gold, didn't run with me — she couldn't because of a heart murmur.
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I mean, not for nothing, but these are public companies that have investors who get persnickety if they don't a high margin and high sales numbers.
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Bartlett's Dom and Weedman's Doris are underused in this finale, while Richie's boyfriend Brady (Chris Perfetti) is very much a persnickety caricature of progressive gay men.
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For the more persnickety: yes, Drew Barrymore's SoCal suburbanite Sheila Hammond is technically a zombie, but she shows no sign of zombie physical decay or mental impairment.
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"We're really proud of our persnickety spelling system," he said, using a word that might challenge most Americans to spell correctly but probably not this year's contestants.
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As I soon discovered, I live on what some of my neighbors call "the complainer floor," where a board member and her persnickety roommate complain about everything.
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Dr. Drever's colleagues described him as a genius tinkerer, a persnickety scientific Mozart who spewed new ideas every day, sometimes leaving confusion and indecision in his wake.
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Everyone in New York has heard about co-op boards that proved to be the most persnickety of the many many-headed hydras exerting authority over daily life.
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At the same time, the province's French roots run deep, with superb cheese makers and corner bakeries serving baguettes that would make even the most persnickety Parisian proud.
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As the daughter and granddaughter of two artists who are very persnickety about what constitutes as "real art," I'm reluctant to reveal my love of paint-by-number kits.
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The story kicks off when Krystal enters the world of FAM, in her own persnickety, unique way, to exact revenge on the hawks who pushed her family into untenable poverty.
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I don't want to get too persnickety or haughty about this, but I do find it ridiculous that an $8+ billion company isn't able to get its basic services correct.
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The actual test, still in sporadic use, takes a more persnickety, box-ticking approach to the human personality, less magical psychoanalytic Tarot cards and more Myers Briggs tests with splats.
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At the same time, she becomes indispensable because only she can tame the moody, persnickety Chuck (John Michael Higgins), who anchors the newscast along with the airheaded Portia (Nicole Richie).
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They take a lot of creative license — and rightly so, Norse literature leaves a lot of gaps to fill — but nonetheless it will satiate even the most persnickety of Norse nerds.
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When Cruise and GM are ready to start building the Origin, they'll face another obstacle in the seriously persnickety federal rules governing, in minute detail, how vehicles are designed and built.
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When she mediates a sophomoric conflict between two Axe employees (a brash trader called "Dollar Bill" and the firm's persnickety head of compliance, Ari Spyros), she realizes how familiar the feud feels.
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Both Don Johnson and the great Udo Kier are memorably repulsive as a sadistic warden and a slimy go-between, and Fred Melamed is chillingly hilarious as a persnickety prison intake officer.
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D'Agata, who had apparently never encountered a fact that he was unwilling to fudge in the name of art, refused to give an inch; Fingal pressed on, growing more persnickety with each dispute.
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I know, I know, the grid did have some persnickety names — ONEAL, IVAN, URBAN and REN should be the lot of them — but I don't think any of them created a sticking point.
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Masafumi is laid-back in ways Sophia is not (she's fussy about place mats, cloth napkins and sit-down meals), and he's persnickety in ways she finds ridiculous (he dry cleans his socks).
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At the same time, the word was also a frivolous way of comparing decidedly nongenocidal behavior — like using "whom" correctly or being persnickety about etiquette — to the best-known example of human wickedness.
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Fifty percent Spotify discounts are available for cash-strapped students, while persnickety audiophiles can pay a fairly modest premium to Tidal to ensure the highest-quality sound streams back into their high-tech eardrums.
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Max Bishop was Camera Eye because he was persnickety about borderline pitches; and Christy Mathewson was called Big Six because—OK, things break down there; no one knows why Mathewson was called Big Six.
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Lisa Eisner, who has done jewelry collaborations with Mr. Ford and inspired the Alessia character in his 2016 film, "Nocturnal Animals," said that he doesn't expect everyone to be as persnickety as he is.
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On the dark marital comedy "Catastrophe," the persnickety Irish teacher Sharon, in the wake of #MeToo, is perpetually infuriated: she gripes about misogyny, complains about her husband's bro-ish new boss, and sees sexism everywhere.
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Those looking to move there, though, will need to have deep cash reserves, not to mention unimpeachable credentials: The building prohibits financed purchases, and its persnickety co-op board is notorious for rejecting buyers, even billionaires.
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As far as he's concerned, there will always be those in government who are steadfastly against an open fireworks exchange, keeping the market fussy and capricious, a million different irritable subdivisions acting as a persnickety whole.
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There were things black people just weren't supposed to do, like get caught on the wrong side of County Line Road after dark or use the word "persnickety," and Junior did both of those things, among others.
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As she works the case, Sister Jane, the charming protagonist of this mystery novel, is surrounded by a number of memorable characters: a wise old gray fox; a hound at the top of his game; and a persnickety calico.
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But on the same day at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, the atmosphere will be bittersweet as Giants fans could bid goodbye to Tom Coughlin, the persnickety old-school coach who twice led undervalued Giants teams to upset Super Bowl victories.
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Jimmy Carter alienated congressional Democrats, especially House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.), with his persnickety, condescending style, and his inability to develop a working relationship with members of his own party would make stiffly his ability to move a legislative agenda.
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But the ROK's liberal president, Moon Jae In, was too caught up in celebrating what seems to be a breakthrough for his long-cherished engagement posture toward the North, to get persnickety over the details of the flight ranges of missiles.
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Lau says that, within the Chinese Zodiac, the Dog is a true companion, associated with loyalty, honesty, intelligence, and a strong sense of right and wrong, as opposed to the Rooster, which has a tendency to be demanding and a tad persnickety.
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November 8 Very loosely based on a perennially popular Dr. Seuss picture-book, the animated series "Green Eggs and Ham" features the voices of Adam Devine as the enthusiastic gourmand Sam-I-Am, and Michael Douglas as the persnickety Guy-Am-I.
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One hotel manager began walking outside to get from one end of the building to the other, to avoid passing through the lobby, where persnickety widows would invariably be positioned on the divans, ready to greet him with a barrage of complaints.
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It was obvious they weren't talking about literally every man in context, and it was clear these men were butting in on conversations about gender to derail them with a pointlessly persnickety objection rather than dealing with the substantive conversation about sexism.
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It's not just that your games are saved to the cloud so you can start where you left off on any console — it's that you can log into another console and have access to your games (though there is some persnickety "primary console" stuff to deal with sometimes).
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While the Trump administration thinks the public and press are too persnickety to be allowed in, the justices are not shy in professing their belief that public is too dumb to understand their primary public exercises, oral argument in the 70 or so cases it hears each year.
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Rex Tillerson, the incoming secretary of state, comes from ExxonMobil, which is perhaps the most cynical corporation in the country—it treats itself as a global company, not an American one, and treats its home country as one of many persnickety countries it has to work with to make money.
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Here's a few of them: There were many more important things to worry about than the 21st season of South Park, but longtime fans were weary of where the once-marginalizing, now pronouncedly mainstream bellwether for what we joke about and how we joke about it would go in an ever-persnickety 2017.
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Playing the recurring role of Dr. Culber had been "a perfect fit" for Cruz, he said, in part because he got to make TV history as one half of the first major same-sex love story on a Star Trek series, along with fellow out actor Anthony Rapp, who is part of the main cast as the persnickety scientist Lt. Paul Stamets.
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Whatever needs to be said will be blurted out by Wednesday, when Mercury enters its domicile, Virgo, at 10:39 PM. Starting Wednesday evening, three planets will be in the signs that they rule (their "domiciles"), making their energies more prominent: communication planet Mercury is in persnickety Virgo; love and money planet Venus is in socialite Libra; and taskmaster Saturn is in workaholic Capricorn.
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" In fact, the understated period — the punctuation equivalent of stagehands who dress in black to be less conspicuous — may have suddenly taken on meanings all its own Increasingly, says Professor Crystal, whose books include "Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation," the period is being deployed as a weapon to show irony, syntactic snark, insincerity, even aggression If the love of your life just canceled the candlelit, six-course, home-cooked dinner you have prepared, you are best advised to include a period when you respond "Fine." to show annoyance "Fine" or "Fine!
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I was searching the book's index for something else when I came across " CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES ": character : refusal to accept blame, xii, 7, 11, 19923, 43, 270, 335; self-doubt, xii, 11, 16, 90, 153-4; disloyalty, xiii-xiv, 4-19793, 13, 14, 26-7, 51, 96-7, 162, 210, 43, 335, 337; victims of, xiii-xiv; 50-1, 93-4, 96-7, 210, 463, 310-11; dislike of criticism/dissenting views, xiv, 9, 11, 46, 52, 55, 74-5, 19973; scapegoats, 7, 14, 18, 129, 162; self-pity, 7-8, 12-14, 20033, 36, 38, 41, 43, 67-8, 243, 257; intolerance/bad temper, 9, 20093, 13, 14, 29, 49, 52, 125, 335; sense of superiority, 11, 43, 20183, 58, 76; grudges, 13, 14, 49, 335; selfishness, 14, 27, 62, 20163, 210, 230, 319, 24; resentment of Diana, 246-21997, 22003; derogatory comments about Diana, 22009, 22018, 19813; on himself, 21981-22017, 21959-8; discourteousness, 52, 88, 126, 138, 314-20173, 322 Bower portrays Charles as a persnickety rank-puller, who, apparently, once had his own bedroom furniture sent to a friend's house in advance of a weekend stay.
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64 summed it up as "harmless claptrap", while CVG Magazine commented on the "extremeley basic" graphics. Computer Gamer praised the intuitiveness of the game's parser, as opposed to other games that require a persnickety combination of words.
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"Although no substantiation is offered for HENDRIK HERTZBERG'S claim on The New Yorker's new Web site that EUSTACE TILLEY, the persnickety snob created by REA IRVIN, is one of the most successful and recognizable corporate trademarks in the history of hype, Mr. Tilley does have a lengthy curriculum vitae. He appeared on The New Yorker's first cover on Feb. 21, 1925, and each February thereafter until 1994."The Many Faces of Eustace Tilley The New Yorker.
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Hayes, in real life an intelligent, well-groomed and articulate man, was often cast as a grizzled codger who uttered phrases such as "consarn it", "yer durn tootin'", "dadgummit", "durn persnickety female", and "young whippersnapper." From 1935 to 1939, Hayes played the part of Windy Halliday, the humorous "codger" sidekick of Hopalong Cassidy (played by William Boyd). In 1939, Hayes left that role at Paramount Pictures, in a dispute over his salary. and moved to Republic Pictures.
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In addition to his bravura dancing and dramatic sensitivity, Renvall was also an accomplished choreographer. He made his choreographic debut with an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet at The Aspen Ballet Festival in 1984. Since then, Renvall has choreographed an array of ballets and other dance works including Tango, which premiered at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. His other works include Persnickety, Between the Lines and Perpetual Cycles for New Jersey Ballet and Cinderella for the Alabama Ballet/Ballet South.
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Crow was convinced, although she did have doubts about the reception her "crossover" would generate. She recalls: “I’ve seen other kind of pop-oriented people come over to the format and kinda try to capitalize on the loyalty of the country fan base, and I’m super-persnickety about it.”, but considering the directions pop/rock and country music had shifted to in the past decade, it seemed like a natural transition for Crow, whose career has already spanned 20 years.
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He despairs (even crying) at the end of almost all of his scenes. He often gets kicked out or yelled at when he is using his temper on another Mr. Man or Little Miss (such as Mr. Messy, Mr. Rude and Little Miss Naughty) and he has terrible classes. In the US and UK Versions, he is voiced by Joey D'Auria (credited as Joseph J. Terry) and Rob Rackstraw. In the first season of the show he was named Mr. Persnickety (Mr.
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Eventually, Moffett moved to a new post at Oberlin College where from 1979-1990 he occupied the position of Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries. During this time, he embraced the emergence of technology, being the first library to install the online catalog of the Online Computer Library Center.Baumann 2003, p. 158 He was also very invested in taking steps to make the library the heart of the Oberlin campus. Much to his colleagues’ dismay Moffett was well known to be persnickety about furniture placement in order to create an inviting environment for library patrons.
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And from the accumulation of these local, active, persnickety freedoms, is born the most efficient counterweight against the claims of the central government, even if it were supported by an impersonal, collective will."A History of Decentralization , Earth Institute of Columbia University website, accessed February 4, 2013. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), influential anarchist theorist wrote: "All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
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