In return, it should be said, he demanded the same level of fastidious professionalism from collaborators, and a hallmark of his work is the outstanding quality of his fellow workers.
He is fastidious, he has got an eye for detail, margins matter to him.
A neat dresser, fastidious diner and devotee of wine and champagne, Arthur bought a property near Grasse, in Provence, and visited it frequently, preferably when he could watch English football on the satellite dish with a link provided, he claimed, by "a man in a Leicester attic".
And yet, at the same time, there is a certain fastidious abstraction; a lawyer's critical distance that for the most part will not allow him to indulge in the kind of tub-thumping that can win you high office, and then keep you in it.
He kept fastidious records, registering his name and address changes, lodging tax returns.
Margaret Thatcher's legacy is divisive, but never that bad within her party and she was a fastidious respecter of party procedures.
And what would the Sunnis in Iraq's centre gain once partition cut them off from Iraq's oil riches?As for America being less fastidious about democracy, this sounds commendably realistic.
The Chinese, less fastidious than most Westerners about human rights or contracts, have been most active.In this section Unloved for trying to keep the peace A beacon of faiths Half horrid, half hopeful A ruling party that is unshockable An alternative to violence?
A man who cheated on one of his three wives while seeking to impeach Mr Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, and divorced another when she was in hospital with cancer, is bound to repel the more fastidious sort of voter.
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Fiddling with the little brushes, fine powders and sticky tape can test the patience of the most fastidious crime-scene investigator.
