They have evidently worked scrupulously on blending and balance, and as befits their time of life, they boil over with an edge-of-the-seat eagerness.
More than that, it seemed sure to harden Mr. Biden's image in political circles as politically undisciplined, an image he had been working scrupulously to change in what has emerged as a long-term political rehabilitation project for him.
Although the body is the primary medium, and the work is scrupulously choreographed to the last, puzzling moments, it could almost certainly be performed by nondancers.
"Only his care," he wrote during the Seven Years' War, "his untiring work, his scrupulously just policies, his great and admirable thriftiness and the strict discipline he introduced into the army which he himself had created, made possible the achievements I have so far accomplished".
His spare time is spent watching old black-and-white videos of an exotic TV cook called Gala (Arsinée Khanjian doing Fanny Craddock with an outrageous French accent), whose work he scrupulously emulates in his rather grand kitchen to the strains of sentimental 1950s ballads like 'My Special Angel' and 'Faith of a Child'.
Director James Conway's decision to elide the two works is scrupulously realised.
And newer works are scrupulously protected from interfering adapters (at least until a movie is made) by living authors or their agents wielding the stick of copyright laws.
Gray admitted that his work was not scrupulously factual.
It's fitting that an artist whose work hinged so scrupulously on process — elaborate, showy, delicate process — would be drawn to photography as a medium.
You just think, here he was in America, not happy, not in good health, and yet his work was most scrupulously completed, even in these circumstances.
Written with a controlled intensity and often elegant wit, it was a powerful work of reappraisal, scrupulously fair in handling both Chamberlain and his critics, but demolishing myth after myth.
