Such a constant presence is vitally important since commissioners — even the most scrupulous and upright — almost always behave better if they have an audience.
But the most scrupulous firms struggle to reconcile commercial goals with the values their brands proclaim.
And because he had suffered years in prison and internal exile, writing under the constant surveillance and harassment of the K.G.B., his gift for scrupulous, almost fanatical organization was a matter of survival both for him and for his work.
In his engagingly scrupulous, almost childlike manner (very well rendered by his translator, Maureen Freely), he even offers himself as bringer of enlightenment into the shadows of primeval shame: "With my museum I want to teach not just the Turkish people but all the people of the world to take pride in the lives they live".
Instead, he pays scrupulous, almost loving attention to the details of survival (the Vikings chop a lot of wood) and to how being immersed in this strange world changes the men physically, existentially and spiritually, how it gets under their nails, rubs into their skin and finally settles into their souls.
Plus, the show's creators and directors are scrupulous (almost to a fault) when it comes to keeping the audience aware of what's going on in "Awake's" dual story lines.
Most are scrupulous, because the stakes are so high".
And yet Sanders himself has remained scrupulous and almost austere in electoral combat.
Cheever sends a medical-intelligence specialist, Erin Mears (Kate Winslet), to the Minneapolis hot zone, and Winslet, working with more edge than Fishburne, hardens her voice, sets her face in a determined mask, and captures the tone and the style of a professional woman exasperated by slowness and ignorance, a woman almost masochistic in her scrupulous sense of duty.
Mr. Rutherfurd is scrupulous about accuracy and about avoiding anachronisms.
Makiya is scrupulous about his historical sources.
