Sentence examples for as punctual from inspiring English sources

Philadelphia said he has been accommodating and as punctual as overnight mail.

The VEF model describes the voxels as punctual electric charges by mathematical expressions.

Stockhausen described the work as "punctual music" (or "pointist"), in which components like pitch are controlled by numerical proportions, resulting in widely spaced points of sound.

Even though the BAM is a populist ride, it was as punctual and rode as gently as any train I'd been on in the United States.

So, a murder could be described as cunning, an assault as physically dexterous, a fraud as punctual, an extortion racket as ambitious, an act of road rage as demonstrating spontaneity, an intense period of obsessive stalking as "daring to dream".

According to Network Rail's statistics 87.8% of East Coast services in the year to 13 October 2012 were described as "punctual" – that is arriving at their destination within 10 minutes of the scheduled time.

Returning to his hometown tonight, he takes the floor not as a punctual conformist but rather as a guy who openly admits he wants 20 more minutes of sleep instead of arriving at the game at the prescribed time of 6 p.m. Never mind Ray Allen matching up on the perimeter with Allan Houston, his Olympic teammate.

The pleasing, slightly facile books come out almost every year, as tidy and punctual as postage stamps, and the applauding reviewers line up like eager stamp collectors to get the latest issue.

He characterized many of these earliest compositions (together with the music of other, like-minded composers of the period) as punktuelle ("punctual" or "pointist" music, commonly mistranslated as "pointillist") Musik, though one critic concluded after analysing several of these early works that Stockhausen "never really composed punctually" (Sabbe 1981).

A wristwatch isn't only a means of promoting punctuality; putting one on is also a way to be seen as a punctual person.

She describes him as a punctual, orderly and poetic pilot who comes back from work and talks about the spectacular thunderstorms or shooting stars he saw that night.