A slight, ebullient, ponytailed man, he is every bit as fastidious about his raw materials as he is about technique.
Elsewhere she wrote, "To my taste, the spider is a little bit too fastidious.
So when it came to the look and feel of his 2013 full-length, Hesitation Marks, Reznor returned to a core creator every bit as fastidious as himself.
There is something a little bit pedagogic and even fastidious in its insistence on a multiplicity of narratives which play themselves out in ways that draw the sting from their own tails.
One was creating a Mary Poppins movie character substantially more charming and affectionate than the one in the books, where she's somewhat too fastidious and vain (a bit like her creator).
David Harbour as Arcite is better; he makes Arcite physically fastidious -- there's a lovely bit in which he sets a perfect table in the middle of the forest -- and his line readings give you the idea that he's seeking an identifiable personality for his portrayal.
Soon, in a shrewd bit of management, the head dream-giver replaces Fastidious with the more patient Thin Elderly, and Littlest One, who is as bright and ambitious as she is immature, begins to learn the dream-giver technique of picking up fragments of happy memories from inanimate objects — photographs, pieces of clothing, dishes — and transforming them into pleasant dreams.
Philippe, who is believed to have been around 25 at the time he was painted, is rendered in a fastidious manner that is certainly a bit idealized.
Some people are fastidious about cleaning their traps of bits of rotted stoat.
Mr. Greaves's miniature portraits of attractive young women, each a bit larger than a postage stamp, are marvels of fastidious technique.
