Bourgeois hypocrisy is exposed and undermined with the precise, step-by-step thoroughness of a conscientious, account-keeping clerk.
By the way, a conscientious running accounting of Palindrones is being maintained by Andrew Sullivan on his indispensable blog.
In 1968, when Collins published her first novel, "women's fiction" tended to come in the mould of The Pumpkin Eater and The L-Shaped Room, conscientious, painful accounts of women's interior lives that Collins didn't or wouldn't identify with.
They organised the many conscientious shareholders and account holders within ANZ to go direct and complain at their local branch, or via emails.
Today's writers of the inner-city are infinitely more dedicated and conscientious, however, these new accounts lack something that the older ones had: a broader vision of the roots of poverty.
The film tells a simple account of a conscientious eight-year-old schoolboy's quest to return his friend's notebook in a neighboring village lest his friend be expelled from school.
By all accounts, Mr. Buhlig is conscientious and a straight shooter.
And there were thousands of them, as Will Ellsworth-Jones makes clear in his fascinating account of a group of conscientious objectors, We Will Not Fight.
By his own accounts, my dad was a conscientious soldier, and so far the documents I have seen from the Black Watch show no record of disobedience.
Differences in cognitive styles or motivation levels in low conscientious and high conscientious men and women may account for these differences.
