Sentence examples for conscientious to a from inspiring English sources

The editors, Rose Styron and R. Blakeslee Gilpin, have done a fine job tracking down letters from archives all over the country, and Gilpin's footnotes are conscientious to a fault.

Industrious, and conscientious to a sometimes crippling degree (he supported his mother and two of his sisters, with whom he also lived, off and on), Wilder worked within the margins of literature's prevailing taste.

His career path might suggest that he is one of those instinctive actors with little time for technique, and yet he is a ferociously intelligent performer who is conscientious to a fault.

Although Mr. Jones is knowledgeable and conscientious to a fault as a jazz arranger, comparing his conducting of Gil Evans's arrangements for Miles Davis on "Miles and Quincy Live at Montreaux" with Evans's treatments of the same material 30 years earlier is damning.

Mr. Obama also portrayed Mr. Meyer as conscientious to an almost painstaking degree.

Conscientious almost to a fault, Mr. Maier will not make pieces that are strictly for show.

During World War II, Lowell was sentenced, for conscientious objection, to a year and a day in the federal penitentiary at Danbury, Connecticut, and he served five months of his sentence.

I consider myself a conscientious objector to a lot of what's going on in both music and politics.

A conscientious objector to a war-time draft has to at least tell the government he has a religious objection to military service, added Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

He changed from a confident, outgoing, conscientious student to a morose, detached, sullen boy who constantly fought with his father and teachers.

How should physicians respond when they have a conscientious objection to an intervention requested by a patient?