Sentence examples for exacting but from inspiring English sources

He is an exacting but quiet boss.

Her style was equally assured: exacting but not fussy, with hardly an unturned phrase.

The carving is beyond exacting; but the painting can be less so, looser.

Trompe l'oeil art, by contrast, sets an exacting but limiting challenge for the artist.

As Mukherjee describes in his book, organizations like ACT UP "made the FDA out to be a woolly bureaucratic grandfather — exacting but maddeningly slow".

Possibly the best of Laurent Tourondel's BLT restaurants, BLT Fish presents great food without airs, its standards exacting but its sense of play generous.

The landmarks are exact but the placement is screwy.

Financial disclosures are not exact, but fall in ranges.

"We had parallel ideas," Schuerholz said, "not exact, but we worked it out.

This is from memory, so it may not be exactly exact, but the essence is right.

Parallels are never exact, but here are three that are helpful.