Sentence examples for exacting man from inspiring English sources

A quietly exacting man, the 43-year-old Brit makes $100,000 bespoke watches in his shop near Geneva using mechanical movements perfected a century ago.

Mr. Mann is an exacting man by reputation and practice.

Jay is a retired research scientist and an exacting man.

Foster was an exacting man, but he demanded perfection of no one more than himself, and he was soft-spoken and courteous to a fault.

Tomalin's biography – always scrupulous about what we can know, what we can deduce and what is mere speculation – paints a portrait of a complex and exacting man.

Sometimes three or more units are parallel; for example, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man" (Francis Bacon, "Of Studies").

Further remarks on the subject of letter writing in the Army recollected after reading Michael J. Ogden's "Full Man-Exact Man" in the issue of Jan . 29 , 1949

As Francis Bacon wrote, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.... Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested".

The New Yorker, February 19 , 1949P. 81 Further remarks on the subject of letter writing in the Army recollected after reading Michael J. Ogden's "Full Man-Exact Man" in the issue of Jan . 29 , 1949

By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, February 19 , 1949P. 81 Further remarks on the subject of letter writing in the Army recollected after reading Michael J. Ogden's "Full Man-Exact Man" in the issue of Jan . 29 , 1949

The son of an American mother, he is described as a meticulous and exact man who favors regular jogs, technical gadgets and never-ending lists of options and things to do.