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Discover LudwigThe phrase "exacting of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that demands a great deal of effort, skill, or precision. Example: The application process for this job is extremely exacting, requiring multiple rounds of interviews and a thorough examination of qualifications.
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"It is the leadership that is most demanding, most exacting of its followers," Welch observed, "that achieves really dedicated support".
But this was a genuinely fine achievement, a first ever gold in this most exacting of horse-based disciplines.
Discovering that the see of Canterbury was deeply in debt, he proposed sweeping economies, including the abolition of certain church offices and the exacting of contributions from tenants and clergy.
In the words of a competent observer: "The only failing of this extraordinary woman was her being excessively, one may say, exacting of her children and of the people dependent on her".
Moreover, it could be argued that in an era when even classical actors have become vocally more slovenly, often wallowing in barely comprehensible emotion, he never forgot that Shakespeare, in particular, was the most adroit and exacting of poets.
He subsequently had a heart scare while preparing to play King Lear, but carried on to triumph in that most exacting of roles; a year later, when he was playing Pericles at the Globe, he had a major heart attack, while delivering a speech in Basildon on behalf of some evicted Travellers.
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The parallels are not exact of course.
The parallel with the Royal Mail is not exact, of course.
The Exacting Standards Of Carol Bartz.
See Also: The Exacting Standards of Carol Bartz.
"Sort of the exact opposite of last week".
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