Sentence examples for fastidious person from inspiring English sources

But she was a compulsively fastidious person generally — "birdlike" seems to have been a common description.

But she was a compulsively fastidious person generally—"birdlike" seems to have been a common description.

"People in the lab felt that he was a hard working and fastidious person and was following the appropriate precautions".

A fastidious person would arrange the devices first, and then install the cords in the same left-to-right order.

A less fastidious person might simply install the devices one at a time, yielding a configuration with low (but not minimal) linkage, such that the devices may be removed without untangling, if they are removed in the reverse order of installation.

Bessie settles easily into the university's "atmosphere of cloistered commitment," delighted to be treated as the "fastidious and rare" person she has always known herself to be.

To deprive oneself of great work created by a less-than-great person seems overly fastidious.

Andrew Porter was a fastidious writer, a shy, intensely learned and lovable person, his glasses usually waiting to be wrinkled higher up his nose.

Perhaps because Rudolf Born is so obviously a figure from spy movies — Auster could have called his novel "The Born Supremacy" — he never sounds remotely like the person he's supposed to be, a fastidious and well-educated French-speaking European of the nineteen-sixties.

He decided to present the young composer a copy of the score of his Manfred Symphony, and once he had actually met the person whom Tchaikovsky authority David Brown called "indolent, fastidious, very private yet very engaging", his attitude toward Lyadov took a sharp turn for the better.

For a person who described himself as a "professional liar," he seemed oddly fastidious about the facts of his own life.