A man of rigorous decorous, satin grace; he deposits leaves in library books.
Is it English?" Since the taster is a man of rigorous values, a Cambridge don who lets nobody and nothing off the hook, he might well apply similar words to the play in which he appears: "The Common Pursuit," Simon Gray's 1984 portrait of tarnishing ideals among a group of young literati, which opened on Thursday night in an unconvincing revival at the Laura Pels Theater.
Though composed of essays that are mostly by Dr. Dawkins's admirers, this book presents a vivid picture of how one man, by force of rigorous analysis and clear writing, taught a generation of biologists how to think about evolution.
James, as rigorous a man of science as early-20th-century America produced, was an active member of the society.
Harry Partch, the rigorous wild man of American music, wrote, in 1935, "This isn't Germany, and this isn't the eighteenth century, and I'm trying to give myself, and others, a good basis for a new and great music of the people".
"I have never known a man so rigorous in the satisfaction of his appetites, so comfortable in the brazenness of his behavior and so contemptuous of the moral censure of others," the narrator says of Coolidge.
Both are men of high & rigorous intellect.
This brilliant man, whose rigorous mind had always been intolerant of small talk, now waited for its arrival, an elixir against his dark and monotonous days.
A quiet, scholarly man whose rigorous and sometimes stinging columns had upbraided generations of politicians, he, too, had four children and had just lost a spouse to lung cancer.
Obviously, it may require four solid days of rigorous exercise, acute worry, aching gluts and a stint of pirouetting beside a man who resembles an Oompa Loompa, but nevertheless, the magic is, feasibly, within.
Every four years, an expat hedge-fund manager, a devout and rigorous conservative and international man of mystery, comes to New York from Europe and invites….
