So some of the terror leaches out of The Strain when it becomes clear in the first episode that the epidemic was planned and executed by the Master, a hooded, slithery creature from the Old World who has come to conquer the new, with the help of an ailing NYC billionaire and a meticulous point man (played by the icily charismatic Richard Sammel).
Annette Dorey, an expert on baby contests, explains that at each better baby event, babies were stripped naked and then judged by physicians according to a "meticulous point system like that used in cattle judging".
The authorities identified the victims as Greg Griego, 51; his wife, Sarah Griego, 40; their 9-year-old son, Zephania; and two daughters, Jael, 5, and Angelina, 2. "Right now, we're to the meticulous points of processing the scene and collecting physical evidence," Lt. Sid Covington, a spokesman for the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department, said on Sunday.
It has meticulous detail.
"She's very meticulous between points, doing her routines," Burdette said.
Ms. Beard's book is full of meticulous, inside detail — at one point, after the dismissal of two top bankers (in what came to be known as the Monday Massacre) she recounts how Tarek anothereguid, another senior banker, flew back from vacation, arriving at the office still in an aqua T-shirt and Topsiders.
The operating technique of the now reclusive surgeon had become meticulous to the point of painstaking slowness, characterized by minute attention to detail that enabled him to perceive the physiological characteristics of tissues and of wound healing that eluded his speedier, less observant colleagues.
Aarons was meticulous to the point of obsessive in his approach.
As a style exercise, however, the film is compellingly meticulous, to the point of fetish play: there's a positively queer undertone to the leads' exquisitely self-aware sartorial duelling.
Akerman's film is meticulous, to the point of provocation, about the physical labors of the protagonist's daily domestic life and it also offers a combination of personal and political history, regarding the victimization of the character's Jewish family during the Second World War and its dispersal afterwards.
The clashing angles and colors and shapes make for a wild riot of visual energy that, for all its meticulous representational specificity, points ahead to the furious tangle of cosmic inwardness realized by Jackson Pollock.
