Although Tselkov attacks each new work with the rage of someone who 'wants to throw the grand piano out of the window,' as he melodiously puts it, he is a most meticulous practitioner - working tidily at one end of the lounge in his not particularly large flat in a not particularly smart bit of Paris.
Practitioners keep meticulous digital records of things they do: how much coffee they drink, how much work they do each day, what books they are reading, and so on.
But perhaps Barbette displayed the subtlest artistry of all, Cocteau thought, in the masterly close of his act — once again a model, in its meticulous attention to detail, for practitioners of any art form, who well know the difficulty of strengthening their effects through to the very end, of remaining constantly at high tension while unwinding.
These days, one of the best practitioners of the mischievous, meticulous craft is Susan Birkenhead.
27– 31 Although patients are often dissatisfied knowing that there are no "quick fixes" available, it is important that there is a clear discussion regarding the planned therapeutic regimen and the importance of close clinical follow-up, and that meticulous commitment to treatment be emphasized by the practitioner.
Sacks's case histories lack the meticulous measurements and experimental detail that contemporary science expects of its practitioners.
Although never a Zen practitioner, the worldly Japanese-American sculptor Noguchi admired its principles: spareness and simplicity, meticulous craftsmanship and insistence on asymmetry to turn the mind away from excess rationalism.
Although he was never a Zen practitioner, he admired the discipline's encouragement of spareness and simplicity, its stress on meticulous craftsmanship and its insistence on asymmetry, or lack of formal balance, to turn the mind away from excess rationalism.
He made meticulous choices.
