Sentence examples for punctilious about from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Gandhi has been punctilious about keeping up appearances.

TYRANTS tend to be oddly punctilious about recording their atrocities.

Perhaps not all homeowners are quite so punctilious about bat surveys.

Where there were couples, he was punctilious about addressing the man.

But France, too, must be punctilious about observing all judicial proprieties.

Leveson was punctilious about that and countless eminent people in the free-speech world confirm it.

He won't let himself get away with anything". One of the many memorable scenes of the trip — one that's often enshrined in various career-high and/or zeitgeist-defining montages that crop up on television retrospectives and awards shows — is the infamous diner scene, in which Bobby squares off against a waitress who's being extra-punctilious about enforcing the diner's "No substitutions" rule.

As a cadet at West Point he learned to be dutiful, punctilious and unerringly accurate, even about the military method of folding underwear.

"Wit," which is about a starchy, punctilious English professor, specializing in John Donne's runic Holy Sonnets, who is dying of cancer, takes the audience on a journey toward an understanding of grace.

Or not, because there was something Napoleonic about the ambition behind that infinitely punctilious façade.

He negotiates the corridors of the State Department with a punctilious swagger, the hint of a smile playing about his lips.