Sentence examples for punctiliousness from inspiring English sources

Again and again throughout the crisis, Mr Mubarak declared his determination to serve out the remaining seven months of his term.This punctiliousness might have been understandable, and indeed many Egyptians accepted that an orderly transition might require a rulebook.

The junta has always shown a perverse punctiliousness in following the letter of its arbitrarily enforced repressive laws.

"If Norway doesn't, who will?"The government's enthusiasm for oil and gas certainly seems at odds with its extreme punctiliousness about the morality of its other investments.

This decision might be dismissed as misplaced punctiliousness were it not for evidence that Agcom has been subject to pressure from Mr Berlusconi.

They are shocking for their bureaucratic punctiliousness.

This attitude, which many considered to be both ungrateful and ungracious, sprang in part from a punctiliousness that was hard to penetrate and rendered him incapable of true friendship.

Where Clark unleashed a blizzard of punctiliousness that seemed to fit right into Robert (now Lord Armstrongg's high-flying tradition of being "economical with the truth", Whiteman flashed seductive little globs of management-speak.

Documenta 11 declares, in effect, that art is too powerful a force in the world to abide the hedonism of aesthetes and the punctiliousness of art scholars.

The fact that his father was a teacher of calligraphy helps to account for Eakins's punctiliousness in all matters of technique.

His script at fifteen has the same patient punctiliousness (no abbreviations, few erasures, and generally flawless spelling) that characterizes the personal letters he wrote every Wednesday afternoon as President.

He acquires a drill sergeant's punctiliousness pro-noun-cing ev-er-y syl-lab-le, hit-ting ev-er-y con-son-ant, singing out the sibilants, and bending words, drawing them out, or isolating them between stark silences, with some of the weird sonic zing of Bob Dylan's diction.