On the walls, eight flat-screen TVs blare ("Always game sound. We HATE music!!" the bar's business card reads), and meticulously updated chalkboards display league standings.
If it was obscene to show the video of the execution, why does one need to read such a meticulously imagined account of it, however savvy it is in the atmospherics: the bleak neighborhood, empty soda cans, curved daggers of the executioners and the fumbling with the camcorder?
SAR read the manuscript meticulously and commented on it for making it more academic.
People already skim rather than meticulously read their Twitter timeline, making it easier to pass by the ads than ones on Facebook, where algorithmic sorting and a focus on real friends encourages people to read each post — and the ads in between.
My slipshod use of "meticulous" has no doubt been silently deplored all these years by those who have read their Fowler more meticulously — er, punctiliously — than me (or I).
And yet, when one reads Neil Hanson's meticulously researched, utterly fascinating new account, "The Great Fire of London," uncanny parallels between the two September events suddenly and quite unexpectedly appear -- parallels from which New Yorkers may yet derive comfort, instruction and a measure of wise counsel.
The major poems are swiftly, meticulously and deeply read.
The last chapters of Mr Guralnick's meticulously researched book read depressingly like a coroner's report.
On the other side, the card read "Fame Advertising events are novel, planned meticulously and executed with efficiency".
He stockpiled hundreds of bullets, acquired a powerful black-market handgun, practised target games on his computer, and read about US school shootings in a meticulously researched book by a US academic, Why Kids Kill.
I read two and three and four times my man-whore's meticulously crafted fiction.
