If you would like to be particularly scrupulous, you could always write on the form what you've written here -- half Hispanic, half Caucasian.
The range of these scrupulous poems suggests that there is little in form or content that Laird cannot master.
The Romans' public form of religion stimulated magistrates to be scrupulous and dutiful, Polybius proposed, while the fickle, lawless masses remained restrained by their fear of gods and punishment in the afterlife.
Released in 1951, the book, with its sober mien, dutiful meter and scrupulous rhymes, was praised by reviewers for its impeccable command of form.
But, being exposed daily to the raw form of such conversations, I would strongly advise against such scrupulous accuracy.
The premature appraisals have taken a number of forms: mischievous muckraking from vicious gossip columnist Michael Riedel; a scrupulous news report in the New York Times; and then there's All That Chat, a bitchy Broadway-centric message board that should, for the next month, be renamed All That Spidey.
Yet of course, even after taking the most scrupulous possible care, one can still be stabbed by one of the many hovering cancers, struck down with terrifying diseases of the nerves (Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's) or rendered nugatory by one or another form of dementia.
With the symphonies, I prefer unbridled passion to careful tidiness, however scrupulous and respectful: like Brahms, Shostakovich was a Romantic working within classical symphonic forms, which made him seem outdated in the mid-20th century (ditto Brahms in the mid-to-late 19th century, for that matter) and makes him seem prescient today.
True to form, Mr. Andsnes's performance of the Third Concerto here combined effortless brilliance and scrupulous integrity.
To success in this form of enterprise there are various roads, and it is not always the most scrupulous explorers who succeed best.
Mendelssohn's contributions include primarily a new kind of light and deft music, heard especially in his scherzos; a rich melodiousness that embraces all sections of the sonata-form movements (hence removing the element of thematic contrast on which musical conflict depends); and scrupulous attention to detail.
