Mr. Obama thought some of this was unnecessary, said aides, who uniformly describe him as an scrupulous reader of intelligence.
While many administrators ignored the student paper, Dean Kagan was a scrupulous reader, dashing off e-mail messages — sometimes flattering, sometimes scornful — about the tiniest of stories involving the law school.
Even the most scrupulous readers of Golding's work will find it hard to get the image of the author-as-rapist out of their mind when they settle down to re-read his work.
While some of his characterizations of the players in health care lack necessary nuance — he sees all human research subjects as motivated primarily by altruism, and all pharmaceutical marketing as inherently nefarious — Goldacre's research is scrupulous, and lay readers may find themselves converted to his geeky ardor.
Excuses aside, the reader applauds Lesley's scrupulous powers of observation, affording us glimpses of Coward that elude us in his own account.
"Holt's prescriptions for absolute control over the baby's daily routine and the scrupulous prevention of deadly infections attracted legions of readers," Dr. Meckel said.
Bailey's books are scrupulous and compassionate, written with enough panache to fortify readers as they power through these cheerless denouements.
And while Rubin often points out these darker aspects of poetry's social uses, I sometimes wished she'd taken more to heart her own scrupulous admission that "because of the available evidence, the readers I discuss are by and large white and middle class, although I have tried to overcome that limitation wherever possible".
While this may be technically correct (he isn't a full-time staff member of The Times), it at the very least might mislead the reader about his place as one of the most admired and scrupulous magazine writers in America today.
Austen had many admiring readers during the 19th century, who, according to critic Ian Watt, appreciated her "scrupulous... fidelity to ordinary social experience".
I can't imagine any future, however extreme the hypotheticals one poses, in which readers will not find solace at the thought of this anguished man taking such scrupulous care with the formal demands of the sonnet, even while extravagantly innovating with metre and diction and syntax.
