American nonfictional writers of the same period such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau scrupulously described the lessons of organization, of unity, and of moral beauty to be deciphered from the vicissitudes of nature.
On the other hand, she scrupulously describes his progress, painting by painting (but maddeningly doesn't tell us where most of them are), from the moment the post-impressionists knocked the wind out of his conservative youthful sails.
Her final essay (from which this posthumously published book takes its title), which scrupulously described the feelings of fear, uncertainty and hope associated with graduating from university, went viral.
While her portraits of Richler and Keane celebrate their moral virtues -- Richler's kindness, Keane's gallantry -- Moore emerges as deeply charming but finally a monster; the chapter on Naipaul scrupulously describes both his chilly megalomania and cruelty, and how, on a trip to his native Trinidad, Athill began to understand what it was he had escaped and what that must have cost him.
While they doubtlessly were the target of an intentional leak, their top-rate professional reputation can assure us that they have been scrupulously accurate in describing their sources as Obama administration "political officials" and "senior administration officials," among others.
In thirty-one scrupulously elliptical lines, he described the emotional arc of a marriage, the death of one spouse — "She remembers the despair, / The ashy taste of unfiltered coffee" — and the pending mortality of the other.
It placed fourth on Ain't It Cool News' Top 10 Best Scores Of 2008 List, being described as "scrupulously weaving together strains of bone-chillingly cold horror with the encompassing warmth of newly acquired love".
As usual, the technicians are the ones to trust, and some of the most fascinating pages here are those in which collaborators such as the theatre director Walter Asmus and the actor Jean Martin - Lucky in the first production of Godot - describe what it was like to work with a writer as scrupulously demanding as Beckett.
In Taylor's terms, the question is whether an "upper language," in which we describe altruism as noble and admirable, can be fully captured by a "lower language," of instrumental and biological explanation, a language that scrupulously avoids the vocabulary of purpose, intentionality, design, teleology.
Haas's accompaniment, scored for an eight-piece ensemble – here scrupulously played by members of the London Sinfonietta under the baton of Pierre-André Valade – is lucid in texture yet also subtle and mysterious, forming a troubled background to a wide-ranging vocal line that swoops up and down to describe the unstable trajectory of Sappho's all-pervading passion.
