Sentence examples for spends fastidious from inspiring English sources

He spends fastidious millions on his dream homes but instructs his staff to trap mice live so they can be set free on the grounds.

Emily Maxwell, widowed and preoccupied with the inexorable approach of her own death, spends her days in fastidious rituals and mournful remembrances.

The fastidious little mouse spends a fortnight spring cleaning.

Tony Decello, the financial account executive who handles Ms. Seles's investments at McCormack Advisors International of Cleveland, said: "She is fastidious about what she spends.

I just spent a week with a fastidious woman who repeatedly cleaned her hands and every kitchen surface with soapy water, thoroughly washed every fruit and vegetable and dried them with paper towels and made sure that dish towels used to wipe hands did not also dry the clean dishes.

Cartier-Bresson was very neat and fastidious, whereas Capa kept spending all the float on gambling and women.

A fastidious craftsman, he often spent weeks studying the light in a cathedral at various times of day, waiting to catch the precise effect he sought.

In college, Ms. Waters spent a summer working for a fastidious and demanding boss who taught her to assemble perfect crab sandwiches at the Bullock's department store lunchroom in Los Angeles.

He has gained a reputation for fastidious preparation and conditioning, but he spent the off-season unable to face shots, lift weights or train at his customary level.

There looks to be no earthly reason why Mogwai can't spend the next 20 years dreaming up similar essays in fastidious sublimity.

Even the fastidious Goncourt brothers liked to go slumming: "Before sitting down... they had spent the day in the field, taking notes for their descriptions of charity funerals, working life at its most sordid, operations and diseases of all kinds.