Sentence examples for stickler from inspiring English sources

(A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair).

"Here is a stickler from an earlier age … here is pettifogging fogey made flesh".

Schwartz was a stickler for historical detail, which, combined with Friedman's vision of a unifying structure for tracing the effects of monetary developments on the economy, led to an entertaining work that changed our view of how the macroeconomy worked.

Sean is quite a… stickler".

Grammar is a great and happy thing, so on National Grammar Day, pass on SPOGG's list of myths (though they don't get the passive voice quite right) to your favourite slightly misguided stickler.

Mr Lebed, a stickler for propriety, will have fun with that, come election time.

Although Mr Putin has often seemed a stickler when it comes to respecting constitutional formalities, he and his advisers have become ever more blatant in their flouting of democracy's true substance.

Not that Mr Eichel, then the Social Democrats' premier in the rich state of Hesse, took offence: it was a compliment, backhanded perhaps, to point up his qualities as a stickler for the boring yet important details of economic policy.

A stickler for punctuality, Mr Correa arrived two hours late for the inauguration because his helicopter couldn't make it.

Mr Morin, a stickler for the old ways, doesn't much believe in using electricity at home for anything other than religious occasions.Appetites sated, a score of cowboys, one young woman and your (less young) correspondent mount scraggy horses.

It held back from last year's rescue of Greece, and is a stickler on conditions for the forthcoming one.