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She speared a bite on the point of the knife and ate it with relish, while her hostess toyed with her own portion, then blew on it fastidiously, steam coming from the crisp brown meat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z
A middle-aged white woman with a long nose and a fastidiously made-up face was the only other passenger in the row. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
The bird had raised one wing and pecked fastidiously at its feathers beneath. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Covered with a fastidiously elaborate frieze, the twelve-foot gateway focuses the visitor’s eye on the image of a single deity whose figure projects from the lintel: the Staff God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Compared with the chaos of Cherry Hill, Northwood was a paradise of neat houses with fastidiously maintained lawns. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Whereas at first I gutted fish and peeled their skin fastidiously, soon I no more than rinsed off their slimy slipperiness before biting into them, delighted to have such a treat between my teeth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
As people moved out, their houses were bulldozed and the rubble was neatly, fastidiously cleared away until there were almost no buildings remaining. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
He fastidiously wiped his fingers on the napkin and laid it on his right arm, folding it neatly with his left. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
As die Dufarges came into range, he suddenly raised his face, gave a terrible laugh, and neatly, even fastidiously, regurgitated all four bullets. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Brenner’s apartment was tiny but fastidiously neat, with the majority of its space devoted to a table that seated six, and a stool for her to perch on when she orchestrated matchmaking meetings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Whatever misgivings he’d previously had about them seemed to have been abandoned, because he was fastidiously studying Nkrumah’s journal while two little girls decorated his curly hair with flowers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
“What is that...” said the angel fastidiously, indicating the Kendal Mint Cake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
This revival was staged by Suki Schorer; the young performers’ audacity, fastidiously based in strict execution of complex steps, was wonderful to see. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z
Songs like “Open Eye Signal” and “Collider” are complex, layered and fastidiously produced, but with their gradual builds and sweeping bass, they’re also suited for the dancefloor. Your week in Seattle music: Tori Amos, Journey and more 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z
Yet, as the title suggests, Michelangelo's obsession with human anatomy, fastidiously explored through dissection, is central to Barber's work. Michelangelo Drawing Blood – review 2013-04-04T17:13:57Z
From his grand Manhattan office on 26 Broadway, the fastidiously punctual former book-keeper, with an eye permanently on the ledger, launched a “cut-to-kill” strategy whenever competition threatened his stranglehold on the kerosene industry. Guts, greed and gushers 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z
That is, they don’t buy or commission lavish and costly garments from reigning design geniuses that they plan to wear a few times during the evening hours, fastidiously maintain and finally bequeath to a museum. Art Review: American Style at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum 2010-05-06T22:29:00Z
Frayling fastidiously pieces together the summer of 1816, when three Romantic luminaries and their friends spent a holiday on Lake Geneva. The Pop-Culture Evolution of Frankenstein’s Monster 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z
When she asked for some vegetables to nibble on, I fastidiously julienned a cucumber into thin slices, layering them atop one another in a semicircle on a florid porcelain plate. What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Being a Son and a Father 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z
The ongoing gift of engrossing, fastidiously made documentaries is that subject becomes irrelevant – embrace the films arbitrarily and you will be just as handsomely rewarded. Sheffield Doc/Fest hopes to rekindle last year's Oscar magic 2013-05-09T10:00:03Z
Despite the way she is living, Marie-Michelle Souffrante is fastidiously clean, sitting now on a terrace in the shade above the tented clinic. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z
To glance from Robert Williams’ “Six Eyed Kook as the Very Embodiment of the Anti-Clown” to Gary Panter’s “Boarding Pass” is to travel from a world of fastidiously described detail to one of stylized icons. At the Pit, artists mine the emotions behind the machine 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z
Other times the compositions are reduced to lines of fastidiously applied sequins. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z
It's worth noting that these are fastidiously considered desserts, bordering on sin if ordered before lunchtime — not unlike Italians' strictness about cappuccinos being solely a morning beverage. The extremely '90s history of the flavored latte 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z
It’s like a fastidiously detailed anatomical drawing gone haywire. August brings extravagance at Seattle art galleries 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z
Others are fastidiously eccentric, like patterns disrupted just for the fun of it or drips of paint dripped atop other drips, forming rainbow rivulets. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z
In his prose, Yudkin is fastidiously precise and undemonstrative, as he was in person. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z
Viewed in the context of a fastidiously ethical life, Abe's support of Lie's secret pact and his devotion to his invertebrate superior are astonishing. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z
He would then extract the lines or metaphors that he liked and fastidiously revise them. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z
Politics are present but, with a few notable exceptions, murmured, coded, stitched into the weave of fastidiously form-conscious, labor-intensive work. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z
A treat for chefs and foodies and a slog for everyone else, “El Bulli: Cooking in Progress” fastidiously documents one year in the creative life of the esteemed Spanish chef Ferran Adrià. | 'El Bulli': Pushing Cuisine?s Envelope, on a Molecular Level 2011-07-26T16:43:02Z
Less known was that the band fastidiously recorded almost every concert. Fugazi Live Series: A Post-Punk Band?s Archive of Shows 2011-11-25T23:52:59Z
His music, so fastidiously wrought and emotionally generous, rewards faithful interpretations while also embracing idiosyncratic approaches; you’re spoiled for choice across a vast temperamental range. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z
The singer’s “Molting” EP, released earlier this year is fastidiously composed without seeming too calculated, the icy beats buoyed by string arrangements and Shaprece’s emotive vocals. Your week in Seattle music: Fleetwood Mac, Usher and more 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z
He also said that she was the most fastidiously groomed and exquisitely moisturized person he’d ever met. Monsieur Vogue Is Leaving Trumpland 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z
He dressed fastidiously, preferring a white monotone encompassing linen suits, shirts, shoes and even watchbands. Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2014-04-18T01:58:28Z
A group of fastidiously self-filming young people watch Grave Encounters and convince themselves that instead of an opportunistic coattail-riding Paranormal Activity knock-off, it's actually a real document of something that definitely happened. Grave Encounters 2: a sight for really sore eyes - trailer review 2012-10-10T16:29:45Z
He fastidiously folded and glued matching-number tabs to form individual body and mechanical parts. Exhibitions: Nothing but a Paper Trail for a Mustang Long Gone 2012-07-08T02:07:18Z
Fiennes’s finely wrought looks, his staring eyes, flaring nostrils and fastidiously wincing mouth made an enormous impression and to some extent influenced his screen persona from that day to this. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z
Project Mercury’s mission to blast the first American astronauts into space was fastidiously undramatic. ‘The Real Right Stuff’ Review: A Movie Still Waiting for Liftoff 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z
The researcher’s wife discourages him from trying to search too fastidiously for meaning. The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z
The effect of these fastidiously crafted works is gorgeously uncanny, and the room in which they’re installed is the show’s most beguiling. Review | The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z
Politics are present, but with a few notable exceptions, murmured, coded, stitched into the weave of fastidiously form-conscious, labor-intensive work. The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z
That’s only the beginning, yet every suggestion is fastidiously integrated, nothing so crude as postmodernism’s heavy-handed appropriation of Classical forms. Fantastical Cityscapes of Cardboard and Glue at MoMA 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z
CANNES, France — In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods. In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates 2012-05-18T10:04:09Z
He mowed the lawn, kept things fastidiously neat and fixed whatever broke. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z
The contrast between the disc and the live performance was extraordinary: the fastidiously produced recording, though it delivered some of the work’s punch, left me cold. Music Review: A Flood Of Songs Washing Over a City 2010-08-25T22:45:00Z
Two elements stand out: a long tunnel of clipped, white-flowering crab apple, which Bunny Mellon pruned fastidiously, and an inviting greenhouse-conservatory. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z
In an era and an industry where drugs were prevalent, Ron avoided them fastidiously while Clint had a long period of addiction and recovery. Clint and Ron Howard Remember When They Were Just ‘The Boys’ 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z
Yet he makes ”no pretension to literary merit,” as he fastidiously documented the distilleries’ technical details like capacities of grain storage units and sizes of buildings and machinery. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z
“I have tried not to reveal crucial plot details,” she writes of her entertaining, fastidiously researched headnotes. A Late — and Maybe Last — Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost’ Stories 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z
We then see Storms, a bald, fastidiously groomed man, singing songs that were played at the elephants’ concert in his super-low register. Allora & Calzadilla celebrate beauty, oddity of animal world 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z
With bonus tracks, expanded booklets and fastidiously recreated graphics from the original albums, this rerelease series constitutes their first reissue since 1997. Yoko Ono’s Vintage Sonic Blasts Still Sound Like the Future 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z
In this quietly wrenching memoir, Hsu recalls starting out at Berkeley in the mid-1990s as a watchful music snob, fastidiously curating his tastes and mercilessly judging the tastes of others. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z
Mr. Gutierrez fastidiously lays a pair of red mesh underwear next to a plastic fan. Review: ‘This Bridge’ Is an Audacious New Dance Work 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z
Early in the week, he was fastidiously correcting Mark Chapman's pronunciation of Donetsk; by Thursday, he was in full-on holiday mood. Rewind radio: Euro 2012; In Our Time 2012-06-16T23:05:48Z
It's now a fastidiously maintained tribute to the author and his novelist brother Heinrich. Five Reasons to Visit LÜbeck 2010-10-21T11:35:00Z
She often went barefoot in overalls while he dressed so fastidiously that a teacher said he stood out like a bird of paradise in a flock of crows. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z
In the neighborhoods ringing its booming downtown, the streets are paved in brick, and fastidiously renovated bungalows squat beneath oak trees dripping with Spanish moss. Orlando isn’t what you think it is 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z
Inside, a Vietnamese man sat cross-legged on the kitchen floor, a stack of large king boletes arranged by size on newspapers spread at his feet, fastidiously cleaning his mushrooms. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z
Couples and groups fill the small room with chat while the mixologists bend fastidiously over their creations. The Hidden Bars of Sydney 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
Playing only the second of its three movements, Mr. Chiu offered a focused performance, letting the work’s graceful melody sing while adhering fastidiously to Cage’s suggestion that vibrato be avoided. Music Review: Flux Quartet at Bargemusic for John Cage Centennial 2012-07-20T21:10:20Z
At least that’s the conclusion to be drawn from his minutely detailed, fastidiously executed personal inventory of a solo show. Art in Review: DAVID SHAPIRO: ?Money Is No Object? 2011-06-02T22:00:30Z
The film, to be broadcast Monday on HBO, pokes behind the fastidiously maintained facades of some of the most celebrated beauties of the last half-century. Supermodels as They Age Is Focus of Documentary 2012-07-25T20:13:12Z
At Naomi’s request, the songs would be true to original form, recalled Jason Owen, the founder of Sandbox Entertainment, who built the tour alongside Cohea; at Wynonna’s request, the outfits would not be fastidiously coordinated. Wynonna Judd, on Her Own 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z
Batmanglij, 70, spent that time fastidiously documenting Iranian food for America. Najmieh Batmanglij is the grande dame of Iranian cooking. It’s time you knew her name. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z
Wright worked fastidiously at his laptop, occasionally adding more papers to add to the stacks on the table, his tapping foot the only telltale sign that he was listening to the music. Peek behind the scenes as some Seattle performing arts groups prepare for fall 2021 — their first in-person shows in over a year 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z
Tour highlight: Watching the small team of men and women fastidiously bottle and label cases of Blanton’s by hand. Kentucky's Bourbon Country 2010-10-11T15:21:00Z
But “The Wine Lover’s Daughter” is also a portrait of a more complicated relationship: her father’s infatuation with the bottles he fastidiously collected and poured nightly from his crystal decanter. A Daughter’s Tribute to Her Father and His Taste for Bordeaux 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z
Look more closely and you’ll see these are actually photos of small, fastidiously constructed dioramas. Top 5 coffee-table art books: Chihuly, skyscrapers and more 2013-12-13T20:59:39Z
That extends to the monochrome paint job — a buff gold that echoes Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s nearby memorial of William Tecumseh Sherman, as well as the fastidiously polished brass in the atrium of the nearby Trump Tower. From China’s Artist-Activist, a Citywide Great Wall 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z
The second was Ravel's La Valse, fastidiously done, but suitably convulsive at its close. Prom 57: GMJO/Gatti – review 2012-08-27T11:29:57Z
It's fastidiously futuristic in a 1972 way, looking back to a time when they looked forward to a now that wasn't overly focused on then. New band of the day ? No 1,074: Alphabet Saints 2011-08-01T15:47:00Z
Most illuminating was the pairing of Hanna Bass and Samuel Rodriguez; the lovely Ms. Bass, in particular, fastidiously performed the steps, and her magnetism came down to how, in doing so, she revealed her spirit. ABT Studio Company Offers ‘Le Corsaire’ Excerpts 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z
They were simply handled, and then fastidiously withheld from her. HBO's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" is a haunting tribute to Michelle McNamara and meditation on grief 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z
Most striking is the fastidiously painted surface of the tabletop. These Shadow Boxes Are Striking. The Story of Their Origin Is, Too. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z
Then I fastidiously clean up to keep things hygienic. An inspector calls … how clean is your kitchen? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z
This store, which has the look of a fastidiously arranged closet, is for specialists. Critical Shopper: Vintage Streetwear - Critical Shopper 2012-01-11T22:31:26Z
For the pianophile, it provides an uncommon chance to hear a fastidiously maintained Steinway grand in a room selected and designed to suit it. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z
Watch, as someone else not from Chicago sneaks back and fastidiously separates the flavors back into their original partitions, kernel by kernel. The giant holiday popcorn tin has invaded your life once again 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z
“Turn Blue” is probably the Black Keys’ most confident album, and certainly the most fastidiously made. The Black Keys return with ‘Turn Blue,’ a little more subdued and psychedelic
And there’s nothing wrong with that, because there’s plenty to admire about a show as fastidiously gusseted as this. It's just not Woking: Prince Andrew has already ruined The Crown 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z
He famously kept his clerks — the “Luttigators” — working for hours as he fastidiously pored over each sentence of the draft opinions they helped him write. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z
He broke through in 1978 with his fastidiously researched and massively popular World War II spy thriller “Eye of the Needle.” A Conversation With Ken Follett 2010-07-21T21:39:00Z
Reviewing her paintings at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 2015 for The New York Times, Holland Cotter called her “an expressive geometrician” who “makes painting look like fastidiously worked joy.” Shirley Jaffe, Geometric Artist of Joyful Forms, Dies at 93 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z
Nolan, known for crafting fastidiously well-organized narratives in which nothing appears by accident, has been taken to task for what he chooses not to show. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z
That Guerlain is a family-run house across five successive generations is perhaps one reason why these archival pieces have been so fastidiously kept. AP Exclusive: Guerlain preserves cosmetics history in new ‘warehouse of wonders’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z
That Guerlain is a family-run house across five successive generations is perhaps one reason why the pieces that make up the archive were fastidiously kept. AP Exclusive: Guerlain preserves cosmetics history in new ‘warehouse of wonders’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z
The amateur guitarist and father of young kids is not the hands-on technocrat fastidiously running Washington’s foreign policy machinery; that’s Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser. The Ukraine war is Antony Blinken’s defining moment 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z
A few days before Christmas, a convoy of security vehicles invaded a quiet corner of Weilheim, a quaint Bavarian town of pastel squares and fastidiously kept cobblestone streets. A Russian Mole in Germany Sows Suspicions at Home, and Beyond 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z
The curved, fastidiously dotted lines near the picture’s center seem to confirm his desire to plot rather than evoke. Perspective | Marcel Duchamp painted this explosive nude masterpiece. Then he quit.
But for more than a decade, she had something extraordinary going on — something acutely perceptive, fastidiously executed and wholly original. Perspective | Blurring the line between danger and bliss
Excessive reverence has killed many a well-meaning adaptation, but this “White Noise,” at once wildly mercurial and fastidiously controlled, somehow winds up triumphing over its own death. Review: 'White Noise' puts a loud, brash and enjoyable spin on a Don DeLillo classic 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z
The pandemic is in full swing, one of several nods to current events in a comedy whose jabs are always fastidiously up-to-the-minute. 'The Fabelmans' and 'Glass Onion' bring old-school magic — and mystery — to Toronto 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z
Nearby, Hollywood long exported a vision of the American dream that included a tidy house with fastidiously maintained lawn. In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z
Tiptoeing to the counter to get a closer look, I saw him playing Metal Slug, fastidiously mashing buttons as his CRT exploded with color. Pirates of Khadda Market 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z
In recent weeks, with the prospect of a title drawing closer, Curry fastidiously avoided putting the cart before the horse, perhaps because the Warriors know all too well the destructive power of an untimely injury. In Stephen Curry’s crowning achievement, Warriors win fourth NBA title in eight years 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z
As president, Mr. Trump fastidiously tracked his endorsement record and played up each victory as a barometer of his own popularity. Trump Vowed Vengeance, but Georgia Voters Rejected His Meddling 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z
Their low x-height and fastidiously detailed strokes make for what many find a pleasant print-reading experience, but these features make them less legible on screens compared with their more uniform sans-serif compatriots. Write It in Garamond 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z
They will also fastidiously shear branches and needles off the sides of trees with knives and other gardening tools, to make sure they grow in an aesthetically pleasing conical shape. Why Christmas tree farming is actually (sometimes) eco-friendly 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z
Lawns that are fastidiously manicured by landscapers like Justin Camp, Mr. Jacobs’s neighbor next door, who maintains his own pristine blanket of green. Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns) 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z
He gathered records fastidiously, compiling them in an encyclopaedic dossier of biographical minutiae. Joe Biden: My surprise claim to be the US president's English cousin 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z
There’s something inherently hilarious about a high-stepping chicken fastidiously shaking a claw free of twigs. Review: 'Gunda' proves to be a wordlessly sublime slice of porcine life down on the farm 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z
Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke in August wrote about how he let his guard down after months of fastidiously wearing a mask, refusing to attend cul-de-sac cocktail parties, and avoiding even the grocery store. Officials are shutting down COVID-weary L.A. County again. Is it really necessary? We talk to the experts 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z
He wants to feel as useful as his wife, whom he’s terrified to go near even though she’s fastidiously decontaminated. 'The Conners' and 'black-ish' gambled by mixing comedy and COVID-19. It worked 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z
What’s called “decorum” is, in reality, a rigid, artificially serene format that all but guarantees the candidates show no passion, “play by the rules,” and don’t spar with each other but fastidiously address the moderator. Perspective | Actually, the first presidential debate was terrific 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z
Others fastidiously keep their batteries between 40 percent and 80 percent, never allowing a full charge, guided by the belief that a battery will last longer as a result. Is Charging Your Phone All Day Really That Bad? 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z
Now, after an offseason in which Brown fastidiously lifted weights and finally put a lingering injury behind him, the man with the nickname “Hollywood” is preparing for a sprint to stardom. Ravens WR Marquise Brown sporting larger frame, more speed 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z
Hospitals and doctors’ offices are also guarding materials fastidiously. Medical workers self-isolate amid fears of bringing coronavirus home 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z
The tomato sauce I make for their almost-daily plate of pasta contains copious vegetables, sweated then fastidiously blended to conceal their presence. Perspective | As a cookbook writer, I just knew my children would be good eaters. Then they were born. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z
She jumped into prepping with chipper efficiency, setting up a workspace in her garage with fastidiously arranged bags, tape, and labels. Why thousands of Amazon packages converge on a tiny Montana town 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z
In the bathroom now, she managed fastidiously by standing on one clean towel and drying herself with another. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z
That changed Saturday, when Venice hosted the much-anticipated world premiere of “Joker,” the fastidiously grim new movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as Batman’s greatest and most defiantly unhinged nemesis. 'Joker's' dark themes speak to 2019 with a mesmerizing Joaquin Phoenix 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z
When moderators arrive at work, they log into two separate systems, one built by Accenture and the other built by Facebook — though both fastidiously track their productivity and time. Inside Facebook, the second-class workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battle 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z
The Brigade is stationed inside the Military Village, a fastidiously maintained complex on the run-down outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Jair Bolsonaro’s Southern Strategy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
Put another way, lines such as “Hey, toots! Get out of the bathroom!” sounded almost comical when scored fastidiously for baritone and full orchestra. André Previn, musical polymath and Oscar-winning composer and conductor, dies at 89 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z
In addition, despite Johns’s fastidiously ironic detachment, the early paintings could seem to symbolize American imperial confidence at its peak and on the march, waging the Cold War. Jasper Johns and the Question of Meaning 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z
After the photo session, while Mr. Ginsberg fastidiously re-wrapped and returned his artifacts into thick, plastic containers, his expression was slightly sad, as if saying goodbye to old friends. The Secrets Inside the C.O. Bigelow Apothecary (Est. 1838) 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z
Plath records their prodigious feats of eating: quahog fritters, onion soup, stews, meat loaf, lobster dinners, all fastidiously itemized, as though for later reimbursement. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z
She styled herself like a Marine drill sergeant — fastidiously pressed police blues, jet-black hair pulled back tight — and she would become Bobby’s interrogator. How the Trump administration went easy on small-town police abuses 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z
Murray, fastidiously professional, is an unlikely kindred spirit for Kyrgios, who admits to lacking discipline and struggling to sustain motivation. After Hip Surgery, Andy Murray Struggles to Regain His Footing 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z
Ms. Patchett, 49, a voter in a fastidiously tended golf community, said she habitually backs Republicans, and her chief policy concern is taxes. In Ohio Election, Republicans Test a Midterm Rescue Plan: Polarization 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z
Potato croquettes, wild mushroom duxelles and quail roulade were just as fastidiously prepared. Elegant new Petite Galerie is a throwback to an era where diner comfort prevails 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z
He fastidiously keeps their vehicles and the space around them clean. San Diego did what Seattle didn’t: give people a safe place to sleep in cars 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z
He speaks slowly, deliberately, as if he is fastidiously refusing to say anything noteworthy. Zinedine Zidane Has the Wins at Real Madrid. Where Is the Praise? 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z
When he’s not feasting or romping with his pals, Rialto, like most sea otters, fastidiously grooms. Rialto the sea otter growing up, thriving at Vancouver aquarium 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z
Wrapped in a white shawl, the book open on his knees on an embroidered velvet cloth, Father Teklehaimanot turns the sheets fastidiously lest the leather ligature tear them. A symbolic struggle over ancient manuscripts 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z
At most fashion shows, looks are kept fastidiously under plastic until the 11th hour, with backstage dressers helping the models into them at the last moment, to avoid creases or marks. ‘I don’t think elegance is relevant’: Vetements’ Demna Gvasalia, the world’s hottest designer 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z
Instead, he kept to himself in an apartment that he kept fastidiously clean, steeped in his studies at the revered Al Azhar University, the 1,000-year-old seat of learning in Sunni Islam. AP Exclusive: In western China, thought police instill fear 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z
But their fastidiously gathered evidence proves that normality has always been riddled with internal contradictions. Perfectly normal
For the most part, they fastidiously disavow racism and white supremacy. Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z
By contrast, Gourse’s chatty, much less fastidiously researched but more felicitously written volume accomplishes this. Swingin’ easy with some insights into ‘Queen of Bebop’ Sarah Vaughan 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z
Beckey, who grew up in Seattle and is now 94, fastidiously documented the routes he charted, publishing how-tos on his pioneering ascents and historical elegies to the region’s mountains. ‘Dirtbag’: Movie chronicles the life of crusty climber Fred Beckey 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z
In truth, many zoo populations are too small to encourage real hope of long-term survival, no matter how fastidiously they’re managed. Killing Animals at the Zoo 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z
Each subsequent book was similarly fastidiously researched by Kennedy, and together they read like a collection of anthropological essays on regional cultures explained through native plants, rituals and recipes. The 93-year-old Englishwoman who is the rock star of Mexican cooking 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z
Iraan, though, would be without perhaps its most fervent fan, Ms. Pope, who fastidiously maintained the school’s football rituals and designed the T-shirts for fans to wear in the playoffs. Bereaved Texas Town Finds Comfort in a State High School Title Game 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z
But if corporate culture also means that scientists are fastidiously scrutinized in their every move, it is a threat to the profession and very pursuit of science. Corporate culture spreads to Scandinavian institutes 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z
First, his legal team must fastidiously research the gaming law particular to each new state to ensure compliance. How a plumber won $10K with a new golf app - Golf Digest 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z
My wife, on the other hand, cares for her teeth fastidiously. Surprisingly Little Evidence for the Accepted Wisdom About Teeth 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z
But because records were kept fastidiously, researchers could rule out inbreeding. A Warning for Dogs, and Their Best Friends, in Study of Fertility 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z
It’s no coincidence that the biggest artists in hip hop—on whom Hamilton’s characters are fastidiously based—exemplify this same blend of talent and resilience. What 'Hamilton' Says About Grit and Privilege 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z
Buyers protect their identities fastidiously over there, purchasing their condos through shell corporations with impenetrable names that exist solely to mask their identities. New York Above 800 Feet 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z
Which brings us back to Ted Cruz, the man who spent much of last year fastidiously embracing Trump, trying to stream in his wake until his inevitable collapse. Signs of the Apocalypse: I Agree With Ted Cruz 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z
And it’s a section that’s fastidiously clean, fervently patriotic, and fabulously dressed. It’s a Museum! It’s a Nuclear Bunker! It’s North Korea’s Subway System! 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z
Smooth oval shoulders and curved collars defined the silhouette on fastidiously embroidered gowns and skirt suits. Gwyneth Paltrow hits Chanel’s eco-couture show in Paris 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z
"Mercy Street's" creators are clearly more interested in fleshing out a variety of themes than fastidiously measuring the distance between the cutlery or the depths to which a lead character will sink. Big, bold and unruly, 'Mercy Street' revisits the divided America of the Civil War 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z
Banishing all memories of the blue-eyed teen idol of “Titanic,” he hides the baby face he’s been cursed with into his 40s behind a fastidiously unpretty rictus of physical suffering and existential despair. ‘The Revenant’ stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a man fighting for his life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z
And it’s relentlessly, fastidiously obsessed with helping us see the consequences of the choices so often flippantly made, and the implicit violence we’re wont to do in the name of freedom. Top 10 Video Games 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z
Each of these things will, inherently, limit the time that Nagbe can spend in the home that he has so fastidiously cultivated in Portland. Darlington Nagbe, soccer enigma 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z
They were, of course, given a Chanel-style makeover: fastidiously painted, treated and molded by the atelier into exquisite shapes and paillettes that resembled white feathers and flower petals. Gwyneth Paltrow hits Chanel’s eco-couture show in Paris 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z
The “secular” nationalists of the ancien regime are now trying to disown their own legitimate children when they recoil fastidiously from the Hindu supremacists foaming at the mouth. Narendra Modi: the divisive manipulator who charmed the world 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z
Softly spoken and fastidiously polite to the pupils, sitting in a circle around her, she taught a lesson about two poems. World's best teacher warns on too much testing - BBC News 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z
When getting out of the car he buttoned the jacket of his blue suit fastidiously, before shaking the hands of wellwishers. The battle for Turkey: can Selahattin Demirtas pull the country back from the brink of civil war? | Christopher de Bellaigue 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z
Tuesday, the university known for managing its image fastidiously put a beleaguered Sarkisian in front of a phalanx of cameras and microphones. Steve Sarkisian will seek treatment in wake of 'irresponsible' conduct at USC rally 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z
Ethnically diverse dolls, inanimate but not soulless, throng the ground floor of a fastidiously dusted house on a quiet residential block. Two Good Reasons to Visit St. Albans, Queens 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z
For a critical 19-month period, she fastidiously blocked its approval while drug company officials maligned her as a bureaucratic nitpicker. Frances Oldham Kelsey, heroine of thalidomide tragedy, dies at 101 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z
Coulter, 70, of the Peru High Rise fastidiously tracks his reading pace in a notebook. EXCHANGE: Peru resident reads 5,000 books in 8 years 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z
It's never going to be possible to address the multiple problems of low wages, marginal employment and increasing inequality while fastidiously ignoring these obvious causes under our noses. Job Growth Looks Great; Wage Growth, Less So 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z
She lives “uncommonly alone,” she says, with a twinge of shame, fastidiously running her farmstead. Review: ‘Homesman’ reverses the Western’s course 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z
He works at a hardware store and every night fastidiously drinks his tea at a local diner. Washington and Fuqua ride again in ‘The Equalizer’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z
This should be a time for wild, yet fastidiously isolated, celebration. Should we abandon handshakes in favour of fistbumps? No way 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z
He eventually found a megaphone to tell them that the government would work "fastidiously to invigorate the economy to make life easier not harder for the working people and citizens of Ghana". Ghana protests over rising prices 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z
Those of us who stop to observe this will marvel at the spectacle — the bee brushes its head fastidiously, like a grooming cat. Two books on the bumblebee
Let’s be fastidiously fair to Johnson and his supporters by acknowledging that a handful of the incidents he identifies do seem misclassified. The gun lobby’s new tactic: redefining 'school shootings' so they don’t count 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z
At that moment an ancient, fastidiously dressed lady passed by. City Room: Aching Feet and the Shoe Police 2014-04-04T12:44:11Z
His art was a fastidiously sifted blend of Western and Asian philosophy and theology, and more about ideas, words and actions than about things. A Mexican Showcase for Ambition 2014-02-19T23:14:19Z
It is certainly plausible - and in keeping with tradition - that the career bureaucrats of the Treasury are being too fastidiously conservative. Are chancellor and governor as one on housing? 2013-09-24T07:31:26Z
New cards and promotions are fastidiously monitored at sites like Flyertalk and Milepoint, and when a good deal hits the market, the community pounces. Is The Abuse Of Points Credit Cards Bad For The Economy? 2013-08-09T18:38:00Z
“I think people in the tech community are attracted to fastidiously designed and maintained brands,” Tom Conrad, the executive vice president of Pandora, said as our Land Cruiser drove between villages. A Save-the-World Field Trip for Millionaire Tech Moguls 2013-08-08T09:00:14Z
They fastidiously kept their own ledger – so when they noticed their bank balance approaching zero, they would simply sell some more gold. On the trail of Michael Mastro: how to flee the law when you are 87 2013-06-22T23:04:05Z
Or maybe the universe is like Jorge Luis Borges’s fastidiously imagined Library of Babel, composed of interminable numbers of hexagonal galleries with polished surfaces that “feign and promise infinity.” Basics: The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities 2012-12-31T21:34:10Z
You already think rationally, schedule fastidiously, document your objectives clearly, and check them off your list. Set Goals for 2013 You Can Achieve 2012-12-20T16:40:00Z
The equipment, fastidiously prepared to make sure that it does not contaminate the lake with microbes from the surface, was approved last year by the parties to the Antarctic Treaty. Hunt for Life under Antarctic Ice Heats Up 2012-11-21T17:15:00.317Z
Few game designers, having fastidiously arranged their game's levels and puzzles, go on to press the power to pull it all down into the player's hands. The 20 best games you may have missed in 2012 - part one 2012-11-19T11:58:58Z
Moore said the donor is “fastidiously private” about philanthropy. Georgetown receives $20 million environment gift 2012-11-05T19:17:01Z
Those of us who’ve fastidiously replicated our compact disc or vinyl music collections in digital form were out of luck. Can Neil Young Sell an iPod for Audiophiles? 2012-10-03T21:05:43Z
Advisers to Mitt Romney, facing a blackout of the opening-night program they fastidiously scripted to soften perceptions of the candidate, are angry. Limited Convention Coverage Will Leave Ann Romney Off Air 2012-08-23T05:42:06Z
As you may have guessed, this is the fastidiously clean smaller sister of the 520d – which is itself no slacker. Car review: BMW 320d 2012-07-14T23:05:26Z
While noisy, the protesters on Friday demonstrated Japan’s penchant for being well organized and fastidiously polite. In Tokyo, Thousands Protest the Restarting of a Nuclear Power Plant 2012-06-29T19:07:36Z
Still he must not be fastidiously critical about his friend. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z
He smiled as he thrust the bills he held down among the dusty bundles in the drawer, and brushed his finger tips fastidiously. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z
The pensive girl had produced a silver fork and was delicately helping herself, fastidiously turning over the ingredients. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z
For her thoughts had run fastidiously on the wording of it all through breakfast-time. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z
Beatrice was fastidiously refined in some respects, and she thought of him as clean. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z
She knew he loved her and he had a strange fascination; he stood for romance and adventure, but she was fastidiously honest and now and then he jarred. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z
He knocked fastidiously with the amber knob of his cane. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z
He was old and rather fat, but his clothes were fastidiously neat and his glance was keen. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z
The shipbuilders who produced it back in 1899 left a legacy of rock-solid construction and fastidiously sealed joints and other detailing. | Prospect Heights, Brooklyn: Habitats | A Prospect Heights Home Wrapped in Plain Brick 2011-09-23T21:15:06Z
No frivolous abandon is allowed; pins, and even pomade, are resorted to, until what is undoubtedly beautiful in itself is rendered sufficiently unbecoming to soothe the most fastidiously decorous mind. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z
They immediately took possession again, and sniffing fastidiously, dragged out the deep comfortable bedding which they had prepared against the winter; for Stubbs hates anything which a fox has tainted. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z
As for Rooney, he fastidiously ignored the cameraman who ran on the pitch at the final whistle to record his reaction. Wayne Rooney reminds Chelsea which of the f-words he is really about 2011-04-06T22:40:41Z
He was cool and, by contrast with Deering, looked fastidiously refined. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z
Oh, if she were only less delicate, less fastidiously reared, less unable to endure even vexation! The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z
Why is it always the highest who fall? horsham shies fastidiously at this touch of poetry. horsham.   No, my dear Charles, let us above all things keep our mental balance. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z
And a good thing too, because if I had I would have spent this week fastidiously wiping industrial quantities of egg off my face. The Spin 2011-02-15T11:16:22Z
"A crowd there—rather!" remarked the hero of the cigar, as he fastidiously held it between his finger and thumb and knocked the ashes off the end. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z
My Type 1's work out fastidiously and watch their diet. Civil war: Diabetes vs. diabetes 2010-11-30T05:46:00Z
I proudly pointed to my kitchen sink, where I’d fastidiously placed canisters of antibacterial wipes and liquid soap. Would the City Shut Down Your Kitchen? 2010-09-28T23:58:00Z
He carefully, fastidiously and imperturbably achieves the desired results. In-Box: Letters to the Editor 2010-04-24T21:07:00Z
Much of his time at the laundry is spent scribbling fastidiously in notebooks. 2010-01-16T05:33:00Z
Winthrope took another deep draught, rinsed his fingers fastidiously, and arose. Into the Primitive
So he dressed carefully, tying his bow to perfection, and arranging the set of his waistcoat fastidiously. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel
She herself was to be presented to society with expensive display, and her pride shivered fastidiously at the realization that all this outlay came from a purse not their own, and entailed an undeclared obligation. The Tempering
Though small, they were fastidiously furnished and formed what agents call a "bijou." The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident
I felt the importance of every word, and fastidiously pondered over each expression I employed. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance
Having thus eagerly disposed of several substantial lumps, the great lynx became more critical, and went sniffing fastidiously from morsel to morsel as if he revelled in such unexpected abundance. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life
Otherwise he was fastidiously arrayed in white flannels and, by his seraphic smile and guileless expression, seemed abnormally at peace with his circumstances. The Destroying Angel
"I suggest we adjourn to the commissary," Martin said fastidiously. The Ego Machine
Bentley had noticed that despite the long years he had been a virtual hermit, Barter ate as fastidiously as he probably had done when he had lived among his own kind. Astounding Stories, June, 1931
The name of the deity, fastidiously concealed from the vulgar, was, in English, One. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal
Unlike them all, she was fastidiously neat in her personal habits, and orderly in all the little arrangements of life. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine
He helped himself fastidiously to curried chicken, tasted it with delicate deliberation, and left it on his plate. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur
I have never seen him otherwise than gentle, generous, well-bred, and fastidiously refined. Home Life of Great Authors
Well, Mr. Walker is a gentleman by education and instincts; and is fastidiously tenacious of what is due a gentleman. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
They dressed fastidiously, went to church, uttered hallelujahs, gave dainty receptions, formed associations to dole out alms and—kept up prices and rents. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times
The animal stepped daintily and proudly, lifting his little feet and planting them among the stones as though fastidiously. Gold
They were fastidiously, perhaps haughtily, rejected; on this pernicious and false principle, that to correct his errors in genealogy might discredit the whole work. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors
I, however, threw myself in his way, though after a manner so fastidiously proud and jealous, that even yet, every time the recollection crosses me, it provokes me to a smile. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education.
He was not born an idealist, and his fastidiously dry and sensuous soul, with its French tinge of cynicism was not capable of dreaming.... Fathers and Children
There was a Roman poet, fastidiously bound, and then–there was the Ritual. The Missourian
She is fastidiously clean—and in this respect, she might well be imitated by many of her detractors. Eighth Reader
He had, perhaps, the foibles of a man who was clearing himself from obscurity; he prided himself on his family alliances, while he fastidiously looked askance on the trade of his father—a rope-manufacturer. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors
The woman he had acknowledged as his wife stood in a corner of the room, her skirts drawn fastidiously about her, looking on with unmistakable and fascinated interest. Kildares of Storm
From her mouth, came big puffs of smoke, which she fastidiously blew up in the space toward which she looked when her eyes were open. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.'
A woman of forty sat on his right––he promptly 211 forgot her name each time he heard it––who ate fastidiously and chose birth-control as the subject for conversation. The Crimson Tide A Novel
He was fastidiously dressed in double-breasted waistcoat of figured silk, loosely fitting trousers, fawn-colored kid gloves, light pumps and silk hose. The Strollers
As he ate fastidiously, he made a few faintly sardonic observations about the cookery, and, after the girl had brought in a pot of coffee, he frowned at the cup he put down. The Greater Power
At all times he had been careful in his toilet, but now, pardonably vain, he fastidiously occupied every moment of leisure in brushing and combing his long, fine, soft fur. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain
Though so frank and unconstrained in manner, the girl was as truly refined as the most fastidiously reared ladies of the East. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation
Then, fastidiously selecting a shred of the victim’s torn flesh, he sniffed and nibbled at it, and then threw it aside. In the Morning of Time
As Dave spoke, a tall, fastidiously dressed youth came down the car aisle. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy
Picking somewhat fastidiously, he nevertheless managed to make so good a meal off that big trout that there was little but head and tail to toss back to his captor. Kings in Exile
She stood up, brushing the seat of her gown fastidiously, like one who was used to sitting in cleaner surroundings. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
Ashton, after fastidiously wiping his hands on a wisp of grass, placed his hunting knife in his belt and his rifle in its saddle sheath. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation
When she left school Beth was fastidiously refined. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
To measure half a bushel of apples is not ordinarily a serious matter, but in this instance the vendor chose fastidiously. Otherwise Phyllis
At the end of half an hour, the man re-entered carrying a note fastidiously between his left thumb and forefinger. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
There are great emergencies in which we do not fastidiously choose our words. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
Up to the present time you've kept fastidiously clear of such entanglements. Athalie
Torrance was fastidiously neat, and the blotting pad from which the soiled sheets had been removed bore the impress of Christopher Allonby’s big, legible writing. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter
The t's are crossed and the i's are dotted, so to speak, more carefully in Robert Browning than in works less fastidiously edited, but that is all. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
She was a very kind woman—in fact, she was nearly all heart—but she was fastidiously neat. Jessie Carlton The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the Wizard, and Conquered Him
As to many things, nay, as to most things which have to do with the flesh rather than the spirit, men are more fastidiously delicate than are women. Studies in love and in terror
That wonderful adornment was wonderfully luxuriant, gray and curly, pretty to an extreme, and kept most fastidiously trimmed, and it lifted when he smiled to display a most engaging row of white, even teeth. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man
His brother, standing, with sour, sarcastic face, upon the hearth, held fastidiously between finger and thumb an article which apparently it was not agreeable to him to touch. A Sheaf of Corn
Moving farther along the bank, he came upon the two policemen, who looked very hot and somewhat muddy, 68 which, as they were usually fastidiously neat, was noticeable. Prescott of Saskatchewan
It was one night at the Wordens' that Belding caught what he took to be evidence of a heart that was fastidiously concealed. The Rapids
He went out on the veranda where Nicolette was already seated with a young gentleman, very fastidiously dressed. The Comedienne
Everything, as usual, was fastidiously neat and clean. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch
They are arrogant, ignorant, and austere; passing from devotion to obscenity; fastidiously abstemious in some things, and grossly sensual in others. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
He was thirty-four; his dress, though dusty, was fastidiously neat; his expression was pleasant, but there was an air of formality about him. Prescott of Saskatchewan
The “housekeeping corner” of the chapel was in a state of confusion very much at variance with the young housekeeper’s fastidiously tidy habits. Cruel As The Grave
They are fastidiously honest, and strictly upright, though they make mistakes like other human beings. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock
“It will indeed, for they must be very nicely done,” said Peggy fastidiously. About Peggy Saville
Having been fastidiously purified by repeated scourings and ablutions, it proved very useful in preparing our meals, of which fresh fish frequently formed the principal part. The Island Home
He was seen everywhere, fastidiously attired, self-possessed, taciturn, listening to the chatter of his friends with sardonic attention, now and then throwing in a blighting comment. Sacrifice
The Samoan had always been fastidiously cautious in guarding cash. A Son Of The Sun
We find them brave and pusillanimous; gentle and ferocious; resolute and inconstant; active and indolent; fastidiously abstemious, and indiscriminately indulgent. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
And at these times his fellow-pupil’s fastidiously clean hands and unruffled, prim and dandified aspect came before him, making him feel resolved to be more particular as to the character of the hobbies he rode. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
The ball was at his feet: should it be rolled on, or fastidiously turned aside by reason of certain fantastic notions as to its derogating, in some inconceivable way, from the dignity of authorship? Charles Dickens as a Reader
I don’t know—” He lifted his nostrils fastidiously and gazed at the fire. Clayhanger
I should not have ventured to send it to you until I had slowly and fastidiously revised it. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
One's first impression is that this must be a singularly unpleasant operation for the worm, however fastidiously delicate and exemplary in the robin. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
She shrank fastidiously from anything undignified, and she felt that through no fault of her own she was now in an undignified position. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date
He was born in the lap of a society daintily intellectual and fastidiously cultivated. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
Anthony, at any rate, was very fastidiously dressed indeed, in light-grey tweeds, with a straw hat, and a tie that bespoke a practised hand beside a discerning taste. The Lady Paramount
He was tying a fastidiously correct bow on his tan oxford when he happened to glance out of the window. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
The less said about my discoveries the better for the fastidiously minded. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
We flee from deadly horrors of climate to be fastidiously critical. A Truthful Woman in Southern California
Colbert waited the effect which this coarse jest would produce upon the king; and Louis XIV., who was the vainest and the most fastidiously delicate man in his kingdom, forgave Colbert the joke. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"
On its back what at first appeared an elegantly dressed young man, a youth even fastidiously and fancifully accoutered, with riding boots that shone and a flaunting white plume and red lined cape floating wildly. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure
She who was so fastidiously dainty of manner, half rose, spilling her soup. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
"No, indeed," said Mrs. Carleton; " but you are so fastidiously nice in all your notions! at this rate nothing will ever satisfy you." Queechy, Volume I
In giving this meaning to the phrase 'clear and present danger,' the Court of Appeals was fastidiously confining the rhetoric of opinions to the exact scope of what was decided by them. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
At the same time he was fastidiously undemocratic in many of his tastes. The Story of Cooperstown
Some were left, as though the thief had fastidiously made his selection, scorning to trouble himself with anything but the best. The Second Latchkey
The alien picked his way fastidiously through the noxious debris to the end of the long room. Star Born
The fastidiously manicured fingers were as tapering and white as her own. The Lighted Match
Towards ladies, his manner was always most fastidiously delicate and courteous. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
Each of these authors fastidiously rejects whatever is not essential to the subject, and in putting together the most vivid features is careful to guard against the interposition of anything frivolous, unbecoming, or tiresome. On the Sublime
He trimmed the bowl fastidiously with his thumb, smiling the while. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories
What would her haughty guardian say, if he who so sedulously watched over her movements, and fastidiously chose her associates, could look upon her now? Infelice
He was a young man of wealth and good family, exceedingly anxious for social distinction, and, moreover, so fastidiously honourable that Neil felt himself in his hands to be beyond reproach. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York
He leaned forward with his gloved hands on his cane and once or twice under his fastidiously trimmed beard, his lips twitched painfully. Destiny
Sensitive, defiant, vulnerable, fastidiously proud—so Gilbert had always been and always would be. Dangerous Ages
It is wonderful how much work one person, who does none of it and who must live fastidiously, can make in a small household. The Other Girls
The snail extended a cool cautious tentacle,—recoiled it fastidiously and shaped a new course. Idolatry A Romance
The normally healthy man is a highly selective creature, and the normally healthy woman still more fastidiously selective in romantic relationship. Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity
There the musician and the girl went, he as explorer, fastidiously critical, yet enduring what he regarded as squalor and anarchy, for the new experience of feeling that he was penetrating Bohemia. Destiny
Keela had been restless and unhappy, fastidiously aloof with the Seminoles, shy and reticent with white men. Diane of the Green Van
This pretty and in some respects fastidiously correct young person ought not surely to find amusement in defrauding even a water company. The Wharf by the Docks A Novel
Upon perceiving their master they withdrew, Francesco making a smiling congé, and the Spaniard, without condescending to notice it, fastidiously remarking to his companion that he relished not superfluous attendance. The Piazza Tales
Without being the very least dandyish, Ishmael was still fastidiously nice in his personal appointments; purity and refinement pervaded his presence. Ishmael Or, In the Depths
Her small nose puckered fastidiously as she added, "The company is odious and I hate the play and the hotels provide unfinished road-beds to sleep on and I've been headachy and altogether miserable." Destiny
Immobile and subtle now as his silent companion, he stared curiously at the other's fastidiously pointed beard, at the dark eyes and tightly compressed lips, and impudently proffered his cigarettes. Diane of the Green Van
Elegantly and fastidiously attired, the young millionaire appeared to be attentive to his partner. The Day of the Beast
He was the one man to be found in San Juan who was dressed as the rather fastidiously inclined business men dress in the cities. The Bells of San Juan
Mr Gywnne was a gentleman, even in his peculiarities—fastidiously a gentleman—and comported himself as such to every one. Gladys, the Reaper
He was spoken of as fastidiously clean of life, and yet it is doubtful whether any shadow of self-illusion found harbor in his own mind. Destiny
It's really a very comfortable way of traveling about and the wagon was fastidiously fitted up by my distinguished predecessor. Diane of the Green Van
The only question was whether an author so fastidiously unstagey, who never underlines his intentions, would be able to accommodate himself to the conditions of a medium that discourages the elliptical method. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917
Already, as she shrank fastidiously into the corner of a third-class travelling-carriage, her project seemed to have reached its original and notable materialization. A Daughter of To-Day
I can sincerely say, that although I have frequently heard of aberrations on his part from the 'straight and narrow path,' I have never seen him otherwise than gentle, generous, well-bred, and fastidiously refined. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
He threaded alder thickets and passed through groves of silver birches that shivered fastidiously in the breeze. Destiny
He recoils fastidiously from the fleshly and loses himself in the spiritual. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance
Standing in the full light, she was a tall, slight girl, fastidiously, if simply dressed—veiled, gloved, shod as befitted a woman of the world; and as he gazed on her, one thought possessed Blake. Max
As the native habits are not especially cleanly, a fastidiously inclined guest has a trying time of it. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
Tinned meats had given out; this was considered the last straw, even by the fastidiously clean, and the toxicologist who liked his salmon fresh. The Siege of Kimberley
This fastidiously groomed, exclusively tailored young man, to be seen in the pages spoken of and at art exhibitions, is certainly not of Art, nor is he of business. Walking-Stick Papers
His palette is ever cool and fastidiously restricted. Promenades of an Impressionist
He stooped, picked up one white piece, gazed at it, dropped it, picked up another, gazed at it, dropped it fastidiously. The Price of Love
Opposite her, his cigarette held fastidiously aloft, he regarded her through its haze. Every Soul Hath Its Song
He was not so fastidiously exact about killing his man by inches. The Siege of Kimberley
Personally Annie was fastidiously tidy, which Rosemary ungenerously set down to youthful vanity rather than to innate cleanliness. The Phantom Herd
She, who was so fastidiously dainty of manner, half rose, spilling her soup. The Vertical City
Then lowering its tail and drawing its plumage in fastidiously against the body, it crossed her path in an evasive circle and disappeared behind the pines. The Mettle of the Pasture
The houses were ultra-Dutch, being low, angular, fastidiously neat, and all erected with their gables to the street. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas
Always fastidiously booted, her low-quartered shoes were charming to the eye, but hardly adapted to the dust and inequalities of the high-road. Frontier Stories
I had never seen a table so well arranged, so fastidiously neat; it glittered with glass and French china. The Morgesons
He was fastidiously exclusive, and no guest at the cottage ever succeeded in making up to him. Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews
Charming Billy, his hat carefully dimpled, his blue tie fastidiously knotted and pierced with the Klondyke nugget-pin which was his only ornament, wandered hastily through the assembled groups and slapped viciously at mosquitoes. The Long Shadow
He had been in the habit of doing for himself, as he called it, ever since his daughter had forsaken him, and he was by nature fastidiously clean and neat. Alone in London
Then fastidiously dusting the back of one hand, he kissed it audibly. The Wrong Twin
He looked up from them, ahemed! and fastidiously straightened his waistcoat. My Brilliant Career
Instead, she wheeled to see a pair of fastidiously pressed blue serge trousers, an immaculate white collar, a straight nose and ruddy complexion. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
I was unarmed, but the Chinese have learned to be fastidiously careful of American hip pockets, and it was upon this that I depended to keep him and his savage crew at a distance. Tales of the Fish Patrol
What might appear sordid and squalid to the fastidiously reared, was to them eminently wholesome and natural. Burning Daylight
He walked now to an ash tray and fastidiously trimmed the end of his cigarette. The Wrong Twin
He was fastidiously exclusive, and no guest at the cottage ever succeeded in making up to him.  Love of Life and Other Stories
Nell nodded her head and watched as the man's fastidiously pressed trousers and polished shoes cleared the closing door. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
Being a good deal of a dude, and dressing very fastidiously, he did not much relish visiting the livery stable attached to the hotel. Joe the Hotel Boy
Rosamond, though no older than Mary, was rather used to being fallen in love with; but she, for her part, had remained indifferent and fastidiously critical towards both fresh sprig and faded bachelor. Middlemarch
It not only boasted a window, but there was a round hole in the "shake" roof, fastidiously cut to fit a stove-pipe. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
She stood before the woman in all the moral excellence of a censor fastidiously clad. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
I remember my father at the time as a tall, dark, proud man, most fastidiously groomed and dressed. The Bride of Dreams
"No indeed," said Mrs. Carleton;—"but you are so fastidiously nice in all your notions!—at this rate nothing will ever satisfy you." Queechy
"I know no one else so fastidiously refined, without being a prig." The Heavenly Twins
The Araucana is agreeably savage in its first part without being ferocious and fastidiously civilised in the sequels without being contemptible. Initiation into Literature
She resembled her own house to a striking degree; she was fastidiously neat, but not in the least orderly. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
The nails must always be fastidiously clean, and never allowed to grow inordinately long. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.
Don Calixto dresses in black, very fastidiously, and the effect is smart, but smacks of the notary. Cæsar or Nothing
A woman may present no difficulties to the most fastidiously bred man, and yet be found wanting in a thousand particulars by the women of his social class. Together
Mr. Rodney and some others, including Mr. Vigo, faced a couple of grooms, who sat with folded arms and unmoved countenances, fastidiously stolid amid all the fun, and grave even when they opened the champagne. Endymion
He had no collar on; but he wove a cravat and otherwise he was accurately and even fastidiously dressed. The Lady of the Aroostook
But you needn't dismiss her altogether from your fastidiously romantic soul merely because she has belonged to another. The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
They work at their style assiduously and fastidiously. Tales of the Wilderness
"Very well," said Gwendolen, arranging her hat fastidiously, "then you will please to consider that you are half happy, which is more than I am used to seeing you." Daniel Deronda
Yet the robes against which they had been pressed were spotless, and the hands that had held her were fastidiously clean, even to the well-kept nails. The Sheik
He was of robust carriage, of refined manners, fastidiously dressed, and very rich. The Reign of Greed
When he began to drink it was his custom to repair at once to a barber and submit to having his side-whiskers trimmed fastidiously. The Boss of Little Arcady
His clothes were fastidiously good, his voice had a level, restrained note, but his eye was like a hawk's, as Vernon had said. Lister's Great Adventure
His brick-red hair was as unkempt as if it had never known a comb, yet the attire of the great detective was as fastidiously neat as if he had dressed for an important social function. Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
Sheridan was, indeed, most fastidiously changeful in his names. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
Many fashionable open secrets, accepted by a brilliant world, were not half so fastidiously managed. The Head of the House of Coombe
Miss Blake picked her way fastidiously through the bonbons, nibbling tentatively at several before making her choice. Going Some
As she again looked up she met the ardent gaze and ingratiating smile of an elegant young man who was sauntering up the train-platform to the exit gate, fastidiously apart from his fellow passengers. Out of the Primitive
"I crave your pardon, dame," said the Duke, shaking aside, fastidiously, the grasp which, in the earnestness of her exculpation, Madam Dowlas had clutched upon his sleeve. Peveril of the Peak
He stepped through them languidly, and, rejecting the proffered assistance of a couple of officious friends, drew on a boxing-glove fastidiously, like an exquisite preparing for a fashionable promenade. Cashel Byron's Profession
But I had too often heard men speak of women as if they were mere personal conveniences to feel surprised that exactly the same view is held, only more fastidiously, by women. Getting Married
He coughed, put on his glasses, arranged them fastidiously, coughed again, and wished something would happen to avert the seemingly inevitable exposure. The Invisible Man
In the room also were Connie Girard and Rose Ransome, who had a bowl of soapsuds and several scissors and orange-wood sticks on the table between them, and were manicuring each other very fastidiously. The Story of Julia Page
I felt as if I had drifted a little bit farther from old times, when we held our heads rather fastidiously high above "odd people." My Young Alcides
"Talking of friends," said Sarah, and fastidiously cleared her throat. Australia Felix
Prosper Bertomy, head cashier of Fauvel's banking-house, was a tall, handsome man, of about thirty, with fair hair and large dark-blue eyes, fastidiously neat, and dressed in the height of fashion. File No. 113
He read slowly and fastidiously, and sought in literature for one thing alone. Huntingtower
Festing was fastidiously just, and thought it shabby to steal a workman's time; moreover, he imagined that if he had asked the fellow to go on after the whistle blew he would have refused. The Girl from Keller's
Of Mrs. Finn it must be acknowledged that she was, perhaps fastidiously, afraid of appearing to take advantage of her friendship with the Duke's family. The Duke's Children
"No. Conscious isn't quite the word," I said fastidiously. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga
Colbert awaited the effect this coarse jest would produce upon the king; and Louis XIV., who was the vainest and the most fastidiously delicate man in his kingdom, forgave Colbert the joke. The Man in the Iron Mask
The fourth man here distastefully threw back a half-nibbled biscuit into the box, and languidly slipped from the barrel to the floor, fastidiously flicking the crumbs from his clothes as he did so. A First Family of Tasajara
What good were his generalities to this young, fastidiously nurtured girl, brought up to tell the truth, by a father so old-fashioned and devoted, whom she loved? Saint's Progress
"Don't do that," said Jack fastidiously, "it's wet enough outside." Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
Embarrassed with these reflections, and himself of a nature fancifully, almost fastidiously, delicate, he could only in reply stammer forth an acknowledgement of his companion's goodness, and his own gratitude. Redgauntlet
He was fastidiously accurate and horribly squeamish, tried to be cynical and coarse in his speech, but was an idealist by nature. Virgin Soil
Insensibly she shared in this deep drinking of sensation, but always gracefully, fastidiously, never losing sense of other people's feelings. Beyond
Always fastidiously booted, her low-quartered shoes were charming to the eye, but hardly adapted to the dust and inequalities of the highroad. In the Carquinez Woods
It WAS Flynn, but completely shaven of beard and mustache, closely clipped of hair, and in a fastidiously cut suit of black! A Waif of the Plains
A dark, military-looking man pushed his way through the crowd—the surgeon, one of the posse, accompanied by a younger man fastidiously dressed. By Shore and Sedge
It was a piece of "composition," in which the most fastidiously critical taste could scarcely have suggested an emendation. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
The farmhouse was in a hollow, but always on those excursions Anthony, fastidiously dressed, picking his way half-irritably through briars and cornfields, would go to the edge of the cliffs and stand there, looking down. A Poor Wise Man
It placed him in the rare position of being able to pick and choose the crews for his augmented fleet, and he chose fastidiously. Captain Blood
All day he sat in a fastidiously appointed office, surrounded by works of art and evidences of his high culture, directing through glass doors and windows the affairs of his house. Options
She remained quiet, for she had learned the hypersensitiveness induced by drink and was fastidiously careful not to hurt him even with the knowledge that she had lain awake for him. The Valley of the Moon
He was thin, fastidiously cravatted, booted and spurred like one-and-twenty; he crossed his arms and clinked his spurs as if he possessed all the wanton energy of youth. The Magic Skin
What was he, really, under that calm, fastidiously dressed, handsome exterior? A Poor Wise Man
He chose, fastidiously, the best the cellar could produce, grumbling a little at the bourgeois character of the dishes. The Glimpses of the Moon
And then I chuckled softly to myself, and set out to the fastidiously appointed private office of Monsieur Louis Devoe, usurper to the hand of the Pearl of the Pacific. Options
Markel was fat and important; he had beady black eyes, fastidiously trimmed whiskers—and a pronounced smirk. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
Was it probable that Arjamand and her Emperor had loved fastidiously, and yet how they had loved! The Pool in the Desert
It was Kate Flanagan’s best Sunday waist, than whom there was no more exacting and fastidiously dressed woman in Maria’s world.  Martin Eden
Jimmie Dale instantly and nonchalantly produced his cigarette case, selected a cigarette, and fastidiously tapped its end on his thumb nail. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
But he was very tentative, fastidiously so, letting Ruth set the pace of sprightliness and fancy, keeping up with her but never daring to go beyond her. Martin Eden
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