| 单词 | fastidiousness |
| 例句 | She remembers her husband’s fastidiousness, his war against germs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She found his fastidiousness and complete lack of humor touching and longed to introduce him to the idea of delight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But, of course, there are different kinds of fastidiousness. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z As a man who dedicates his life to fastidiousness and perfection, and for whom English is not his first language, he will only agree to answer questions by email. Pianomania: the little film that struck a major chord 2010-08-16T21:00:00Z When the two are thrust together as adults Lewis and Ricci channel an "Odd Couple" energy where Oscar truly hates Felix, whose fastidiousness may be a symptom of something keenly awry. "Yellowjackets" is a fantastic, terrifying plummet into the darkness of female desire and rage 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z “Diffident, balding, 50-ish in appearance,” he added, Mr. Moravec played “with a fastidiousness of detail and elegant sense of pianistic color that lend themselves more to quiet introspection than to a flamboyant hard sell.” Ivan Moravec, Pianist Who Specialized in Chopin, Dies at 84 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z How do we reconcile our fastidiousness with the knowledge of children kept in cages, children ripped from their parents’ arms and housed in sparse and frightening shelters? A liberal parenting paradox: Meticulously raising our kids while migrant families are torn apart 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z This fastidiousness was also in evidence at the inn: Guests are given separate slippers to wear into the toilet room and are forbidden to wear them anyplace else. Why you should stay in a Japanese ryokan 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z That fastidiousness and the idea of maintaining a stiff upper lip and a formality with every situation, even when things get really crazy and difficult to control. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly on ‘Holmes & Watson’ and ‘Step Brothers’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Barnes is a wicked observer of the fastidiousness and pedantry of the suburban male. Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z A brave rethink of a work commonly taken for granted, it didn't always sound stylistically coherent, despite Gardiner's fastidiousness and the weighty poetry of Vogt's often-wonderful playing. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z Dapper in a three-piece suit and fob watch, he jokes at the expense of his own fastidiousness, but never to the point of caricature. Paul F Tompkins – review 2013-04-09T16:11:03Z Do you find any of that fastidiousness creeping into your everyday life? A Proper Talk With Actor Jim Carter: Downton Abbey‘s Mr. Carson Talks to TIME 2013-01-03T15:00:41Z Springsteen's fastidiousness extended even to the last details of his photograph on the sleeve, chosen only after a series of glossier set-ups were rejected. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z And it is, perhaps; his fastidiousness produces a clear accounting of events, but occasionally keeps us on the exterior of the characters’ beating hearts for too long. Books of The Times: ‘Oddly Normal,’ by John Schwartz 2012-12-12T20:47:48Z There have been times, in past seasons, when energy and enthusiasm have come close to swamping fastidiousness in this group’s readings, and generally the results were exciting enough that the tradeoff was acceptable. Music Review: One Fresh Score in Place of Another 2011-03-09T22:30:16Z The detail of Kurtág's compositional imagination is matched by the inspirational and sometimes forbidding fastidiousness of his teaching of the whole repertoire of classical chamber music and his coaching of his own music. A guide to György Kurtág's music 2013-03-12T10:13:00Z She has passed that fastidiousness to her son. An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z Still, Judis would surely wave aside these objections as typical liberal fastidiousness, untuned to the more elemental, raw longings of national identity that liberals need to accommodate fast. Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The same fastidiousness is apparent in one of the exhibition’s great moments, a side-by-side display of Vallotton’s portrait of Gertrude Stein and the far better-known one by Picasso. Review | The Félix Vallotton exhibition at the Met is not to be missed 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Diana said she admired my fastidiousness for getting one more word. Cinema, Campari and a carrier bag of Quality Street: Edgar Wright remembers Diana Rigg 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Add a small assortment of expressions — gimlet stare, disapproving frown, twinkling grin — and across roughly 80 hours of screen time a full portrait emerges of pride, loyalty, fastidiousness, kindness and implacable principle. ‘Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ Comes to an End 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z This stems not only from the league’s fastidiousness about its image but also from Mr. Madden’s insistence that the game be exciting and educational. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z The core battle, however, is a defense of what Gustave, doused in cologne and charming fastidiousness, calls the “faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.” Films to Heal a Broken Moment 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z There are twin influences in Saunders' work of postwar German fastidiousness and expressionism on one hand, and experimental, Cageian concentration on the other. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z At Haldi he brings to the kitchen a quiet fastidiousness while staying true to the homey nature of the dishes. Haldi in Midtown South 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z And how many men are there in the business whom a person of “fastidiousness” would be wholly unjustified as criticising for “coarseness of fibre”? I should have to rack my brains. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z It becomes clear that there is something extreme in her fastidiousness. Moral Questions Lurk Beneath a Ghost Story in ‘Melmoth’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Grids figure in Gallagher's work a lot, suggesting a fastidiousness that is not echoed in her studio. Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote 2013-05-07T18:30:10Z That fastidiousness initially put Mr Nichtern on edge: “I remember feeling, ‘Oh, does she think I’m incompetent right now?’ Practicing the Perfections of Meditation, and Love 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s one thing — a complicated, prodigious thing — to write such fastidious lyrics, and then to mock that fastidiousness by rhyming “Hallelujah” with “what’s it to ya.” An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Van Gelder was known not just for his skill as an engineer but also for his fastidiousness, as exemplified by his insistence on wearing gloves while working. Rudy Van Gelder, 91, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Jazz Sound on Records, Dies 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z And occasionally, Mr. Weldon becomes Comic Book Guy in spite of himself, writing with the same pedantry and fastidiousness. Review: ‘The Caped Crusade’ and Batman’s Reach Beyond — Gasp! — Comic Book Lore 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Almost the only character free from testosterone-filled anxiety is Max's brother, Sam, whom Des McAleer endows with just the right neutered fastidiousness. The Homecoming ? review 2011-08-04T10:54:01Z Mr. Dominik is a clever hand at genre pastiche, and the result is a movie, like “The Assassination of Jesse James,” that is sapped of vitality by its own self-conscious, curatorial fastidiousness. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z Diop discusses her work with a fastidiousness and solemnity that reverberates through her entire person. Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you' 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Cleaving to the sports-as-salvation playbook with more fastidiousness than creativity, “The Hammer” offers a sincere but wearyingly formulaic portrait of triumph over adversity. | 'The Hammer': ?The Hammer,? Based on the Wrestler Matt Hamill ? Review 2011-10-26T21:58:05Z His fastidiousness has never calcified into a streamlined process. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z So what happens when Hollywood, an industry not known for factual fastidiousness, gets its hands on Tubman’s story? Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The fastidiousness is a continuation of how Fennell approached “Promising Young Woman.” Emerald Fennell has already conquered Hollywood. Now she wants to follow her 'crushes' 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z For the uninitiated, the precision of his compositions, the graceful drift of his camera movements and the fastidiousness of his musical choices can seem restrained to the point of stiffness. Appreciation: Terence Davies, a master filmmaker, brought quiet passion and lyrical beauty to the screen 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Yet his reputation for fastidiousness and melancholy overlooks how varied his films are — and the wild emotions he explores. The 15 movies we're most excited for this summer 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z No Labels people, who are refugees from both parties, share a Mugwumpean fastidiousness in rejecting both parties’ bad manners. Opinion | Voters do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. A third option might appeal. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Still, my radically different experience raises the question: By our obsessions and fastidiousness, are we engendering in our kids the very questions we are hellbent to prevent? Opinion | Pretty soon, we’ll just not let children read 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z In matters of law, however, isn’t fastidiousness — concern for accuracy and detail — what you want? Opinion | George Will’s poor defense of Clarence and Virginia Thomas 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z They probably wouldn’t equal Mr. DeMarco’s stolid fastidiousness, but they could try. One Pizza at a Time, He Defined the New York Slice 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But if their confounding, at times uncanny fastidiousness can dazzle, it may also leave you shrugging your shoulders, aching for something less cerebral and conceptually slippery. Review | Is acclaimed sculptor Charles Ray losing his magic touch? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin’s public projections of a “satirical image of masculine vigor” he writes, were curated “with the fastidiousness of a teenager on Instagram.” Review: Barack Obama's memoir is a masterful lament over the fragility of hope 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Despite his fastidiousness in applying to the PPP program, Hodges kept receiving emails asking for more paperwork from banks — adding more delays. Small businesses despair as loan money is exhausted 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The other Knussen scores were examples of his flair, spunk and fastidiousness. Commentary: Oliver Knussen, the greatest British musician of his time? The L.A. Phil pays tribute 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z His fastidiousness seemed ominous, so I asked him if Hannah was pregnant. “Old Hope” 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The appearance of such fastidiousness is part of his power; his policy positions, however extreme, are shrouded in legal rationales. The Unlawful Ambitions of Donald Trump’s Immigration Policy 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z I’ve dined with friends who are transported by the fastidiousness of Phan’s cooking and others who shrug, not at all moved by bowls of mush with stuff on top. Review: At Porridge + Puffs, rice is Minh Phan's canvas for sophisticated self-expression 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z That pert little waxed and styled adornment signals the Belgian detective’s fastidiousness. Poirot without a moustache? This is not what I call festive cheer | Rhik Samadder 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It seemed to her to represent, she says, “a certain fastidiousness.” The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z It was a populist rather than elite CV, but she had a reputation for limitless energy and fastidiousness. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The current president’s contribution — unintended but not insignificant — to America’s civic health might be to help cure the country of unreasonable fastidiousness regarding presidential aspirants. Opinion | The president we didn’t know we always wanted 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Compare that to the iPhone’s pace of usually incremental changes, implemented at predictable intervals and with excruciating fastidiousness. Android’s trust problem isn’t getting better 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Constructed with dollhouse fastidiousness, their hyper-symmetrical, squared-off tableaus dressed with gorgeous textures and color palettes — and their clipped dialogue delivered with deadpan sincerity — they depict a universe with only glancing resemblance to the real world. Review | Wes Anderson brings his jewel-box aesthetic to Japan with ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z He scribbled his name quickly as she made a face at his fastidiousness. President Trump tweeted, sailor’s career is on the line 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z His wife explains his fastidiousness by pointing out, “He’s Swiss.” The Struggling Artist at 86 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It embodies some of Apple’s better traits, like attention to detail and high-quality craftsmanship, but the overall impression is one of fastidiousness and self-indulgence. A $29 holster for the iPad Pencil might be the most Apple product ever 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Rousseau thought that he had made this effort; he separated himself with a showy fastidiousness from the upwardly mobile man, “the sort who acts the part of the Freethinker.” How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z But in terms of photo quality, the co-founders had a long way to go before reaching today’s levels of fastidiousness when it comes to composition, precision, and editing. Take a Look Back at Instagram's First Posts, Six Years Ago 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Simon cautions that this fastidiousness is no rebuttal to his declaration that he’s ready to let it all go. Could This Be the End of Paul Simon’s Rhymin’? 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z In the Martin era, so much pop music has been violent in its fastidiousness: no stumbling, no retreat, no lackadaisical exhalations. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Another submerged his hand in a pan of leftover chicken curry, to challenge his natural fastidiousness. The Happiness Code 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z For all his professional fastidiousness, Mr. Shaffer also displayed a studied flamboyance. Charles N. Shaffer Jr., Lawyer Who Bolstered Case Against Nixon, Dies at 82 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Still, there are subjects and times that demand particular fastidiousness on the part of journalists, even if that means interrogating sources with inordinate thoroughness. The Clash of Civilizations That Isn’t 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z In a company with inexhaustible marketing resources, Ive’s authorship of the film suggested fastidiousness about the seductive display of his work. Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z To do this in the name of environmental fastidiousness is hilarious. The Keystone catechism 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In recent years, though, OCD has finally started to transcend its image of silly fastidiousness. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the Half-Mad Mind Return to talking about his fastidiousness, or his supply-chain management, or whatever. Thank you, Tim Cook 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Notwithstanding the fastidiousness of a handful of contemporary artists, studio precision seems to be a lost art – or maybe just a lost discipline. Yacht Rock, Rihanna Covers And "The Rhythms Of Life:" West Coast Songwriting Legend Ned Doheny 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Gallup’s fastidiousness is on display in Lincoln, where hundreds of people in gray cubicles call America every evening. Top Pollster Gallup Is Jolted By The Innovator's Dilemma 2013-09-04T10:00:00Z There is no time for such fastidiousness now. About New York: Spitzer, in a Frenzy, Shows an Inconsistency on Campaign Financing 2013-07-10T01:40:19Z Such fastidiousness to religious practices may not seem so harmful, but extreme behavior such as delusions or hallucinations may be a sign of serious mental illness. Can Your Child Be Too Religious? 2013-03-28T10:50:23Z Carpenter ants, houseflies, and German cockroaches also suffered from gunk overload when prohibited from grooming, suggesting that fastidiousness is widespread. Video: Cleanliness Is Next to Cockroaches 2013-02-04T20:05:00Z An illustration of this fastidiousness was afforded by his going such a distance for his snaffle bridle. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z This extreme fastidiousness is carried by some to an absurd excess. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z With his corporate background and organizational fastidiousness, Romney could prove more disciplined, and less susceptible to herky-jerky strategy shifts; his primary campaign, though it had its rough spots, was fairly steady and consistent. When Everyone's an Expert: How Romney Might Deal with the Flood of Campaign Advice 2012-04-19T06:15:00Z This may be the result of literary fastidiousness on Mr. Morley’s part, but, if so, we submit that the fastidiousness is carried too far. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z There never was any love that could not be killed by transgression of some pet prejudice, some violation of secret fastidiousness. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Wakefield's hypercritical fastidiousness would have completely defeated the intentions of Gray. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-08T02:00:23.437Z You are severe upon my fastidiousness, Manners," he said; "but that is one bad quality which, I trust, I shall be able to cast away with many others. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z One can understand, of course, how an unreasonable and troublesome fastidiousness might be shown regarding travellers' tales. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z The whole testimony of antiquity concurs in proving their extreme delicacy and fastidiousness in every thing which belongs to taste in letters and the arts. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Increased cultivation almost always produces a fastidiousness which renders necessary the increased elaboration of our pleasures. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z For his breakfast he usually took coffee, which he frequently prepared himself; for in this beverage he had an oriental fastidiousness of taste. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z But you must promise me in return, dearest, to reward my efforts, by casting off the reserve that my foolish fastidiousness has drawn over you. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Always help ladies with a remembrance of the moderation and fastidiousness of their appetites. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z It would not be a time for fastidiousness about their shortcomings; they would be hailed as strong deliverers. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z So far indeed was this from being the case, that when Mary stooped to some office which the mother's fastidiousness deemed beneath her, "How can you do that?" Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Her fastidiousness was not hurt, but her timidity was aroused. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z This fastidiousness does not, however, seem to proceed so much from any dislike to the food as from attachment to the animal; for many of them eat very freely of the horse-beef we give them. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z We will not even forget that neglect of matters of the toilet, in the nicest details, may render us unpleasant companions for those accustomed to fastidiousness upon these points. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z There was nothing about him of the fastidiousness and shyness of a too refined culture. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z His daughter admired her father for his fastidiousness. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z "Isobel says I'm a bit better about courage, but not the least about fastidiousness." Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z No one can complain of her fastidiousness, or of her unwillingness to be pleased. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Fortunately, however, for the infinite diversity presented by the human form, a sufficient variety in this respect is offered by fashion to gratify the greatest fastidiousness. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z They are either the virulent expression of his antipathies, jealousies, and rancours, or they are inspired by his lively sense of the ridiculous and by his extreme fastidiousness of taste. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In Beatrice, pride, fastidiousness, and Puritanical convictions converged. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Besides erecting the useful barrier of impossibility, it raised the fence of an inward pride—or, rather, of that fastidiousness which Wellgood and Isobel had striven to eradicate. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z Ah, well, it is really surprising what the air of the Australian Bush does in the way of increasing one’s appetite and destroying fastidiousness. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z She selects a vase or a baking dish with the �sthetic fastidiousness which beset the artists and artisans of Athens. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z We learn from Cicero's account of the orators antecedent to, and contemporary with himself, that this denationalising fastidiousness was a not uncommon result of the new studies. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z That fastidiousness is reflected in everything he does, from picking stocks to his dining choices. Icahn’s $2 Billion Man Starts Fund as Activists Shun Biotech 2011-12-05T05:49:16Z The stiff upper lip which had been inculcated joined forces with the fastidiousness that had never been uprooted. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z For this reason we are unable to understand Dr. Farrar's fastidiousness. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z But it was to this very fastidiousness that Mirabelle had appealed: and because she so fully satisfied it he at first misunderstood the situation utterly. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z In one of these passages he has adapted his Greek original to the coarser Roman taste with even less fastidiousness than Plautus generally shows3. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Some innate fastidiousness or morality had led him to look on the looser pleasures of youth with disdain or disgust; now he smiled indulgently at himself for his narrow priggishness. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Wellgood was proud of his daughter and of his theories, readily claiming for his system of education the joint result of its success and of its failure—of the courage and of the fastidiousness alike. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z I had certainly got over all fastidiousness in regard to eating, drinking, and sleeping; but I could not stand the vermin at this khan. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z But the next moment her fastidiousness had vanished. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z They had acquired through education the fastidiousness of men of culture, a quality not easily gained and retained without some sacrifice of native force and popular sympathies. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z His predominating bent was intellectual, and this caused a certain delicacy, fastidiousness, aloofness, which kept him in the atmosphere of love as well as of light. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z If the chroniclers are to be credited, Marc Antony owed his detection to his fastidiousness as to the sort of wine that was placed before him. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z There was, he thought, something very refined in the girl's character; an instinctive fastidiousness. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Observing that she made no sign of repugnance, he wondered whether her compassion exceeded her fastidiousness; and felt vaguely disappointed in her for showing so great a forbearance. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z He had come to a time of life when the comforts of a home are indispensable; knocking about the world, even if accompanied by a mistress, did not appeal to his fastidiousness. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z The suggestion of women posturing for the enjoyment of the other sex jarred his fastidiousness. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z His fastidiousness rendered him unhappy: he acknowledged the food which was brought him to be good, but he conceived it might have been better. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z “What is your purity worth? your delicacy? your refinement? your fastidiousness?” she seemed to exult. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The refinements of English service are looked upon as so many curious rites without meaning, and our standard of cleanliness and our fastidiousness are a perpetual source of wonder. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z Yet a brutal delicacy and a criminal fastidiousness, calling itself public propriety, is far less reputable than the ethical preference for reasonable foresight and a manlier race. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Thus the fortunate fastidiousness of truth is broken down. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z He thought of Ambrose Cholmondely's fastidiousness, and he smiled again as he wondered what the Esquire would say if he only knew. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Her dispassionate quietness should have warned him, but it merely jarred on his fastidiousness. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z But in addition to the fact that he finds no deer, he is a good deal of trouble from the fastidiousness of his appetite. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z That fastidiousness will likely dampen whatever political flames are sure to spark after this treasure's unearthing. An Indian Temple's Hidden Treasure Hoard May Wake Political Dragons 2011-07-06T06:23:12Z Perhaps his fastidiousness partly led him into it; but this trait of his mind showed itself more in intellectual criticism than in material Sybaritism, and more in the choice of companions than either. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z It was probably an innate fastidiousness combined with a strong sense of shame that kept his feet in the path of purity. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z His friends, however, were aware that his fastidiousness was much less noticeable in his character. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z His answer shows how fastidiousness could prevail in him over judgment. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z "Don't ye mind me, July," he would say, when his spouse with anxious face and deprecatory manner would waive her native fastidiousness and aver that "she liked it." Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z As we are not told what were these “defauts,” we cannot decide on the good taste or the fastidiousness of the sister of Edward the Fourth. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But that fastidiousness was his characteristic, it was part of him; and therefore we must not deplore it. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Miss O'Reilly dressed me as she had never dressed me before; she suggested or rejected improvements with unusual and irritating fastidiousness. Daisy Burns (Volume 2) 2011-05-20T02:00:30.427Z They never pretended to be anything more than plain farming people, but they were marked by a personal dignity and refinement, even fastidiousness, by their intelligence, and alas, by their many sorrows. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Within the last half-hour his instinctive fastidiousness had increased a hundredfold. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z But the lesson was a hard one to her fastidiousness. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Whether it is that the directness and simplicity of the feeling overpowers all minute fastidiousness, or whether they are all part of the careful artlessness of the mood, is hard to determine. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z His light summer clothes were chosen with excellent taste, and there was a certain fastidiousness in his appearance and manners which was hardly in keeping with his adventurous past. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z It is even better to go to the extreme of fastidiousness than to indulge the opposite extreme of negligence. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z Throwing fastidiousness and delicacy to the winds, I seized the heap of string and tackled the job. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z The fastidiousness with which he repudiated "any sort of violence" plainly gave Lady McIntyre pause. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Although he had reached the age of gastronomic fastidiousness, and especially abhorred spoiling the appetite between meals, Truyn good-naturedly accepted this pretentiously humble invitation. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z At this early period of his life, he exhibited the same strength of religious principle, and the same fastidiousness of moral perception, which were at the foundation of his subsequent character. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Wooden’s insight had more to do with fastidiousness than fast breaks; he explained things like the best way for players to put on socks and tie shoelaces. Near Win No. 800, Coach Teaches New Players Old Tricks 2011-02-08T18:08:29Z Now, with his eyes on the obtrusive unharmony all about him, and his memory going back to the doctor's well-known fastidiousness of taste, he could think of little else. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The bunkers that she had found in his nature were those of fastidiousness, not often belonging to men. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z His peculiar habits, therefore, shown in such trivial details as a desire for personal cleanliness and a certain fastidiousness at table, were attributed to the same exotic tutelage. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z After first making great fun of my fastidiousness the doctor annexed my share of the eel, and declared that snake tasted delicious. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z After the cataracts were removed, her fastidiousness was back with a vengeance. The Neediest Cases: Failing Eyesight, on Top of Other Disabilities, Is Faced Without Complaint 2010-12-23T04:20:01Z Merkel and the CDU seemed caught off guard—after all, the party had ruled the state for almost 60 years, and Stuttgarters are famous for their reserve and fastidiousness: hardly typical troublemakers. 'Open Source' Anger Unites Europe?s Antigovernment Protesters 2010-12-14T13:00:00Z But a certain fastidiousness held him back from the casual vice of many men, and his hot blood was generally balanced by the finer instincts of his brain. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Shilton's expertise and fastidiousness was lost to the game once he felt the need to escape the austerity of his trade, and Ray Clemence stepped in to become the Football Association's main authority. Reflections of an England legend 2010-10-09T21:00:00Z Quaint fastidiousness For all its attractions, there are times when it does feel like you are time-travelling in New Zealand. Made in heaven 2010-05-15T11:01:00Z In 2005, Stricker applied some of this fastidiousness to his game after his third straight season outside the top 150 in earnings. 2010-02-16T00:00:00Z But they should not be pampered by high feed, as it not only has a tendency to produce disease, but to form habits of fastidiousness, which materially lessens their economical feeding in after life. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. And between the lines Fantine gleaned all that she needed; his obvious means and that fastidiousness of his—an important factor in her game. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z But still a fastidiousness of taste always seizes people on those occasions when they are desirous of appearing to the best advantage. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 With quaint fastidiousness, they enjoy a pot of tea. Made in heaven 2010-05-15T11:01:00Z His fastidiousness in point of dress, and his good taste kept him close to elegance of attire. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode "This engraving," she said, showing it, reflects at once the fastidiousness and the virility characteristic of his temperament. The Home Life of Poe But with repletion came more of fastidiousness, and Blake agreed with Miss Leslie when she remarked that salt would have added to the flavor. Into the Primitive She could have little comprehension of fastidiousness and still less could she grasp the existence of an abstract morality that in its practical expression must have seemed to her so insulting. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "Anything particular on with you?" he was presently impelled to ask, observing that Wyndham was exercising a marked fastidiousness in the choice of his canvas. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel Don't you fret yourself about his comforts; besides, I 've seen a great deal of Upton, and, with all his fastidiousness and refinement, he's a thorough good fellow at taking things for the best. The Fortunes Of Glencore This great poem was received in Italy with that enthusiastic admiration which attaches itself to works of genius only in ages too rude to listen to the envy of competitors, or the fastidiousness of critics. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 I took him lower down the stream, where his fastidiousness being no longer offended he indulged in a long and copious draught. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan The question arises, however; is the fastidiousness, the patient care of the Artist, consistent with Vagabondage? The Vagabond in Literature His wife, in her "Reminiscences," mentions his fastidiousness on the subject of underclothing. Lafcadio Hearn Countess Brinkenstein regarded the queen's resolve that the nurse must be of the common people--a peasant woman, indeed--as overstrained fastidiousness; there could be no harm in referring to princely errors in such terms. On the Heights A Novel But this fastidiousness, which considers certain kinds of remuneration degrading to a man of liberal condition, did not prevail in those simple ages. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 He shows also in some of his lighter pieces the fastidiousness of a refined taste, intolerant of all boorishness, pedantry, affectation and sordid ways of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Now, when enchantment had been staled by habit, his fastidiousness returned. Years of Plenty They will not be adjudged a nuisance simply because they offend the fancy, delicacy, or fastidiousness of neighbors, or even depreciate the value of adjoining property. Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman We inherit artistic fastidiousness, and should hate them worse every day of our lives. The Daughters of a Genius He dressed with his usual fastidiousness; his eyeglass adjusted, he worked as neatly as a little old lady at her knitting, but his work had not the quality of wool. Fairfax and His Pride His entertainment of us was all which our acquired West Indian fastidiousness could desire. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The first was rather “high,” but Gerard was, as he had said, very hungry, and fell to, untroubled by overmuch fastidiousness. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley But in his day it probably differed very little from other keeps except in its extreme fastidiousness. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Her long holding back from this very thing was part of that same instinct for restraint, what she had been pleased to think of as fastidiousness, that had always held her back in love. Fidelity A Novel But here he was thwarted each time by a quality that dominated him as ruthlessly to his undoing as did his laziness—and this quality was fastidiousness. The Torch Bearer Mendelssohn never wrote a grand opera, owing to his fastidiousness as to a libretto; though he finally obtained one from Geibel on the subject of the “Loreley” which suited him. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Mr Devereux’s manners and habits were those of refined elegance, his tastes and opinions nice even to fastidiousness; and his perceptions acute on some points to a degree of sickliness. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 Though his fastidiousness was revolted, he had no choice but to use the brackish water from over the side to dissolve the pellet for the shot. When the Cock Crows The fastidiousness that would stand aloof from more formal attentions gives way here to the chances of the road; and civilities that would elsewhere imply obligation are now the mere accidents of the way. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life It is to be hoped that fastidiousness of this sort is not common. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. A still more extreme fastidiousness on this point is attributed by Josephus to the Essenes; cf. The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect Much travel has cured the author of fastidiousness in regard to food, but he draws the line at snails, ants, and caterpillars. The Pearl of India But the precision of his thinking and the fastidiousness of his taste gave more than a tinge of austerity to his judgment. Studies in Contemporary Biography She was looking at him, obviously to see how his fastidiousness had taken it. The Return of the Prodigal This may have proceeded from fastidiousness in the choice of language, but was, most probably, attributable to the defects of his education, and to the want of early practice in composition. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Barbara spoke yesterday of your fastidiousness, and we told each other that you had gained a triumph of happiness in your love, for you are not of those who cheat themselves. The Kempton-Wace Letters There his incurable fastidiousness drove him to the pursuit of a possible perfection, distinction within the limits, the inherent frailties of the type. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur It is seldom that one finds such swiftness and ease in composition as his, united to so much fastidiousness. Studies in Contemporary Biography Can this fastidiousness be anything but a casual passing phase of taste? A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Her scorn for common things, her fastidiousness, her indifference to the little obligations which compel less dainty and spirited creatures,—all act as chains and rivet his attachment to her. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. If love were no more than an instrument of reproduction, you would be right in maintaining that the fastidiousness I insist on is unnecessary and unnatural. The Kempton-Wace Letters But survival was more important than fastidiousness, so he gulped the evil stuff down. The Ethical Engineer Was it an abhorrence of tenements, or a growing fastidiousness as to the methods? History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times But now the man's back was turned; he was no doubt improvising paternity and an extreme fastidiousness in baby's footwear——Now for it!—through departments of deepening indelicacy to the lift! The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Mr., private tutor at Littlehampton, 39; his taste for poetry, 39; the author's happy years under tuition of, 39-49; his professed Radicalism in polities and religion, 43; his fastidiousness in choice of pupils, 43.Philpotts, Memoirs of Life and Literature "It is an awkward thing to play with souls,"—you override the fastidiousness of the soul in marrying your companion. The Kempton-Wace Letters And with every increase of your fastidiousness in the execution of your ornament, you diminish the possible number and grandeur of your buildings. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) A most fastidious person himself, as was obvious, he looked in others for a fastidiousness of spirit rather than for a correct performance of the whims of refinement. Clark's Field He was sensitive, very proud, inclined, perhaps, to scornfulness, certainly to fastidiousness, and one who seldom suffered fools either gladly or with much show of tolerance. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography I think him selfish and calculating, but I am getting so accustomed to find everybody so that it seems to me superfluous fastidiousness to be deterred from dealings with any one on that account.... Records of Later Life Many are endowed with a delicacy, a fastidiousness of physical organization, which shrinks away from too much of these, repelled and overpowered. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 The fastidiousness bred in him by careful rearing told severely against Finn just now. Finn The Wolfhound Day after day he spent in the city—a somewhat strange visitor there, with his grave, dignified manner and studied fastidiousness of dress and deportment. Berenice Allow free course to the child's instinctive activity and turbulence; let nature speak; do not crave reserve and fastidiousness at the expense of frankness and vigor of mind. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts Upon my objecting to this, she flounced away, disgusted, I presume, with my fastidiousness, and appeared no more. Records of Later Life The only particular, with respect to Pepita, in which I observed a certain fastidiousness, and in which she departed from the customs of the country-people, was in wearing gloves. Pepita Ximenez This hatred of the Killer's neighbourhood was no whim, no personal fastidiousness on Finn's part. Finn The Wolfhound Aphthartodocetism springs from a spurious spirituality, from a fastidiousness that has no place in true religion. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Objections to these alterations may be readily imagined, but it would be necessary to base them on other grounds than those of literary fastidiousness. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer Timidity and fastidiousness were great defects in Gray; they kept down his invention, and made him resort to the wealth of others, when he could better have relied upon himself. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir And Alden Lytton, believing her fastidiousness and timidity to be real and not affected, and withal feeling bound to be guided by her wishes, called a carriage and put her into it. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend Tennyson's exquisite genius is neutralized, whether by fastidiousness of taste or by morbidity of temperament—neutralized, we mean, so far as great future achievements are concerned. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. For to be wholly unacquainted with our own poets is a proof either of the laziest indolence, or else of a very superfluous fastidiousness. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero It was her delicate fastidiousness and the hint one got of refinement and cultivation. Partners of the Out-Trail What to him was the fastidiousness of virtue—to him whom poverty excluded from the refined portion of society, and knowledge and education from the vulgar and illiterate? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 "I ordered supper here, because I remembered your fastidiousness and thought you would prefer this to the public dining-room," explained Alden. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend Without effort or desire Waring had set a fashion and founded a school of icy fastidiousness. The Education of Eric Lane In England, on the other hand, everything encouraged his natural fastidiousness; he became a refined writer, but by no means a robust one. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History He had worked with consuming energy and sometimes indulged, for Bernard had nothing of the fastidiousness that marked his relatives. Partners of the Out-Trail If he had knowledge of things, and of the diplomatic world, he would be aware that the more firmness he has to use, the more politeness, even fastidiousness, he is to display. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Perhaps his sensitiveness, his solitariness, his fastidiousness, had tended to keep his sensuous nature within bounds. Beside Still Waters An intense spirit of democracy oddly combined with fastidiousness made an unusual and attractive personality in which the mundane and the spiritual were strangely blended. When Dreams Come True It was a kind of entertainment which his cursed fastidiousness had always loathed; but now his reckoning would be different. The Dust Flower She is not so quick-tongued as her brother Dinkie, but she has a natural fastidiousness which makes her long for alignment with the proprieties. The Prairie Child Mr. Drummond, indeed, looked at his son rather sharply once or twice, as though he suspected him of fastidiousness. Not Like Other Girls At home he would have turned up his nose at such a repast, but hunger is very well adapted to cure one of fastidiousness. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves He had not come near, fastidiousness outweighing curiosity. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker In those days on the frontier he had, rather from fastidiousness than principle perhaps, avoided her and her invitations whenever possible. A Modern Mercenary It is not fashion—we shall beat it; it is not the fastidiousness of the exquisite—we shall smother it; it is the religious prejudice, borrowed from a mistaken interpretation of the New Testament. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Nor is this the only instance of misapplied fastidiousness in that splendid and stirring piece. Old New England Traits Men liked him, in spite of his shyness: his good manners hiding a certain fastidiousness of which he was aware without being at all proud of it. Merry-Garden and Other Stories The body was dressed with a certain fastidiousness, and it was obviously that of a man of fashion and distinction; there was no wound to be seen. Fantômas Most women with tears in their eyes repelled his fastidiousness, but this one was delicious. A Modern Mercenary His fastidiousness loathed the coarse personal contact of arms and legs and bodies. The Rough Road One of the humorous aspects of a repulsive subject is seen in the curiosity and fastidiousness of prisoners on trial for capital offences with regard to the professional status of the judges who try them. A Book About Lawyers Food they could get, and water was brought in an old, battered, rusty tin from which the Prince drank, being afraid of arousing suspicion by any fastidiousness. The True Story Book Of course, there is a fastidiousness which makes one shrink from unpleasant things, but Harry's is the other kind. Hawtrey's Deputy Smith’s fastidiousness made Babe’s jaw drop, and a piece of biscuit which had made his cheek bulge inadvertently rolled out, but was skillfully intercepted before it reached the ground. 'Me--Smith' He had learned the supreme wisdom of keeping lips closed on such matters and did not complain, but all his fastidiousness rebelled. The Rough Road The Dionæa, or Venus's fly-trap, is a famous example of this fastidiousness, growing in a small district of North Carolina, and, as far as appears, nowhere else,—a highly specialized plant, with no generic relative. The Foot-path Way Wotan's fastidiousness cannot endure the visible sordid details of his bargain; he turns from the sight of the incarnate rose, as she stands drooping in a noble shame, to be valued against so much gold. The Wagnerian Romances After all, in spite of her fastidiousness, she was endued with most of the characteristics of flesh and blood. Hawtrey's Deputy The excess, into which she never fell, might have been a sort of fastidiousness. Political Women, Vol. 1 He could be most democratic, and on this day there was none of the town beau’s fastidiousness in his dress. A Virginia Scout Carl's nose wrinkled with bitter fastidiousness as he pulled off his clothes, sticky with heat, and glared at the swathed forms of the waiters. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Help ladies with a due appreciation of their delicacy, moderation, and fastidiousness of their appetites; and do not overload the plate of any person you serve. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies Even Percy's fastidiousness did not prevent him from eating his full share. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good It is a very laudable effort, and we should be justly accused of fastidiousness did we mention it as in the least blameworthy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Part and parcel of his fastidiousness, some said—others, that from his Eton days he had always been a lazy beggar. The Convert The fastidiousness and subtlety which led others to seek perfection in phrase and thought had little attraction for him. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Every one who has moved much about the world, and especially in uncivilised countries, will get rid of many old antipathies, will lose the fastidiousness of his taste, and will acquire new and genuine tastes. The Map of Life Conduct and Character The model was ready after six months of unceasing labor, but notwithstanding the scrupulous fastidiousness displayed by Watt in the workmanship of all the parts, the machine, alas, "snifted at many openings." James Watt Still, this did not matter much, because he had gradually overcome his fastidiousness and it was not likely that Miss Fuller would notice him. Brandon of the Engineers As she waited, she gently rebuked that fastidiousness in her companion that shrank from contact with the unsavoury and the unfortunate. The Convert Of course, there is a fastidiousness which makes one shrink from unpleasant things, but Harry’s is the other kind. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Excessive fastidiousness greatly limits our enjoyments, and the inestimable gift of extreme concentration is often dearly bought. The Map of Life Conduct and Character Colston with his cheerful, well-bred air and fastidiousness in dress, talked interestingly; Mrs. Colston with her gracious dignity, and Muriel, who was wholly alluring, seemed to fill the room with charm. Prescott of Saskatchewan Besides, there was a certain stamp of refinement or fastidiousness upon him which was only slightly spoiled by the veiled hint of languid insolence in his expression. The Long Portage There was no affectation in his idealistic fastidiousness. Black Oxen It was not merely lack of money, nor yet a certain fastidiousness implanted, nor yet the inherent shrinking of my English blood from pleasure forbidden, for my Renault blood was hot enough, God wot! The Reckoning Jacques Arago is eminent in Paris not more for his abilities as a man of letters than for his fastidiousness, devotion, and success as a roué. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Panic was the note of it, and that fierce fastidiousness and exclusiveness that comes from fear. Eugenics and Other Evils But he had arrived at the age when, the passions beginning to cool, the grossest man conceives of fastidiousness; and at this crisis Fate had thrust a perfect blossom before him. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Harry and I had made the usual display of unlimited fastidiousness which youth delights in, but our elder had taken everything more kindly. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Pébrine declares itself in the stunted and unequal growth of the worms, in the languor of their movements, in their fastidiousness as regards food, and in their premature death. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Else had we never witnessed that affected fastidiousness of appetite, and that affected sickliness, so fashionable in some circles. The Young Maiden With all his passion for letters, with all the ambition for literary fame which burnt in his youthful mind, there was still his shyness, fastidiousness, reserve. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) Power’s great fault was his over-refinement; the fastidiousness which marred his proper influence, made him unpopular with many boys, and shut him up in a reserved and introspective habit of mind. St. Winifred's, or The World of School It was not through any shame-facedness or fastidiousness or false pride. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols The poet was, in external manner and habit, too much of the peasant for Greg's intellectual fastidiousness. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch In those days I am afraid I did not discriminate very justly between refinement of taste and self-indulgent fastidiousness. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance But from fastidiousness or ambition she refused every proposal made to her father for her. The Thing from the Lake The popular taste here would seem really guided by a fashion of fastidiousness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy In disgust I threw it away, but when all that night had gone and part of the next day, I regretted my fastidiousness. The Car of Destiny The preparation of Joel's supper was a task demanding time and prayerful consideration, for as is the case with most chronic invalids, his fastidiousness concerning his food approached the proportions of a mania. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale In the present woman he discerned the same lovely and neurotic countenance, the same traces of mingled fastidiousness and desperation, the same promises of exceptionally passionate and tragic happenings. Sacrifice Wherefore the more do I marvel at the fastidiousness of men's ears in these times, who by now can scarce endure anything but solemn appellations. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation With his customary fastidiousness, he altered and rearranged the text, and it was not until 1847, after "Elijah" was finished, that he touched the music. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Some people affect a fastidiousness in color and quality quite out of keeping with the purpose to which the paper is to be put. The Etiquette of To-day But all the rich tremble before the fastidiousness of the poor. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens She would not come to him, but the ideal of her rested beautiful in the delicate pride and fastidiousness of her scruples and her purity. Half a Hero A Novel The attitude of warding off reveals itself as fastidiousness and as bashfulness. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation We so admitted all who brought books, that neither the multitude of first-comers could produce a fastidiousness of the last, nor the benefit conferred yesterday be prejudicial to that of to-day. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author Spirituality is sometimes spoken of as if it were a kind of moral luxury, a work of supererogation, a token of fastidiousness and over-refinement. The Essentials of Spirituality Here and there only is some ordinary human custom, some natural human pleasure suppressed in deference to the fastidiousness of the rich. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens They came out at last, and Fraser, who was passing, ran over just in time to save Mr. Green, who was doing his best, from the consequences of a somewhat exaggerated fastidiousness. A Master Of Craft These conventions exist to-day only in men of the highest breeding, those with six or eight generations behind them of refinement, consequence, and fastidiousness in association. The Californians "Execution is the chariot of genius," William Blake, the great poet-artist, has said; and it is just this execution which is unattainable without immense application and fastidiousness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 I am aware, that in modern times, the delicacy or fastidiousness of the reader may deem such subjects unfit for the purposes of poetry. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Her own fastidiousness and cleanness of character would have made that less a duty to her husband than to herself. The Tyranny of Weakness We know the delicacies of love which thou wouldst reserve for the gluttony of heroes and the fastidiousness of philosophers. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Even her fastidiousness was natural in view of her upbringing. The Californians If anybody felt in him a lack of fastidiousness, the point was not pressed. On the Stairs Your fastidiousness in choice has arrived at a happy termination. Gryll Grange I do not admire fastidiousness," I answered; "I do not like to have defects pointed out to me, which my own ignorance does not discover. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author He also had spent the winter months in Dalhousie; and he could by no means be reckoned among the men who fail with women through undue fastidiousness in regard to ways and means. The Great Amulet It was these five shops which his childish fastidiousness had first selected as the essentials of the Notting Hill campaign, the citadel of the city. The Napoleon of Notting Hill There was no squeamish fastidiousness; no affectation of prudery, in this; but all natural as the pure flow of admiration in a well-bred lady could be. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings In general, carnal desires meet with no great fastidiousness in the German domestic circle. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life The innate fastidiousness that goes with good breeding had kept his life clean, his hands unsoiled. The Hippodrome This is ever the test of the scholar: whether he allows intellectual fastidiousness to stand between him and the great issues of his time. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson His self-respect amounted to self-esteem, his love for other people's good opinion to a failing, he was refined to fastidiousness; but I think these characteristics helped him towards the exceptional character he bore. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son But in a nation which contains a great excess of women, under economic conditions which are greatly to their disadvantage, the value of this natural fastidiousness is practically lost. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles At the same time a personal fastidiousness and a social exclusiveness, always to a certain extent characteristic of the man, gathered greater dominion over him. Quisanté Of the scrupulousness, the fastidiousness, the distinction, even, of Loeffler's work, there can be no question. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Perhaps what I have called fastidiousness is a divine fear. George Bernard Shaw Moreover, very subtle men do not aim at things of this sort, or aiming, fail, because subtlety of intelligence involves subtlety of character, a certain fastidiousness and a certain weakness. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought What we call, then, the greater fastidiousness of the female sex is a definite sex character, and has a definite racial value, raising the standard of fatherhood where it is allowed free play. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Besides his fastidiousness revolted from plunging him into a position which was so common, and which he, with his dislike of things common, had always counted vulgar. Quisanté Her personal repugnance and fastidiousness were swept aside in the menace of larger things. The Emigrant Trail The primary respect in which Shaw has been a bad influence is that he has encouraged fastidiousness. George Bernard Shaw There is a ripeness of moral fastidiousness that is often difficult to distinguish from rottenness. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View There was a weary craving upon him that might have led to terrible results, but his pride and fastidiousness saved him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Rejecting Marchmont, or rather acquiescing in Marchmont's refusal, on the ground of his excessive caution, his want of imagination, and his fastidiousness, he had hesitated to sound Quisanté in regard to the great project. Quisanté This is not owing to foolish fastidiousness on my part, but to the absence of decent qualities on theirs. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle She sat down and looked him over with a cool consideration which provoked his fastidiousness to no admiration of her breeding. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World If there had been anything to touch, to appeal to, there might have been some hope, but she had left taste and fastidiousness scattered in shreds behind her. Robin When the time for composition arrived, he showed a fastidiousness which was full of good augury. Gibbon That one's privacy, one's physical fastidiousness, could be affronted by mere words, would have astounded her. Winner Take All Many people thought him exclusive, but Robert soon learned that his fastidiousness was due to a certain shy quality, and a natural taste for the best in everything. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis She detested puritanism greatly, and righteously, but so much so that she frequently mistook the most innocent fastidiousness for an unforgivable rigidity. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story And Bell added: "We should all act grown up, if she had her fastidiousness suited." Choice Readings for the Home Circle Hemlock has no such fastidiousness, even preferring rotten wood as a seedbed. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods Fastidiousness carried that far—fastidiousness of any sort—was incomprehensible to Felicity. Winner Take All They seemed never to comprehend our fastidiousness in the matter and why our tastes differed so much from theirs in this respect. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants The failure of both these schemes—for Constable's hands were full, and Thomson exhibited his wonted "fastidiousness"—preyed deeply on the mind of the sensitive bard. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Falling completely into the snare, the would-be critics were going on to condemn the likeness, when the relaxing features and hearty laughter of the supposed portrait, speedily and sufficiently avenged the painter of their fastidiousness. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) So passengers stayed in the clothes in which they entered the ship, and the only possible concession to fastidiousness was the disposable underwear one could get and change to in the rest-rooms. Operation: Outer Space The former class ignore the claims of the physical, and gather their robes together sanctimoniously indicating: "Avaunt, lest my purity be contaminated"; while the latter laugh their spiritual pride and fastidiousness to scorn. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul He looked surprised at my remark, and instantly I bethought myself of the character for fastidiousness which Hubert had given him, and resolved to be less impulsive in expressing my feelings. Medoline Selwyn's Work The girl, who was extremely pretty, carried herself well, and dressed with cheap fastidiousness, colored. The Portion of Labor The officer in question is well known throughout the navy for his fastidiousness regarding apparel, and even on board his ship, is always the best-dressed man. Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain My dear Sister, Some young persons indulge a fastidiousness of feeling, in relation to the subject of marriage, as though it were indelicate to speak of it. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister She had satisfied even the fastidiousness of Anne. The Helpmate As if nothing had happened, the chief mate went on trimming the yards with his usual and exasperating fastidiousness. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle He was Christian enough to resent the whole affair; but he was aristocratic enough in his fastidiousness to think at this moment that perhaps it did not matter much for people of this sort. None Other Gods The aesthetic side of Thorne's nature was cultured to the extreme of fastidiousness; ugly, repulsive, even disagreeable things repelled him more than they do most men. Princess A certain opulence and picturesqueness of fancy united in his artistic being with an intelligence both lucid and penetrating, and a sense of form and symmetry almost Greek in its fastidiousness. Great Violinists And Pianists He wished to communicate himself at the expense of a certain fastidiousness which we assume in God, imagining that imperfections offend him. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Loraine's fastidiousness rather shuddered at this idea, yet perhaps a certain sort of character disintegration had set in, with her first cutting loose the moorings of preconceived standards. Destiny His brain began to work, his new fastidiousness asserted itself. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton She was dressed with extreme simplicity, but with a delicate fastidiousness which Mary at any rate was quick to appreciate. A Prince of Sinners That he lacked poetic fire and passion, that the sense of artistic restraint and a refined fastidiousness chilled and fettered him, is doubtlessly true. Great Violinists And Pianists Some young persons indulge a fastidiousness of feeling in relation to this subject, as though it were indelicate to speak of it. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies That fastidiousness she had from both her parents, with something of her own added. Dangerous Ages Hence in the first epistle addressed to them, the writer finds it necessary to rebuke them for their folly and fastidiousness. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution One of these was an exaggerated fastidiousness about clothes, and the other an undue deference to the dicta of the Press. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 Can this fastidiousness be anything but a casual passing phase of taste? Lost Leaders He decided to talk it out with Esmé, sure that her fastidiousness would turn away from the ugly truth. The Clarion Rodney and she were more like each other than they were like their children; they had some of the same vanities, fastidiousnesses, humours and withdrawals, and in some respects the same outlook on life. Dangerous Ages You have excellent taste," said she demurely, "but I never should credit you with the discriminations and fastidiousnesses of a decorator. Mrs. Red Pepper In spite of these defects, and at a period when the nation's ear was pampered to fastidiousness by the eloquence of Grattan, Flood and O'Connell, he began his upward struggle towards eminence. The Young Priest's Keepsake Instead, have you not had a kind of gentle pride in your religion or your virtue or your fastidiousness? Paradoxes of Catholicism The letters to which we have alluded, entitled "Love and Madness," attracted attention in higher quarters, and even perplexed the fastidiousness of Walpole himself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 It shews little power, or power enervated by extreme fastidiousness. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution She knew that he would be passionate and intractable and yet held to nobility by fastidiousness and love of her. The Judge But a man can not ride from Rome to Paris, after having ridden from Paris to Rome, changing neither his clothes nor his horse, without losing some particle of his fastidiousness, and, body of Bacchus! The Grey Cloak A little severity and fastidiousness render us better service. The Education of Catholic Girls His was the sort of conscience that would dislike such a course, not because it was dishonorable or immoral in itself, but because its details offended his fastidiousness. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Arúna herself had heard such talk; but for years her early knowledge had lain dormant; while fastidiousness had been engendered by English studies and contact with English youth. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Being man and young, he had known temptation, but had disdained it; being also proud and perhaps haughty in his fastidiousness, and being strong, he had thrust base and light things aside. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Aside from the unsatisfactory return, his fastidiousness revolted from being identified with the output of a third-class and flashy publication. Success A Novel But Jill had seen, and her ultra fastidiousness had dyed face and neck crimson, and caused her to try and spare her companions similar uncomfortable moments. Desert Love He made one exception only, in favor of a maiden lady whose parents he had known, whose servants were kind to him, and whose retired and dignified way of living quite suited his fastidiousness. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays His fastidiousness had gone beyond the stage of selections, and had reached the stage of exclusions. Balloons Jonson makes frequent complaint of the growing fastidiousness of his audience, and nearly fifty years later, the same charge against the public is repeated by Davenant, in the Prologue to his "Unfortunate Lovers." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character When, therefore, we find Mrs. Piozzi using words or idioms rejected by modern taste or fastidiousness, we must not be too ready to accuse her of ignorance or vulgarity. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings With the increase of intellectual clearness, within a certain range, come, as with the brightened senses, certain drawbacks, arising out of the fastidiousness which belongs to the changing man just at this time. Doctor and Patient But you are old enough to understand that your fastidiousness, if it isn't to be priggish, must be safeguarded by your humility. The Altar Steps She retraced her steps, putting down her feet with the delicate fastidiousness of a cat in order not to tread on a flower. Balloons Getting back to the grass, he surveyed the scene with strong disgust; he had not quite got over his English fastidiousness. Ranching for Sylvia There is infinite fastidiousness shown by savages in selecting beads, which, indeed, are their jewellery; so that valuable beads, taken at hap-hazard, are much more likely to prove failures than not. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries And yet to the activity of men engaged like these in settling affairs of unprecedented magnitude it would be unfair to apply the ordinary tests of technical fastidiousness. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference He fancied that his personal appearance, as much as anything, was displeasing to her fastidiousness. The Street Called Straight With his rather sensitive pride and fastidiousness he was certainly not the man to make his mark in Canada, and Foster began to understand certain traits of his comrade's that had puzzled him. Carmen's Messenger He made an ample meal, dressed himself with wholly unusual fastidiousness, and when Seaforth left him for a few moments strode out of the room. Alton of Somasco But no doubt real hunger is a radical cure for fastidiousness. The Living Present All this fastidiousness may seem to do very well while they are under the shelter of their father's house; but when the sharp winter of misfortune comes, what of these butterflies? New Tabernacle Sermons When all Europe is eating to keep alive, fastidiousness and food "notions" must play no part in the dietary. Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover Lucia selected her friends elsewhere with such supreme fastidiousness that she could count them on the fingers of one hand, her instinct, like all great natural gifts, being entirely spontaneous and unconscious. The Divine Fire There are other facts I might mention as illustrations were it not for the fastidiousness of the present age. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The great problem to-day is for the women of education, fastidiousness, a certain degree of ease, threatened with a loss of that male support upon which ancient custom bred them to rely. The Living Present But to make a mystery of the indolence of a rather timid, idle, and unadventurous scholar, who was blessed with more fastidiousness than passion, is absurd. The Art of Letters But Babbalanja, quoting the old proverb—"Strike me in the face, but refuse not my yams," induced him to sacrifice his fastidiousness. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Even if a young fellow cannot afford fine clothes, he can be neat, and I always welcome the slightest sign of fastidiousness, because it indicates self-respect. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The same eccentric fastidiousness worked in him as a young man when he wrote Paracelsus and Sordello. Robert Browning Solomon Schechter, the great Jewish scholar, once said of Oxford, that "they practice fastidiousness there, and call it holiness." The Jesus of History Even if we count him only a middling poet, however, this does not mean that all his fastidiousness of composition was wasted. The Art of Letters Antonyms: accidental, unconscious, unpremeditated, unintentional. deliberation, n. consideration, discussion, consultation. delicacy, n. daintiness, fineness, frailty, refinement, fastidiousness, discrimination, sensitiveness; dainty, tidbit, junket. Putnam's Word Book The long line of your curved nail is fastidiousness made flesh. Profiles from China There he is, an incarnated weakness and fastidiousness. The Collectors Bishop Phillips Brooks noted in Jesus' conversation "a constant progress from the arbitrary and special to the essential and universal forms of thought," "a true freedom from fastidiousness," "a singular largeness" in his intellectual life. The Jesus of History A certain exclusiveness and fastidiousness, not reminding us exactly of primitive Christianity, was the inevitable result. Ralph Waldo Emerson Janet was a prim emaciated creature, very straight and dignified, whose glance always seemed to hesitate between benevolence and fastidiousness. The Roll-Call It was the fastidiousness of a gentleman, which never deserted him. The Reason Why A sense of extreme fastidiousness rebuked, in a way, his more indiscriminate zeal as a collector. The Collectors All round about him was subtlety, cleverness, fastidiousness. The Jesus of History And pray may I ask the cause of your fastidiousness, Miss Grahame? The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence Yet you feel, too, that perhaps his selection of small themes, and the consequent curbing of his powers, have sprung from his fastidiousness in the matter of versification. Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham Of course a woman has to pay for her fastidiousness. Mr. Scarborough's Family I appreciated my fastidiousness when I afterward saw, at a Tennessee hotel, the following notice:-- "Gentlemen who wish towels in their rooms must deposit fifty cents at the office, as security for their return." Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation With his natural complacency, instead of the impertinent fastidiousness of which other foreigners had been guilty, he delighted the whole of England. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Being unencumbered with fastidiousness, this person before long made various rude attacks on the truth and authority of the Christian religion, and drew me on to defend it. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed Though Calais was not prepared for wounded, when they came the women of energy and courage turned to the work without jealousy, without regard to red tape, without fastidiousness. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form The English have a peculiar contempt for gesticulation, and regard it as something undignified and common; this seems to me to be only one of those silly prejudices of English fastidiousness. Essays of Schopenhauer That was one of the things Julius heartily approved of in his pretty sister—her fastidiousness in such matters. The Brown Study Cadurcis, though so young, was gifted with an innate fastidiousness, that made him shrink from a rude woman. Venetia Blair was notable for fastidiousness in dress and manners, and took very seriously the reputation he was given for refinement and common-sense as one of the moderate divines. The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason They refashioned their trenches and drained them with the fastidiousness of good housekeepers who had a frontiersman's experience for an inheritance. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form The child Polly had a suffering and passionate heart, for all her little air of fastidiousness and inaccessibility. The Three Brontës The poor singer destroys his life, but leaves a song, a bit of fastidiousness. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel It annoyed her fastidiousness to think that her own niece should be in any way associated with that kind of thing. From out the Vasty Deep But a new fastidiousness is to be noted in the Teuton character. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War Oh my friends, let us pray to him to take out of our hearts all selfishness, fancifulness, fastidiousness, and hasty respect of persons, of all which there is none in God. Town and Country Sermons She has preserved only her fragility, her fastidiousness, her little air of inaccessibility. The Three Brontës A beautiful spirit of race guardianship is behind this fastidiousness…. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Floss's was a fastidiousness which shrinks at badly served food, a spotted table-cloth, or a last year's hat, while it overlooks a rent in an undergarment or the accumulated dust in a hairbrush. Cheerful—By Request His portrait gives you the impression of great fastidiousness, and almost feminine delicacy of face, as well as of considerable self-esteem. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes In short, everything about this letter denoted ease, fashion, fastidiousness, and the observance of forms. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" And yet she had never tried so hard to divine every shade of Morrison's fastidiousness and had never felt so supreme a satisfaction in knowing that she did. The Bent Twig Exquisite devourer, yet she had much to do in bringing forth from the latent, one of the rarest gifts a boy can have—lovelier than royalty and fine as genius—the blue flower of fastidiousness. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Weak nerves, partly, and partly the sort of high-strung fastidiousness women have. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract There are facts which modern fastidiousness justly enough commands to he wrapped around with graceful drapery before they shall have audience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 I cannot look with equanimity on so many, and those such foul, such wicked enemies; nor is that feeling caused by any fastidiousness of mine, but by my affection for the republic. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 He insists upon quality, he raises a standard, he diffuses an unconscious fastidiousness of selection. Essays in Rebellion Arthur's gallant, and he's impressionable—but he's fastidious, and fastidiousness is always the check on impressionableness. Alice Adams One would be startled to see him with a bright tie, a loud checked suit, or a fancy waistcoat, and yet there is a curious sense of fastidiousness about the plain things he delights in. Edison, His Life and Inventions The fact was he could not help sympathizing with that fastidiousness of Lady Clare which made her object to be handled by coarse fingers and roughly curried, combed, and washed like a common plebeian nag. Boyhood in Norway Mrs. Linton eyed him with a droll expression—half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness. Wuthering Heights For a moment Mr. Clarkson was tempted to claim a certain fastidiousness himself. Essays in Rebellion Others there are that are turned aside from the career they might have accomplished, by a visionary and impracticable fastidiousness. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author An enormous force of suggestion had so shaped her that the intense natural fastidiousness of girlhood had developed into an absolute perversion of instinct. Tono Bungay She fluttered toward the tailor shop, dashed into its slovenly heat with the comic fastidiousness of a humming bird dipping into a dry tiger-lily. Main Street It is only the outside of the cup and the platter that are made clean, the inward part is just as full of wickedness, and all the worse for its hysterical fastidiousness. Tracks of a Rolling Stone She thought of that time when he had been standing under his apple-tree on her return from school, and of the tender opportunity then missed through her fastidiousness. The Woodlanders And you who are always boasting of your fastidiousness! The Conflict He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay. House of Mirth Then I found you, Elfride, and I felt for the first time that my fastidiousness was a blessing. A Pair of Blue Eyes He swiftly lost the fastidiousness which had characterized his old life. The Call of the Wild The reader becomes interested in a shrewd study of human nature, of a section of life, with its various refinement, coarseness, fastidiousness and vulgarity, its humor and pathos. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue If the girl were not so offensive to his fastidiousness, there might be some hope that she was not so offensive as Mrs. Corey had thought. The Rise of Silas Lapham Her personal fastidiousness had a moral equivalent, and when she made a tour of inspection in her own mind there were certain closed doors she did not open. House of Mirth If Tess had been artful, had she made a scene, fainted, wept hysterically, in that lonely lane, notwithstanding the fury of fastidiousness with which he was possessed, he would probably not have withstood her. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Perceiving that a certain fastidiousness would restrain her, he had grown lax in preserving the completeness of her love—which, after all, was the keystone of the entire structure. The Beautiful and Damned Yet, though his mind was strongly organised, though his understanding was capacious, and his sense of honour delicate even to fastidiousness, he was still the dupe of his passions, the victim of unfortunate attachment. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire Indeed, he had always an injudicious trick—whether springing from fastidiousness or undue ambition—of tinkering and tampering with his very best poems. Poetical Works of Akenside At such moments she lost something of her natural fastidiousness, and cared less for the quality of the admiration received than for its quantity. House of Mirth His dress resembled Vane's, but, dilapidated as it was, it suggested a greater fastidiousness. Vane of the Timberlands Sir Philip Wentworth was not troubled with the boyish fastidiousness of Lord Naseby. Sir George Tressady — Volume I I know not how it is, and I would willingly attribute it to the improper fastidiousness of my disposition, that I can find few characters in the university of Palermo, capable of interesting my heart. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian Witness the petulance, fastidiousness, censoriousness, social self-assertion, general disagreeableness of so many good people—all in the moral skin—repulsive exceedingly. Miracles of Our Lord Her own fastidiousness had its eye fixed on the world, and she did not care how the luncheon-table looked when there was no one present at it but the family. House of Mirth Nor, indeed, can they be reproached with fastidiousness on that score. Paris as It Was and as It Is He neither yielded to false fastidiousness, nor relaxed effort because of disappointment—not even when disappointment became the very atmosphere of his consciousness. Home Again I fear that the fastidiousness of the good man will not be excuse enough for the introduction of such a long preamble to a story for which only a few will in the least care. Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 He tied the loaf in his pocket-handkerchief—he was far past fastidiousness, and Tommy knew neither the word nor the thing—and knotted the ends of it round his neck. A Rough Shaking I suppose I have no conscience, but at least, I can lay claim to a certain fastidiousness. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Pride and fastidiousness and the steel armor fused by circumstances had protected her heretofore from any divagations of her own; nor had crystallized temptation ever approached her. The Sisters-In-Law Clifford Pyncheon in the "Seven Gables" is Poe himself, deprived of the ability to act: in both are found the same consummate fastidiousness, the same abnormal egotism. A Study of Hawthorne Yet it may be as well to remind our fair readers that fastidiousness on this head cannot be carried too far. 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. Human beings are compelled to endure many things which the fastidiousness of other human beings cannot tolerate even the hearing of. The Subterranean Brotherhood My hunger had arrived at that pitch where all fastidiousness and scruples are at an end. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker But against fastidiousness even the blind urge of the race seldom has availed her; she can only go on sullenly feeding the fires, heaping on the fuel, hoping grimly for the astrological moment. The Sisters-In-Law She could not blame him, for she saw how her own fastidiousness had endangered his. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing But this fastidiousness and irony which he preserved in spite of all shocks reassured me at the time. The Possessed (The Devils) If he sometimes jarred on their fastidiousness he did not know it. Mrs. Day's Daughters He has the fastidiousness which was the main characteristic of the temperament of Thomas Gray; and he has as well Gray's hatred of publicity and much of Gray's lambent humour, more salty than satiric. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century But a strange fastidiousness, a most uncharacteristic anxiety about the smallest matters, delayed him through every stage of his present undertaking. Hide and Seek The reason of this fastidiousness about a sitting- room presently appeared. Fan : the story of a young girl's life She was of delicate health, and constantly threatened by the hereditary disease that had left her the last of her generation, and she had the fastidiousness of an invalid. The Lady of the Aroostook All that seemed kind and natural enough: Grandcourt's fastidiousness enhanced the kindness. Daniel Deronda For the rest, it is to be hoped that we have outgrown our fastidiousness on some of these points. Old Calabria His frailty, as must always be the frailty of such men, was fastidiousness. First and Last But it is a piece of fastidiousness to forbid us to reinforce the great Christian motive, which is love to Jesus Christ, by the thought of the recompense of reward. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Terence was always the personification of fastidiousness in his dress, and for this trait in his character alone Mrs. O'Shanaghgan adored him. Light O' the Morning Everything looked nice and clean, and his education had not tended to fastidiousness. The Marquis of Lossie Love did not exist for her; from even the thought of passion she shrank instinctively with the same fastidiousness as she did from actual physical uncleanliness. The Sheik She was as steady-nerved and plucky as a man, and was marked by a fine fastidiousness that did not characterize other girls he knew. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Your exquisite, who makes extravagance and fastidiousness pass for wit, calls that the "bloom of a meal." The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History His affectation was quite as great as his impudence: and he won the reputation of fastidiousness—nothing gives more prestige—by dint of being openly rude. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 Indeed, I was not at all singular in having but comparatively few acquaintances on board, though certainly carrying my fastidiousness to an unusual extent. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Her sensitive lip curled with disgust, all her innate fastidiousness in revolt. The Sheik The alteration may perhaps be received as an evidence of our first English printer's fastidiousness as an author. Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 In my first fastidiousness, I thought her hardly lady-like, and laughed at her evident attempts to attract my notice,--at her little vanities and affectations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 We hope however that we shall not expose ourselves to the charge of fastidiousness, when we complain that it is rather too uniformly so. Four Early Pamphlets It was a part of Endymion's fastidiousness that the sight of blood— that is, of human blood—turned his stomach. The Westcotes It did not merely irritate and depress him, as it does everybody of fine fastidiousness: he hated not only the sight of it, he hated it with a sort of unreasoning vindictiveness. Mercy Philbrick's Choice I am far from recommending any degree of fastidiousness on this subject. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health The one is the timidity of fastidiousness, the other of placid stupidity: the one shrinks from originality lest it should be regarded as impertinent; the other lest, being new, it should be wrong. The Principles of Success in Literature Few English poets changed their text more frequently, or with more fastidiousness, than Wordsworth did. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Her love for her Master, and her desire to serve others for His sake, preserved her from any fastidiousness. Excellent Women His fine fastidiousness would shrink from it, as from the particular kind of brutality and bad taste involved in a murder. Mercy Philbrick's Choice |
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