exactingness
Example Sentences
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His exactingness and workaholism have given the franchise an uplift that is hard to measure but undeniably impactful.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2020
There is a faculty of the human mind to which phrenologists have given the name of Ideality, which is at the foundation of this exactingness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
The first condition of excellence in all places of entertainment for man and beast is exactingness on the part of the public.
From Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
They passed from bedrooms to the kitchen and scullery, and there Ann displayed an intelligent exactingness that won the expressed admiration of the architect.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In the second we find a jealousy which has no love in it; which means the exactingness of self-love, and the tyranny of possession.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
