fastidious
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If there is a consistency to his work, it is that of cool, fastidious stylishness, in which the particulars of site, client and program were the dominant factors, and not the personality of the architect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The fastidious Mendoza needs to get his platoon rescued but he can’t concentrate on coordinates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
But it narrows some of the fastidious distancing that there's been between what had happened at the shut down News of the World and the Sun.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
As Ruggero, he traced fastidious lines through the full length of Puccini’s lavish melodies, holding them taut before releasing them, and artfully negotiated his registers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Both, for example, were fastidious, very attentive to hygiene and the condition of their fingernails.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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