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
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
Ash was fastidious about maintaining a treatment diary.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023
“Now, Laurie, don’t be too fastidious and worldly-minded. If they love one another it doesn’t matter a particle how old they are nor how poor. Women never should marry for money...”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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