finical

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About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay.

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Famed among finical fight enthusiasts is the NBC team of Sam Taub & Bill Stern that works for Adam, describing right hooks and Homburgs with equal competency.

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Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it.

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In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him.

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Books he loved only for their uses; he favored no finical "keeping" of them, but plunged into an uncut volume with a smeared fruit-knife—if need were.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.