exacting

It may be contentious, but it is also the action of someone increasingly comfortable in his own skin in this exacting job.

The iconic chef represented the type of presenter Burrell was drawn to: exuberant, exacting, joyful in her pedagogy.

In South Korea too, a rising number of young people have been voluntarily cutting themselves off from a highly competitive and exacting society.

When I ask Yamaguchi what she thinks ties her works together, she says, “They’re incredibly time-consuming and exacting,” and, she adds with a smile, “they have a contrarian streak.”

“Crazy Mama,” about a housewife intent on exacting vengeance on the men who murdered her husband, highlighted Demme’s desire to recognize women’s ongoing struggles against a patriarchal world.