punctilio
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They combined, then as now, a wild bureaucratic adherence to punctilio and procedure with entanglements of cohort and clan that could shortcut the procedure in a moment.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
There lingers, even in our mercantile age, an admiration for the aristocratic ethos, the punctilio, of the duel.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2015
Protocol, punctilio, politesse suddenly drop, leaving Tennyson’s “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 29, 2011
Something in Americans sympathizes with that view of the world, with a bit of Teddy Roosevelt roughriding and a distaste for legal punctilio.
From Time Magazine Archive
Disobedience was heresy, and Rome, for a century, endeavored to convulse Europe on this simple punctilio.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
Communist party congresses are usu ally thoroughly predictable, ritualistic affairs, and for a time last week the Twelfth Congress of the Italian party in Bologna observed the punctilios.
From Time Magazine Archive
"This submission to insult is the more extraordinary for being practised by Christian nations, which, in their intercourse with one another, push the principle of equality and reciprocity to the minutest punctilios of form."
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Josiah Quincy
I may have mistaken some of the punctilios of the arrangement, for my very soul was sick.
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child
Not a moment being to spare, I paid no attention to the punctilios of honour or rank, but ordered the troops to advance in their then disposition.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
Though entirely familiar with the routine of his devotional exercises, and all the punctilios of court etiquette, he was in mental culture and general intelligence far below ordinary school-boys of his age.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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