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
Diplomats who stressed punctilio, protocol and politesse were out of their class when they tangled with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he waited on the diner with as much care for punctilio as though a formal banquet were in progress.
From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum
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
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
"He's right, you know; those things do tell," Crosstrees had said to me when I had attempted to be jocose about these punctilios.
From The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
All these punctilios observed, the boat was shoved off from the vessel's side, the eight oars dropped, as one, and the party moved towards the shore.
From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
Under the circumstances, and between such adversaries, the punctilios of ceremony are slight.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
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