punctiliousness

Example Sentences

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In the perverse context of 2020, the unexciting vision of the federal government functioning as it’s supposed to, with a punctiliousness that can only be called bureaucratic, is strangely soothing.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2020

Listening to Ackland fret over his affection for Henry Miller, I worried that his ethical punctiliousness must be exhausting.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2019

Meyer’s punctiliousness took hold when he was in his late teens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2016

Even for the non-specialist, it’s impossible to thumb through “Fine Lines” without catching an infectious sense of punctiliousness married to passion.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Nothing of this diplomacy was revealed to his Majesty, whose punctiliousness and dignity would have taken umbrage thereat.

From Edelweiss A Story by Auerbach, Berthold