punctilio

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

Last week, as Fanfani took the desk, he moved with the smooth punctilio that Italians appreciate and practice.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the last they retained something of the punctilio, which, as he says, inspired him at the outset.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

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

Suit is the word for the performance, so full was it of elaborate punctilios.

From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan

This was one of his delicate punctilios; for he did not expect that, from what Lord Howe had written him on the occasion, the ship would have been actually commissioned till about a fortnight longer.

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison

"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

"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