punctilio

Example Sentences

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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

As a teacher, Nadi insists on strict observance of the punctilio of fencing, even to a show of courtesy toward the judges�for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect.

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 Gozzi, Carlo