fastidiousness

The fastidiousness is a continuation of how Fennell approached “Promising Young Woman.”

For the uninitiated, the precision of his compositions, the graceful drift of his camera movements and the fastidiousness of his musical choices can seem restrained to the point of stiffness.

Yet his reputation for fastidiousness and melancholy overlooks how varied his films are — and the wild emotions he explores.

No Labels people, who are refugees from both parties, share a Mugwumpean fastidiousness in rejecting both parties’ bad manners.

Still, my radically different experience raises the question: By our obsessions and fastidiousness, are we engendering in our kids the very questions we are hellbent to prevent?