nitpicking

Policy details at this stage of a campaign do little but give opponents and pundits grist for nitpicking.

Her nitpicking boss chastises her for not overloading her uniform with incongruent buttons, or "flair," insisting she needs to "express herself."

Is this the nitpicking of someone demanding a favorite story’s purity be retained down to the latches and buttons?

“And this isn’t some kind of nitpicking complaint. This goes to the heart of whether or not the world is going to have the ability to make intelligent decisions about humanity’s future.”

“There were a lot of things we did that I was pleased with,” the notoriously nitpicking Payton said after moving above .500 for the first time with the Broncos.