fastidious

And since that scandal, Apple has been fastidious about obeying the letter of the law.

You don't disclose, and they don't want to hear, that you're a fastidious basket case who will freak the moment the other person moves something in your apartment.

I'm fastidious about those types of things, and as a result I can realistically say I write some of the best and least buggy code in my company.

It would be exceedingly difficult to find someone more fastidious and willing to perform exhaustive research.

Those habits have now been beaten out of me!My point is that having a fastidious approach to sleep, and a strict sleep pattern means that you pretty much don't need an alarm clock.

I think it's a case of reanalysing our consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of low-wage labour and being very fastidious about how we approach both.

As the article notes: "the fastidious population of Northern Europe produces only about 150 million tons of waste a year, he said, far too little to supply incinerating plants that can handle more than 700 million tons.

"Given pg's generally fastidious nature with respect to these things, I'd say the prior odds of pg contradicting himself are much lower than you simply misunderstanding him. At the very least this is what most folks believe, so when you jump to the conclusion that pg is contradicting himself you come off as an uncharitable little troll.

But there are rarer men who would rather die than work without enjoyment in their work: the fastidious people, difficult to satisfy, whose object is not served by an abundant profit, unless the work itself be the reward of all rewards.