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Fastidiousness See also Punctuality. Fogg, Phileas entire life tuned to precise schedule. [Fr. Lit.: Around the World in Eighty Days] handles minutest details with order and precision. [Br. Lit.: Nicholas Nickleby] the cat finicky eater; eats only “9-Lives.” [TV: Wallechinsky, 129] new scar cools his adulterous ardor. [Czech Opera: Janacek, Jenufa, Westerman, 407]
for him, godliness is next to cleanliness. [Am. Lit.: The Odd Couple; Am. Cinema: The Odd Couple; TV: “The Odd Couple” in Terrace, II, 160–161] |
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No second attachment, the only thoroughly natural, happy, and sufficient cure, at her time of life, had been possible to the nice tone of her mind, the fastidiousness of her taste, in the small limits of the society around them. All my fastidiousness would suddenly, for no rhyme or reason, vanish. This I knew could be had by asking for it; not to ask, because the request revolted my pride and contradicted my habits, would, I felt, be an indulgence of false and indolent fastidiousness. |
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