What is "fastidious"

Usage examples of "fastidious".

The only room which suggested nothing of the anchorite was the dressingroom, furnished with all the comforts and conveniences necessary to an elegant and fastidious man of the world.

Its results were checked by the fastidious error-correction circuitry von Neumann had prescribed in his design, and Bigelow was the perfect person to implement those archetypal feedback mechanisms.

Isaah would recognize that the discovery of a mineable asteroid here might affect the heavy element market there, and jump straight between the two points, beating the faster but fastidious drones by a few precious hours.

The fastidious Sarget, though on the one hand wishing to continue to stand well with these young men, on the other hoped to avoid seeing his supper-party take on the tone of the Rains banquet and such-like functions governed by the tastes of men like Kembri or Sencho.

Kali or Durga during the act of sex had Roz looking interested, the nun looking fastidious, and the poor Lutheran minister looking as if she might stand up and flee.

Carmen, socially triumphant, would have been much more in her element at a petit souper of a not too fastidious four.

She pours water from the ewer in her bedroom into the bowl, she washes her face with the wincing, fastidious gestures of a cat.

Never had she, the fastidious gentlewoman, set foot in such a dwelling or spoken to such people, save when, in the blue robe of a pensionnaire at the abbaye-aux-dames, she had gone on some errand of charity to create herself order and cleanliness.

He was not a playgoer, being of such fastidious taste that he was easily disgusted by the bad filling-up of the inferior parts.

Under the influence of champagne, Svidrigailov reminisces about his criminally libertine past, and the morally fastidious Raskolnikov cannot help being shocked.

In every other instance, the Iraqis had sanitized the facility, although they were not always as fastidious as they should have been and their mistakes did provide crucial evidence of their larger deceptions.

Chief White Halfoat to move in with him, too, and drive the fastidious, clean-living bastards out with his threats and swinish habits.

The delicate china on the tall chimney-piece, the few bits of Buhl and Vernis Martin about the room, the vision through the open doorway of the supper-table spread with a fine white cloth, and sparkling with silver, all spoke of fastidious tastes, of habits of luxury and elegance, which the spirit of Equality and Anarchy had not succeeded in eradicating.

Thauglor backbeat his wings once, curled the tips to steer and brake for one last, deft instant, and landed delicately on the great bole, his talons closing with almost fastidious care.

Like James in the old days, Soames found time to go there nearly every Sunday, and sit in the little drawing-room into which, with his undoubted taste, he had introduced a good deal of change and china not quite up to his own fastidious mark, and at least two rather doubtful Barbizon pictures, at Christmastides.