In the sometimes pernickety world of Roma activism, she raised eyebrows.
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Other sex workers are similarly pernickety about their pre-booking rituals.
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This makes for more exciting radio than the BBC's pernickety insistence on balance in every programme.
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If rules were tightened, it believes, firms would forgo listing altogether for less pernickety private markets.
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Equally, only the truly pernickety gamer is going to be bothered by the attitude taken to listing each team's playing staff, and the team names themselves.
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"There aren't any good alternatives," he said That said, potentates who bridled at the restrictions the Obama administration placed on arms exports find Britain's government less pernickety.
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For all Fara's erudition and scholarship, not to mention her description of herself as a "pernickety academic" at Clare College, Cambridge, she writes without a trace of stuffiness.
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Citi analyst Simon Weedon said the cut at the top end was "somewhat pernickety", but he expected the market to be relieved that competition in India wasn't more damaging at this stage.
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It is all the more impressive that this production—which stars Bobby Cannavale as the self-important essayist, Daniel Radcliffe as his pernickety fact-hound and Cherry Jones as their formidable editor—turns out to be so provocative and entertaining.
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Without giving too much away, I'll say that Phantom Thread subverts a typical story—older boy meets younger girl, older boy is really clever and woos her with his smarts, girl realizes maybe he's a pernickety grump who chooses to deny himself love—before twisting it into an entirely new shape in the third act.
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According to James Lees-Milne the design was "too eclectic, too pernickety and too tasteless to have been a success".
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Polly Ann (also known as The Little Reformer and Pernickety Polly Ann) is a lost 1917 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation. It was directed by Charles Miller and stars Bessie Love.
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Nurse Matilda arrives at the household of the Brown family and becomes a nanny to the innumerable Brown children. The Brown children are "exceedingly naughty" and frighten off many governesses in wonderfully mischievous ways -- until Nurse Matilda comes. She teaches the children to behave, and deals with the fearsome and pernickety Great Aunt Adelaide Stitch. In the end the children become good and decent, and Nurse Matilda leaves to attend another family of naughty children.
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In his 2004 book The Stories of English, a general history of the English language, he describes the value he sees in linguistic diversity and the according of respect to varieties of English generally considered "non- standard". In 2009 Routledge published his autobiographical memoir Just a Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language, which was released simultaneously with a DVD of three of his lectures. His book Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling (2013) explains why some English words are difficult to spell. His companion book, Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation came out in 2015 from Profile Books (UK) and St. Martin's Press (USA).
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