Puncturing the punctiliousness that many associate with classical music is a good start.
|
|
During the course of a soiree Elisabeth and Pierre decide to host in their apartment, Lydie questions whether the paté another guest has brought comes from free-range chickens, and Jean-Lino mocks her for her punctiliousness, clucking and flapping his arms like wings.
|
|
"He has his mise en place ," his friend the chef Éric Ripert told me, noting that Bourdain's punctiliousness is a reflection not only of his personality and his culinary training but also of necessity: if he weren't so structured, he could never stay on top of his proliferating commitments.
|
|
Yet through and in spite of all this she maintained, even to the extreme of punctiliousness, the air of being a visitor at Blent.
|
|
He lived for twenty years at the York Hotel, Rundle Street. In January 1892, feeling the effects of a hot summer, he made a rare trip outside South Australia to Hobart, Tasmania, and died in Melbourne on the return voyage. He was buried in the Jewish section of the West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide. He was courtly and courteous, punctual to the point of punctiliousness, polite, precise and utterly dependable.
|
|
The single 4-inch Mk V guns were later replaced by Mk XVI guns in paired mountings. In a fruitless attempt to keep within treaty limits, the Mark XVI mounting was stripped down to reduce the weight, the result being the Mark XVII, an exercise described as "ridiculous punctiliousness".Campbell (2002) They were later converted back to standard Mark XVI mounts. The initial design called for two octuple mountings for the QF 2-pounder Mk.VIII anti- aircraft autocannon but as a weight-saving exercise these were not initially shipped and the existing QF 2-pounder Mark II was carried in lieu on four single mounts.
|
|
Meccania, a place of "perpetual propaganda...," presents the visitor with "an odd mixture of arrogance, xenophobia, over-punctiliousness, over-organization, chauvinism, and rigidity...."Everett F. Bleiler with Richard Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years, Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1990; p. 301. Ming is constantly observed by official guides. Ming provokes his state minders when he tries to find a newspaper; he gets into more trouble when the personal record he is required to keep does not match the records of his guides with perfect exactness. Ming also learns the history of Meccania -- how "Bludiron" (Otto von Bismarck) organized the nation to resist the socialism of "Spotts" (a pun on the surname of Karl Marx).
|
|
The ceremony being at an end, we left the temple. The ceremony, to > which the place and the hour gave an additional solemnity, was characterized > throughout by that extreme dignity and punctiliousness which are the > distinctive marks of the proceedings of Japanese gentlemen of rank; and it > is important to note this fact, because it carries with it the conviction > that the dead man was indeed the officer who had committed the crime, and no > substitute. While profoundly impressed by the terrible scene it was > impossible at the same time not to be filled with admiration of the firm and > manly bearing of the sufferer, and of the nerve with which the kaishaku > performed his last duty to his master.
|
|