How To Use Fastidiousness In A Sentence
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This trick invested his handsome face with a kind of impish fastidiousness.
The Nursing Home Murder
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If there's a faultline, it's only that such fastidiousness can turn inward.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is an awkward thing to play with souls," — you override the fastidiousness of the soul in marrying your companion.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Kyle Soller as the posturing Khlestakov is an extraordinary, ginger-haired beanpole whose fastidiousness is undercut by his intemperate greed.
Government Inspector – review
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Fastidiousness, at any rate, is very good _postiche_ for modesty: it is always decent, it can never be coarse.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
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Other dances, such as the various types of branles, were a direct transference of folk sources, whilst others, again, compromised between populist zest and courtly fastidiousness, as did the pavanes and galliards.
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If there's a faultline, it's only that such fastidiousness can turn inward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Readers familiar with Roosevelt ' s " Autobiography " — or other TR biographies — will be stunned to read Mr. Morris claiming that Roosevelt and progressives of his class looked down, with " aristocratic fastidiousness, " on " poor whites, and at the dreg level, imported coolies, reservation Indians, and disenfranchised blacks.
Bull Moose In Twilight
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Such a man, after long wavering, and losing probable happiness in the terror of possible disappointment, will either die an old batchelor, with endless repinings at his own lingering fastidiousness, or else marry just at the eve of confinement for life, from a fit of the gout.
Camilla
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Kyle Soller as the posturing Khlestakov is an extraordinary, ginger-haired beanpole whose fastidiousness is undercut by his intemperate greed.
Government Inspector – review
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He said recently that he inherited his fastidiousness from his mother who ‘put plastic covers over everything in the house, even lampshades and footstools’.
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That is the odd thing about my life: the things I longed intensely to do I would not let myself do, not from any religious or moral scruple, but from some inexplicable fastidiousness or scrupulosity which is yet as active as ever, although I am sure that it would not be able to hold its own could these favorable conditions be repeated, but would be overcome by the imperious and fully grown desires which, by long repression, or by unsatisfactory diversion, have grown to be so strong.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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neatness and fastidiousness of dress
