He demanded exactness in all details. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is characteristic of such knowledge that it should be deficient in "exactness," in precision of statement, and closeness of logical concatenation. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
In renderings you are not really after the 'exactness' of every triangle. From Wordnik.com. [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference
In these dances they keep time with an exactness which is scarcely excelled by the best performers upon the stages of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13] Reference
A disregard of exactness is not peculiar to Dr. Royce. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
No, this the exactness and simplicity of true art rejected. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
To attain this, much exactness may be sacrificed with safety. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
This exactness was the most wondrous aspect of the new invention. From Wordnik.com. [Air Conditioning] Reference
This gentleman maintained the exactness of our results before the. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
They had made it to wax with great exactness, and presently it was at full. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
These words apply, with a painful degree of exactness, to the career of Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
It is difficult to state with absolute exactness what constitutes a community. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
By following with exactness, the child learns unconsciously to observe the general rules. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
They observed Nature to be an economist, and practiced economy with scrupulous exactness. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
But beyond a certain point in the ascending scale, the exactness of this correlation ceases. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
If we could do this with scientific exactness, artificial feeding would be a simple process. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
On one side you see a perfect W, each finely shaded bar of which is fashioned with the nicest exactness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
By this process of rolling, great exactness of shape, and a great degree of smoothness inside, are preserved. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Ravenously hungry as we were, these supplies were divided and apportioned with the most scrupulous exactness. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
But he had blamed Claude for not having given the exactness and distinct shape and colour of leaves in foreground. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
The competition among manufacturers consists in the care and exactness with which they combine the necessary elements. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Having observed all these points with great exactness, proceed to nicely sew up the skin with the stitch previously mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
To the Kaffir an impi is an army, whether small or large, and it is almost impossible to bring home to him the value of exactness. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
The Flying-fish which had been taken, were divided and apportioned with scrupulous exactness, and devoured with very little ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
No anatomist can pronounce with exactness the precise figure of vessels or other organs while they lie concealed beneath the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The officers, therefore, confiding in their general, performed their duties with cheerfulness, and made their reports with exactness. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
"I was saying he crossed my bows laying his course for Sidmouth, or that way," said Crump, evidently striving for a witness-box exactness. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
This summary and the preconceived views that it set forth have lost nothing of their exactness; on the contrary, time has strengthened them. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
This man was so cool, and related all the circumstances of the occurrence with such exactness, as to prove the truthfulness of his statement. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Of several peculiarities in this development of the girl I made at the time careful memoranda, and the exactness of these can be relied upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The labour necessary for massing and bringing together all this information is only equalled by the exactness and orderliness with which it is presented. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
After having diligently read and examined them, we judge them to be proper for the welfare of our community, and resolve to practice them with all possible exactness. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
A player should not double unless able to count with reasonable exactness in his own hand and announced by his partner a sufficient number of tricks to defeat the Declarer. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
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