10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERNICKETINESS»
Discover the use of
pernicketiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pernicketiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Perhaps pernicketiness would be a better word. It's about that spot of rust.
Because he isn't terribly well related to the earth plane, Aries can often be a little
compulsive about it. He can even display qualities which are usually expected of
what ...
2
Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir
The pernicketiness does not extend to non-fiction because the attractiveness of
non-fiction depends more on its subject than it does on its author's imagination. I
no longer feel the need to ponder human relationships – particularly not love ...
3
Constructive Conversations about Health: Policy and Values
... generous responses to my invitation to write, for meeting the deadlines, for
their tolerance of my editorial pernicketiness, for the quality of their contributions,
and for the sheer pleasure of our exchanges in the course of meetings and
editing.
... strange melding of cockiness and generosity, goodwill and unwillingness to
stomach the old ladies' pernicketiness. She leaned back into the pillows. A smile
hovered on her lips. Nikhil was the same. A little triumph at school and he was Mr
...
Right strategies, efficient brasstacks and pernicketiness can make the crime a
foolproof operation. This is an inviting challenge to any resourceful and skeely
criminal. Use of hi-tech communication, transport and weaponry system makes
the ...
6
Short History of English Literature
Trevor's terse, crisp dialogue, and his dry, detached portrayal of seediness,
illhumour or pointless pernicketiness is fetchingly entertaining. And there is
compassion too. Trevor extended his range in Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (
1970).
7
Policing the Police 2 Edition
Right strategies, efficient brasstacks and pernicketiness can make the crime a
foolproof operation. This is an inviting challenge to any resourceful and skeely
criminal. Use of hi-tech communication, transport and weaponry system makes
the ...
8
Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death
... ostracising Cynthia from Propertius' poetry and life.20 At the root of such
reasoning lies a self-defeating pernicketiness which expects nothing less than a
one-to-one correspondence between mythological example and contextual
situation.
Theodore D. Papanghelis, 1987
... susceptibilitiesby a curious pernicketiness about minor points. He could not
abide the Litany, stickled about private baptism and the churching of women. To
judge from all his writings, he attached little importance to such points as these;
but, ...
10
Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior
Godwin was meticulous in record keeping, evincing a pernicketiness somewhat
at odds with his bohemian lifestyle. His unpublished office diaries reveal that he
and Wilde moved in each other's orbits to a noteworthy degree during .
Penny Sparke, Anne Massey, 2013
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERNICKETINESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pernicketiness is used in the context of the following news items.
Merkel cheered for stinging criticism of coalition partner
That Berlin's wariness of debt-fuelled spending extended to its European partners was not a case of “German pernicketiness”, the chancellor ... «Irish Times, Dec 14»
Shed of the Week: Subaru Legacy
Some say this particular model of Legacy was screwed together in the United States, a land of folk not known for pernicketiness when it comes ... «Pistonheads.com, Apr 14»
The Vanilla Pod, Marlow, Bucks, restaurant review
Primarily, however, the pernicketiness is sourced in the belief that chef-proprietor Michael Macdonald has serious talent for modern French ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 13»
Jeroen to clean up Vodafone UK
His notions were grumpily acceded to by staff, who mumbled about neurosis and Dutch pernicketiness but still appreciated the nice new ... «Irish Independent, Sep 13»
Julian Barnes embarks on his own voyage into grief
Yet Barnes devotes a surprising amount of this short text to pernicketiness about other people and their failures of tact and sympathy, or merely ... «Evening Standard, Mar 13»
A fair slice of the cake
“When I look out the window in the housing estate that I live in, I think every other person out there has the same compulsive pernicketiness as ... «Irish Examiner, Aug 12»
Tottenham Hotspur 1 Manchester United 3: match report
The England winger became so annoyed at the perceived pernicketiness that he gestured whether he should take the free kick the other side of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 12»
Ronald Searle, the cartoonist who could never leave school
He learnt to love the French, even for their pernicketiness. When he declared to the tax authorities that he used 48 per cent of his domestic ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 12»
