10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERSNICKETINESS»
Discover the use of
persnicketiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
persnicketiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and ...
Jonathan Safran Foer, 2013
2
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
... bound in an order of remembrance, struggling in vain to remember a beginning
or end. T h e P e r s n i c k etiness o f M emory, 1941 Men set up flow charts (
which were themselves memories of. 258 The Persnicketiness of Memory, 1941.
Jonathan Safran Foer, 2013
Built with British persnicketiness to North Sea specifications, I actually found this
suit-undergamient-and-hood combination to be a bit too wann for a quick,
halfhour dive in 72° F Florida springwater. But, had I been doing a long, DPV-
assisted ...
Hypocrisy, after all, owes its existence to virtue in general,22 to the very idea,
imagined possibility, and attractiveness of virtue, and no other vice (except
perhaps Puritan persnicketiness in an especially perverse way) can make that
claim.
William Ian MILLER, William Ian Miller, 2009
5
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of ...
... (In the spirit of fannish, or academic, persnicketiness, it should be noted that
many among Lovecraft's ghastly pantheon are not confined, and that his
cosmology was resolutely materialist rather than metaphysical. Some of his
characters ...
6
Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a ...
And I have consistently rendered as “treasure” ON görsemi, which perhaps
should have been elegantly varied in the interests of more natural Modern
English prose as prize, priceless or valuable object, or gem.12 My
persnicketiness in this ...
7
The War Game, New Expanded Edition: Studies of the New ...
H ORO WI TZ: Why can't we take for granted a common psychological
persnicketiness, a kind of Dostoevski in life—there are eighty-eight keys on the
piano and I only play on forty-four for no reason but spite. Maybe these are the
kind of men ...
Irving Louis Horowitz, 2013
8
Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary
... perkiness permissibleness permissiveness pernicious perniciousness perosis
perpetualness persnicketiness personableness perspicacious
perspicaciousness perspicuous perspicuousness persuasiveness pertinacious
pertness pertussis ...
9
North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life
At first his persnicketiness annoyed me, but gradually as I flew more with Chip it
became a game, and fun. I realized, too, that his method prevented sloppiness
from ever creeping into his flying. It created a quicker awareness of things being ...
Bob Buck, Robert N. Buck, 2005
10
West of the West: Imagining California : an Anthology
But raw, they must be swallowed whole, and rapidly. And alive. With the
unreasoning and terrible persnicketiness of a sixteen-year-old I knew that I would
be sick if I had to swallow anything in the world alive, but especially a live oyster.
Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel Scherr, 1995
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERSNICKETINESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
persnicketiness is used in the context of the following news items.
CBS's Major Garrett defends controversial question for President …
... a “fine line, especially…standing in the East Room,” a suggestion that there are limits to media persnicketiness in such grand surroundings. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Lauren Bacall's Former Dakota Apartment Now $2.5M Cheaper
I'm sure the persnicketiness has frightened away more than one or two buyers! Especially the Dakota... Wasn't this flat appraised at $9M ... «Curbed NY, Apr 15»
An unwelcome ally: White House's bizarre pique on Bibi invite
The new persnicketiness arises from House Speaker John Boehner's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to speak before a joint ... «New York Post, Jan 15»
Ben Rayner's Reasons to Live: Box sets from Bryan Adams, Tears …
The content bears that persnicketiness out: if you're a fan who never quite agreed with the version of, say, “Mother's Talk” that wound up on the ... «Toronto Star, Nov 14»
The 2014 BCS Championship: What it's like to die at the Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl can be finicky, but most of that persnicketiness is obliterated by the thing itself: the trees on the edge of the stands, the San ... «SB Nation, Jan 14»
Dine Out Maine: Scale Katahdin for good food and Winnie's world …
Persnicketiness aside, my guest enjoyed a glass of Liberty School Cabernet, 2010 ($12), and auspiciously presented to me was a vodka gimlet ... «Press Herald, Nov 13»
It's Woody Allen's Fault
... by appropriating Allen's worries without Seinfeld's goofy grin, are making themselves out to be purists of persnicketiness, pretending their ... «Tablet Magazine, Jun 13»
Theater Review (NYC): The Mistakes Madeline Made by Elizabeth …
Hardly bothering to disguise her sneering attitude towards all the persnicketiness, Edna shifts periodically into memories of trying to help her ... «Blogcritics.org, Apr 13»
As TSA Stops Its No Knives Act, Ed Markey Introduces His Own
The TSA is perfectly capable of combining persnicketiness with ineptitude: Although I have lost several pocket knives over the years because I ... «Reason, Mar 13»
The Undead Don't Like to Leave Anything Undone
It's his editor or publisher, played by Don Porter with less persnicketiness than usual, who pops the tape into the machine, hoping to solve the ... «Vanity Fair, Oct 12»
