(1) His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved.(2) Benevolence would have to give way to the exacting standards of science.(3) I didn't have to worry whether water taxis, hotels and restaurants were up to his exacting standards.(4) Sorry I couldn't use all your emails, but very few of them measured up to our exacting quality standards.(5) Luckily, staff appeared with the starters and managed to exceed the exacting standards the bachelors were demanding.(6) However, even grunge reveals an exacting attention to detail.(7) While the wizards were most certainly using spells to scour the mountainsides for spies or scouts, it would take a magus of exacting skill to locate her.(8) Applying his exacting , respectful attention to the everyday speech of the people as well as the notable speech of poets, philosophers, and presidents, he allows each to elevate the other.(9) Injuries may hurt but the pain of not being able to reach his own exacting standards would be harder to deal with.(10) Under the proposed bill, they will be subject to less exacting standards in order to test new technologies, train crew, or fly working vehicles in the process of gaining a full license for paying customers.(11) With an exacting attention to detail, Kees combines reality derived from photographs, memory and studies from life with creative imagery to convey his vision.(12) But then they are equally scathing about anything that fails to measure up to their own exacting standards.(13) The Governess sings throughout her exacting part with skill and understanding.(14) The total of these conditions is a demand; a relentless, exacting demand upon those fundamental resources, land and water.(15) A consummate professional and master decorator, he has never presented work that does not meet his own exacting standards of design, even if it means outshining everybody else's masquerade.(16) An appeal is an expensive step in the judicial process and one that makes an exacting claim on judicial resources.