Mr Cox, a former television presenter, is loquacious and intellectual, a fastidious dresser with a taste for outsized cufflinks, who spatters his conversation equally with French phrases and Anglo-Saxon oaths.
This futuristic vision of what appears to be a colony for a planet other than ours in colored pencil, ink and sepia wash is done in the calligraphic hand of a fastidious draftsman.
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He described classical music aficionados - of which he is one - as "a fastidious lot" who had been slow to switch to digital because of the relatively poor quality of compressed files.
Ryan creates all the designs, sources all his own leathers, mainly from Italy and the US, and has his boots painstakingly handmade by a team of fastidious Mexican bootmakers, 16 people whose total production is 8 or 9 pairs a day.
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Life under a government run by the author would be fastidious, incremental and pragmatic: a sort of John Major for the 21st century.
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Shaw, who prided himself on fastidious preparation, had ordered a pair of custom truck-pulling shoes from England, with high-friction soles.
The Swedish furniture giant has for decades spent more than two-thirds of its marketing budget building and furnishing living quarters, which are typically portrayed with a sparse, fastidious fashion sensibility and lighted with impeccable precision.
Yet when, you might ask, did the press make the transition, now fully evident, from being fastidious about sourcing and newsworthiness to being a shill for innuendo and opportunism?
If all this had happened at a company in the US, where boards are more fastidious about the behaviour of executives and where investors are also pretty hot on punishing executives who cross a putative ethical line, this would already be a hot issue.
It was a fascinating insight to how the fastidious musician organises his live band - calling on instruments to drop in and out, while issuing instructions to off-stage technicians and sound engineers.
Whirlpool and Maytag are designing appliances (like Personal Valet, a home dry cleaning gadget) for fastidious male homeowners.
Kumar, born in Chennai, formerly Madras, India, was fastidious and morose, travelling at least thirty thousand miles a month for work, and seldom socializing.
Today, once past the most fastidious stewards in the business, spectators are treated to a venue which, though it has changed beyond recognition over the years, has lost none of its ability to charm and distract.
Even the cynical admit that Chicago, already an architectural gem, is a prettier city because of Mr Daley's green thumb and fastidious housekeeping.
Fanshawe feels our newfound gentility is a function of our more developed society and people should respect our more fastidious sensibilities.
For devotees, it will signal a fond and snuffling farewell, as they bid adieu to a vast parade of clones, Ewoks, Darths, tragic hair styles, noble knights, and strangely fastidious androids.
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