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  • n  strict attention to minute details

  • The most spectacular example of this new punctiliousness is the case of Robert Massie, author of the 1967 bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra.
  • Then, with equal punctiliousness, she pays some boys to give her car a push so that she can sail off a cliff in it.
  • But this punctiliousness, this refusal to inflate, grants it a large measure of persuasive power.

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