One night, I had grown so miserable about the bathroom that my fastidiousness overwhelmed my fury.

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If Clementi had a touch of middle-aged fastidiousness, Ravi was fully a teen-ager: rangy, physical, with a taste for public regard.

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To duplicate the quality and fastidiousness of Japanese plants was difficult.

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His hallmark: fastidiousness raised to the level of obsession.

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But as the season nears its half way mark, Eibar has nudged its way into the top half of the table and is proving a beacon of fastidiousness in a league that has long sagged heavily with debt.

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His customers appreciate his fastidiousness.

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