Elsewhere, traditional ways of life, still beautifully and scrupulously pursued, seemed to be under threat.
The director, Robert Benton, and the screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, are scrupulously faithful to the book.
The tests, in fact, had been scrupulously designed and scrubbed of all possible racial bias.
Even Mr Petrie's scrupulously neutral statement marked him as an opponent of the regime.
They must keep strictly to the law, observe accounting rules scrupulously and be wholly transparent.
It has scrupulously avoided abusing the broken patent system as Microsoft and Apple have done.
We were determined from the outset to be scrupulously even-handed in our treatment of the two candidates.
At the Bar he was a fine judge, dexterous in argument and scrupulously fair in his rulings.
Some local authorities have resorted to random allocation of school places, which at least is scrupulously fair.
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She stuck to the day job and was scrupulously loyal when she took to the podium this time.
But Vertic is there to help reassure outsiders that the work is being done scrupulously by both sides.
Mondays, the offering tended toward a religious or scrupulously moral play (to win the support of the local clergy).
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As a chief constable, he was barred from party politics, and Mr Brunstrom said he had remained "scrupulously neutral".
He scrupulously insists everyone in the company, even the busboys, call him Terry.
For her own part, Eva was as scrupulously polite with Harley as he was with her and just as distant.
He insisted that Mr Hunt took took "a broad sweep of advice from Independent Regulator (Ofcom), " and "scrupulously" followed it.
"His country will sign a cease-fire accord with Georgia and scrupulously respect all agreements, including a troop withdrawal, " Sarkozy's office said.
Yet Geithner must have known that talk of "manipulation, " a loaded term scrupulously avoided by the Bush administration, would be seen as inflammatory.
Klein and his troops are scrupulously avoiding talking about a remedy (though they've had experts on retainer for months sorting through the options).
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We must scrupulously examine, influence by influence, those things that portray violence as an ultimate expression of power, and abundantly enable its exercise.
"I spoke to Menzies after he resigned, and he made it absolutely clear that he thought that I had been scrupulously loyal throughout, " he said.
Fairness must be scrupulously observed for both the alleged victim and perpetrator, says Dianah Worman, diversity adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Personal rows, the ups and downs of careers, the snakes and ladders of the academy (Mr Menand is especially good on these) are scrupulously noted.
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Hezbollah has scrupulously observed the ceasefire that ended hostilities in 2006.
Well, perhaps, though, of course, this gaijin correspondent is scrupulously clean.
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Sprawling sores like the meltdown in Somalia or the conflict in Rwanda were to be scrupulously avoided, and Bosnia tiptoed round for months with pettifogging excuses.
It might be called a social thriller a tightly knit suspense film that reveals more of the lives of immigrants in London than the most scrupulously earnest documentaries.
Other stories abound of telephone booths with no telephones installed but scrupulously maintained advertising, and bus shelters sited for maximum visibility rather than access to bus stops.
Is it more important to go for diversity, and help races that have been discriminated against in the past, or to be scrupulously fair to candidates now?
In this period the extraordinary departure took place from what was forbidden and scrupulously followed during the lifetime of the Prophet, the ban on Muslim violence against Muslims.
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