Sentences with phrase «sticklers about»

And you witness dramas about getting attribution probabilities right — for example, the American Physical Society statement on climate change, which has a few of their members foaming — and you realize that the scientific community is full of sticklers about getting the uncertainties right (as they should).

I don't think they sell very much so therefor are sticklers about prices out of desperation.

Man, comic book fans are sticklers about who can and can not portray their heroes on screen.

«We are sticklers about eating a vegetable at every meal,» says Meghann Mills of Sandy, Utah, a mother of three.

And, as a Northern transplant into the South, I find it funny that the Southerners are being such sticklers about the sugar in this cornbread.

Linebacker Kevin Minter told the Associated Press, «She's helped a lot and she's a stickler about fundamentals... She knows a lot about making you better as a person, too... a real good person to feed off of.»

But I'm not going to be a radical stickler about it.

When it comes to nuts I'm a stickler about what's in them — added oils or preservatives?

Bull Cyclone was a stickler about the rules.

I'm a stickler about bed / nap time and won't take them out if they aren't well - rested because that would be miserable for me.

well now let's see I like sports I like going to the beach traveling sort of spontaneous music R & B old school blues and I'm a stickler about honesty I like conversations I'm rather understanding and I love more than anything else cuddling touching showing affection

I sometimes thought I was being too much of a stickler about correcting those micro issues.

Be a stickler about keeping excellent notes on everybody you talk to, including their name, title, date, and points discussed.

We have a home inspector coaching client that is really quite good writer and is a stickler about the quality of the written word in the home inspection report.

THE sculptor Richard Serra, a stickler about the differences between art and architecture, once described most public sculpture in urban architectural settings as «displaced, homeless, overblown objects that say, «We represent modern art.

(TNS)-- I'm a real stickler about snow removal, the result of growing up in Connecticut and plowing my way to lots of cash as soon as I could hold a shovel.

So, it's important to cover yourself and be a stickler about the specifics.

One thing he is a stickler about — absolutely NO shabby chic!

Why am I not a stickler about wood counters since I loved them so much in the old kitchen?

Not exact matches

Some of you know where this is going... I am a stickler over operational realities because articles like this don't discuss the important details about policy.

Only sticklers waste time «consulting their friends» about churches.

Recent scholarly studies such as by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini have reopened the debate about the origins of priestly celibacy, arguing that the Eastern practice is not ancient but an accommodation to lapses among married clergy.

The upside is that readers can go along with all the nice things he says about God's love, as Pope Francis apparently did, and not be sticklers for the details.

I have been a stickler lately about sugar in our home and, let's just say, I have been grately encouraging my kids to eat healthy.

I feel so fortunate to have learned about GF Harvest from a friend who is a stickler for finding the best gluten free oats.

Carla Stickler speaks with some students at Oakdale - Bohemia Middle School after talking about her career on Broadway, Friday, May 4, 2018.

He is also sharp, a stickler for the evidence and forthright about contemporary medical questions.

The rice milk may be a point of contention for Paleo sticklers, but you'll have to decide how you feel about using rice products.

If you're a stickler for worrying about cardio first, strength training second, you may want to flip that thinking.

I mean, I understand what shapes work together and what shapes don't work together, and I'm a stickler for fit, but other than that, I don't really believe in all that mumbo jumbo about certain colors for certain seasons or what you can wear or not wear at a certain age or time in your life.

But if you're a particular stickler for knowing what a film is about before going to see it, here you go: Ryan Gosling is the nameless, borderline mute who is a movie stunt - driver by day and getaway driver by night.

No matter what I say, some Marvel stickler will be mad about it.

(I'm hardly a stickler, but it does seem that a film explicitly dedicated to post-9 / 11 veterans might be a bit less casual about toppling skyscrapers in a major American city.)

For me, stickler for proper word use that I am, it's about the misappropriation of terminology (seriously, if you don't own your ISBN number and have granted rights to someone else, you are no more — and no less — independent than a commercially - published author) and the use of euphemisms — trying to escape the negative implications of something by calling it something else.

Truss talks about how she is awesome at punctuating and writing, declares that her book is for «stickler

True, one occasionally hears a marvellous punctuation - fan joke about a panda who «eats, shoots and leaves», but in general the stickler's exquisite sensibilities are assaulted from all sides, causing feelings of panic and isolation.

Freestanding buildings can clue in burglars that you're not a stickler for security - if you leave the shed filled with expensive lawn equipment unlocked, a thief may think you're loose about other parts of your property as well.

If you're not a stickler for framerate, then ignore what we've said about it.

Sometimes the drama recalls that of a cell dividing in two («Message to Raphael») or a cell having second thoughts about splitting («French Stickler»).

In this regard, here is the webpage of a retired atmospheric science professor who is sort of stickler for describing the greenhouse effect correctly: http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadGreenhouse.html He is a bit militant in what the correct pedagogy is for my taste, but I think he does have a valid point that thinking about it in the wrong way can lead people astray.

Garner's review is titled Don't Know Much About Punctuation: Notes on a Stickler Wannabe, and although it's not available online, it is reproduced in Garner on Language and Writing.

Don't be a jerk about it; just be a stickler for detail.