| He was the profane rube who had a mystical obsession with grammatical punctilio and syntactical clarity. |
| There are many tasty interpretations here — the punishing punctilio of McKean's Sam, the lapdog loneliness of Saxe's Joey — but Eve Best's Ruth is the most revelatory. |
| Mercifully the SS men got off the bus before his punctilio caused him to unmask his disguise. |
| Covert gestures of kindness saved me from trouble, or explained the punctilio of some futile but unavoidable chore. |
| Mamet, the son of a lawyer who won a case in the Supreme Court, knows all about legal punctilio, and he has great fun bringing mayhem to the ritual. |
| He was wounded fighting at barricades adjacent to Paris's northern customs barrier and described the moment with the clinical punctilio of a doctor's son. |
