finickiness

IS there no end to the finickiness of the female heart?

Now they were paying the price for their finickiness.

They should also encourage consumers to overcome their finickiness about the appearance of food.

For all his finickiness, Deric understood something about architecture.

Despite Bond's famed finickiness about what and how he drinks, he hasn't been true to himself, at least in the movies.

Our finickiness is their last, great predator.

They are also so delicate that they sometimes need work after only one wearing, depending on the finickiness of the wearer.

In fact, diners are ordering milk with the finickiness normally reserved for double-decaf-skim lattes.

The crew is frustrated by the finickiness of Bender's photography, especially that he uses a film camera instead of digital.

Affection and attention have been shown to affect the degree of a child's finickiness and their acceptance of a more varied diet.

"The idea is to create a machine more human than machinery usually is," he said, to explain the complexity of the moving parts and their resulting finickiness.

David Gest, a music producer who is a Madame Paulette customer, understands this finickiness.

Egypt's security service, uninhibited by constitutional restraints or finickiness, faces no language or cultural barriers when it seeks to penetrate an underground network.

He acknowledges that he is an inveterate tinkerer, but he is willing to pay the penalty for his finickiness.

"It's not that kind of perfection, of finickiness," he said, "but the perfection of instant heart: bang."

(The Soviets were learning small elegances, obviously - or decadences, depending on whether finickiness or impatience won the battle for domination within you.)

Hermann Michael, the conductor, seemed too intent on making passing points rather than developing long lines, especially early on, a finickiness perhaps related to Mr. Morris's.

"Once they get pregnant, you have high levels of progesterone, so you don't have to deal with the nervousness or the finickiness and they become less high strung."

The senator's finickiness about serving warrants might be better placed in trying to help agents of federal investigative agencies give warning to Americans who might become victims of terror.

Or maybe air travel brings out the finickiness in people, and the best way to survive several hours trapped aloft in a winged metal tube is a matter of very personal taste.

Forget French finickiness about order and decorum; the French have always had a deep fondness for Schumann's sense of fantasy and his spontaneous short bursts of inspiration.

Perhaps the most straightforward work on the fine points of female finickiness has come in species where the female seeks material help from the male in the rearing or protection of the young.

Mr. Verhoeven is also capable of spending 15 minutes analyzing the subtle deployment of actors' bodies in Orson Welles's "Touch of Evil" when explaining his finickiness in shooting Mr. Shockley's entrance onto the patio.

But best of all are Mr. O'Connor and the compelling Ms. Copraij, who offers the perfect suspiciously blank foil to Mr. O'Connor's finickiness as the two become creatures who are at once siblings, lovers and a single self.