Naga said: "But there's a difference, without being too persnickety , there is a difference between unconscious biased and outright racism isn't there?

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In the coming seasons, while she struggles to stay relevant as she ushers in her golden years, Mariah, dubbed the biggest-selling artist of all time, will need to do more wooing-not for a duplicitous lover, but for the music biz's increasingly persnickety fans.

The persnickety grape favors long, warm seasons and resists bearing numerous, heaving clusters.

Jenna's biggest fan is Joe (a fine Larry Marshall), the diner's persnickety , elderly owner.

In this, the British royal family has proven more accepting than the persnickety and self-righteous in-laws of the Pakistani variety.

Fast-paced and funny throughout--thanks in part to a great supporting cast that includes Tony Shalhoub as the persnickety patriarch of Midge's family and Alex Borstein as her acerbic, androgynous manager Susie--the show captures some of the energy that creator Amy Sherman-Palladino brought to Gilmore Girls, without the saccharine self-satisfaction.

Indeed, Stamets begins his story arc with a " persnickety " attitude--Harberts used the same term--particularly toward the show's antihero, Lt.

The CEA's persnickety insistence on this nondescript acronym reminds me of the way a cable network once known as The Learning Channel was redubbed TLC.

Her topics are Kashefi composes the Anvar-e Sohayli, being persnickety about "animal fables," the biggest bees in Kashefi's bonnet: a thematic analysis, building appreciation for "tasteless bombast," topical web and structural maze, the skeleton, and collaborative effort: the "noble" heredity line of Kalileh o-Demneh versions and translations in the Persian tradition.