perfectionist

• “My surgeon had a national reputation and was known as a perfectionist.”

  The Guardian: Roger Ebert: 'I'm happy I don't look worse'

• “Which, judging by the copious accounts of her doings, she was, but Gladys was also a vain perfectionist, obsessed with the “kink” in her nose that kept her from possessing a perfect Grecian profile – an obsession that led to the ruination of her beauty before she was yet forty.”

  An Aristocratic Ménage: Consuelo, Sunny and Gladys | Edwardian Promenade

• “During the Boston performance, Europe, who was known as a perfectionist and a demanding leader, had told one of his drummers to “put more pep in the sticks.””

  Simon & Schuster: Savage Peace

• “There are, in short, perfectionist reformers as well as religionists, who wait to see the salvation which it is the task of humanity itself to work out, and who look down from a region of ineffable self-complacence on their dusty and toiling brethren who are resolutely doing whatsoever their hands find to do for the removal of the evils around them.”

  The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism

• “Mumbai, February 17: It seems Imran Khan wants to take over the word perfectionist from his uncle Aamir Khan, sounds wacky!”

  WN.com - Articles related to Delhi CM to meet Sibal, discuss private school fee issue

• “And so he hired workers, including one he calls "Eldin from Murphy Brown," referring to the perfectionist painter in the hit television series that ran 1988 to 1998.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At Apartment House, a Blend of the Old and the New

• “Known as a perfectionist, Ms. Meyers said that Mr. Backen listened carefully and sketched out his ideas on onion paper throughout their meetings, sometimes returning with entirely new plans.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Rustic Architect to the Stars

• “BEHAR: Well you talk about being a perfectionist, which is interesting to me.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010

• “REBECCA ROBERTS, host: Michael Jackson was known as a perfectionist, and it showed in his polished performances marked by sharp moves and rapid fire spins and that perfectly balanced toe stand.”

  NPR: Debbie Allen Loved Jackson's 'This Is It'

• “He is well known as a perfectionist, demanding and irritable when the results don't meet his standard.”

  Newsweek: Caught In Clinton's Shadow

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