What often is taken for granted on Earth - air, water, food, trash disposal - must be designed for in fastidious detail.

Sometimes, as in the last two, color and space combine with fastidious detail to create a sense of illusion and artifice that is more usual to painting, Magic Realist painting in particular.

The owner of Manhattan Feather Dusters, Everet Goldberg, said he started the business 10 years ago using artists because they were "esthetically oriented, detail oriented and fastidious."

Imperial Fists are dedicated to fastidious and meticulous detail, by the grace of Dorn - detail in military tactics, and in personal conduct too.

He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail.

In "the most ambitious recent work" on early Christian history, the author "describes in fastidious detail the forms of the pagan cults and their accompanying piety in the second and third centuries."

He is a man of nuances; when he defines himself, it is with a kind of fastidious detail.

Its fastidious detail gives it the same appeal to welfare wonks that box scores hold for baseball fans.

Their strained expressions, anatomical confusions and fastidious details speak of both deprivation and ambition on the part of artists and sitters alike.

Everything was planned in fastidious detail.