0 giving too much attention to small details that are not important in a way that annoys other people --
I think that my fellow countrymen are being unusually pernickety tonight on what is relatively an unimportant matter.
One need not be too pernickety of what is immediately relevant.
It may be pernickety, it may be a scruple, it may be prudent.
He is becoming constitutionally pernickety all of a sudden.
The only thing that worries me is the fact that we may have been too pernickety in our reform.
I think that possibly it is being a little pernickety, because that is known to every specialist in that particular group.
This group of amendments is not at all pernickety.
It seems to me that we are being unnecessarily pernickety on this point.
