A guess: whoever lives here carries the baggage of inherited wealth, displays an anxious striving to be modern and distinguish himself, and is burdened with a repressive finickiness that borders on the fastidious. |
His finickiness partly derives from his personality — deliberate, cerebral, goofy yet aloof — but it is also a consequence of the nature of his practice. |
With me was a 27-year-old man named Stelios Zacharias, who talked about soil and slope and summer sun and the varietal finickiness of grapes. |
The help is friendly and generous, and there isn't a trace of the finickiness of which Craft has sometimes been accused. |
They are also so delicate that they sometimes need work after only one wearing, depending on the finickiness of the wearer. |
For commentators, statements about the Master's finickiness might have called for an explanation. |