Words similar to exacting
Example sentences for: exacting
How can you use “exacting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Most of the accounts are morose, but a British writer in the Times opines that the Alps are exacting revenge on greedy tourists for exploiting their natural beauty.
Starr's pedantic, religious, exacting personality led him to drag out a case that other prosecutors would have ended quickly.
Some years ago I shouldered the rewarding (and not very exacting) task of editing some articles by Bernard Lewis, distinguished scholar of the Arab world.
However, there is still concern that many studies are not paying enough attention to the exacting protocols needed to overcome the technical challenges of the discipline and to defend it from the ridicule that has plagued it in the past.
Hence feminism, or rather, in Lilla's kind words, "the joyless militancy of American feminists"; multiculturalism; gay rights; and all the other movements which subject personal relations to "the exacting scrutiny of pure democratic principles."