Word: nit-picking
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...were the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and George Sr. at the helm. The end of all that hippy-dippy nonsense. A spirit of purpose and moral fiber. Yes there was that troublesome business of the national debt quadrupling, unemployment soaring and the Iran-Contra scandal. But some people will always nit-pick. What truly mattered was that the very word ?hippy? became an insult. Liberals were in full flight. It was the anti...
...time, [Gilligan's work] was revolutionary. To nit-pick at it is to miss the point," agrees Rhodes...
...someone who's going to be sitting out there, support Powell because he's a very exciting speaker," said Webb. "I don't see why we have to nit-pick. We're grownups here...
...tempting to point out flaws and discuss weaknesses in student productions. But when a show is as well-directed and performed as Harvard Summer Theater's production of Traveller Without Luggage, 'critical duty' is really no more than a petty, worthless compulsion to nit-pick...
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