| It may therefore seem like philosophical nit-picking if I criticise some of his arguments for getting to those conclusions. |
| He can appear arrogant and suddenly nit-picking if his performance is not recognised by a superior he values. |
| A first-year student at Williams may well become frustrated with such fastidious nit-picking. |
| The experience of the ongoing Leader programmes is a salutary lesson in the dangers of an excessively fussy, nit-picking set of guidelines. |
| His friends enjoyed themselves and you got the feeling the celebs were only nit-picking because they were expected to. |
| They are also completely missing the point with their penny-pinching and nit-picking and succeed only in making themselves appear ridiculous. |
