Definition of Exacting

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Definition of Exacting
	Exacting of Exact Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. Related Definitions: Exact, Fulfillment, Harsh, In, Making, Of, Oppressive, Or, Requiring, Severe, The

Exacting Quotations

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
David Herbert Lawrence

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Chuck Jones

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
David F. Houston

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.
Alex Morrison

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Eugene Delacroix

Exacting Translations

exacting in French is prestigieux
exacting in Italian is esigente
exacting in Norwegian is krevende
exacting in Spanish is pretencioso, exigente

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