Whilst it is most important that nothing should be done to give colour to the idea sedulously promoted by the Hindu politician that Government intend to favour, or, as he generally puts it, to "pamper," the ❋ Valentine Chirol (1890)
'eagerly,' 'sedulously'; cf. use of the word for [Greek: spoudaiôs], St. Luke vii. ❋ John William Burgon (1850)
In much the way costume designers offer up sketches and swatches for a director's approval, casting directors—who work as independent operators or are affiliated with studios, directors or production companies—present a sedulously curated lineup of actors for parts large and very small. ❋ Joanne Kaufman (2011)
From there, he would bring back postcards, sedulously and with obvious pleasure gleaned from their racks in various museums and churches at 10 to 20 lire each: Caravaggios, Bellinis, Michelangelos. ❋ Robert Hughes (2011)
Such should be sedulously cherished, and it were well to depute this to their men-folk, the nearer of kin the better. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Though sheltered by a massive C. I.A.-funded tunnel complex fitted with bunkers and hospital beds, he sedulously manufactured the cult of personality that would make him a household name. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By contrast, the fact that we have been unable to secure the small city of Marja, much less take on the larger job of Kandahar, is because nobody right down to the village folk whom we are so sedulously courting with good deeds and restrictive rules of engagement believes that Barack Obama believes in his own war. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Those sedulously cultivated dandelions are very much a part of the mix. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She herself had been sedulously to the Pavilion, year after year, but she had never "got off" with an officer like that. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On the eve of the election, with the poll not five weeks off, Glanferis had assumed a disproportionate importance; its news value had been sedulously worked up. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Attorney, in D.C., who is reported to be working sedulously to make an "example" of the green activist who will likely face months, and as much as three years behind bars for nothing more than hanging two banners urging environmental action from inside a Senate building. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course, there is no escaping the audacious hypocrisy of a political figure like Sanford who, ten years ago, worked sedulously for the impeachment of another president, Bill Clinton, for compromising public trust with his marital infidelity, but the larger question is one of priorities. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Seeking reasons to it would divert the focus of this subject, suffice would be to say that there is a tendency to sedulously cultivate certain stereotype that the Indian media wishes, unconsciously or otherwise, to reinforce. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The whole structure of commercial relations between Western Europe and Africa and the Levant was disturbed; only the Jews- whom Charlemagne sedulously protected for this reason- connected the now hostile halves of what under Rome had been a united economic world. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2009)
A 19th century account of his life described his "ardent attachment to that Church and that ancient constitution which the Whigs had sedulously laboured to destroy". ❋ Burke's Corner (2009)
In a microcosm of the larger feud, Coyne himself has sedulously rebuked in speeches, blogs, and other publications the ongoing claims made by his foils on the other side of the debate (especially Behe). ❋ Unknown (2009)
[Chrissy] is [the most] sedulous [person I] know. ❋ Ohsnapitsemilee (2008)
