1. exacting - Adjective
2. exacting - Verb
4. exacting - Adjective Satellite
of Exact
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric. Peter Greenaway
Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision. Walter A. Shewhart
All of the character traits, which are in such great need of correction and cultivation-who will cultivate and correct them if we do not give heart to them and subject them to exacting scrutiny? Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. Chuck Jones
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. Clarence Darrow