perfectionist
Speech parts
1. perfectionist - Noun
2. perfectionist - Adjective
Meaning
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
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A perfectionist, he remained in all respects a diligent, if somewhat obsessive and pedantic worker.
A perfectionist, Polanski had little patience with the inexperienced Tate, and said in an interview that one scene had required 70 takes before he was satisfied.
As a teen she already manifested the traits, as she described, of "both a realist and a perfectionist, pursued by an uncompromising passion for carrying through."
A perfectionist, her fire is so hot that it is blue, and her control over lightning has caused her to do severe damage, nearly killing the Avatar.
By the end of filming, Eastwood had finally had enough of Leone's perfectionist directorial traits.
A perfectionist regarding the art of the novel, Ellison had said in accepting his National Book Award for Invisible Man that he felt he had made "an attempt at a major novel" and, despite the award, he was unsatisfied with the book.