Now the precise outlines of her skull show through the skin of her face, presaging death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was unaided and easily condemned by a system that was inattentive to the precise legal requirements of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His insistence on being more precise than Archimedes goes back into his youth, when he had devised an instrument, the balincetta, which would make more exact measurements of specific gravities than any made before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Also, a very precise clock has been observed to slow down ever so slightly when flown in an airplane at great speed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This is one of the things I most dislike about nature, namely that the rules are not at all precise. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sister’s cheek patches were bright, and across the cheekbones the pink skin met the white in a precise straight line. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It took a mind as precise and analytical as Aristotle’s to systematically dismantle Pythagoras’s theory of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The material they had isolated would be the most important biological isotope of all, and the key to a wide range of research requiring precise biological tracing and dating. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

How could a female mind process something so rigorous and precise as math? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His ideas concerning it could not have been too precise, but they were quite sound. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her own swimming class had been orderly and precise, with special instructors. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Classic Mom again: I’m not saying you should follow my precise example, but of course I really am. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was a single chair in the room, carefully positioned in the precise place that Dragons tone occupied off the coast of Westerns, and raised up to give a good view of the tabletop. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course, the precise origin of burritos isn’t known. According to Wikipedia, some speculate that they might have originated in the eighteen hundreds among the vaqueros, the cowboys of northern Mexico.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you expect our boys to be as precise as that thousands of feet up with bombs weighing tons! Look at what the Germans did to Amsterdam! Look at what they did to Coventry!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole affair was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to give precise definitions of the concept of “language” and the concept of “acquisition” and the concept of “children.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She looks through the arched window above the piano as if searching the waves to find the precise spot. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head, makes himself some tea, and cuts up a pear in precise quarters before shuffling into the family room. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She is so careful in her movements, so precise— it reminds me of the Amity musicians plucking at banjo strings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was once a lieutenant, I thought, a “junior lieutenant,” to be precise. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He’d explained that Bach’s music has a measured grace, an inherent tranquility and lightness, and that it is precise, almost mathematical. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, I wouldn’t just start whacking at it or we might be dead before noon. We need to be careful. Delicate, precise hits on the clasps.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s her precise command. Are you not her kin? Do you not see the consequences if you don’t?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't imagine that any other kid had presented something as precise. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But his voice is quiet and his words precise. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

With telescopic sights, a fine hair in the focal plane of the telescope provides a far more accurate guide to the precise alignment of a star. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I watched the Commandant as she carved it into me, a thick-lined, precise K stretching from my collarbone to the skin over my heart. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had drawn the interiors of rooms and labeled them and specified their dimensions, down to the inches, in his precise, blocky handwriting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The disillusioned Fernanda tried to obtain more precise information, but the unknown correspondents did not answer her letters any more. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I look up automatically, too late to have seen their precise path. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The analogy is more poetic than precise, for the cell accomplishes its “burning” with only the moderate heat of the body’s normal temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fencing is physical—balancing form, distance, and precise moves. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She began to slip them one by one through her fingers, exactly as her father had done, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather, performing a family legacy of precise, codified, thorough worrying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Confronted with what he viewed as an intellectual treasure trove, this precise, meticulous, formal man was to all appearances overcome by enthusiasm and scholarly greed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, he didn’t specify any precise method for determining which sex did prevail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Liam’s handwriting was neat and precise, and, surprisingly, so was Zu’s. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sound of the blow was precise as a whip crack. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

More precise dates did not come in until the 1950s, when Willard F. Libby, a chemist at the University of Chicago, invented carbon dating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her chin is bent down and you can see the precise part in her hair, a neat white line drawn from above her left brow then over the black horizon of her head. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is now known that the mitochondria are tiny packets of enzymes, a varied assortment including all the enzymes necessary for the oxidative cycle, arranged in precise and orderly array on walls and partitions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I removed my notebook from my waistpouch to make certain I remembered the precise locations. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As quickly as I can, I trace the letter, trying to capture the precise hand in which it was written. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ram straightens his already erect back, fixes his eyes on me, and begins, his words precise and loud, like he memorized them for school in India. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It cannot be prearranged in any precise way; the minds cannot be lined up in tidy rows and given directions from printed sheets. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his fingers, twirling a key chain, are precise and nimble, ready to defuse a bomb or pick a lock at a moment’s notice. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devised by French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon, the system required police to make a precise survey of the dimensions and physical peculiarities of suspects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I looked around the yard, with Dari’s thoughtful, precise setup, and it was true. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What are the odds that some previously undetected someone will stumble into that very isolated spot, during the precise fraction of a second it will take to push him over?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Locke brings up the rear, looking bored, his hair the precise color of fox fur. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It was quite a precise job. And when I think of precise, I think of one person. You.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Colonel and I walked into the woods down by the lake that afternoon and smoked a cigarette in the precise spot where the Eagle had caught us so many months before. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

At that precise moment, his eyes flashed over to meet mine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His coat fell in folds as precise as those of a marble sculpture. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after the beginning of school, Bull arrived home from the squadron at the precise instant that Lillian was setting dinner on the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, finally, worked his precise mechanical mind over the highest function of the robot world—the solutions of problems in judgment and ethics. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

His hips shift evenly, and his feet keep precise time to the music. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His memory appeared so precise the ordinary person would assume that it was accurate in all instances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But pathologists soon realized that too many variables—from the humidity in the air to the type of clothing on the corpse—affect the rate of decomposition to allow a precise calculation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It was so—oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Navigation instruments were being designed, but no one really knew how accurate they would be, and they had to be very, very precise. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this means a precise balance is struck and the body never builds up a dangerous amount of acetylcholine. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This table is sure to horrify any knowledgeable scholar, because it reduces exceedingly complex histories to a few seemingly precise dates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her head is turned in the direction of the courtyard, as though something pulled her attention away from her brother at the precise moment the party was halted. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Be a little more precise, my dear. To what in particular are you referring?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“An accident. A hiking accident, to be precise.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the beauty of a creature fulfilling her exact purpose in the world, being the precise thing she had trained her whole life to be. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All of these questions urgently require the precise answers that only extensive research can provide, yet funds for such purposes are pitifully small. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The voice that had spoken it was a Scholar’s, precise and pedantic and lazily arrogant, very much a Jordan College voice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The difference in weight would be written off as trash, which defied precise weighing, or laid to a fault in the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

By then it had been checked out with Rosy’s precise measurements. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The maester's medicines made an impressive display,- dozens of pots sealed with wax, hundreds of stoppered vials, as many milkglass bottles, countless jars of dried herbs, each container neatly labeled in Pycelle's precise hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The arguments of string theorists and cosmologists might be mathematically precise and at the same time be as useless as the philosophy of Pythagoras. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their dancing was slow, precise, controlled; it fascinated eye and mind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s third or harmonic law, a precise connection between the size of a plan- et’s orbit and the period for it to go once around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she threw up one hand, not forming in her mind a precise attack, but—as with the mahalath—letting some deeper voice within herself decide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It lasted fifty- five seconds, to be precise. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Then I suggest you begin at once,” admonished the Dodecahedron from his admonishing face, “for here in Digitopolis everything is quite precise.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

While the precise nature of his ailment was kept secret, Alexei continued to be a pale, sickly boy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With small precise strokes she traced the contours of her mouth and clicked the tube shut. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By displaying this number in all its multi-zeroed glory, Greene impresses upon us the fact that it is very small yet oddly precise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What he meant, I am sure, is that he had been under an enchantment that had now lifted, though I daresay he did not dare use those precise words for fear of being thought insane. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In every one, the handwriting was the same: tiny, precise, taking up no more room than was necessary. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The waves of terrorists continued, and they mowed down every one, their shooting astonishingly precise, as it had to be, lest they fire into the school. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It's very precise, so Quang-ha had to have gotten very close and taken a real look at his new plant. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The operator in Decatur was a woman who displayed a precise staccato touch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At that precise moment, a strangled yell echoed down the boys’ staircase. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He aspired to become a colleague of the great Tycho Brahe, who for thirty-five years had devoted himself, before the invention of the telescope, to the measurement of a clockwork universe, ordered and precise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The evidence is circumstantial, but it’s hard to imagine that Sapiens, just by coincidence, arrived in Australia at the precise point that all these animals were dropping dead of the chills. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They praised her for her precise way of speaking and her clever gestures when she danced and her lovely singing voice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was a quiet, precise woman who had been at Welch High School so long that she had also been Dad’s English teacher. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Michael Rafferty was guarding Checkpoint Charlie, the precise spot where US and Soviet tanks had faced off three decades earlier when the Wall first went up. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, that was the precise moment the Wild Boy took complete charge of my sensibilities as the pacifist was sleeping off a binge. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The bombsight would then take over flying the plane, follow a precise path to the target, calculate the drop angle, and release the bombs at the optimal moment. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

For him, silence was a precise instrument for gauging respect. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writer went on to describe, in precise terms that only a spy would understand, procedures for a dead drop in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem drunk, but this crudeness was new; he was a little less precise in his movements now, his voice louder. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They provided precise ionization data, spelled out their theory on how positrons emitted by the bombarded atoms transmuted into gamma rays, and carefully avoided any speculation about the significance of the new phenomenon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever learned the precise nature of the role that Comrade Pillai played in the events that followed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will soon come to London,” said I, after casting about for a precise form of words, “or summon me anywhere else?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A precise voice, fussy and exact, was speaking to him, in his dream, but he could see no one. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He compared the ages when they started walking and talking and what their precise IQ scores were in elementary and high school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She said it just became more precise—every minute, hour, day mattered that much more. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

First, Booth tells them that the precise time of the president’s assassination will be ten fifteen P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was known that planets were inclined to orbit in a particular kind of oval known as an ellipse–"a very specific and precise curve," to quote Richard Feynman–but it wasn’t understood why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At that precise moment it was two of those same creatures who stood on the fringe of Mossflower Wood, spying across the common land to where Cluny’s army was exercising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That is my precise recollection, too,” she says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For samples of a given size, the narrower the confidence interval—that is, the more precise the estimate—the less confident we can be of it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt achy, my arm muscles and fingers sore from my precise drawings. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first map was a precise rendering of the landscape and trails that led to the Free Cities. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Of course the critics are right in that concepts such as discovery are problematic: discoveries are rarely made by a single individual at a precise moment in time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

By studying twins, and comparing and contrasting similarities and differences, a geneticist could determine the precise contributions of nature versus nurture to important traits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Without Timothy’s eyes, I was finding that in my world, everything had to be veiy precise; an exact place for everything. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The precise timing of the Hiroshima mission was known only to a few physicists on the bomb team. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth warned Wallace that the precise meaning of this kind of code was hard to prove. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Further, the sun, the moon, and the planets followed precise paths across the sky that could be predicted in advance with considerable accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So precise was their coordination that they did not look like two brothers sitting opposite each other but like a trick with mirrors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The rips in the map told me that she had not intended this as a clue— Margo was too precise and assured with her clues to muddy the waters. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw perfect pink membranes stretching into precise edges that looked easy enough to cut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was I doing at that precise moment? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fukida, a leathery old farmer in overalls and a billed cap, answered in English that was too precise, too perfect. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I put in long hours at Sidley & Austin, often eating both lunch and dinner at my desk while combating a continuous flow of documents, all of them written in precise and decorous lawyer-language. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You subpoenaed documents and took depositions and pored over court records until you had put together a detailed and precise accounting of each stage in the deadly quarrel. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t about a fever. You use it to find out what your base temperature is. It’s more accurate and precise than a regular fever- type thermometer.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Rabbits, of course, have no idea of precise time or of punctuality. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wound throbbed uncomfortably, each beat precise and tight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I would thank you for precise information on this head, for I have not been able to get any,” he wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In spite of a million-to-one odds, it was at that precise moment that the figure bent low to the earth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were painfully difficult to draw; they required precise lengths and angles, or they became something else entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be ridiculous. They said it to someone I know. Edna Santos, to be precise.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In that case, since could mean either “from the time that” or “because,” so it’s better to be more precise. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The statement may be more precise than it seems. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don't have the precise dates, but it seems that the Buick came into my father's life at roughly the same time that multiple sclerosis did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“These incisions are precise and surgical. Not meant to inflict pain—probably done under anesthetic, even. The wights were looking for something.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nixon liked the idea of having a precise record of everything that was said in his office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“And in all fairness, I am duly impressed with your skill. The lamp is tidily made. The sygaldry is quite cunning. The engraving precise. It is clever work.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was slow and precise and I felt stupider and more ordinary with every coin I dropped. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The precise length of the Appalachian Trail is a matter of interesting uncertainty. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Each new word makes the child’s knowledge of the world more precise. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clay for glaze was mixed in precise proportions with water and wood ash. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And then in front of her, at the precise place where the junipers were still compressed from dragging Runt in, a dark brindle coyote emerged, his head to the ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the fantastically sensitive and precise immunologic mechanisms for the detection of small molecules such as haptenes represent another way of sensing the same markers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chomsky and Rand defended themselves against him, and although they were good, they were nothing compared to a weapon so sharp and precise as he. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I knew I was somewhere in the southern Commonwealth, but the precise location was buried, tangled up with other memories that I was not eager to unearth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He held a slip of paper covered in a precise, feminine hand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They showed me how to be precise in notation, acute in investigation, and rational in inference. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was a fastidious, precise man who ordinarily taught math but had been filling in for the regular art teacher. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fronts and backs of all four sheets are covered with Dad's tiny, precise handwriting. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should ask her to be more precise, to give me an exact win/loss ratio so I can decide how to feel. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was an international grandmaster, known as a colorless player but he was almost scientifically precise, and one of the great defensive competitors of all time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hidden in latex, molded to the shape of their earlobes, and colored to match their precise skin tones, the earpieces were completely invisible. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The minute hand on the alarm clock reached the number twelve and, at that precise moment, the streetlamp outside the window went out. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

His figure, especially the neck and shoulders, communicated the impression of irrefutable physical strength and of precise, even imperial bearing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They could not say in any precise way exactly what it was they sought in the city, only that they wanted to go there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The house lights behind her were strong in his eyes, making it hard to read her precise expression. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘John Brown’s Body’ is a march, and as such you would expect its rhythm to be regimented and precise, with drummers keeping everything in strict order. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What if I could know the precise nature of this genetic flaw? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I watched as he bent over his new gray shirts, pushing his glasses up on his nose while applying a precise military crease to the middle of each breast pocket. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We want Precision; we shall meet soon with the King’s Regulars, & they shall be precise enough, I trow. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Footsteps landed on the floorboards in the hallway, precise, unhurried steps. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dark curly hair was cut into a precise top fade, prominent against his brown skin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His precise, insinuating delivery suggested horrors that Turner could not immediately grasp. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His actions were smooth, precise, as if he were dealing cards at the Crow Club or picking an easy lock, but his rage felt hot and mad and unfamiliar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Stripping pods is a precise and meticulous job that might be suited to pedantic dentists or finicky spice experts, but it’s a horror for an impatient teenager like me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The quill strokes seemed slightly less precise, the labels messier. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lithe gymnasts twirled on parallel bars and uneven bars and took long running leaps at pommel horses, trying to time their precise movements to coincide with the slow roll of the ship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Conversely, the wider the confidence interval—that is, the less precise the estimate—the more confident we can be of it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They execute a precise rectangle then switch places and repeat the maneuver. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed Joe wood planes, their wooden handles burnished by decades of use, their blades so sharp and precise they could shave off curls of wood as thin and transparent as tissue paper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and sixteen rings old, to be precise. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Here she has a precise, deliberate step, unmistakably that of the Republic's elite. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In Harlem the precise accents of northern-born blacks mixed with the slow drawls of recent southern immigrants and the lilting accents from the islands. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a matter of simply needing more precise instruments; it is an immutable property of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The shells had to be of a precise shape and size. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hume pulled as smooth as silk, and with the precise, mechanical regularity of a metronome. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And of course our community can’t function smoothly if people don’t use precise language. You could ask, ‘Do you enjoy me?’ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The instructions had to be given eye to eye, and they had to be very precise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She thinks of how the most accidental gestures can lead to precise conclusions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Arrows: “What precise feathers the arrows must have in order to fly.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The math had to be as precise and accurate as an Althea Gibson serve. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote “enhanced” when he meant “increased.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one’s precise location in relation to others on the earth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My style is too precise for a simple street beggar. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The next day was a precise copy of the one before: the sun and the heat and, worst of all to Salva’s mind, a landscape that was utterly unchanged. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would have seen the two of us engaging in what can only be described as an elaborate and precise dance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been a lot easier than reaching through the tangle of roots and branches, trying to bring the vibrasaw to bear against a precise spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Above all, he thought of her at the precise moment when she entered his bedroom and they were alone together in the intimacy of his refuge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the flip side of the way he approaches work, which is methodical and precise, or the way he approaches parenting, which is laid-back and indulgent. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A second problem arose with fitting the bases inside the helix: the precise measurement of the outer backbone became crucial. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He is a handsome, lightskinned Black who speaks with a precise television- newscaster accent. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The graduates seem to have been looking elsewhere when they pinned the rose, zinnia, or chrysanthemum on their precise black dresses. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making the precise corners and folds required for bed display took a long time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that precise instant there was a vibration in the air and we were struck by a school of flying fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The long needle began to swing at once, and stopped, moved on, stopped again in a precise series of sweeps and pauses. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of separate and precise agitations bombarded her senses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is difficult, of course, to be precise. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first was an enthusiastic and precise exhibit by the Germans endorsing “race hygiene”—a grim premonition of times to come. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

While in the studio, Maria learned the finer points of vellum, and it became her lifelong favorite for painting precise, richly colored images. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I knew the true cost of this food, the precise amount of time and work it had taken to get it and prepare it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now, at the window, he flourished his stick with Shaw’s precise, calligraphic dips and circles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But no one knows these precise distances until a judgment is handed down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After a drawn-out series of death throes—the precise sequence of events depends, again, on the mass of the star—the star’s fusion engine fails, and the star begins to collapse under its own gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They put him in charge of a floor in the munitions factory because he was so precise. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I started at the Eighty-sixth Street entrance and walked in extremely precise lines, like I was one of the Mexican guys who mow the lawn, so I wouldn’t miss anything. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the time there may have been no precise form of words; in fact, she may have experienced nothing more than impatience to begin writing again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though I was only seven, my images of certain people from this period are very precise, because I had begun to see adults for the first time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From far out in the lake came the fat, rounded plop of a fish jumping, a precise and solitary sound, for the breeze had dropped away completely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But when Crick quizzed Watson about the precise numbers, Watson could provide only vague answers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At that precise moment, if the order came to sedate, he wasn’t sure if he would, or could. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Three steps from Helmuth, and at that moment, that precise moment, their eyes lock. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s unusual because Dad is usually so precise. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: At this precise moment in time, I take no pleasure in being right. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Victoria Forester walked into Monday and Brown's with a list, written in her mother's precise handwriting, and she rang the small bell on the counter for service. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that date there was no precise definition of which points in space-time lay inside a black hole and which lay outside. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening in early 1943—the precise date was never established —the Chevaliers joined Robert and Kitty for dinner at the Oppenheimer home in Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The low voice had a precise and husky power. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His work led to one precise moment: when the syrup was so thick, and yet clean, that it was time to “strike.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he left it up to us to figure out what an “assessment word” is—while saving no characters, and being less rather than more scientifically precise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was pleased by the familiarity of the arrangement: me, pressed into the corner, away from the other children, a precise reproduction of every Sunday school lesson from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He discovered he was already well adapted to an army regime, to the terrors of kit inspection and the folding of blankets into precise squares, with the labels lined up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The resolution on the screen was so precise that he saw Mom’s chin tremble, ever so slightly. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some music traditions even use an extremely precise version of wide tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Good English is clear English: it’s efficient, precise, sensible, economical, sometimes even beautiful. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blunt must have pressed a hidden button or else he was being overheard, for at that precise moment a door opened and a waiter—in white jacket and black trousers—appeared carrying three plates. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I studied its precise drawings and stored in iny memory the virtues and uses of all plants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sidney's, he thought; they list it in their catalogue as extinct: the tiny, precise type, the E, again and again throughout the catalogue. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The reason is that the more precise divisions of the octave into nineteen steps obeys mathematical ratios that occur in nature. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Malfoy spun around on the spot, his hand flying to his wand, but at that precise moment the four Heads of House shouted, “Quiet!” and silence fell again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Baker studies his maps, searching for the precise spot where Booth would cross the Potomac. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But to play in an international tournament of the caliber announced, he had to spend much more time at careful, precise study, analysis, and memorization. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a home with a chronically ill relative who was interested in regular examination by a young person who would listen endlessly to ailments and take precise notes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I remember believing that the key to all life lay in articulating the precise difference between “the Black Aesthetic” and “Negritude.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Heredity, Bateson warned, would soon be shown to “follow a precise law of remarkable simplicity.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Blackfish was a tall, lean man, grey of hair and precise in his movements, his clean-shaven face lined and windbumt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her words were cultured, exquisite in her mouth, clipped and close and precise. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was more precise than “code breaker,” although she was often called that, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In most cases, however, her paintings are so precise and lifelike that even today they could be used as a field guide to European and Surinamese insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stared at the precise rendering of my mother’s family room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her head looked small, precise, with pale wavy hair and closed eyes in purplish skin. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the arena, not rendered in Peeta’s precise strokes but in the rough lines of a man whose mind is occupied by other, far more complex things. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fairfax may indeed have suspected something, but she could have gained no precise knowledge as to facts. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He felt the texture of them, their precise weight and balance as he’d twirled them over his head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After I released the bar, I had to know the exact moment to catch it on the way around, and I had to be precise on every single repetition. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A precise statement of this idea is known as the second law of thermodynamics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evolution of life requires a more or less precise balance between mutation and selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I admired the long expanses of lawns mown in precise lines and the huge, graceful trees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

These are more precise versions of the Strunkian advice to “put the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’s very Swiss, clean and particular and precise. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes, of course! How efficient you are, my princess, how noble and precise are your manners!” creaked the palace. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Swiss/German, to be precise, which Swiss/Germans invariably are. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A swallow in flight is graceful, agile, and precise. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“My second point,” Mom went on, “concerns the precise time my husband arrived at the hospital. See? It was 11:33 in the morning. Yesterday morning, Lieutenant.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were no tutorials here, no one losing sleep over the precise course of her intellectual development. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Thus Descartes opted for the least common phrase available to him in French as a translation for lex naturae in order to give his phrase a precise reference to scientific laws, not moral ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Each day was the same: a morning run with Scythe Rand, weight training with Scythe Chomsky, and a nutritionally precise breakfast prepared by a master chef. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And if I do, I obsess in such a precise way as to prevent even a drop of disorder. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Eighteenth-century record keeping wasn’t very precise, so no one bothered to write down his name. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Both are theories of the universe, though the latter is much more mathematical and precise than the former. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all his seeming zoot-suiter characteristics his speech was precise and I had no doubt that he knew his business. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There—and note the nice rising tricolon at the very outset— you can see a precise shaping of the speaker’s relationship with the audience, and a fastidious, slightly bogus, self-abasement. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

My opponent’s movements were relentless and precise, and I spent the first few waves just trying to evade him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That autumn I’m now talking about, we needed to know not just the day, but the precise moment Madame turned up, since she often stayed no longer than an hour or two. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cavendish understandably harbored a proprietary interest in the characteristics of the particle it had discovered, not to mention a native pride in its ability to extract precise measurements from its meticulously hand-built equipment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Again, anyone who is accustomed to precise tuning would say they are "out of tune." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The telepathic message felt as precise as spoken words. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Her images were beautiful, lifelike, and precise—even scientific in their detail. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Since she was able to show them the precise location of Robbie’s attack on Cecilia, they all wandered into that corner of the bookshelves to take a closer look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With precise movements, he folds a perfect origami frog. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their application to wildlife in the field is anything but precise. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Partly, it was because he believed that the hand tools gave him more precise control over the fine details of the work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She tried to be more precise, however, saying that she was going to spend her last years with a first cousin who lived in Riohacha. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Gunn drew up a new management structure and a precise set of goals and timetables aimed at cleaning the system line by line, train by train. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the corn was gone, the mule licked for the salt taste on his hand; the tongue was rough and wet, but it was also warm and precise across his fingers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The precise nature of Jimmy Zizmo’s importing business was thus revealed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s at that precise moment that a car comes up behind me and down the dirt path. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And next time he wouldn’t wait until the precise strike of dawn before drawing her close. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These thoughts were as familiar to her, and as comforting, as the precise configuration of her knees, their matching but competing, symmetrical and reversible, look. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Each of these items, too, must be returned to its precise place, matched by color, pattern, price, and size. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face—his mouth, to be precise—was stained crimson. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He became a college dropout, though nongraduate may be the more precise term. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Both, I guess. I apologi—I mean I should have been more precise. But I don’t know exactly what I meant.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then a second shot, precise and cold, and far away. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the updates were coming from David Simas, Barack’s political adviser, who was monitoring returns from the West Wing and who understood the precise county-by-county algebra of the electoral map. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It seems likely,” they wrote, “that the precise sequence of the bases is the code that carries the genetical information.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The glance gave me one of my last images of Richard Parker, for at that precise moment he jumped over me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The audible result of this slight increase in length of each subdivision is that the rhythm feels more relaxed, smoother and less rigidly precise. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She places small plastic stickers with hooks on them at precise locations on the patient’s arms and chest. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I not only learned about physics at Fort Hare, but another precise physical science: ballroom dancing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the precise and delicate timing that is nature’s own, the emergence of one species of wild bees takes place on the very day of the opening of the willow blossoms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His motions were precise, his face blank, his eyes far away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Look: It can be proved by observing the motion of objects in the universe that wherever you are is the precise center. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nowadays the humans had instruments for measuring anything, so if there was any time-stopping to be done, it had better be fine-tuned and precise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Moby Dicky to be precise. Good morning, class. I see you’ve had ample time to meet your new classmate and welcome her with tales of dead bodies and dens of iniquity.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Hamilton’s reference to “fifteen years” turned out to be a precise estimate of their history as political antagonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, we can be even more precise. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, no. I wouldn’t read five thousand pages of something if it contained precise instructions on how to lose twenty pounds by eating Krispy Kremes and orgasming. Do you not have homework?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But precise reason of breach impossible to determine. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He never thought of this in precise mental images; he felt it; he would feel it for a while and then forget. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She appeared to be somewhere in that range between forty and seventy years, when it becomes difficult to precisely ascertain a black persons precise age. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That I know at every moment the precise place where she stands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the case of peanut OIT, years ago leading experts believed that securing FDA approval would require measuring peanut flour into standardized capsules so each holds precise amounts of peanut protein. Why parents are turning to a controversial treatment for food allergies 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

She is about to perform the whole text in Greece, has just finished the final run through, and is struggling, this precise second, to focus on anything else. Fiona Shaw: 'I'm not frightened of hard words' 2012-07-17T18:01:00Z

The descriptions of her life were precise, dramatic and enthralling. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z

Accompanied by four musicians, she showed the most precise responsiveness to music of both these City Center programs. Fall for Dance Festival Is Short but Packed 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Balanced and precise, with subtle flavors of red fruits, flowers and minerals. For Pinot Noir, Put Anderson Valley Among California’s Best 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The precise source of her amusement is made clear when two overweight dachshunds with three eyes between them waddle behind her, still barking. June Tabor: watery, not grave 2011-02-10T22:30:01Z

Marie’s vivid, precise portrait of Carol in love: “She lost weight and kissed us too much and made promises she couldn’t keep.” A Thriller Wrapped in a Story of Sisters and First Love 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

You could feel how precise — and often how complex — the musicality of the various idioms is. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The artists of “Nature in the Walkable City” may not all have architectural training, but the District Architecture Center show does emphasize precise rendering. In the galleries: Finding, and creating, nature in the city 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Once it was "Less Aesthetics, More Ethics" and turned out to be the precise opposite. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

This adds to those short descriptions found in film listings – "contains strong language" for instance – and reads like the film notes of your most precise and sex-obsessed friend. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z

Organizers say they will premiere a classic Somali musical extravaganza titled “Caretaker Government”, though precise details of the production are still under wraps. Actor dreams of second chance as Somalia rebuilds its theater 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Even better—whatever it took to communicate his ideas in the best, most precise way possible. A David Bowie for every mood: From “Space Oddity” to his farewell “Blackstar,” Bowie’s shape-shifting always felt right 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

The wistful emotional core of the piece, originally commissioned by Eleanor Steber, was barely discernible in his precise but anemic performance. Music Review: Michael Cerveris in American Songbook Series - Review 2012-01-23T22:02:20Z

Sure it speaks soothingly to you, but it speaks to everyone in that same soothing voice, with the same precise words, and we as individuals matter not a wit to the GPS itself. Americans love zombies because they remind us of the Wild West 2013-02-11T14:15:00Z

The idea of austerity stayed with him: "I find beauty in plainness," he said, "in a conception that is precise." William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

Like most pianists, Kolesnikov approached the first run of each passage straightforwardly, with a clarity that rendered the score’s precise architecture in vivid detail. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

There is nothing clean or precise about my kill, nothing to distinguish it from the slow death of a catfish in a garbage can. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Degas is wickedly precise; you feel he’s satirizing a leap that really did happen. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Despite his reputation for being overly emotive, in rehearsals of the “Rite” Bernstein was precise and explicit. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Set in the North Atlantic in 1900 and clocking in at a hair over 12 minutes, the movie features precise artwork that ultimately can’t sustain a story that feels at least six minutes too long. ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The precise nature of the piece he is preparing for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall will remain, as with all past Unilever commissions, a secret until the moment of its unveiling next week. Tino Seghal's Turbine Hall commission: 'Attention is what I work with' 2012-07-16T18:01:00Z

The song has had an endless afterlife, and a broad influence, for its precise chemistry of melancholy, suspense and propulsion. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The construction technique, handmade with craftsmanship acquired over generations, is precise. How a little girl’s ‘pretty dresses’ became one of the most significant gifts to the Met 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

The dialogue is precise and the acting is captivatingly plausible, even from the kid actors playing the young Crains. Review | Until the final episode, ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is the perfect horror show 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It is essential throughout pregnancy and helps prepare the womb lining, although scientists don’t yet understand the precise mechanisms by which it does this. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

But in her long, exhilaratingly precise sentences, the quotidian lives of her characters lift off. O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

“Since it’s not about a collection, you couldn’t be precise” about what would be exhibited and how, Mr. Koolhaas said. A Newcomer in the Paris Art Scene Jostles for Position 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

She proceeded to eat her burger with relish –– or, to be precise, with special sauce. We'll always have Geneva: A tale of two sauces 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

The descriptions in these sections are precise and vivid, qualities that are sometimes missing in other parts of the book. Review | Tice Cin’s ‘Keeping the House’ is a family drama with a side of suspense 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

It had a clipped, precise, syncopated, pin-striped-suit quality, not usually swooping or weeping or sliding. B. B. King’s Inimitable Sound 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s very clear and precise, and, actually, very technical,” Phelan said. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

His singing was precise, clipped, mesmeric, and you couldn't take your eyes off him. Green Umbrella titles the concert 'Outrageous,' but is it? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

As he coaches the aspiring stars, Mr. Levine is animated, encouraging and impressively precise with his suggestions. For James Levine, The Twilight Of a Conductor 2011-05-20T20:25:13Z

Irby’s complaints are note-perfect, so precise that they can jolt you into heightened awareness while you are listening to this book. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Created slowly, layers of wash, cross-hatching, experimental dashes and precise blobs of paint chime together in what seem to be hard-won restless arrangements. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z

“The atmosphere was very solemn, very precise and very rigorous on the set,” she added. Emmanuelle Riva of ‘Amour,’ From New Wave to New Stardom 2013-01-02T00:21:01Z

But these days, you can also view “Marooned” as a curiously precise description of the Delaware Art Museum. Censured Delaware Art Museum Plans to Divest More Works 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Yorkshire gets a brand new art gallery – or, to be more precise, a cleverly intersecting set of 10 new concrete gallery spaces, designed by David Chipperfield Architects. The best architecture for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:02Z

Abandoning her teaching role while keeping her cushy and prestigious role as Associate House Master was the precise opposite of what I wanted from Christakis. Donald Trump, FDR and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson problem: Here’s how we stop defending historical racism and move forward 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Charming and precise, they form a valuable, rare, if somewhat Romanticized, visual document of New York in the early 19th century before photography. Wild Waves and Quiet Streets: 2 Artists Working From Memory 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

That space alone may be worth $2bn in sales, according to estimates, though precise figures are not available. FDA to put e-cigarette industry under federal oversight for the first time 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Moving from sunlight to shade at a sidewalk cafe, Iannarino was at once cutting and precise, like a young Henry Miller, if Miller had cared at all about Hollywood. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The precise appeal the picture held for him is hard to pin down. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z

When light penetrates the eye, it acts like the reset button on a stopwatch: it tweaks the precise timing of the SCN, ensuring it remains aligned with the rising and setting of the sun. How modern life gets in the way of sleep 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The nearly indiscernible faces are arranged in grids, with another grid atop them: regularly spaced vertical and horizontal pencil lines that divide the darkness into hundreds of precise squares. Review | In the galleries: A century apart, Khalil Gibran and contemporary artists explore questions of home and displacement at MEI Art Gallery 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The English pianist Paul Lewis conjures exquisitely precise tempests of sound at the keyboard. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Rather than precise renderings, they’re like suffusions of color extracted from sea and sunrise: luminous layers and washes that beguile the eye. Ed Kamuda, Dion Zwirner: Nature rules in Lisa Harris show 2014-01-24T01:37:10Z

If New York is, as the poet claims, a state of mind, San Francisco is the opposite: a precise afternoon in fall, a moment always on the verge of passing. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Science itself, however precise and objective, is a human activity,” he writes. David Quammen Turns Tough Science Into Page-Turning Pleasure 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

A dinner party, to be precise, since one of our recurring questions almost from the start has been: “You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?” The Dinner Party Writers Dream Of 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

A: Once I am translating, my intentions are to convey the tone of what is before me in as precise a language as possible. My task is limited to working with words. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It is all entirely fixed choreographically, and you have to be very precise, and switch from one parameter to another extremely fast,” he said. A French Choreographer Who Plays With the DNA of Dance 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

The recording’s final three pieces are clear and precise, with both ruminative and straight-ahead aspects. ‘Temporary Kings’ Review: Alluringly Reserved 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The tap dancing was machine-gun precise, the singing was tuneful, the costumes were gorgeous. Review: A New ‘42nd Street’ Opens in Paris 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

A person getting shot—anywhere, in South Chicago, in Hue, in Ferguson, isn’t, at that precise moment, surrounded by words. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Earthy and precise, with flavors of herbs and red fruits. For Pinot Noir, Put Anderson Valley Among California’s Best 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Mr Howard writes that America is in the grip of a philosophical mistake, namely the belief that laws need to be detailed and precise to prevent abuses and achieve uniformity. Change of heart 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Hirsch wines begin in precise, soothing tones, but they finish in a crescendo — full-bodied, deep and powerful. Austria’s premier wine is back in fashion. This time, can gruner veltliner be taken seriously? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Does that background and training play into this work, into how technical and precise it is? What Do Two Fires Have In Common? It Comes Down to Guts. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

Viewers looking for precise commentary on current events will be disappointed, though this is hardly Vorozhbit’s fault. ‘Bad Roads’ Review: A Wartime Anthology 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

A fragmented, incantatory immersion in clinical depression, filled with descriptions of psychotropic drugs, sets of numbers, angry rants and stark wordplay, the script specifies neither characters nor precise plot, nor even the number of performers. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

His precise motivations remain unclear; it is possible that he errantly believed the other man was UB40’s singer, Ali Campbell. What Is the Deal with UB40? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

In addition to being a fine actress, Vikander is trained as a ballerina, so she's capable of unsettlingly precise movements that convincingly position her as a combination of human and machine. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Now that "Jury Duty" is out, the precise circumstances of the production cannot be replicated. James Marsden loves playing his "Jury Duty" alter ego, a narcissistic jerk who's "off his rocker" 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

But as one of America's foremost artists, he could be as precise as any high-fashion photographer. Americana revisited: Rockwell's models reuniting 2012-09-28T21:42:08Z

The choruses, like a magnificent one that closes the first act, float; the singing and playing are exquisitely precise. Classical Playlist: Verdi, Schubert, Michael Gordon and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Journalist Karen Houppert, in her investigative book “Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice,” replaces the abstraction with two true-crime sagas set in Washington State — Spokane County and Grant County, to be precise. ‘Chasing Gideon’: shocking failures of the justice system in defending the poor 2013-05-01T18:25:42Z

Military record-keeping was precise enough that it’s possible to trace who was flying a particular plane when it went under. Review: Planes in Lake Michigan? ‘Heroes on Deck’ Has the Answer 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

A minute and a half, to be precise. Bill O'Reilly goes on 'Daily Show,' inevitable debate ensues 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Though Woman’s children are never seen, she tends to them with a present-tense and vividly precise physicality. Review: Carey Mulligan Tells a Harrowing Tale of ‘Girls & Boys’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Or, to be precise, chili vodka, an appropriately fiery choice for a work set in a revolution-torn city that is erupting into flames. London Journal: Inside, Vodka and Stilettos; Outside, the Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

The two are brought together by their mutual affection for one of Ava’s students, and this understated indie film clings uncomfortably to the surface of their relationship, yet still delivers something pure, melodic and precise. ‘Ali & Ava’ Review: Don’t You Want to Sing Along? 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Each of the shows starts the same way: The body of a public official is found, cut in half, on the precise border between two countries. What You Should Watch This Father’s Day Weekend 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The precise details are a little sticky, you see, and still apparently under investigation. In Warrenton, Va., the Mosby Museum illuminates the Gray Ghost

"Cynthia is an amazing player, just so musical in addition to being so precise," says Bates. Bates, Clyne bringing fresh vibe to CSO's new music series 2011-03-16T16:56:31Z

The stronger it is, the higher it is and the more precise it is, the better the trick. It’s Never Too Late to ‘Fly’ on a Trapeze 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

The celebrated moment in Steamboat Bill Jr when the facade of a house drops to the ground with a two-tonne thwack, leaving Keaton serene amid the debris, relied on precise mathematics and nerves of steel. The silent-era film stars who risked life and limb doing their own film stunts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

The episode’s quiet, precise opening shows Thompson surgically smuggling a hard drive the size of a dime out of the National Security Agency. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 9: The Whistle-Blower 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Dreamlike passages coloured by Beethoven's new fascination with the sustaining pedal led into spikily precise episodes in which Schiff's arms went up and down like the hammers inside the piano. Andras Schiff – review 2013-03-05T18:18:27Z

Though in public Mr. Hill and Mr. Gibbons were often mistaken as twins, their musical styles differed — Mr. Gibbons a showy virtuoso, Mr. Hill a grinding, precise musical mechanic. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

It might be difficult to accept the notion that there was such a “precise” turning point in our history, but Winchester makes a convincing case. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

The film “Chinatown” was meticulously designed to capture a precise moment in Los Angeles’s history. It’s ‘Chinatown,’ Jake. On Second Thought, Don’t Forget It. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

But that approach tended not to spark in works that demand a precise ratcheting of harmonic tensions, as in an earthbound Beethoven’s Ninth from 1945-46 and a guileless Brahms’s First from 1950. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Changes to the script were happening rapid-fire — cuts, modifications, making things clearer and more precise. We worked through the story together, taking it from private to public.  When a Playwright and His Play Are Separated 2010-06-11T18:00:00Z

The skilled dancers are both flashy and precise, throwing in big scissoring lifts between their snippy footwork. Tanguera 2010-08-05T20:31:00Z

Ide is nothing if not precise, and he begins his new book in the exact spot where the last one ended. In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Here the brushy, violent Degas canvas “Scene From the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey” is flanked by two precise, saccharine Cassatt paintings of women and children picking apples in Edenic orchards. Degas and Cassatt, Paired at the National Gallery 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The designer described the collection as “precise, proper and urban,” with the word “meticulous” at the soul of the style. The Greatcoat Fights Back 2013-01-13T18:36:27Z

His work has won more than three dozen Emmys — he doesn’t know the precise number — and nine Peabody awards. Bill Moyers signs off — for the final time, he swears 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

It cuts right through your chest, precise and clear, and is perhaps the happiest sound you’ll ever hear, like the best of summer holidays. Why I love… Julie Andrews 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

I loved talking to Halinka, or to be more precise, listening to what she had to say. The Birthday Party and the Airman by ?ukasz D?bski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2011-04-08T10:22:00Z

The choir sings in suspended, shifting yet precise washes of voices. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

In a rehearsal room, the orchestra is practicing with intensity, the conductor asking individuals to repeat passages to get the phrasing precise. Gaza music school shines in 'Arabs Got Talent' spotlight 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The only reason I would suggest a reader of Harrison start elsewhere is that the frisson of seeing the elaborate and random coincide is precise and perfect. Empty Space: A Haunting by M John Harrison – review 2012-08-02T07:00:00Z

Or really, pressing the buttons that evoke jumps at exactly the right moments while using your other hand to control precise movements to the left and right. Video Game Review: Evil Spirit Alert: Keep Leaping for Your Life, Ya Big Ape 2010-12-29T22:27:16Z

“Gerrymandering has become a very precise science and interestingly, it’s one of the few remaining types of science in which the Republican party currently believes,” he said. John Oliver: 'Literally everything about gerrymandering is stupid and wrong' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

His generosity is animated by Moore’s limpid, precise performance. ‘Gloria Bell’ Review: Love Is in the Air for a Transcendent Julianne Moore 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Levin sounded more in tune with the language of Mozart’s Sonata in E-Flat, K. 481, bringing more character and variety to the rhetoric, and Hahn remained sharp and precise, but at an ascetic emotional distance. Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin, solo and together at Disney Hall 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

But Ms. McDonald is a one-woman time machine de luxe, who translates the precise stylistic quirks of a bygone era into a melting immediacy. Review: ‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Nothing. Salinger was brutal. Brutal and funny and precise. I loved him. I loved it all.” ‘My Salinger Year,’ by Joanna Rakoff

“Ida” is as compact and precise as a novella, a sequence of short, emphatic scenes that reveal the essence of the characters without simplifying them. Movie Review: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland 2014-05-02T12:20:44Z

Describing technical skills this way almost suggests that a performance, though polished and precise, might seem a little breezy or lack intensity. Review: The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Strauss With Abundant Color 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Orwell calls instead for prose that reaches for fresh metaphors and that is precise and concrete. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

It offers one of the most remarkable disproportions between the precise personalism of its action and the overwhelming scope of its achievement. The Misplaced Nostalgia for Movies Like “The Graduate” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sereny declined to confirm the precise figure but acknowledged having paid Ms. Bell. Gitta Sereny, Who Wrote About Evil, Dies at 91 2012-06-23T22:10:54Z

The rapping is precise and dense, often delivered with dry wit. Playlist: Naughty Revenge, Just Plain Naughty and Not Plain at All 2013-06-28T19:56:07Z

In acting, he added, he zeroed in on precise emotional cues to express, say, greed or anger — to “fatten up” his characters. Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ Actor Who Played Complex Tough Guys, Dies at 83 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Andriessen doesn’t do anything very different in “Theater of the World,” which, to be precise, he classifies not as an opera but as a “grotesque stagework” in nine scenes and just under two hours. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Bonhams said Dali was also adding "fantastic and illusory creatures to exceptionally precise and botanically correct reproductions", commenting on scientific discovery, a subject with which he was deeply fascinated. In pictures: Salvador Dali fruit watercolours 2013-06-18T11:26:54Z

When successfully absorbed into the verbal texture, as here, those dense, polysyllabic words, freighted with Greek or Latin, give pleasure in themselves, and in terms of precise denotation. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

It also prefabricated those pieces in its shop, allowing for more precise bends and curves in the wood than would be possible building them at the site. Gasp, drop and roll: Goliath opens at Great America 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

His poems – scrupulous, precise and ascendingly lovely – are true and wise: they speak to us of the big things, of birth, marriage and, above all, death. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z

The idea that America panders to our fantasies is the precise opposite of the American dream. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

Hence the necessity for metaphor, for pungent, highly precise language: to jolt the reader into feeling herself. A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

The clarinetist Sean Rice was a technically precise, exuberant protagonist, and the string players shared his confidence. 2010-02-16T22:01:00Z

The super-G combines the speed of the downhill with the more precise turns of the giant slalom. Shaun White’s last Olympics hurrah comes in halfpipe final 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Just a few years later, though — on Dec. 5, 1947, to be precise — the league appeared on a list of organizations considered “totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive” by the United States Attorney General. Art Review: ?The Radical Camera? at the Jewish Museum - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:54Z

I could write an essay about Keanu’s walk: rangy and relaxed, but precise; the gait of a man who never needs to hurry. Why I love… Keanu Reeves 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

When “Banks and the Poor” aired in 1970, Robert Lewis Shayon, writing in Saturday Review, praised it as “low-keyed, clinically methodical and precise” in its balance and concluded, “Mr. Silverstein has jarred banking’s halo.” Morton Silverstein, Documentarian Who Explored Social Ills, Dies at 86 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

She was 73 and lived in Columbia, Md. The precise cause of death had not been determined, her sister, Elaine Philip, told The Associated Press on Sunday. 2010-02-17T05:56:00Z

The music is lucid and understated, with precise polytonal harmonies and intricately woven inner voices. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z

I raced through the book, marveling at its precise, restrained prose and grasping paranoiacally at small details that might indicate what was real and what wasn’t. Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Now, this five-disc collection culled from the years before her 1968 debut album, “Song to a Seagull,” maps the precise topography of the cliff from which Mitchell leapt and took flight. Remarkable Records of Joni Mitchell’s Changes 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Astrology in the royal court, involving rigid rituals and precise calculations, is a world away from commoners’ divinations. Royal astrologer casts Thai king's horoscope ahead of coronation 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

If you need hard-core, precise evidence about the product itself, or precise clinical studies ... The Tricky Business of Treating Altitude Sickness 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

That includes Bethany Thomas, who plays Serena and whose remarkable vocal instrument is newly disciplined and precise without sacrificing any of its raw and emotional power. A bright new 'Porgy and Bess' 2011-05-22T20:41:53Z

Each moment happens only once, and it's absolutely precise. Pina Bausch's World Cities – what's the verdict? 2012-07-08T17:30:01Z

Photograph: Ken McKay/Thames/Rex Features More Strictly Come Dancing thoughts: watching Strictly Come Dancing in HD is basically the precise scientific same thing as watching this, only less fun... The X Factor final – live blog 2012-12-08T19:47:59Z

Marling grew up a country girl; speaks a husky, precise RP; and moreover comes from a family with its own coat of arms. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z

His efforts, which are mostly wall pieces, are almost scarily precise and felt. Art In Review: BILL WALTON 2012-03-15T21:43:00Z

Lambert is, on all fronts, a more thoughtful, precise, provocative and creative artist. Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, Both Bound by Country’s Gendered Rule Book 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

And several ink drawings by the outsider standard Eugene von Bruenchenhein are precise but ornate, like scientific diagrams of the mythological Thunderbird. Outsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the Future 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Its precise origins are obscure but we can see that it was an object of devout attention. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

It’s a fury that, like Scorsese’s own, is all the more powerful for the fierce, rigid, and precise control that underlies it. The Front Row: “The Wolf of Wall Street” 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

“You stop being mindful, and you say something flippant. You’re not being precise with your words.” In the Twin Cities, Asian chefs feel the sting of Andrew Zimmern’s insults. They say his apology isn’t enough. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

As spotlights dance on the stage and ceiling, Mr. Dinwiddie is wittily precise in his characterization and movement, which tap into the animal within the man. Dance Review: Andrew Dinwiddie and Michelle Ellsworth at Danspace Project 2012-05-25T22:30:07Z

“She didn’t have some precise memory on when this happened or exactly where and so forth, and that has been used to undermine what she testified to and said,” Woodward said. Bob Woodward interviewed the ‘She Said’ authors at a book event. Things got tense. Then there was heckling. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Reed, who won a National Book Award in 2018, blends intersectional politics and bodily hunger in precise, thorny language: “My horror and my need made sour housemates.” New & Noteworthy Poetry Books 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

But it’s not a precise science, says Ann John, professor in public health and psychiatry at Swansea University Medical School. Mental illness: is there really a global epidemic? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Since the beginning of her career, Ariana Grande has been an excellent singer, precise and slyly emotional. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Neither the horoscope, which notes planetary alignments based on precise details around a person’s birth, nor its interpretation were made public. Royal astrologer casts Thai king's horoscope ahead of coronation 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Its precise descriptions of force fields and antimatter cannons seemed ready-made for the screen. The Novel Source for This Space Mystery? A Novel. 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z

Decider describes her accent as "deep, diction precise, and delivery borderline camp" in an effort to capture Thatcher's manually altered voice. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

The copious dance routines – which in some revivals have thudded on to the stage with a mite more energy than exactness – are polished and precise. The Mikado ? review 2011-03-01T18:13:01Z

Writing a precise sentence, imagining, infusing life into characters and situations, I felt I was building my home again. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z

Springsteen sings with little flourish under soft yet precise lighting, and with editing that keeps each shot in place for just the right amount of time. ‘Western Stars’ Review: Bruce Springsteen and Broken Cowboys 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Serving as a counterpoint to the Meadows documentary, it plays on ideas of myth and memory to capture the precise moment when one band seemed to eclipse all else. Spike Island: 'It's not about the Stone Roses, it's about loving the Stone Roses' 2013-06-04T19:00:01Z

In “Canada,” Chai captures adolescence in precise, humorous prose: “Mama told Aunt Mei about my needing a training bra,” the teenage Lu-lu remarks. Review | An award-winning story collection sheds light on different immigrant experiences 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

In Bostridge’s case, it proceeds from ideas sequentially applied to the music, down to and including his clipped, precise German diction, offered as if he were not so much speaking the language as dissecting it. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Her memory is a treasure, precise and expansive, reaching back to Beijing in the early 20th century, to places and flavors that no longer exist. Cecilia Chiang, a Pioneering Restaurateur, Marks a Century of Flavors 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Laredo elicited a spirited and precise rendition, with refined playing from the principal strings. Music Review: New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:22Z

So polls simply can’t be seen as a precise road map — more like a blurry mirror of a single moment. Perspective | Trump won, and Northam crushed Gillespie. Why believe polls ever again? 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z

This season though, while the Brooklynettes' focus is still hip-hop and street jazz, the look is different, more precise. The Biggest Dance Show in Town? At a Basketball Game. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Though a precise tally is elusive, Basques once roamed Idaho’s sheep ranges in formidable numbers. Cultured Traveler: Herding Sheep in Basque Country (Idaho) 2012-08-24T19:19:51Z

Each word vivid and precise, leading to the inevitable tragedy. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

His exhibition will showcase a precise but eclectic selection of sculpture and paintings. Artist Piotr Uklański Explores Immigration in a New Miami Exhibition 2013-12-06T05:00:00Z

Johnson, who was to hold five Cabinet posts including that of home secretary, was born five years after the war at the wrong end of pre-gentrification Notting Hill or, to be more precise, North Kensington. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-11T15:00:01Z

Zain is around 12, though his precise age is unknown to him, his parents or the Lebanese authorities. ‘Capernaum’ Review: A Heartbreaking and Defiant Look at a Boy’s Life in Beirut 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Well, surely no city on earth needs another destination boutique with the precise mix of aspirational designers and utter obscurities that retailers like to describe as “curated.” Global Shopper: Excelsior in Milan 2012-02-22T22:38:44Z

Local police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the goings-on, and while precise details aren’t yet known, sources told NJ.com the investigations are related to a hazing ritual that “went too far.” New Jersey High School Cancels Football Season Amid Hazing and Bullying Investigation 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Lévy is a prominent public intellectual with no precise American parallel, so famous here he is often simply called "BHL." Polanski and Cannes: C'est l'amour! 2010-05-13T15:45:00Z

To be precise, it was the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 125 million gallons of sewage a day and stretches from 145th Street to 137th Street. Circumnavigating the isle of Manhattan in a kayak — a paddler’s perspective 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The proof, they say, is all in some fairly precise anatomical detail. Pubic hair and eight-pack abs - it's got to be Michelangelo 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The professionals almost uniformly recommend a burr grinder, which crushes not chops your coffee to a precise and uniform size. Higher ground: the expert guide to making the perfect cup of coffee at home 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

For executing it, with the coolest of eyes and the most precise reporting skills, we award this year's Orwell prize for journalism to Amelia Gentleman. Orwell journalism prize: the judges' remarks 2012-05-24T14:43:39Z

Last week, I stood staring at the minutely precise spirals that knot and unknot on her head. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z

Back in the spring of 2015, just before he delivered the precise terms of her life sentence, Mr Justice Dove said he didn’t think Fri was a wicked or violent person. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The phrasing was precise and characterful, the technique sure but never flashy, and throughout the two works there was an unforced and characteristic unity of interpretation and personality. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt – review 2013-01-17T17:48:32Z

Machado’s writing, with its heat and precise command of tone, has always had a sentient quality. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Ben Brantley found the play abstruse, however, he wrote, “the precise calibration of the physical production holds your attention.” 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Under Stacie Passon’s precise direction, this gothic fable of isolation and violence expertly treads a fine line between tragedy and camp. ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Review: An Arch, Feminist Fairy Tale 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

It gives full rein to Paul's extremely loud and precise drumming, Geordie's jagged razor-blade guitar and Youth's possibly incompetent but totally hot bass: a formidable sound. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z

Despite branding language that features words like “control,” “formula” and “precise,” Mr. DeLand makes no pretense at hard science. Counterculture to Counterintuitive: Cannabis to Help You Diet? 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

They attempt a precise sequence of moves, then redo them. Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern 2010-08-24T20:29:00Z

The photographer wielded the camera as one would a blade — precise and controlled, yet with delicate grace. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The highest claim the Bible makes for itself is when the writer of Paul's letter to Timothy says the Hebrew scriptures were "God-breathed", which is wonderfully suggestive but hardly precise or dogmatic. How biblical literalism took root 2011-02-21T10:59:00Z

It fills up with shifting and precise, unfixed and yet vivid resonances. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

This may not be the most precise strategy of cultural critique, but Mac isn't after perfection, as judy periodically explained. Taylor Mac offers a glorious sneak peek of his '24-Decade History of Popular Music' at Royce Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Such a change requires great will and precise thinking,” Mr. Antin wrote in an email. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Why he also mentioned the precise time the sun would be setting set, I don’t know. | Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z

It was clear that tracks weren’t simply ideas destined for later exploration with the trio because of the files’ labeling, and the precise compositional structures. A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

The express result of all of that machine learning, of course, is the ability to disaggregate and isolate a particular sound pattern as precise as Ringo's snare drum on a 56-year-old recording. Remixed "Revolver" to reveal new layers of the Beatles' extraordinary musical powers 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Technology helps us be more precise in our selection of grapes and in blending our wines,” he said. Terroir may sound romantic, but to some winemakers, it’s precise 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rautavaara was known for music that explored mystical and romantic themes, appreciated the mathematically precise application of 12-tone techniques, and employed innovative use of recorded bird song. Einojuhani Rautavaara, acclaimed Finnish composer, dies at 87 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Behind them, a screen shows an image of a female face contorted in agony or ecstasy, the perfect visual metaphor for music that seems to have located the precise meeting place between the two. How to Dress Well – review 2012-11-06T11:15:38Z

“In her work she describes the ravages of colonialism, and the post-colonial chaos in a language which is both precise and overwhelming,” the New Academy said in awarding Conde the prize. Maryse Conde wins alternative literature prize in absence of Nobel 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Urgent but never manic, the performance was a textbook example of precise dynamic control, with penetrating playing from another cellist, Dan McDonough. Music Review: A String Ensemble at Play: Body Language and Sheer Exuberance 2011-01-09T23:01:27Z

In the traffic scene, you are collaborating with the stunt drivers, and it is very precise; you have to be sure to hit your mark, so a car won't run over you. "That was an epic moment":"John Wick 4" martial artist on that traffic battle and honoring Bruce Lee 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

He added that verbal precision seemed to him more lasting than the pictorial kind, and—“peculiarly”—more precise. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Her evocative, precise delivery brings a smart whodunit to life in a way my imagination alone could never do. Rosamund Pike Reads Paula Hawkins; and Other Audiobooks to Make Your Head Spin 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Where the traditional mountain cuisine of the Dolomites is hearty and no-frills, its wine is precise but somewhat characterless, owing to the cooperatives that predominate in Alto Adige. In the Heart of the Dolomites, Hiking and Haute Cuisine 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The Feature sector, for what organizers call “precise curatorial projects,” is also newly expanded, with 32 galleries. A Global Flavor to Art Basel’s 47th Edition 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

His would come back carefully annotated in his small, very precise handwriting, often with changes that he himself was proposing. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z

Ms. Midler brings such comic brio — both barn-side broad and needlepoint precise — to the task of playing with her food that I promise you it stops the show. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Burton brought a fresh take to the house categories of precise tailoring with an Edwardian slant, brief balletskirt dresses and flowing gowns. Special Report: Fashion: Camping It Up in Old Shanghai 2010-10-06T17:35:00Z

The precise algorithm behind my new gait is shrouded under 10,000 veils of mystery. Model for a Day: A Writer Struts His Stuff on the Catwalk During New York Fashion Week 2012-09-14T20:07:40Z

Marie is professional and temperamentally committed to balance, to careful measurement and precise, dispassionate calibrations of cause and effect. Review: ‘1001 Grams,’ by the Norwegian Filmmaker Bent Hamer, Mixes Levity and Gravity 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Or a big world of worlds, to be more precise. 'Icons of Science Fiction' show at EMP|SFM blasts off 2012-05-30T22:34:05Z

The “Opening Scene” from Act I was ebullient, precise and snappy. Dudamel celebrates a summer favorite to the beat of the USC marching band 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Loose, sketchy drawings evolved into tightly rendered paintings, with precise accounts of every feather. The Federal Duck Stamp Contest Rewards Artists 2013-06-25T21:12:41Z

“Panama” was churning but precise, and “Hot for Teacher,” with its double bass drum cadence like a jackrabbit’s pulse, was urgent and galvanizing. Music Review: Van Halen at Madison Square Garden 2012-02-29T10:18:40Z

She called it the Lost Kitchen, and tinkered there with the earliest drafts of her precise, straightforward cooking, often embellished with edible flowers and shallots macerated in vinegar. How Erin French Made a Tiny Maine Town a Dining Destination 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Taste” stands out among the cookbooks of its time: It’s seasonal in its organization, lyrical in its prose, precise in its instructions and subversive in its politics. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Bouchra Jarrar must have asked herself those questions and come up with excellent answers, for the precise cut and clear vision of her clothes makes them seem modern and desirable. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z

Whitmore and Smith said they did not have precise estimates for how much swatting calls cost, and it does not appear any agency is tracking the phenomenon nationwide. Celebs now fashionable targets in hoax 911 calls 2013-01-27T01:57:43Z

But if it weren’t for occasional glimpses of clocks, discerning the precise time would be tricky. ‘Happer’s Comet’ Review: We Live by Night 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

With soft tones and precise inquisitive pauses, Hebert conjures quiet forbearance and emotional confusion that together verge on the heroic, and is totally recognizable. Life is short, so touch the painting 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

As precise as Mr. Roberts was about his work, he was enigmatic in his personal life. Why Michael Roberts Mattered 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Denk’s fingers were clean and precise in the running notes of the early variations and even more bravura in the less legato movements, where he was lighter on the sustaining pedal. In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

He expresses himself in precise sentences and paragraphs that sound so carefully formed that it is almost as if he were reading an essay. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The film looks spontaneous but it's very precise actually. Isabelle Huppert: 'There's such respect for movies here' 2012-05-26T23:05:49Z

A lean and angular figure of balletically precise movements, Ms. Seldes was never sloppy. How Marian Seldes Took the Stage 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

One player completes another’s rhythmic phrase, or one player’s precise rhythmic cycle produces friction against another’s. Music Review: Dawn of Midi Plays New Songs at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-09-04T21:30:43Z

But the vocals that the dancers were moving to in precise patterns sounded like modernist opera, not the meticulous 1960s pop that Bacharach is mainly known for. Yes, Burt Bacharach Wrote That. And You Can Dance to It. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Perhaps even more than his 90s fare, though, it's delicate and precise, supremely detailed and guided by beautiful, yearning melodies that evolve in slow motion. Some people are on the glitch, they think it's all Oval ? 2010-07-14T15:39:00Z

Conductor Tai permitted some less than precise synchronization in an otherwise compelling account of the orchestral part. ‘Celebrate Asia’ program combines best of East, West 2014-03-22T17:14:28Z

Slight and precocious, the symphony was notable mainly for its passing instances of subtly contrasted dynamics, keenly represented here with precise, lively playing. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z

His works closely tracked Americans' security fears, moving from Cold War face-offs to terrorist attacks and both fascinated readers with their high-stakes plots and enthralled military experts with their precise details. Tom Clancy, U.S. master of spy thriller novels, dies at 66 2013-10-03T00:08:15Z

“I see a guy who seems to pause and dig for the more precise and better language he wants to use, and never finds it,” Baldwin told The New York Times. Making the magic: Alec Baldwin describes how he developed his famous Donald Trump impersonation 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Like Ringo Starr of the Beatles, he set the template for the rock drummer archetype: disciplined and precise, but with a flair that drew the crowd’s eye. Dino Danelli, Whose Drums Drove the Rascals, Is Dead at 78 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

Beaton brings not just intelligence to her subjects, but also precise deflation, as the artist props up a pantheon of famous names — Caesar, Byron, Robespierre, et al. — for pen-and-ink skewering. Best graphic novels of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

As it happens, the precise date of his birth is uncertain. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Filled with precise, poetical and sparse language, the essays reveal not just the life of trees but how they connect us to the greater world around us. ‘Limber’: essayist has a gift for the language of nature 2014-04-16T19:08:05Z

Spielberg's heart and mind were elsewhere – on Schindler's List to be precise, which he shot almost concurrently, as editing on Jurassic Park wound down. Jurassic Park 3D: revisiting the film that put machismo on the extinction list 2013-04-01T15:07:59Z

From the start then, Rousseau catches the elusive essence of Sebaldian dogma: which is to be both elusive and precise, documentary and fabulous. WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z

Mr. Mitchell found the precise moment in Billy Bigelow’s “Soliloquy” from “Carousel” when the fantasy of fatherhood deflates with anxiety. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-08T22:44:54Z

“That’s when I started to really drill down into very precise slots of time,” she says. A 4.30am start and three-minute toilet breaks: are you ready for microscheduling? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

A few of his prints add color, but Winkler is showing mostly black-and-white woodcuts characterized by clean lines, strong blacks and precise compositions. Review | In the galleries: Posters as a medium for serious but jubilant communication 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Trinity’s period-instrument ensemble and choir produce a light, precise, nimble sound that gains warmth and richness in the church’s acoustic. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

The brush, which he cannot see at this precise moment, is forming a line out of the very watercolour from which it is made. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z

I'll always suggest you use a digital scale — it's a lot more precise. James Beard Award winner Dominique Ansel heralds a message for the times: "Everyone can bake" 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

But because storms leave no geological record, the precise effect of global warming on hurricanes is harder to gauge. What’s Bad News for Coastlines Can Be Good News for Surfers 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

If the individual elements are precise, the overall effect is impressionistic. In the galleries: Paintings that are both ephemeral and vivid 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

So, while the rhythms were precise, the manic element of La Valse was not quite terrifying enough. Sinfonia Cymru/Jones 2010-05-03T21:30:00Z

The flutist Erin Lesser, the violinist Joshua Modney and, on electronics, Sam Pluta made valuable contributions: These works demand precise interplay between vocalists and instrumentalists, and these musicians rose adroitly to the challenge. Review: Kate Soper’s Songs of Sirens and Female Identity 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

No matter how nightmarish the events described, Ligotti’s prose is always precise and beautifully controlled. Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers: Get ready to be grossed out 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

With this film, we knew it wasn't something that was test-screened to be a precise, universal experience. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams: Cannes' hottest couple 2010-05-21T15:40:00Z

The narration is full of these puzzles – ruminations that seem precise but are actually sloppy, explanations that are carefully elaborated but make no sense at all. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z

In addition to being precise, baking requires a certain amount of focus. James Beard Award winner Dominique Ansel heralds a message for the times: "Everyone can bake" 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

An image that before looked on video like a pale watercolor now has the qualities of a rotogravure print: a precise photochemical pointillism that seems very specific to the 1920s. DVDs: From the Vaults, Vintage Heroics of All Kinds 2011-01-15T04:38:01Z

The production blends the kind of precise technological wizardry that the Wooster Group brings to its work with an unpretentiousness that pays tender homage to Warhol’s gaping adoration of the thoroughly mundane. | 'Gob Squad?s Kitchen (You?ve Never Had It So Good)': ?Gob Squad?s Kitchen,? Inspired by Warhol, at Public Theater 2012-01-24T03:01:11Z

Or, to be more precise, the voice of his son Jack, who delivers the documentary’s first-person narration. Cannes Film Festival: ‘Val,’ ‘The Velvet Underground’ and Famous Jerks 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

There's something soothing about following directions for baked goods, knowing that the final product will turn out just right if you abide by the precise measurements. Do I really need to bake with cake flour? 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Buruma reports on Japan’s elegiac theatricality with a certain Dutch bluntness and the result is a book that is luscious and precise. Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Cox’s paintings are darker and more precise, which in part is simply because they’re oils. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Marling’s Augusta is the trio’s leader, as handy with a shotgun as she is precise with an axe. Brit Marling on Feminist Civil War Movie 'The Keeping Room' and Writing Honest Roles for Women 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Its evolved design is not, according to the professor, the product of prioritising the precise over the brutal. I love not driving, and instinct tells me I'm a safer man for it 2012-12-23T00:07:58Z

She set herself the task of ascertaining the precise whereabouts of streets now demolished, and of searching City archives to check the supposed bankruptcy of Lear's father. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z

And I love Rash’s precise use of the Appalachian idiom, never “regional” in any limiting sense, but always authentic. ‘Above the Waterfall’ review: A powerful tale of modern Appalachia 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

She gets Mrs. Heeny to verify the precise social standing of Mrs. Fairford, and bullies her father into buying her a new dress. What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

It’s headed somewhere in the Free Cities that Varys doesn’t mind tagging along for, but the precise plan is unknown. 13 Questions Game of Thrones Better Answer Next Season 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Her nightclub technique is precise and intelligent, and her body language and expressions are designed to illustrate lyrics while remaining safely outside a song, even on a breakup ballad like “Where Do You Start?” Music Review: Lucie Arnaz Performs at Café Carlyle 2014-04-16T21:17:28Z

Margaret Jull Costa, with her habitual skill, has rendered Marías's precise, somewhat laconic Spanish into graceful and equally laconic English, but the title necessarily defeats her. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z

To be precise, the six-foot-high piece is not merely a drawing. Review | In the galleries: Dark hues that paint unsettling portents 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

By lucky chance, that happened to be at the precise moment when many African-Americans fastened onto the idea of having their coiffures shaved into complex patterns and topiary designs. The Gimlet Eye: Haircuts From the 1980s Are Back 2010-06-17T01:39:00Z

Now he has opened up about the precise details of the assault for the first time. NBA player details horrific assault by NYPD: “It was an act of police brutality, and I believe it could happen to anyone” 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Child, though, is a numbers guy: All of the books, with their emphases on timing, probability, precise logistics and spatial calculations, reveal that. Review: It’s 1996, and Jack Reacher Is Playing Nice With Others 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

But Bishop-Stall, over the course of his journey, develops a remedy that seems to work, and he provides a precise recipe for it. The Morning After: One Man’s Quest for a Hangover Cure 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

A reader can only applaud the author who has so skillfully preserved them in such loving, precise detail. A Brutal Heritage Finally Revealed 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Kondo’s soundtrack features only three minutes of original music, and yet it’s totally absorbing, precise, and economical, spanning joy and pain, hunched-back nerves and blissful tranquility. How Video Games Changed Popular Music 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

And then there’s the sound of it — blunt, and husky, and only ever as precise as it needs to be. Review | Everything Cardi B says is music 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

In keeping with this ensemble’s leanings, the music was all from the 20th century and, to be precise, predominantly in dissonant, experimental styles. JACK Quartet tries to achieve cohesion amid dissonance 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Indeed, there was a precise reason for the unwavering assurance displayed by the auction house specialists. Picasso Sells at Record Auction Price 2010-05-05T11:30:00Z

I'm not really a great baker for precise pastry, that kind of thing. Comedian Tom Papa on the McCarthyism of the Left: "It's a terrifying moment" 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

For the record, this is akin to "sedition", but I'm too lazy to look up the statutes to be more precise. ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

And at that precise moment a posse of models marched through the door, a herd of gazelles wearing jeggings and T-shirts led by Tanga Moreau, the oddball beauty with a drive-thru gap in her smile. Gimlet Eye: A City Gets Its Groove Back 2010-09-16T17:59:00Z

Those “if”s, those two counterfactuals, help illumine the precise borders of the crime. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Their plans were quite precise: they wouldn’t attack women, or the elderly, or children like themselves. The Dovekeeper and the Children’s Intifada 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

For every vegetable, the precise cooking time and the amount of liquid you may add will vary depending on variety, age and size. My favorite way to cook summer vegetables: Until they fall apart. And then some. 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

"His observations and actions, invoking and depicting the harsh morals of contemporary life, are incredibly precise yet full of comical relief." Deller chosen for Venice Biennale 2012-05-15T03:57:14Z

These products are frequently formulated with conditioning ingredients, like apricot oil and shea butter; their subdued finishes don’t require precise application or much effort. How Will You Look When You Emerge From the Pandemic? 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Craig thought it was clean, tight and precise, with excellent cane/light sabre work. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

While it is set in another country — Northern Ireland, to be precise, though you might want to avoid using that designation in Eric’s presence — American theatergoers will recognize the beleaguered soul at its center. Review: Stephen Rea Is One Really Mad Man in ‘Cyprus Avenue’ 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

“In classical or Neo-Classical choreography you don’t think so much about that, it’s more about the steps. Here it is deceptively simple, but it is very precise — he knows exactly what he wants.” Christian Rizzo Is in Spotlight in New York Festival 2014-05-05T21:24:39Z

Two and a half hours long, to be precise. Theater Review: ‘Etiquette of Death,’ at La MaMa, Includes Song and Dance 2012-06-19T22:26:00Z

From the Dark, Illumination Visually precise and politically amorphous, the absorbing documentary “Abendland” opens with a self-reflexive image of a surveillance camera perched over a green field. Movie Review: ‘Abendland,’ a Documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2012-07-26T22:43:14Z

“He knows the precise value of poetry books by Robert Lowell that Robert Lowell may now have forgotten writing.” Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

So to be fair, and more precise, I’ll rephrase my earlier assessment: The problem here is that you and your husband are mismatched, seeing your marriage differently and expecting different things from it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Amid multiple red flags, a wife won’t raise the white one 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Why don’t I not give you precise directions, so finding it can be your own Chelsea surprise. Favorite Place: Wintry Wanderings Among Chelsea’s Ghosts 2013-12-26T22:18:07Z

Whether Thanksgiving, Christmas or any other outsized entertainment situation, it is entirely possible that crucial but peripheral elements to the feast are lost in the organizational shuffle, despite your best efforts at precise planning. Last-Minute Buys for Thanksgiving Wines 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

The movement itself, derived from Mr. Naharin’s Gaga technique, is extraordinary: dislocated, explosive, propulsive yet precise, bodies as calligraphic curves in space. Montpellier Danse Offers Globe-Trotting Via Choreography 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

But the precise tone, she explains, changes each day along with the light, taking on a bit of the dusty rose and orange Creamsicle of the sun as it sets. Inside Betsey Johnson’s Malibu Dream House 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

It's in the music's precise layering of piano, violin and oboe that Zeffira's classical background is felt. Rachel Zeffira: The Deserters – review 2013-01-03T22:15:01Z

In portrait after portrait, the stories of inmates and the children of the incarcerated are illustrated in precise yet loving detail. Artist works with prisoners, their children 2010-08-23T18:01:00Z

At one point, to demonstrate how microtonal language can create precise harmony, Jay Campbell, the cellist, played a D, with which I tried to harmonize by playing a B flat. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Hurley is a writer’s writer, his descriptions of landscape and character precise and evocative. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

“GLOW is such a unique animal,” she reflects, in her precise, cultured tones. Alison Brie: ‘If you’re imagining me from Mad Men, you’re in for shock therapy’ 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

Movement is initiated by the feet, hips swaying in quick, precise arcs from side to side with each step; the upper body twists slightly, the arms light in the air. From Her Algerian Family’s Living Room to the Dance Stage 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

With light but precise control, Boyd led the coordinated attack of the woodwinds and strings, calling on particular heroism from principal oboist Ben Hausmann. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z

But Dunn is a good writer, with some of the easy erudition of Mary Beard, that great popularizer of Roman history, and her translations from both Plinys are graceful and precise. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Yet earlier projects offer smart scripts, precise pacing and often arresting tableaus. The Week Ahead: Jan. 29 ? Feb. 4 2012-01-29T07:30:11Z

A B.L.M. sign in front of the petroglyphs read, “The precise purpose of these petroglyphs remains a mystery.” At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Cain is a warmly communicative singer whose cultivated voice and precise German diction combined to produce a pleasurably convincing “Wedding Cantata.” Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

I started when I was 9, so I’ve learned all of these positions to be really precise and on the music and in my body, and with Saburo you need to forget about this. Aurélie Dupont Learns to Breathe, and Be Free, Again 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Her gray hair is austere without being severe, pulled back to reveal an open, oblong face and distinctly Slavic features; her English is accented, precise and sparked with humor. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw

Hergé was a brilliant draftsman, and his drawings, devoid of cuteness and sentimentality, are a compelling mixture of simplicity and precise detail. Tintin Is a New Breed of Comic-Book Hero for Most Americans 2012-01-02T20:37:06Z

His rhetoric is wide open, but his focus is precise. Music Review: Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra at Shapeshifter Lab 2013-04-19T22:44:57Z

The transition is causing a measure of trepidation among the artists, who are accustomed to Mankoff’s deep knowledge of cartooning, his precise critiques, his damn-the-odds encouragement and his Wurlitzer of one-liners. Nobody knows cartoons like the New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff. Were mine good enough for him? 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Rather, highly rehearsed and technically precise performances of the sort seen in “Fences” mesh with critics’ own familiar technique, the habit and ease of evaluating work in terms of definable standards. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The structural integrity of the scene is of paramount importance, since the photographs are meant to be precise documentation of erasable evidence. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

But what’s most striking about the image is how it captures, in the faces and manner of the four men, the precise nature of their comedic appeal. A Garry Shandling Photograph That Closes the Book on a Late-Night Era 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s instant, it’s precise. And we have total control,” she said. Freer, Sackler galleries going global by showcasing entire collections online 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

It also has the greatest number of people living in plural marriages – estimated to be in the thousands, though it’s impossible to get precise numbers because many live in hiding. Polygamy is about to be decriminalised in Utah. Is it good news for women? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Things That are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animalsby Amy Leach By and large, the 26 pieces here are short, pithy, and packed with information delivered in poetic but precise language. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z

Working with robotics engineers forces dramatists to frame their stage directions in highly precise terms. Robot and Human Actors Take Bows Together 2012-07-06T04:57:20Z

When they fling out their arms atop precise, grounded legs, it’s like they’re shaking off old memories. Review: In ‘An Evening of Hope,’ a Veteran Dancer Gets Personal 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The language is beautiful and spare, deceptively simple, exactingly precise. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

“It has such a playful quality to it, but it’s very precise.” Mary Weatherford Brings ‘Horror and Beauty’ to Venice 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

The narrative style is precise in detail, flat in tone, and careful – though with some odd carelessnesses, such as the main characters being called randomly Evelyn or Eve, Dorothy or Dot. The Forrests by Emily Perkins – review 2012-06-01T21:55:02Z

The trade magazine Variety described the film as "surgically precise, grimly funny and entirely mesmerizing," adding that the director and its leading stars were at the top of their game. 'Gone Girl' ensures NY Film Festival dazzles from the start 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

But she also showed engagement, choosing her runs carefully, holding back in unexpected places and sometimes, as on “Joy to the World,” emerging powerful and precise. Mariah Carey Brings Christmas to the Beacon Theater 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

She had learned how to produce thorough, precise, intellectually sterile essays. Universities think I’m disposable, but my non-tenured status makes me a better teacher 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

Or to be more precise, two floors above it. They Soon Learned What the Doorman Knew 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

“It’s really about storytelling, but he also challenges us to be precise and at the same time musical.” John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

The group had bluegrass at its core, with close vocal harmonies and nimble picking, including Mr. Lovett’s own precise, ragtimey counterpoint on acoustic guitar as he breezed through “One Way Gal.” Music Review: Lyle Lovett Concert Introduces ?Release Me? Album 2012-02-29T23:31:23Z

He says, "I'd like to get to the point where I can capture the essence of a precise moment in a given place, compose the work, and perform it immediately in a natural way." Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

There are few revelations inside this windowless hotel dining room, but there are plenty of reminders of how many deep pleasures can be gotten from complicated, precise cooking. New York’s Top 10 New Restaurants of 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

The precise sequences, created in collaboration with the dancers, come with aquatic names: Splash, Water Waltz, Paddle Waltz, Dive, Carwash. In a Movement Parade Inspired by Water, Dancers Find Their Flow 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Save for variations in skin color and precise shade of shimmering eye shadow, the women all look uncannily the same. Brows, contour, lips, lashes: How the ‘full-beat face’ took over the Internet 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

The writing — the precise, finely tuned, rhythmic, painfully, hilariously human writing — rang like a bell and transported me every time. ArtsBeat Blog: Stew in Africa: Colors and Collaboration That Won't Fade 2011-08-11T13:32:15Z

And without ever entirely abandoning Seymour’s initial deadpan mien or milquetoast voice, Groff charts a precise evolution of a man becoming drunk on the prospect of world renown. ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Review: Jonathan Groff Feeds the Beast 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

It’s far more of a precise wine these days, lightly tannic and fresh, reminiscent of port but delightful now. 20 Under $20: Wines That Feed the Soul 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

“I remember him being very precise — and encouraging me to be precise — and extremely musical,” Morison said of Hodges in a phone interview. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

What I saw was not a work about "poo" but a nuanced examination through performance of the precise moment that our private selves know public shame. Who's afraid of the art boogie monster? 2013-06-13T05:07:38Z

"It doesn't fit in our collection. He's so precise. One day, it will be gone." How Edye Broad's 'natural eye' drew her billionaire husband into the art world 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Sadly the penny dropped at the precise moment Sharon joined him at the altar. EastEnders: it's a Walford crime wave 2013-04-27T05:00:00Z

A decommissioned New York City yellow cab, to be precise, although rehearsals took place in Mr. Jimenez’s own SUV, with the whole creative team piled in the back. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z

A caveat to all this is that streaming services don't release precise viewership numbers, leaving Nielsen to sort through minutes streamed to obtain their rankings. Despite the revived "Suits" giving streaming a victory, don't cut the cord just yet 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z

Sure, there’s the voice too, a purring rasp that never sounds at peace, and the eyes, which are emphatic and precise. Comedian, Rebranded 2011-03-03T17:41:44Z

Flexed wrists and feet give her precise shapes an emphatic edge. Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Performs at BAM 2012-10-20T02:40:07Z

The second half of the program was a potpourri of shorter, lighter pieces — dances, to be precise — as a counterweight to the massive introduction. Review | Lithe Brahms in an unexpected debut 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Winter Words, Britten's settings of Hardy, is more familiar territory, and Gilchrist and Tilbrook judge its scale perfectly, making every detail of the musical and verbal imagery precise, without a trace of self-consciousness. Leighton: Earth, Sweet Earth ... (Laudes Terrae); Britten: Winter Words 2010-09-23T21:25:00Z

“City Hall” also provides a powerful and precise account of what democracy looks like beyond the rhetoric of campaigns. 10 Great Movies at the New York Film Festival You Can (Mostly) See Online 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

"Ferguson" is being billed as "verbatim" theater, "a play constructed from the precise words spoken by people interviewed about a particular event or topic,"  the announcement said. 'Ferguson' play: Michael Brown shooting staged with grand jury testimony 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

L. Mencken * * * TODAY—or rather tonight; at 9:26 pm EST, to be precise—the transiting Sun will conjunct my natal Sun for the fortieth time. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z

The voice matches the sweet timbre of Mr. McCartney’s persuasively, and the phrasing is admirably precise in its mimicry. | 'Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway': Another Long and Winding Detour 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z

A front patio leads to a dining room that’s visually dominated by a long bar, where bottles sit in precise positions on backlighted shelves, and by a partially open kitchen. 2009-12-31T18:01:00Z

The movie itself merits more of a thumb wriggling horizontally, nudging upward for its precise detail and gorgeous landscapes but downward for its somewhat hollow characters and their admirable but monotonous sense of honor. Capsule reviews: 'Justin Bieber,' 'Cedar Rapids' 2011-02-11T12:37:23Z

The skimpily dressed women exuberantly pivoted their hips in contrasting motions but sometimes clicked into precise unison. Femi Kuti’s energy is as tireless as his message during 9:30 Club concert 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tonolli also recalls feeling intimidated, but was reassured by Mr. Johns’s precise manner. Jasper Johns Isn’t Done Yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

We await the results of radiocarbon dating – expected early next year - eagerly in the hope of getting a more precise fix on the period of use. Fresh insights from the UK's oldest museum of Roman remains 2012-08-15T07:00:00Z

And, unfalteringly, in her precise Victorian voice, she began to tell me her remarkable story. Toby Litt: My grandmother was a war reporter at 14 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

The precise nature of the group’s work with the student is unclear from the donor materials, and the student did not respond to requests for comment. Pro-Israel group secretly ran misleading Facebook ads targeting pro-Palestinian activist 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

But it’s more precise to say that he always wanted to challenge what people expected contemporary music to sound like, elevated the popular discourse without being didactic or inaccessible. A David Bowie for every mood: From “Space Oddity” to his farewell “Blackstar,” Bowie’s shape-shifting always felt right 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

He's so precise with his language and he makes his point so brilliantly with humour. Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar 2010-05-25T09:58:00Z

Eventually, Klebold found her way forward with a mission of suicide prevention, and she provides a precise education on the subject in “A Mother’s Reckoning.” ‘A Mother’s Reckoning,’ by Sue Klebold 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

He played his own transcriptions of two Bach cello suites, No. 1 in G and No. 2 in D minor, and the quick dances were notable for their clean, precise lines and perfectly judged balances. Music Review: A Guitarist Adds Depth With Some Extra Strings 2011-02-21T23:01:33Z

The movie—co-written by Paul Downs, Aniello’s boyfriend and writing partner, who also appears in the picture—is at its best when it catches the precise crosscurrent between sleazy and breezy. Review: Rough Night Exposes the Threadbare Downside of the Women-Cutting-Loose Genre 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Like the souring of any major relationship, it’s hard to pinpoint the precise moment when its yellow sweetness began to pale. When good TV goes bad: how The Simpsons ended up gorging on itself 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Textured and precise, with lovely herbal, floral and stony flavors. Austrian Rieslings Set a High, Dry Standard 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Travers was notoriously unhappy with many aspects of the Robert Stevenson-directed film, with her precise ideas about the characters in her book making life difficult for the adapters. Saving Mr Banks trailer hits web – with Tom Hanks starring as Walt Disney 2013-07-12T14:45:00Z

As the architect of his restaurants’ precise, casually elegant style of service and later at the helm of the company’s brand, she has done more to build the Keller empire than anyone besides Mr. Keller. Thomas Keller, an Exacting Chef at a Crossroads 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

These seemed to affect the brain’s function in response to nicotine, although their precise role still needs to be confirmed. How some smokers stay healthy: genetic factors revealed 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

He is an introvert, a precise speaker driven by issues. She was a crack addict. He was a rising political star. Then their worlds collided 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Though he was infamous for being overly emotional, a gusher of enthusiasm, Bernstein in rehearsal was precise, exacting and impressively specific with his descriptions of the music. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Partly, this is because clear and precise appellations, so integral to understanding Burgundy, are lacking for Barolo. Wine Review: Barolo 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Rumer didn't divulge the precise reason she was there. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z

Her “Invasive” is a series of small, precise drawings of nonnative plants thriving in the Mid-Atlantic. Review | In the galleries: In two exhibitions, three painters put aside their brushes 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

He is as sloppy as she is precise. Neil LaBute talks "House of Darkness," his modern take on "Dracula" that flips the power dynamic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Often stumbling and bumbling on-screen as The Tramp, Chaplin’s movements were actually precise and rehearsed to perfection. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

“What we do a lot, which I’ve never done with many conductors, is just to repeat a particular corner until it really is precise,” said Matthew McDonald, a principal bass player. The Berlin Philharmonic’s Anti-Anti-Maestro 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

Yes, those articles refer to this kind of evidence, and I’ve been working more on it, trying to make it more precise. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z

The difference is that Byrd isn't just serving up circuslike feats of derring-do but a whole exploration of the human heart's vagaries, rendered into movement as precise as any language. Spectrum's triumphant 'Love' is all you need 2012-06-22T17:14:04Z

"The new structure," he wrote, "required a concentration more demanding than if the technique were that of still photography, which for me is what precise notation has come to imply." A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z

The orchestra sounded warm and precise, with a tone that was full but not fatty. Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

“It’s so much more precise than watching a flame. You can really focus on your cooking and pay attention to what’s inside the pan, not what’s underneath it.” The Case for Induction Cooking 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

"You have your ingredients, and you have precise measurements," he said. How to make a better Aperol Spritz according to an Eataly beverage expert 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

“The Cursed Clock” opens the album with a nagging, plinking piano note that is soon joined — at the same pitch — by a sustained electronic tone seething with distortion, a precise irritant. Nine Inch Nails Faces the Pandemic With Hope, Despair and Noise 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

And at that precise moment, the mountain started shaking. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

Let’s be clear: Relatives may judge you on your hair style and marital status, but in the context of the holiday few will be held accountable for not creating precise pairings. Your Easy, No-Sweat Guide to Picking Wines for Thanksgiving 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Baumgartner's massive prints monumentalise chance moments, fusing the precise order of the digital realm with the hand-made, the immaterial with the physical. Artist of the week 127: Christiane Baumgartner 2011-02-25T16:40:10Z

But her recent work contrasts precise renderings with looser, less controlled elements. Review | In the galleries: A stylish mash-up of Japanese genres and African culture 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Her ability to transform the "bleeding" edge of the watercolor, as it soaks into the paper, into a precise observation of her own physiognomy and expression is remarkable. Artists Holgate and Becker-Black transcend the limits of landscape and portraiture 2012-06-14T20:50:07Z

Ingredients are excellent, local and seasonal, and the cooking is precise and imaginative in both flavor and technique, yielding delicious, satisfying, sometimes intriguing dishes. At Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, Art on the Plate 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

"In this design you will be able to hear the 1850-1860 era qualities, lyrical, bell-like, precise – and also the modern instrument that our time is used to, which is clarity," he said. Hungarian space-age piano scales new heights, creator says 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

As is often true in venturesome, learning-as-you-go art, precise methods and ingredients are hard to reconstruct and identify. Susan Bee: ‘Photograms and Altered Photos From the 1970s’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

To design his presidential library, Barack Obama has chosen a pair of New York architects whose cool, precise style in some ways mirrors his own. Obama picks Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects for Chicago presidential library 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

West and Bonham Carter do an impressive job of replicating the chemistry between the pair, without going for precise mimicry: both seem younger than the actors were at the time and the voices aren't exact. Burton and Taylor warmly reviewed 2013-07-23T10:16:52Z

“Here’s my solo,” Mr. Murphy announced in “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” and started thwacking precise syncopations on a two-headed cowbell. Review: LCD Soundsystem Makes a Return and a Homecoming at Panorama 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

It is a superbly precise piece of work, devastating at the level of the sentence, like the bleakest parts of Waugh at his most bitter. The Death of Ivan Ilyich/The Devil by Leo Tolstoy ? review 2011-07-28T09:00:00Z

The difference between Købke and these later heroes of the northern vision is that he revelled in a precise academic style. Christian K?bke: Nordic exposure 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z

Ms. Mearns’s dancing has not always been at its most precise this season; and that was evident in two moments of her Sunday performance. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

And yet this performance is no less visceral for being precise. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-03-06T00:09:25Z

To be precise, the envelope was actually tossed at her feet by an unnamed man who hastily approached her from the front rows of the stage. A look at the bizarre legal documents incident between ex-couple Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

The time isn’t precise, but the story seems to be set in the early 18th century, perhaps in Colonial America, perhaps in England. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Like the Stones they studied their sources; unlike the Stones they wanted to make an oral music more streamlined and precise, less boisterous. Music: Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50 2012-02-03T21:32:08Z

Violins were lustrous and precise, percussion decorative yet essential, brass menacing and, not an obvious Humperdinck attribute, droll. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Don't expect systematic theory, or an absence of repetition, but do expect love and loathing expressed in prose close to the 400-nanometer end of the colour spectrum, but precise and exhilarating nonetheless. Best architecture books of 2012 2012-12-01T10:00:01Z

It was very hard to be precise about the upcoming day's shooting. Director Peter Weir finds "Way Back" to big screen 2011-02-01T01:34:40Z

Is it the myth that baking is fussy, that it's a precise science, that it's hard? A 3-ingredient cheesecake, no measuring needed 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

"Barry" is cumbersome, always precise, and these episodes wind with many turns that require a person to remind themselves that it was once clearly designated as a comedy. Buoyed by Bill Hader's confident directing, "Barry" saves its best hits for last 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

Above all, she was impressively precise in her technical and interpretive critiques. Tyne Daly as Maria Callas vs. Maria Callas as Herself 2011-07-26T17:01:13Z

Ms. Gross’s work, built from the fundamentals of spare, precise movement and gesture and staged with a painter’s eye for figures in space, was emblematic. Sally Gross, Choreographer of Minimalist Dances, Dies at 81 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

But the story is engaging, the prose precise, the characters amusing, and the overall effect one of eccentric charm. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

But her writing, which is for the most part so careful in its realism, could be more precise in these crucial junctures in the battle for custody. 'Luna Gale' a grimly rich study of the fight to protect a child 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The secret to getting precise lines, dots, and other details with royal icing is using a squeeze bottle. How to decorate cookies like a pro baker 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Taking their lead, the Bronx Museum wall labels are precise. Artists Revisit Their Bronx Walls of Fame 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

So it is natural that a great deal of modern physics concerns nothing—or rather the precise nature of the nothing that permeates the cosmos. The uncanny physics of empty space 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The results are stunning and include precise measurements of the matter content of the universe and a tweak to the best estimate for its age. How the dawn of time has a promising future in research 2013-04-13T23:05:06Z

Her precise, harmonious, playful paintings hung alongside works by Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky in a 1937 exhibition here in Basel. Puppets, Purses and Paintings, Too: An Overlooked Artist With Range 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

“This is a very elaborate, and very deliberate, and very precise realization of a certain way of thinking about 12-tone music,” Mr. Grimshaw said in a recent interview. La Monte Young Is Still Patiently Working on a Glacial Scale 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere — such as in “Der Neue Orpheus,” a cantata for soprano and violin soloists — Weill proved a master of balancing disparate voices, with a keen ear for precise orchestration. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

We were focused on the dialect of Napoli that is peculiar and precise. "Martin Eden" star Luca Marinelli on the struggle of the artist as individualist 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

This is one of the best stand-up specials I’ve seen in years, searing and precise, philosophical and hilarious. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The costumes she gives them — a flared collar, a dress with a ruff — elude locations or precise time periods; the background is usually neutral, often dark. A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

This is not merely false, but the precise inverse of the truth. Sorry, Hillary, but we’re done: Keep repeating racist myths and praising Kissinger and the Reagans. I’m switching to Bernie Sanders 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

But as Britt, who is a gay man, pointed out, what was missing from the Art Guys’ marriage equation – legality – is the precise point of conflict in the gay marriage debate. When two guys married a tree 2013-01-29T12:45:00Z

The Gordian knots of conspiracy are factual, though Lombardi did not always explain the precise nature of their connections. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Hers was the precise, measured tone of a polite 61-year-old woman. Perspective | What does female authority sound like? Marie Yovanovitch and Fiona Hill just showed us. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Using them innovatively while channeling what we know about them takes a precise hand. "Only Murders in the Building" is the more the merrier this season 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

I was somehow dealing with the story of my generation and also with a precise moment in time, the last decade, so to include some biographical events was inevitable. ArtsBeat: Under the Radar Festival: 5 Questions About 'The Past Is a Grotesque Animal' 2012-01-13T21:51:36Z

It’s not a whole picture of an inner landscape but the details that it reproduces are uncompromisingly clear and precise. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The imagery, in that dreamlike way, can also be as vivid and precise as it is strange. My favourite album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse 2011-08-22T10:54:28Z

His precise and richly colored illustrations made it easy for amateurs to identify individual birds by emphasizing the shapes of beaks, wings and feathers. ArtsBeat: Auction to Offer Works by Roger Tory Peterson 2012-08-03T18:14:04Z

Rhythms can be precise but simple, or extremely nuanced and off-grid. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

In “Walpurgisnacht,” Ms. Mearns gives the single greatest ballerina performance of our era — hurling out fantastically bold, amazingly precise, rivetingly complex dance coloratura with musical blaze and rich colors. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Baumbach’s sense of character and place is so precise — the film seems so transparent, so real — that his formal audacity almost passes unnoticed. Movie Review | 'Greenberg': Ben Stiller as a Slacker in Noah Baumbach?s Work 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z

This partly can be attributed to their embrace of Gaga, the simultaneously precise and gooey movement language, which also hails from the Holy Land. Dance Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:51:52Z

The reason for the backslide is not immediately obvious, something not helped by the poor availability of precise African figures. Hollywood's hold over global box office – 63% and falling 2013-04-02T15:12:16Z

They are from Magritte to his dealer in New York, Alexander Iolas, a one-time Greek ballet dancer, and all are written in very clear and precise handwriting. Magritte on Magritte: letters reveal surrealist Damien Hirst 2011-02-06T17:57:02Z

Chiang, in his precise and affable way, questioned my idea that his stories were “about” knowledge. Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Caillebotte played with it, animating space while maintaining precise visual order. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

More bad things happen; the father preys on the growing daughter, Angelica; the tone is precise melancholy, muted outrage. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

From the Italian Renaissance to 18th-century Romanticism, artists struggled over the centuries to mix precise shades of green paint, and to reproduce them accurately. Design: The Toxic Side of Being, Literally, Green 2010-04-04T16:05:00Z

Ms. Herzog recalled “an argument that went on for, I think, months about the precise shade of the paint color for the walls of the movie theater in ‘The Flick.’ Sam Gold and Annie Baker Are an Artistic Pairing Destined to Succeed 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

It instils a lot of confidence in your subject if you're precise about what you want. Jason Bell's best shot 2010-07-21T21:01:00Z

Light and Stone, her novel about a young woman living in Umbria, is full of poetically precise descriptions of architecture and art. Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z

And this legacy is based on what by current standards would be considered a very small number of papers—eight, to be precise. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

This was represented by the piano, which is a very expressive and precise instrument. Hans Zimmer's 'Interstellar' music and other scores vie for Oscar 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

It's an open acknowledgment of the transactional nature of a relationship, and the precise value of it. Should you tip your kid's camp counselors? The answer is tricky 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

The software can also help reduce unnecessary airport closures because its analysis of the lightning’s path is more precise than what airports have had in the past. Sick of Bumpy, Delayed Flights? New Weather Tech Could Help. 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

The band’s signature sound — Brownstein and Tucker’s guitars and vocals winding around each other in stinging counterpoint, anchored by Weiss’s deft, thundering drumming — always relied on its precise chemistry. Sleater-Kinney Asked St. Vincent for a Creative Spark. The Trio Blew Up. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The precise origins of “goblin mode” are murky. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Nor could it do without the vocal ability the cast brings to the throwback score, which gets high marks for its precise rhymes, crisp rhythms and sense of character. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The computer is doing its best to lay down the clay in the precise grid dictated by the program Gallaccio and her students developed, but the clay is not cooperating. Anya Gallaccio sets 'beautiful minds' in motion with 3-D clay printing in San Diego 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

If, at the time, her mother usually felt too powerless to strike back, Norah gets her revenge here with precise and killing descriptions of these insecure, manipulative creeps. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The actors are ideal interpreters of Tina Howe’s 1983 play, a deceptively simple work made up of precise, intricate brush strokes. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z

Patient and precise, Güler liked to linger in the city’s Beyoğlu district, near his studio, waiting for daily life to assume the dimensions of a masterpiece. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

As for the precise number writhing reptiles featured the the thrilling “Planet Earth II” video “Iguana vs. Snakes,” we lost count; suffice it to say, the iguana in question was preposterously outnumbered. WATCH: What went into the making of “Planet Earth II”? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

One evening, I dropped into a salon for eyelash extensions, drifting off to sleep as a woman with gentle, precise hands glued lashes on top of my own. A Look at Korea’s Culture From the Bathhouse 2014-02-07T19:35:43Z

The role of the emperor is expanded — to be precise, it’s tripled. Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Goodman found the routine clean and precise, but Inaba didn't think it was up to par. 'Dancing With the Stars': Can anyone catch Hines Ward? 2011-05-17T04:10:27Z

Basil Jones, who, with Adrian Kohler, founded Handspring in Cape Town in 1981, saw “Crow” earlier this week and expressed excitement about the joystick-manipulated bird heads — which create fairly precise, lifelike effects — and retractable legs. ‘Crow’ Features Birds by Handspring Puppet Company 2012-07-06T21:58:46Z

Since tasteless choreography abounded, it was a slight shock to realize that the Orlando Ballet School’s Allegretto by Robert Hill was not just well danced but musically responsive and formally precise. Dance Review: Here, Some Promising Young Dancers, There, Some Well-Seasoned Pros 2011-03-23T21:29:04Z

In any case, the attractive but suffocating atmosphere on “Pain Is Beauty” should be understood as precise aesthetic calculation. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z

The mystery of Stezaker's art may be said to reside in these precise and shocking cuts. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z

Galanos excelled in each of these, and displayed a special mastery over silk chiffon, a fabric of unruly softness that disses all but the most precise designers. ‘James Galanos: Design Integrity’ Review: The West Coast King of Fashion 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

The bells keep ringing throughout “Up 2 Me,” the third Yeat album to land this year, but each tintinnabulation seems purposeful and precise, designed to keep our ears attentive to Yeat’s dizzying mouth melodies. Review | Yeat redefines what it means for a rapper to rock the bells 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Unlike his life, Hunter S. Thompson’s final shot, with a .45, was surgical and precise. Review: In ‘Stories I Tell Myself,’ Life as Hunter S. Thompson’s Son 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

He creates precise physical worlds for his characters, down to where they would place a hat or coat or, in the case of Harvey, where the rabbit would be at every second. Theater: Jim Parsons Prepares for His Lead Role in ‘Harvey’ 2012-05-23T15:00:21Z

It’s creamy, elegant, precise and lovely, one of the best sparkling chenin blancs. 12 Summer Sparkling Wines, Because Who Needs a Reason 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

His muscular sentences punch in short bursts or stream in torrents of feeling or action with precise, telling detail. ‘In the Wolf’s Mouth,’ by Adam Foulds

“My mother was dry and precise and could hold your attention for hours with details that were sometimes shocking, sometimes funny,” he said. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z

According to Mr. Brühl, Mr. Morgan talked Mr. Howard into conducting an audition during which he upbraided Mr. Brühl in precise Viennese German for having attempted “my clumsy and embarrassing false Austrian accent.” Daniel Brühl’s Global Accent in ‘Fifth Estate’ and ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T21:48:14Z

Such doll-like figures — this one was deposited at the church in Upper Franconia — were often made to the precise size and weight of a real baby for whom divine protection was sought. An Art of Faith, Facts and Miracles 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

It’s a precise study of the American underclass that mostly fills the ranks of our armed services. A Short Novel of Love, War and Comrades in Arms Contains the World in a Foxhole 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

It’s far more precise and offers over 230 steps of adjustment. Great gear for making coffee 2012-09-16T16:00:00Z

It is an absolutely precise geometrical circle – it does not appear to wobble at any point. Palladio's Redentore: an architect's dream 2010-08-03T14:37:00Z

The architects, writes Times critic Christopher Hawthorne, have a “cool, precise style” that mirrors the President’s own. Essential Arts & Culture: Obama library architect chosen, the troubles at USC Roski, a key L.A. gallery closes 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

The horse movements contrast precise clip-clop footwork and staccato, apprehensive headwork with wilder and more outgoing movements. Dance Review: Wild and Tamed in Wheeldon?s ?Estancia? at City Ballet 2010-05-30T22:21:00Z

The anaconda refused to squeeze Paul along his sensor belt so they couldn’t get a precise gauge of the constriction. 'Eaten Alive': Or how to make a giant anaconda boring 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The tone is almost theatrical, mixing the commanding voice of a single actor onstage with precise stage directions. The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

He had a booming laugh, a bottomless trove of anecdotes, and a lawyer’s precise way with words. Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher dead at 87 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

That they are expressed through the precise, the local and the specific is part of the novel's charm. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z

Or, to be more precise, my body’s inability to perform functions that are kind of necessary for golf. A stiff golfer tries to loosen up with clinics’ personalized assessments

That day, though, I realized that Keaton’s visual sense was so precise, and so funny, that sound never for a moment seemed necessary. Now’s a Good Time to Give Silents a Try. Start With These Comedies. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a taut, precise trio, with the brothers Bobby Hackney on bass and Dannis Hackney on drums; Bobby Duncan on guitar replaced David Hackney, the original guitarist, who died in 2000. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z

Thanks to the admirable clarity of Mr. Sheppard’s conducting — himself a trumpeter — entrances were always precise and harmonies perfectly voiced. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Brass at St. John the Divine 2013-05-15T20:31:51Z

Weber’s prose is precise, revealing rather than evocative; she seems to be aiming not to show her characters in their best light but rather to illuminate them from all angles, even the least flattering. ‘Still Life With Monkey’: A Mischievous, Gluttonous Primate 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate By Michael Upchurch Seattle Times arts writer Strength as light as gossamer — and movement that looks like music. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z

More precise data and more advanced analysis are helping airlines fly better in cold weather, too. Sick of Bumpy, Delayed Flights? New Weather Tech Could Help. 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Her family confirmed the death to The Associated Press but provided neither the cause nor the precise date Ms. Kennedy died. Erica Kennedy, Music Writer and Novelist, Dies at 42 2012-06-19T00:18:34Z

She conducts with lightning-quick gestures that, while clear and precise, can also be a challenge for any orchestra player not raised on video games. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Parsons has hummingbird-like feet, huge elevation and mercurial leaps, and Brach's porcelain demeanor belies a fierce technique, her back a study in suppleness, her turns precise. In-your-face Tchaikovsky from American Contemporary Ballet 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

What I haven’t given you are precise instructions for decorating your hearts. Everyday Dorie: A cookie straight from the heart 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

The idea that drone strikes are precise is ridiculous, she says. 'The PTSD stems from this dirty work': new film documents regretful drone pilots 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Time and again, Ars Nova impressed with its precise, accurate, immaculately tuned performances, yet even as it did so the effect of the works blended into one. Ars Nova Copenhagen/Hillier 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z

I’ve suffered through too many other families and that precise brand of self-centered behavior. “Moonrise Kingdom”: Wes Anderson’s mid-’60s love story 2012-05-23T19:55:00Z

Mr. Maillot’s choreography is “in terms of stamina, very hard, very quick and musical, very precise,” he said. Jean-Christophe Maillot Brings ‘Lac’ to City Center 2014-03-13T22:17:53Z

Still, the dancing is both precise and high-energy. Review: Scottish Ballet Finds the Poetry in ... Poetry 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Without realizing it, I was being drawn deeply into the sensuous immediacy of tone and tempo, and also a style that is precise, whose emotion lies in tone rather than in added sentiment. With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

“The Americans” has everything we say we value in this “golden age of television”: high-tension storytelling, precise writing, big surprises, period details and deeply conflicted characters. The best TV of 2014: ‘Americans,’ ‘Fargo,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Walking Dead’ and more

Its characters live in my mind’s eye as if moving in some ritual dance, precise, exquisite, finely balanced. Michael Dirda browses books that will make you love reading 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

The gallery, in a building which was subsequently demolished, was recreated using the 3-D modeling software SketchUp, based on precise measurements recorded in an 1860 book. ‘What Jane Saw’ Is an Online Trip for Jane Austen Fans 2013-05-24T12:00:01Z

This is no fault of Ms. Cabell, who plays multiple characters with ease and displays nice chemistry with Ms. Goethals, a precise actress who communicates the pain of deception with eloquence. | 'The Zero Hour': Madeleine George?s Hitler Youth at Walkerspace 2010-07-07T21:11:00Z

It's difficult to convey just the precise chaos of parenthood, but the show does so with aplomb. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Garland likes to play in the sandbox where the organic meets the mechanic, but it is his precise command of language as well as imagery that is what makes his films so striking. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

“What are the odds that I would go out for a walk and come across this fossil at the precise moment that it was exposed and nothing was covering it?” she said. Woman on beach finds fossil from unknown animal likely older than dinosaurs 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

As the helicopter moved further back and higher, the shot stayed smooth and precise. ArtsBeat: A Closer Look at ‘Watermark’ 2014-04-07T17:13:29Z

If you're looking for precise measurements or specific instructions, I don't cook like that. Real crab — not imitation krab — is an ingredient I'm willing to fight for 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

His images are precise, in harmony with the physical world. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The roasted vegetable salad shows care, too, with precise chopped apples and squash in a mix of arugula and spinach glossed with roasted garlic vinaigrette. Hawthorne tastes like it’s just going through the motions 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

His lyrics about fractured relationships are narratively detailed and emotionally precise and simmering in slow-stew funk and soul. Jon Caramanica’s Top 10 Albums of 2012 2012-12-12T13:55:38Z

“I don’t think the collection says much about him. You can walk through the whole thing and not come away with a feeling about Paul Allen. It’s very analytical and very precise.” Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1 Billion, Cracking Records 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

And with that, Montiel became just another of the thousands of criminal suspects now living with impunity in foreign countries — even when federal authorities have identified their precise locations. Border-crossing fugitives a national problem 2012-01-29T06:00:00Z

Others professed a nostalgic fondness for the place, and sent precise instructions on what to order. Forget the Wall: Pati Jinich Wants to Build a Culinary Bridge to Mexico 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Some observations were incredibly precise—when to initiate a movement, or the position of the back in a moment of suspension while balancing on one foot, or the height of an arm. Dancing to Bach’s Cello Suites 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

He was at his best in comic songs such as William Percy French’s “The West Clare Railway,” accompanied by Jonathan Laird, who was both more forceful and less precise at the piano. Audience can’t help but show its appreciation for Irish song and opera 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

It’s precise, but it’s not about pushing to an edge; it’s about vibrations. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The precise details of superhero origin stories, he said, “used to be things that a random person stopped on the street wouldn’t understand.” Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

From an era when labeling laws were less precise, the bottle’s label credited only the Napa and Alexander valleys as sources of the fruit. The wine tasting that shocked the world — and forever changed what we drink 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Free snacks at work are strongly associated with the profligacy of Silicon Valley, but the precise origins of the perk are unknown. At Start-Ups, the Free Lunch Is Yours for the Making 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

But her final product consists of archival inkjets on paper, created on a large-format scanner that allows her to exercise precise control over which parts of her printed-material assemblages are in focus. Artists at Seattle's Foster/White turn books into art 2012-07-19T20:12:11Z

In person, Ms. Smith is plain-spoken, at once precise and discursive, as her audiences well know. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

While no precise record of Tubman’s birth survives, historians and the National Park Service say that she was born Araminta Ross, likely in March 1822. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Sure, this facility offers “a highly precise medical procedure guided by mass delusion, by superstition and arrogance and self-deception,” but as Jeffrey asks himself, “Doesn’t the fact of imminent death encourage the deepest self-delusion?” Don DeLillo’s novel ‘Zero K’ captures the swelling fears of our age 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

It was a long time ago – 1994, to be precise – when produced his last film that was not connected to his “Indiana Jones” or “Star Wars” fantasy franchises. ArtsBeat: 'Red Tails,' Lucas's Tuskegee Airmen Movie, Lands a Release Date 2011-07-29T19:08:20Z

“Seeing a precise and beautiful and precious structure like that dissolving almost into the fire was very, very traumatizing,” he said in an interview. Music Inspired by Notre-Dame Fire Wins a Top Prize 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

This May, with a more precise measurement system, Nielsen estimated that the number watching News4 at 11 had slipped to 132,000 viewers, or just over half of what it had been 20 years ago. Jim & Doreen: NBC4’s top-rated anchors are still leading the pack after 25 years

And Mr. Birney is excellent as ever, turning in a precise portrait of a middle-aged man trying to mask his flailing ego under a bright veneer of competence and good cheer. Theater Review: ‘Core Values,’ by Steven Levenson, at Ars Nova 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z

We are in Lucerne, so the Swiss time-keeping is even more precise. Dudamel abides 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z

As seems fitting for anything concerning Pinter, the precise meaning of the dispute is unclear. Pinter Estate Shuts Door on ‘The Room’ 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Act V, Scene 3 of “Romeo and Juliet,” to be precise. Watch the Screaming Shakespeareans, Please 2011-08-14T16:26:53Z

In some ways, they are simply lovely, well-made clothes detached from any great need to represent anything other than the precise way that a woman wants to dress in a given moment. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Every verb and pause had had the feeling of careful, precise stage management. When Politicians Make Playlists 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

The lines likely to earn laughs and applause from those watching at home are often the precise ones that may lose the room. How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

The fog surrounding their precise fate reminds me that a blood tie to specific aspects of an atrocity need not exist. My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

Her prose is instantly recognisable, with its long, coolly balanced sentences and its precise, startling imagery. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-06T08:00:36Z

If you want a more precise breakdown of fall foliage near you, search your zip code on this interactive map. Fall foliage forecast: Track colorful leaves across the US 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

It was as crisp as a potato chip, as precise as some professors and as neat as the curls in his hair were a mess. Gene Wilder’s Understated Nuttiness 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

My dad loved Thanksgiving and all of our traditional dishes; I know he'd be so happy to see those precise dishes on the table, complete with all of us sitting around it. Honoring my dad with my mom's Thanksgiving stuffing 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

It sounds like just another week in Westminster, but in fact this drama – or , to be precise – is unfolding 400 miles away, on the Edinburgh fringe. Edinburgh fringe shows find new ways to tackle political comedy 2012-08-09T14:57:48Z

That question was important to the Founders, who understood that a precise census was essential for any government of the people to work. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Hern's experience of her polite but precise insistence is echoed in stories from the rehearsal room. Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best 2012-10-03T17:44:37Z

The dance movements, considerably less focused and precise, were wholly devoid of interest. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival Dots Lower Manhattan 2013-08-13T21:41:40Z

Charles Edwards's Sir Andrew Aguecheek is puppyish, precise in every last twinge of ludicrous excess," says Henry Hitchings in the London Evening Standard, "while Simon Callow revels in the role of Sir Toby Belch. What to say about ... Twelfth Night 2011-01-20T17:11:23Z

A brutal, if precise, labor by hand divided men into diggers, movers and cart transporters. Italian sun and a cerulean sea? That’s amore, and it’s all on the Egadis

What really happened is I was a lot more precise about what I wanted to accomplish. On 'Fire,' Alicia Keys presents new side of self 2012-11-28T15:21:09Z

In “Metropolis” Rotwang’s wild gestures, the robot Maria’s erotic contortions and the destructive frenzy of the workers’ revolt threaten to overwhelm Lang’s clean lines and precise spaces. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z

The definition of Grant's public persona is now so precise that he needs to take into account how he is perceived when he takes on a role. Englishmen at 50 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z

But the sonnets are so precise and so surprising, at once so easy and so difficult to remember, that we’re never finished with them, nor they with us. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

I can’t tell you the precise moment I began to believe that my mother’s life would not be mine after all. Modern Love: A Measure of Desire Modern Love 2012-06-28T21:46:34Z

This week, however, the New York Times touts this precise line of thinking in its series on disability with Jennifer Bartlett’s piece “Longing for the Male Gaze.” Disabling the male gaze: “Longing” to be objectified won’t help shatter narrow beauty standards 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The transformation is subtle but precise; sadly the Academy usually rewards the opposite. My Oscar goes to... Our film critics reveal their personal shortlists 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Its precise, level tone and attention to detail lend his narratives a force and immediacy that compel our attention. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

There is, of course, no precise indication of what all this means. Frank Ocean Releases New Visual Album 'Endless' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Phyllis H.: This is such a neat and precise way to make a messy job easier! Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Big complaint about tiny type 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

With his fifth collection, “The World to Come,” he continues his original, precise exploration of times and places long ago and far, far away. Review | ‘The World to Come,’ stories by Jim Shepard 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Whenever the precise date falls, the director’s insistence on making a film approximately every 10 minutes means two things. Everyone says I hate you … pinpointing the exact moment Woody Allen became toxic 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

At the precise moment when the slimy creature emerged, an air cartridge was released, causing the exploding viscera to splatter the cast and crew. H.R. Giger, artist who designed the creature in the 1979 film ‘Alien,’ dies at 74

“The singers are individually precise even when their ‘words’ — which usually consist of ‘baba-daba-daba’ — come tumbling out at a headlong rate.” Ward Swingle, Who Made Classical Music Jazzy, Dies at 87 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Not so in films – one precise tap to the jaw leaves any target snoozing like a newborn babe for several hours. Clip joint: knockouts 2012-10-03T16:41:34Z

Actually I can’t pinpoint the precise reason for the cautious feeling. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now, conservationists are concerned that photographers who geotag their precise locations are putting fragile ecosystems and wild animals at risk. Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

“It’s plausible, but it’s not at all clear what the precise mechanism might be,” says Hughes. Why neglecting your teeth could be seriously bad for your health 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

If his tone wasn’t entirely precise, that was beside the point. Review | Archie Shepp’s performance at the Kennedy Center was absolutely beautiful 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

At the end of the day – Nov. 8, to be precise – it will be white women who determine whether our democracy holds or fails. "The Good Fight" differentiates between who has the luxury of tuning out our political troubles 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

He added, “You don’t want to miss the musically precise staging of Jack Hofsiss.” Jack Hofsiss, Stage Director of ‘The Elephant Man,’ Dies at 65 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The boxy, multilevel set design created by Mark Wendland, for instance, conjures more precise environments like cramped apartments and street corners than the relatively open stage of the Broadway “Rent.” Downsizing ?Rent? for a New Run 2011-08-07T17:36:28Z

The high spirits of the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 sometimes felt forced — a clenched grin — but the performance soon settled into a groove of winning, precise exuberance. Review: Joshua Bell Plays Tchaikovsky at David Geffen Hall 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Like many enthusiasts, he’s not saying the precise number — possibly because it’s in constant flux or the total is too great to fathom. $39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors don’t blink, and even go for seconds. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

The director’s perceptions are finer and subtler, his sense of milieu truer, his compositions both more precise and more relaxed. The Oscars 2015: For the Birds 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Toward the middle of the plaza on a raised wooden stage, lines of men in burgundy vests hooked elbows with women in white blouses and performed a precise folk dance to lively accordion music. A Tour of Sardinia, Full of Discoveries 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The technique allows doctors to select embryos that are free of dangerous mutations carried by one or both parents even if the precise nature of the genetic defect is unknown. IVF technique that tests embryos for genetic disorders has first success 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor. Academic: Jane Austen had helping hand from editor 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z

Even more emphasis falls on Woolhouse's precise, resolved phrasing in the verses. Deptford Goth – review 2013-04-27T23:05:38Z

Cars like the Buick Encore, Fiat 500 and Lincoln MKZ, meanwhile, improve mileage through direct fuel injection, which injects gas directly into the combustion chamber in extremely precise amounts. 10 Ways Automakers Are Helping You Spend Less On Gasoline 2012-08-30T15:00:37Z

“I said, ‘Well, I noticed,” said the typically precise host, who has been part of “Jeopardy!” since 1984. Alex Trebek to Rep. John Lewis: Let’s survive cancer in 2020 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

His descriptive power comes instead from precise observation, each successive detail adding another tile to the mosaic. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z

For some folks, “trapped in the wrong body” is a precise description. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He understood his Gallic friend's precise yet wayward mind and appreciated his helplessness when confronted by an object of interest. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z

His obsessively precise written opinions for the U.S. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

The unhappy decline that constituted the second act was, in Pastor’s view, an uncannily precise preview of the economic, social and political discontents that now embitter our national politics. How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

It is, as I understand it, the precise opposite of rose-colored glasses, making a person more susceptible to depression in light of a triggering event. The day my therapist killed himself: shock, tears and then came a revelation 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, it means being ruthlessly and tenderly precise about what happened. How Do I Write About My Life Without Alienating Everyone in It? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Far more elegant, precise and useful — not to mention kind — is to write about physical appearance not in terms of fat or thin, pretty or ugly, but in expressiveness, grace, characterization and movement. From ‘Birdman’ to Zellweger: the actor as screen object

Not long ago, in the Before Times, talk of masks conjured one precise image in my mind: a snot green face, bald as a ball of Play-Doh, contorted into a roguish smile. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

“It seemed labor-intensive and wasteful to plant every season. We thought we could achieve the same effect by planting selected areas with perennials. But it didn’t work; it wasn’t as crisp and precise.” At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Reading a travelogue may be a poor substitute for travel, but Tesson's precise, meditative prose does a good job of slowing the pulse. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T13:30:01Z

Whether as party guests, polichinelles or toy soldiers, they were remarkably vivacious, present and precise. New York City Ballet Wraps Up ‘Nutcracker’ Season 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

I demurred: "It's pretty dreadful . . .", and she shot back: "In what precise way does that differ from 'awful'?" Will Self considers the Coen brothers 2011-02-11T10:08:28Z

Culture after culture emerged on its territory, often leaving no trace other than objects of which the precise meaning eludes us. Review: Lifting Hazy Veils From Centuries of Vietnamese Art 2010-02-26T18:30:00Z

So scaling will always be more precise, and precision is a big part of what we do for baking. James Beard Award winner Dominique Ansel heralds a message for the times: "Everyone can bake" 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

In “The Body Papers,” Talusan’s precise, delicately constructed memoir-in-essays, her brief turn as a “puffy pink monster,” inflamed with hives, was a sign that something monstrous was being done to her. Documenting Undocumented Lives in ‘The Body Papers’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

I had been expecting a very localized, very precise pain, and I felt cheated when the pain was instead massive and everywhere: I didn’t know how to fight something that was everywhere. “I should have had the drugs”: The pregnancy that made me fear cars, carrots, forest fires and David Bowie 2014-04-15T22:59:00Z

Turnage was lucky to find an ideal conductor in David Robertson, a musician both consistently upbeat and unfailingly precise with his upbeats. BBCSO/Robertson 2010-08-27T10:58:00Z

By 1973 he felt able to paint with the same spontaneity, never using preparatory studies and yet creating pictures that are precise and lucid, partly thanks to his practice of always using daylight. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z

Mr. Nash has always been a more careful and precise songwriter for others than for himself. Albums From Terius Nash, George Strait, Cymbals Eat Guitars 2011-09-05T22:44:58Z

"I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important – it's what exists between the lines," she says. Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself' 2011-03-27T00:05:25Z

It’s all about finding the perfect words, their power, discovering the precise way to describe the experiences that have shaped me. I'm an editor, not your mistress 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Those scans provided Erdmann with precise information about the details and colors in Rembrandt’s original, which the algorithms used to recreate the missing sections using Lundens’s copy as a guide. Rembrandt’s Damaged Masterpiece Is Whole Again, With A.I.’s Help 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s well-prepared, though those unfamiliar with the dishes might need more precise instructions for reheating and assembling. To-Go Meals for Sizdeh Beder 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

But Gaddis is a virtuoso and a once-in-an-era talent - his prose is at once precise and poetic, and his dialogue is pitch-perfect. The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z

There is at times a sloppiness unbecoming such a gifted and precise writer, as when she collages the diary of a Black U.S. Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Thanks to Pederson, we were there and we do know what happened, not necessarily in precise legal detail. In the firing line: A grunt's eye view of war 2011-04-04T20:31:01Z

So precise is its form that from a distance, such as Lookout Point, it resembles the careful construction of an engineer. Visit the South's Arch Country 2011-05-18T13:20:07.640Z

Bloodying up an actor onstage always requires some sort of sleight of hand — the precise timing of a mimed blow, a shout and the release of a hidden blood bag. For the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s props director, one blood is not like another 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

“He is extraordinarily precise, and it’s really important to him to get the theories right,” said May, who also advised Schur on his book. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The work is measured and precise, and all the more so in pencil drawings on tan paper, which subtract all color except for a few white-chalk accents. In the galleries: Phantom people make a statement — a beautiful one 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The F is the more “natural” letter, so I decided to not be very precise in creating it: The angles are not very precise, the points are untidy. New dimensions of type 2012-06-11T00:00:00Z

Journalists: without hesitation, the authors of the editorial and Op-Ed pages of The New York Times — light in spirit, precise, strenuously relevant. By the Book: Edward O. Wilson 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

That precise turn of mind is what Raf Simons showed on Monday as he took control of Dior. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Starts Triumphantly at Dior 2012-07-02T16:03:41Z

Onstage Ms. Schumer’s jokes are lean, her delivery precise and her control of the audience commanding. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central Show, From the Inside 2013-04-18T12:00:01Z

He scrambles onto the lanes to set up the tall, narrow pins in precise constellations, preparing them to be knocked down, again and again. A Dark Fairy Tale of American Oddballs and Candlepin Bowling 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The date seems to operate as a locus or vanishing point for humankind's capacity for cruelty, but beyond that its precise meaning is occluded. Summer voyages: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2013-07-29T12:59:01Z

Ms. Versace got the idea from his precise measurements that he was humble, and that touched her. Versace and Kane: An Odd Mix That Works 2010-05-21T02:08:00Z

Primo Levi's testimony, it is often said, is that of a chemist: clear, cool, precise, distant. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review 2013-01-25T07:00:02Z

“I can’t really recall the precise moment when the original ‘Aspects’ went from small scale to big scale,” Mr. Nunn said. David Babani?s Chocolate Factory Shines Up Old Shows 2010-07-23T02:10:00Z

Everything happens at a precise moment, timed to a particular sound in the music. Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

To be precise, in a series of downsizing moves, he fired some 30 members of his painting staff, which at one time numbered 100. Did Jeff really paint that Koons? Working at a modern studio isn’t exactly a Renaissance apprenticeship 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

The new museum building, by the 86-year-old Maki, strives for the monumental solidity of ancient forms, with a nod to the precise lines and counterintuitive bravado of contemporary ones. Toronto’s new Islamic art museum aims to express a non-threatening Islamic identity

An odd-jobs drifter with three teeth and a lazy eye, Lucas would recall, often on camera, precise and grisly details about each victim. He was America's most deadly serial killer – but it was all a lie 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In a nod to the new direction her career was taking – a slightly more grown-up version of the women’s empowerment anthems for which she had become known – Beyoncé’s already precise vocals seemed to improve. The meaning of Beyoncé: a dispatch from inside the Beyhive 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The Bay's persuasiveness is down not just to its narrative method but to acute observation and precise writing. The Bay – first look review 2012-09-26T09:23:35Z

The new album is produced by Terry Date and doesn’t greatly vary the formula: It is loud and precise, with very little reverb. Review: Slayer’s New Album, ‘Repentless,’ Is Loud and Precise 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Rippon’s explanation of how we’ve studied the brain in the past, and how recent technological advances are giving us increasingly precise tools to do so, is endlessly interesting. Do Men and Women Have Different Brains? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The rest are interactive and come with precise instructions. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores how castoff materials can be a venue to enlightenment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

He kept a precise beat, his left hand often clenched but for a pinpointing index finger. Review: Another Week, Another Philharmonic Podium Candidate 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

And, as it happens, few in the fashion business would have much trouble naming the precise source of the numerous fashion “references” he had in mind. Fashion Diary: Studying the Preppy Look and its Reference Points 2010-07-23T22:30:00Z

Perhaps aptly, the most precise work — “The Painting Table” — depicts the tools of Freilicher’s trade. Three Artists, Three Arcs, One Gallery 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Kelly, a precise, crystalline wordsmith when in takedown mode, awkwardly sprinkled slang into her speech. Megyn Kelly Fails to Connect With the Audience During Her 'Today' Debut 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Still, it must be kept in mind that the precise quantification of death and violence is almost always impossible. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

And because Kathak depends more on a back-and-forth with musicians, his dancing, though rhythmically precise, was harmed by the taped accompaniment. Dance Review: Odissi Dancer Sujata Mohapatra at Erasing Borders Festival 2012-04-10T21:49:08Z

Currently dominated by technologically sophisticated, rigorously precise and highly self-aware productions, they are both generally more visceral than intellectual. | 'Here at Home': Swapping War Stories Outside a Wal-Mart 2011-05-17T20:33:01Z

And nearly all of the score — directed and orchestrated with precise and infinite variety by Alex Lacamoire — is infused with the same sense of momentum, of a wave that you ride or drown in. Review: ‘Hamilton,’ Young Rebels Changing History and Theater 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Although some might wish an editor had gently pointed out that she’d convey more of value with precise language instead of relying on expletives. Review | ‘Swan Dive’ gives voice to every suspicion you may harbor about professional ballet 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Pictures of Lily is wise and precise, cool and contemporary. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z

I may not have known her, or the precise details of her life, but I know of her indomitable spirit. Mortars, Pestles and the Comfort of a Culinary Ritual 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible to know the precise intention of these words, but it does raise the question of whether it is his desire that these letters remain private. Review | What Kurt Vonnegut’s rapturous love letters reveal about him as a writer — and husband 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Jokes are hard. You have to be very precise.” In This ‘Peter Pan,’ Something Always Goes Awry. That’s the Plan. 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

This lends a precise and sometimes startling individuality to what are usually collective observations. Review: In ‘Antigone’ at BAM, Agony and Despair in Inexorable Motion 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

The duet in “What Counts,” for the precise and winning Sarah Pon and Blake Hennessy-York, was standard yet lovely, with the woman at first swatting away the man’s advances. Review: ‘What Counts,’ a Lydia Johnson Dance Work, Attends to the Music 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

No matter how high or fast or precise any individual step, it’s just a connecting part of a larger thought. At Vail Festival, Dance Artists Renew and Extend Themselves 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Bespoke commissions available For the princely sum of however much money he happens to need at the precise time you ask him, Doherty is able to design any piece of jewellery you like. Pete Doherty's jewellery range: an exclusive preview 2010-10-19T11:11:00Z

Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, “Kindred” is controlled and precise. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

These immaculate rounds are also part of the other essential rivalry in these paintings: between precise geometry and loose, intuitive brushwork. In the galleries: Perspectives on blending culture and identity 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

In hindsight, the Joy Division tags thrown around at the time feel wildly incorrect; if anything, the comparisons to Echo and the Bunnymen—in particular that band's atmospheric dramatics — are far more precise. The secret to Interpol’s ongoing success 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Cheryl Strayed: Your letter is an articulation of the precise pickle many stepchildren find themselves in, Sibling. I Have a Real-Life Wicked Stepmother. How Do I Handle Her? 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

For Hadley, that process involves the precise observation of conflicting motives flitting across her characters’ minds. Review | In Tessa Hadley’s new novel, death mixes everybody up 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

At Calvin Klein , the mood of the straight, plain, precise clothes was different. Special Report: American Style Is No Tea Party 2010-09-19T12:20:00Z

Hall, of course, never intended “Out the Window” to be a precise landscape of his yard. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

But the boxes spin as cubes, with a strong sense of dimension, just as a box, when it is pulled towards the foreground, changes perspective in precise proportional distribution of the object’s moving lines. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, precise details of these session remain hazy. Bobby Gillespie: 'We always saw music as a revolutionary force' 2013-03-14T16:25:18Z

Her portrayal of Lady Mary is so precise that she can deliver ten layers of expression in a single glance. Downton Abbey Watch: Drama and then Somme 2012-01-09T14:30:05Z

Is there not a way to probe these same ideas using richer, more precise, less predictable language? Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

His direction is energetic, copious, precise,, and unflinching in the face of the turmoil that he conjures and the trouble to which he seemingly bears witness. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Technically, this collection was a tour de force with the leather worked with precise chevron cutting into soft shapes like a swinging cape. Special Report: Reveling in Mix-And-Meld 2010-03-04T12:53:00Z

When I read at night, I can’t focus unless the book is positioned at a precise distance from my face and the light is neither too bright nor too dim. Vitamin A is for anti-aging, at least when it comes to vision 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

This is a gorgeous wine, smooth, elegant and distinctive, with precise, savory flavors. 10 Sparkling Wines for Leaving 2020 Behind 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Not because those perceptions did not occur, but because such overly precise descriptions often communicate little of value in delineating a wine to a reader. The Paradox of Chenin Blanc 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

And as meticulous as Brown is about choreography and connection — replaced by stillness and isolation in the play’s poems of anguish, to devastating effect — she is just as precise about textual lucidity and depth. Review: ‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, Leading With Joy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

With the high-definition video giving a precise picture of the havoc being wrought below, she can see the raw reality of the bomb blasts, as body parts fly up amid the wreckage. Anne Hathaway’s Solo Turn as a Fighter Pilot in ‘Grounded’ at the Public Theater 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Many renowned architects and writers speak briefly to the camera about Foster's work, and Foster himself, precise and well-spoken, frequently chimes in. 'How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster'?: A life's worth of groundbreaking architecture 2012-01-12T21:15:09Z

Ms. Reyes, splendidly precise as always in her whiplash turns, tends to lurch through other steps, which throws off her timing. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Nutcracker’ From American Ballet Theater 2012-12-09T22:24:22Z

From its most sentimentally intoxicated to its more socially engaged poems, a crucial aspect of Dear Boy's knowing aesthetic is the precise and telling detail. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z

Whereas Brooks was precise and cerebral, Einstein appeared merely broad and goofy, the sunny jock. Super Dave, in Memoriam: Bob Einstein’s Mass-Culture Parody 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

It’s one of the things that I find most poignant: his speech, his manner of speaking, his cadences, which were so precise and distinctive, have not survived. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Now, the precise location of the painting remains a mystery to the heirs. Heirs Sue Over Ownership of a Pissarro, Saying It Was Seized by Nazis 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

They are about as precise as Twombly gets; the motif turns shambling in four larger oil paint drawings nearby. Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The principles of every significant technology, from tree-felling and carpentry to shipbuilding and papermaking, are described with a precise, almost mesmerizing detail. Three New Books on the Predigital Technologies That Shaped Our World 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

While they lend a cheerful edge to Lewitzky’s precise, geometric movement, his too-obvious backdrop is grating: an enlarged musical score covering the back of the stage and even the wings. Review: L.A. Dance Project Celebrates Female Choreographers 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

Several developers behind horror games described their task like choreography, requiring precise timing and deft choices to deliver the terrifying experiences that players crave. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

That precise turn of mind is what Raf Simons showed in his first collection for Dior, the high point of the fall haute couture shows. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z

There is more cultivated Tchaikovsky out there, to be sure, and more precise, too, but none more faithful to his devastating purpose. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Be fair and rational — instead of venting, give a precise, detailed account of what happened. Help! It’s Been More Than 2 Years and I Still Don’t Have the Refund 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

But the music, rich with precise details and quirky turns, shows that Britten already had a strong voice. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-12T21:55:55Z

“In addition to his inability to guarantee delivery dates and cost estimates, Phyfe was seemingly unconcerned with providing prospective customers with precise and attractive renderings of the furniture available,” Mr. Brown and Mr. Thurlow write. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z

In the closing "Scarbo" movement, he captures the delicate whiplash volatility of the music with a freedom so exquisite and precise that it gives the piece's enchantment has all the room it needs to roam. Critics' Picks: Pianist Barnatan's 'Gaspard de la nuit' on new CD 2012-07-18T22:11:04Z

Everyone, the play suggests, needs to find and “occupy” their own niche in life — an existential space as unique and precise as the thicket of abstract artworks we see Nevelson move through. Review | At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Quince's co-owner and executive chef Michael Tusk is "doing tremendously refined, technically precise food with roots in Italy and also with great international flair," Ellis said. Michelin hands stars to 54 San Francisco restaurants 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Young is a sharp observer who revels in her sense of the absurd and uses precise language and striking images. Review | A New Zealand poet turns a lyrical eye on her homeland through essays in ‘Can You Tolerate This?’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

There's a precise calibration between what he's doing and how his orchestra responds. What makes a great conductor? Just watch Andris Nelsons 2010-07-30T16:19:00Z

A made-up Southeast Asian country with a made-up language, to be more precise. Does Hollywood hate Asia? 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

Her camera movements are precise, her cuts rigorous. In ‘The Souvenir Part II,” a human-scaled epic concludes 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

They don't keep, even in the fridge, so when you're measuring out your flax eggs, be precise to avoid having extra. How to make a flax egg (and use it as an egg replacement) 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

How it made us feel Deep Blue Sea is actually a pretty great water-thriller, but it straddles a very precise moment in CGI history that is “right before it got good”. Worse than Cats? The biggest CGI disasters in cinema 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Anchored by Leaf’s empathy and by her precise, confident visual style, the story unfolds during the last stretch of Gia’s pregnancy. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

A. My own collection is not that big but it’s very precise. A Russian Art Dealer Sets Sights on London 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

High-powered laser scans created precise renderings that were animated to create high-resolution lifelike images. An amusement-park ride at the museum? Technology makes visitors part of the exhibits. 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

And yet some passages are breathtaking, particularly the precise, unsentimental details of a goat's dismemberment and an account of a violent attack – Shaw knows how to balance beauty and terror. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw ? review 2012-02-10T22:55:03Z

The clothes are precise, beautifully crafted, but with more in them than first seems evident. Special Report: A Generation in the 'Green' Zone 2010-03-07T18:47:00Z

The face-value translation is “My Coconut,” but Veloso offers a more precise read while gently rapping his knuckles on the side of his head: “ ‘My Noggin.’ Caetano Veloso’s exquisite protest music has always rejected the idea of despair 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

You have to be precise and be free at the same time. Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role 2011-03-12T22:01:00Z

But Ohio it is — Columbus, to be precise. Heads Up: Hello, Columbus 2010-03-12T17:04:00Z

I had to imagine that the truth of the situation — clear and precise — was present with us on that sidewalk, and we all could live with it. Modern Love: Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling - Modern Love 2012-07-26T21:46:18Z

I struggled to get the precise choreography right. Urban Athlete: Lessons for All Would-Be Jedis 2013-06-27T20:54:04Z

But that doesn't mean we need to know Winston better than we already do, which is the precise amount of not much at all. Don't check into Peacock's John Wick spinoff "The Continental," not even to check out Mel Gibson 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

But doing this for eight performances a week, I think we get the music pretty precise with what the cast is doing.” Moving Orchestras Out of Sight, Maybe Even Out of the Theater 2012-03-24T02:16:49Z

Threads of celery curl around raw mackerel, given a breath of char and bathed in a soy analogue fermented from rye, with a precise flicker of yuzu. At Momofuku Nishi, David Chang’s Magic Shows a Little Wear 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Scientists used a precise dating system based on the radioactive decay of uranium isotopes into thorium to assess the age of the paintings. Primitive art: Neanderthals were Europe's first painters 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

In 2013, hackers discovered a flaw in Tinder’s geolocation software that allowed users to pinpoint the exact coordinates—down to the precise longitude and latitude—of others on the platform. The danger of Tinder’s LGBT-friendly upgrade: How the dating app could be used to target trans users 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

To be more precise, at 9:54:43 p.m. Epicenter of small quake in McHenry County 2012-01-31T11:34:00Z

But where  stands apart is in its imaginative, precise and hypnotic 3D. The Amazing Spider-Man Crafts Hollywood's Greatest 3D Sequence Yet 2012-07-09T12:00:15Z

Faulkner’s choices are so precise, and his juxtaposition of the words so careful in conditioning our sense reception, that he doesn’t so much solve as overpower the problem. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z

A precise number of deaths cannot be fixed, as the majority have occured in areas of sub-Saharan Africa seldom visited by doctors or census takers. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

To be precise, it began with two assumptions about the history of life that led Darwin to perform those experiments. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

He plays Dean’s calculated smarm with such precise calibration that the audience loves him and finds him a complete buffoon in equal measure. Grandfathered and The Grinder: John Stamos and Rob Lowe's mid-career triumphs 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

It was darker and more concentrated, precise and detailed, with aromas and flavors of toffee, nuts, lanolin and cinnamon arriving in layers. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

A section of precise a cappella tapping and body percussion — with some performers in tap shoes, others in sneakers — flows into a barefoot, samba-infused dance, punctuated by a playful hip-shaking interlude. Fall for Dance Review: Some Tap, a Pas de Deux and a Monastic Chorus 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

Any tendencies of the first movement to sound unyieldingly foursquare are obviated by remarkably precise articulation and pure intonation from all the instrumental choirs. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

He dutifully explained the dishes in precise detail, but without particular enthusiasm. A Taste of Charleston, Old-School and New 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The song gives you license to overact, especially if you don't have a voice half as supple and precise as Perry's and you need to compensate with sheer gusto. Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z

Halibut leaves the stove at the precise moment it should, after which the fish is finished with split beets and fava beans. Review | A chef known for finesse follows his dream to Rappahannock County 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Now, new research shows the trading of spices for culinary use goes way back — some 2,000 years, to be precise. Researchers find evidence of a 2,000-year-old curry, the oldest ever found in Southeast Asia 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

At Jil Sander, there seemed to be tension between the precise geometry of its designer, Raf Simons, and the Sander heritage of sleek severity. 2010-01-18T21:04:00Z

So my guess is that the writing began at that precise moment. The Carpetbagger: Working With Kids Isn't as Hard as They Want You to Believe 2012-02-08T15:30:31Z

“Leave your lip liners at home, and use a precise lip applicator instead.” Get the Look: Emily Ratajkowski's gorgeous glow 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Redford had very precise—and very cinematic—ideas about how the story should be told and why the reporters’ identities and character were important. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

The 80s are hardly a novel fount of inspiration, but Something – propelled by Caroline Polachek's beguiling vocals – locates the precise point where pop meets art. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z

Compared to the superhuman performers of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, for whom Harris often choreographs, these dancers look more ordinary: less polished and precise in position, if always rhythmically accurate. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

This extreme flatness could be achieved only because humans had mastered precise manufacturing; and so, his fascination with the subject began. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

From a distance, Mr. Brown’s voice is the thing nasal, bendy, erratic in tone but precise in execution. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The snowy sets are teeming with extras, the precise period details offer a tactile texture and the large set pieces gives the story an epic quality. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Whether it’s precise watering, using a certain soil, or providing specific lighting, plants require tender loving care in order to stay healthy. 5 houseplants that thrive in low light 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

He will pick them and guess them and arrange them in precise patterns when they ought to be random. ‘Asi Wind’s Inner Circle’ Review: Pick a Card, Not Just Any Card 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Every syllable — precise in meaning, sung with ambivalence — supports a narrative that, spoiler alert, is bound to lead to regrets. Billie Eilish’s Kiss-Off, and 14 More New Songs 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s Henry Bumstead, the legendary production designer of “Cape Fear,” who deserves credit for the candy canes — or Scorsese, who before shooting draws storyboards that conceive shots in precise detail. Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Working to sort all of this out — with help from the folks at RAINN, trusted friends, a therapist — will help you find clarity about the precise nature of this man’s actions, and your own. My Best Friend’s Worst Betrayal 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a reminder of a crucial paradox of great art, in which precise craft becomes a vehicle for profound mystery. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Some of the later male solos — Bournonvillean again in their turning shapes and their gorgeously precise landings on one leg — are remarkable. 2010-01-13T23:47:00Z

However, precise completion dates are being kept secret by each construction team to prevent their competitors from gaining an advantage. Space race: the new generation of super-telescopes 2011-01-09T00:06:17Z

Instead of carefree pinball bounces, our first two entrances into harbors were more like precise and well-timed billiard shots. Exploring the far-flung natural beauty of the Bahamas’ ‘out’ islands 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The relative weakness of these stories is surprising, given that Pelecanos is adept at the clipped and precise observations that make for great short fiction. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Baking, to Avis, was no less precise than chemistry: an exquisite transfiguration ... 'Birds of Paradise': a teenage runaway leaves a wake of anguish 2011-09-22T20:47:04Z

In a three-star review of the French restaurant in November, Pete Wells of The New York Times described Mr. Rose’s sauces as dynamic, with precise and rewarding flavors. Le Coucou Named Best New Restaurant at James Beard Awards 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

The hand-drumming through the record is light and precise and fixed, with the trap-set drums ebbing and flowing against it, constantly revising its patterns and stress beats. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z

The established stable of political characters includes McKinnon’s diabolically hilarious Hillary Clinton, and Jay Pharoah’s precise, if unremarkable, take on Obama. Saturday Night Live: Trump baiting and Miley hosting – can the show pull it off? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

“We’re setting up a precise geographical structure, like a tunnel through the city that nobody sees.” ‘Remote New York,’ a Tour From Brooklyn to Greenwich Village 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

I tried to get as precise as possible here so as to avoid any sort of variable or unforeseen issue which may otherwise affect your brown butter. Brown butter is liquid gold — here's how to make the most of it 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The mother and daughter, their differences, similarities, tenderness and love are the story, which Hogg fills in with chatter, reminiscences, precise details, private rituals and lingering looks. ‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Two Glorious Sides of Tilda Swinton 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

While Mr. Renault attacked his drums, Mr. Wampach’s movements, precise at first, became edged with danger on the increasingly slick stage. David Wampach in Queer New York Festival at Abrons Center 2012-06-13T21:19:11Z

She added that her company’s reported selling price of around $75 million was inaccurate, but she doesn’t remember the precise amount. Bobbi Brown Is Ready to Slay the Wellness Industry. Nicely. 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

Cloud’s precise motions draw on ballet, and she disappears through the hole in the curtain. Review: The Dreamy Precision of an Everyday Surrealist 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

It is the most precise piece of visionary writing in European literature. From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy 2013-05-14T15:44:06Z

“A Room in India” is more interested in the process of creation than in the product, perhaps because, as Cornélia fears, a product may never be precise enough to be, or do, good. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The corps dancers were far less pushy; their precise Rockettes timing was softened with bright, youthful zeal. Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras in ‘Voces’: Power of simple pleasures 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

“Camino” begins with the theft, and the quick, precise portraits of the perpetrators lead you to assume this is going to be a caper novel. In ‘Camino Island,’ John Grisham Takes a Vacation From Writing John Grisham Novels 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Hodges' lovingly precise style was perfectly tailored to coaxing the richness from material that in others hands can seem dry. Crash Ensemble; Nicolas Hodges – review 2012-11-19T17:53:07Z

Wilkinson had previously patented a way to bore out precise cylinders for more accurate cannons, and he suggested the same method be applied to Watt’s ill-fitting system. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

The precise reason for my dissatisfaction with “The Sopranos” eluded me for a long time, but by season six—its last—I had it. “The Sopranos” at 17: After watching all six seasons, I’m left with the queasy feeling that the legions of fans of the show have been played 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Abdurraqib is a poet, and he writes with a precise, gorgeous rhythm that makes a reader want to linger on each line. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The aesthetic is precise, alluring—but the objects are designed to meet a suspiciously early obsolescence. How “Good Design” Failed Us 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

More than 100 of his precise, systematic daguerreotypes are here, their silver surfaces glistening under pin lights. 19 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

He's got several somewhat similar films under his belt, like "Erin Brockovich," "Traffic," or the currently-in-theaters "Contagion"; precise but never dry melodramas based on unusual true stories or contemporary issues. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Moneyball" 2011-09-22T13:09:54Z

According to his mother, Ann Scott, he was a gifted young student with a precise sense of language. Julius S. Scott, author of ‘The Common Wind,’ dies at 66 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Through even, floor-skimming walks and delicately swiping palms, they unfurled with a calm relationship to time yet an exacting one, too, in their precise interpretation of the often warm, lilting music. Review: Traditional Dance From Okinawa at Japan Society 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

According to Bieneman, the pace of growth in America at the time required precise synchronization across tile production and installation practices. How subway tile became the go-to solution for farmhouse chic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

While the instances noted here are not meant to represent a precise cataloguing of all actions by libraries nationwide, Americans need to know what specific community services are available to them in their respective areas. Citing omicron, some libraries curtail their hours and curb some services again 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Clearly doing well since being freed of his day-to-day duties as music director — his arm and hand movements look more precise and controlled than a year ago — Mr. Levine guided the number with flowing grace. Review: James Levine and Plácido Domingo, Storming the Met Anew 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

It shows how, when sufficient pain is taken, precise observation and close reasoning can, cumulatively, lead to a revolution in our view of nature of world-historical significance. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z

We are generally very precise about movement and advancement. Theater: In the Land of Moli?re, an Oriental 'Streetcar' 2011-02-14T16:43:52Z

Whatever precise Counter-Reformation doctrine the painting was once trying to expound, it is the maid’s hesitation and humanity in the moment of accusation that, to me, now remain as the painting’s subject and its power. Frame: Caravaggio, ‘Denial of St. Peter,’ Met Museum of Art 2012-06-07T17:09:11Z

His early inspiration from a fellow Belgian designer, Martin Margiela, was absorbed into a show that had less of the precise tailoring that has dominated the designer’s recent collections. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z

On tenor and soprano, she’s omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z

Now at least, we know the precise date of the “again” in Trump’s catchphrase. Trump's Oscars rant? He just wants Hollywood to see he's a star 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

There’s something stoic and trustworthy about this aesthetic — clean lines, cut wide, modest and precise. Shopping Without Instagram: It’s Full of Surprises 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Or, “Baking is so precise; I’m not the measuring kind.” Preaching the gospel of baking: Fear not, and start with this dessert 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Within the framework of a classically tense comic romance, the director keeps a calm but dazzling whirl of puckish nuance that lends an extraordinary texture to his calm, precise style. How Mumblecore Brings Out the Best in Actors 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

I myself am no stranger to that word, being born in the Bronx, the Boogie Down — Webster Avenue and Third Avenue, to be precise. Why I'm sheltering my kids for as long as I can 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Hammond is a caricaturist as artfully precise with his gestures as Al Hirschfeld was with his pen. 'Darrell Hammond' traces SNL star's painful path to laughter 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Bynum exacts the same amount of commitment and control as a director with precise visual compositions as Majors does in his astonishing performance. "You have a religious devotion to this sport": Director on bodybuilding movie "Magazine Dreams" 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

The thoughtful and precise English translation by Katy Derbyshire has been slightly but very noticeably altered from the German, to have Mifti pointedly ask her brother: "So you didn't make it up?" Helene Hegemann: 'There's no such thing as originality, just authenticity' 2012-06-23T23:05:24Z

The answer is at once too precise and overly vague, which leaves “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” in an odd kind of limbo. ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,’ by Ned Benson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

I am always struck, for instance, when reading Tom Stoppard's plays, how elegant, witty and precise his stage directions are. What's the best way to test a novel before you read it? 2010-09-28T08:54:00Z

There is an element of rose-tinted nostalgia, perhaps, in Hooper's loving and precise evocation of imperial Britain between the wars. "The King's Speech": Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance 2010-11-24T02:01:00Z

Raymond typically asks clients to photograph damaged areas at close range so that she can give a precise estimate. How to mend holes in, and then clean, a crocheted afghan blanket 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Sheasby's writing was precise, unsentimental and usually rooted in observed life, but it also had an element of fantasy. Dave Sheasby obituary 2010-04-01T17:46:00Z

A paper trail of his many movements exists almost by accident, with most of his symphonies including the precise locations of their composition: Pontefract, Leeds, Sunderland, Richmond. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Berlinger is a concise and precise documentarian, even when his topic is the emotional meltdown of a heavy metal band, which was explored to such provocative effect in "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster." 'Whitey' documentary indicts more than just James J. Bulger 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“Digital changed the nature of the music business, and the music business reacted with a kind of indifference and fear,” Mr. Holzman said in his characteristic precise enunciation. Miss the Music of the Doors? There’s an iPad App for That 2013-05-06T22:10:15Z

In 2011, he told PBS that the content of all of his poems, no matter their precise subject matter, is “language, landscape and the idea of God.” Who Is Charles Wright, the New Poet Laureate? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Rome’s soldiers were surprisingly literate, because the Roman Army emphasized precise record-keeping. The Life of a Soldier 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Her cool, precise account reveals his grand seductions as the brutal, petty, narcissistic fumblings that they were. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Lively’s prose is sharp, precise, perfectly pitched, but shrinks from flashiness in a way that has sometimes been mistaken for cozy or middlebrow. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Details of the precise content of the recordings remain elusive; the security over the sealed tapes has been so tight that not even the library's archivists have listened to them. Jacqueline Kennedy interviews to be made public 2010-04-13T16:31:00Z

The precise nature of this ailment becomes clearer when James leaves the firm, furious and empty-handed, and visits Chuck, played by Michael McKean. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: In the Premiere, Plenty Of Nods to 'Breaking Bad' 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

The truth of the image, as far as we know it, is precise but limited. Perspective | The viral photo of the last soldier in Afghanistan is powerful — and that’s why it’s deceptive 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

“It was amazing in a community where opera was just taking root to find someone who had made such a precise study of ornamentation,” Mr. Mark said. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

The bride recently told her mother she will be excluded from wedding photos unless the mother's dress, jewelry, makeup and hairstyle meet the bride's precise color, style and other requirements. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mother of the bride gets an unveiled threat from her daughter 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Then he talks, and it’s evident that the mind was still sharp, the interest in precise verbal articulation still alert, the passion for dance unrelenting. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: A Monday With Merce 2011-12-05T15:28:53Z

As a principal dancer at City Ballet, where he worked with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, Mr. Tomasson was celebrated for his precise technique and elegant style. Helgi Tomasson to Step Down at San Francisco Ballet 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Global Belly, a new meal kit company, includes all the fresh ingredients — even the hard to find ones — premeasured and with precise instructions for a number of Thai and Indian dishes. A Meal Kit Company With a Global Focus 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

A spokesman for the Goodman declined to indicate the precise size of the grant, characterizing it as in “the high six figures.” Bolaño's '2666' Coming to the Stage, Thanks to a Powerball Jackpot 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a breezy “Cloud 9,” and Kahn’s kind of theater: brainy, precise and delightfully showy. Michael Kahn on a dreamy ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Or to be more precise, in a narrative sense: ancient future. ‘House of the Dragon’ Premiere: Another Game of Thrones 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

With the hook itself, Lowery wanted to stay away from the precise, shiny devices used in other adaptations, like Spielberg’s “Hook.” What Do ‘Candyman’ and ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Have in Common? A Director Explains. 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

Perhaps there’s something about the precise direction of David Lynch, or simply the tonal shifts, that stops it hitting home. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Her lucid prose is precise and pointed, filled with telling details gathered from contemporary accounts and scholarly histories, old guidebooks and recent interviews. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

For Gregor the game’s the thing, or to be precise, winning the game. | 'Man and Boy': ?Man and Boy,? With Frank Langella - Review 2011-10-10T02:01:09Z

Similarly, the best free-roaming verse is likely to have been written by people who have learned the concise, precise art of good grammar. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z

A lot of precise stacking is required, using one of what Harris affectionately calls Bartley’s “Ben-ventions,” a series of wooden frames that prevents things from sliding around. Arcadia Mobile Market, Washington’s farm stand on wheels

"Three years, nine months, to be precise," she said. Radio review: Face the Facts 2010-08-13T05:44:00Z

Logan Learned — nimble, engaging, small, pliant, precise — was already superb in the work’s central role of the Blue Boy in 2008; now he’s a wonder. Dance Review: Ballet Across America at Kennedy Center 2013-06-09T21:01:30Z

Not since Jil Sander drew the template for chic severity in the 1990s has there been such a precise vision. Special Report: Celine's Chic Severity 2010-03-07T18:39:00Z

“Nothing was precise. It was so arts and crafts.” A New Look for a New World 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Berlin players simply give him a little more of what he asked for in Birmingham: more drive in the faster sections, wider dynamic range, more precise ensemble and more character to the various choirs. CD review: Rattle’s second Sibelius is opulent package of dour masterpieces 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Artis “would die,” he thinks, “chemically prompted, in a subzero vault, in a highly precise medical procedure guided by mass delusion, by superstition and arrogance and self-deception.” Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

The approach is painterly yet precise, and strongly conveys specific likenesses. In the galleries: Four curators share one spotlight 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Under Bartoldus’s subtle direction, the Bach sounded totally alive and dramatic, with precise timing, careful balance and clear-cut phrasing. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

From the other two precursors, Ivey learned about light and depth, all suggested with loose yet precise gestures. Review | In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Ma’s debut, “Severance,” about an emotionally numb worker in a post-apocalyptic society, won acclaim for its precise sendup of capitalism and chilly, unsettling tone. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

So the more precise you are, the better results you get and the more consistent results get. James Beard Award winner Dominique Ansel heralds a message for the times: "Everyone can bake" 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

So why do most of their titles include precise times and dates, as well as specific geographical information? Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

“With medical science improving at roughly the same rate as our environmental situation worsens, the most likely scenario is that the world will become uninhabitable at the precise moment the human race becomes immortal.” ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

The essence was in architectural shapes — precise rounded shoulders to felted jackets, with small, geometric fastenings in strong colors like orange and blue. Special Report: Fashion: Hats Off to Easy Elegance 2011-01-24T18:21:28Z

Liselle’s call to Selena happens in the first few pages of the book, just before dinner begins, which is to say that we meet our protagonist at the precise moment her Potemkin life becomes intolerable. This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

The directions are precise and most of the recipes include a lagniappe called “playing around.” The Savory Side of Baking With Dorie Greenspan 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Chief responsibility is conveying the precise nuances of what a director wants to communicate about their precious latest work. Lust in translation: how we fell for the people giving arthouse auteurs a voice 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

She had waited a long time for this precise moment. Style Invitational Week 1356: Ask Backwards 38 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

If the style of “Swing Time” is less exuberant than her previous work, Smith’s attention to the grace notes of friendship is as precise as ever. ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

But people briefed on the situation said decisions about the scope, timing and precise vehicle for the film can be answered only when the movie is finally seen. If Warren Beatty Is Directing, Shooting Can Wait. For Years. 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Each crew member embarks on an intentional improvement quest shepherded by instructors who are precise and demanding without being abusive. "The Bear" hides crusts of meaning and trauma in an episode about the Feast of the Seven Fishes 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

But on "Inside Out," the "why" didn't come to Docter until relatively late in the production — to be precise, that day when he thought he'd be fired. Pete Docter turns expectations upside-down with 'Inside Out' for Pixar 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The thinking is presented as precise and neat. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The orchestral sound is not always refined or absolutely precise. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

Indeed, the idea of mainstream absorption is regarded as a kind of existential threat by many goths, who as a result tend to be Talmudically precise about what they are, and what they aren’t. Goth at 40: The enduring appeal of bleakness and black lipstick 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Here and throughout the evening the musicians — members of the ensemble Le Train Bleu — were excellent, conducted with precise authority by Ransom Wilson. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z

But this performance, assertively conducted by James Baker, and buoyed by Sharon Harms, a precise, luscious-toned soprano, made you want to hear more. Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers Takes On a Challenge 2013-06-18T21:09:49Z

But I didn't find it beautiful, at least not in the way that Calatrava's finest work, fluid and precise, often is. The newly opened $4-billion World Trade Center transit hub is overwrought and underwhelming 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

It is rare for a film to put forth so boldly precise a vision of society; it’s also rare to find a satire that hardly ever falls into mere ridicule or pathos. “Pig,” Reviewed: An Iranian Comedy About Filmmakers Who Become the Targets of Murder 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

The general view of Mr. Glass’s music still places its cool, precise qualities front and center. Music Review: Philip Glass at Issue Project Room 2012-06-14T21:26:50Z

Others belie their weighty payloads with a veil-like fluttering, shunning complex characters and precise details in favor of less fixable quantities like mood, movement and texture. Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

I massaged a precise blend of castor, olive and jojoba oil into my skin and then steamed it off with a warm washcloth. My best eco-friendly failures: glass coffee jars and olive oil to fight acne 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

From Evans, she learned how to frame precise images of clapboard churches. Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

This turned the album release process — historically a predictably structured event, and lately rewritten by stars like Beyoncé as precise, sudden assault — into something much more fluid and invigorating. Kanye West Is Fixing His Album in Public. You’ll Want to Read the Edits. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

As one half of a vaudevillian double act with Danny DeVito, briefly united and bound together by mutual loathing, Griffiths made the precise placement of a chair seem a matter of cosmic significance. Richard Griffiths obituary 2013-03-29T16:52:59Z

It’s really just trying to be precise to what I experience.” Retrospectives of the Filmmaker Nina Menkes 2012-02-19T03:37:17Z

Not photographs of themselves or the garment, mind you, but photographs taken according to Fried’s precise directions, of course. Howard Fried's set of imperatives play out unexpectedly 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. dos Santos possessed the most spirit and connection to the music, but his loops of movement were repetitive; Mr. Respilieux, precise and understated in a group, lost his allure as a soloist. Review: Spinning and Toiling, but Not Finding Coltrane’s Sacred Love 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Each performer creates a precise, individual and rounded portrait of these quasi eggheads. | 'A Disappearing Number': Simon McBurney?s Play at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-16T22:29:00Z

This is easier than it sounds — and since every snowflake is different, there's no need to be precise. How to decorate cookies like a pro baker 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Oboists often win these sorts of contests, their instruments being so much more nimble and precise than the human voice. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Handel and Bach 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

He sings in a percussive manner, full of vocal stabs, and his voice congeals easily into a sweet coo, precise and seemingly effortless. Pharrell Williams Takes a Stand on Cheery Musical Ground 2014-02-26T18:08:14Z

In other choreographers’ dances the long-limbed and striking Mr. Johnson stands out as a beautifully precise space eater. Dance Review: Burr Johnson at Danspace Project 2012-06-03T21:30:53Z

Tartakovsky helmed several titles in the years between, including "Star Wars: Clone Wars," "Sym-Bionic Titan" and "Samurai Jack," but stylistically speaking "Dexter" and "Primal" are precise opposites. "Primal" may be the most unconventional love story on TV. Just not in the way you think 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

Painterly yet precise, Joseph Cortina’s pictures indicate a substantial commitment to his art. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the tension between physical and digital art 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The delicate fish, served on shaved fennel, sports precise hatch marks from the grill. Review | Tosca returns to business downtown with a fresh look and new chef 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Metric is the most precise way to measure ingredients. The Simple Lemon Cake That Helped Create a Legend 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

As origin stories go, this one is satisfyingly precise and frustratingly incomplete. The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

But the precise summing-up of the Warhol print is excellent – indeed quotable, to describe Warhol's actual remoteness from real life. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z

His facial language, from imperious sneers to comic eye rolling, was precise and persuasive. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-08T22:44:54Z

Tony Award Productions, which puts on the annual ceremony, declined to provide precise data about the rising costs for buying the prize, citing proprietary concerns. Broadway Success Has a Price: $2,500 2013-07-03T21:09:35Z

Created in Paris in 1946, the piece is steeped in existential despair, and a very precise note must be struck if it is to play convincingly. Roland Petit 2011-07-25T11:58:32Z

She’s a seductress who carries — and uses — her body with steely, precise intention. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

The playing of the orchestra was equal parts stylish, precise and passionate. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z

The concert opened with a ferociously precise account of Ligeti’s “Romanian Concerto,” composed in 1951 but banned because of its hints of dissonance and first performed 20 years later. Music Review: A Castle?s Locked Doors Bring Out a Wife?s High C 2011-03-20T21:12:53Z

The film’s visual style is precise, unassuming to the point of seeming invisibility and in the service of the characters, with compositions that remain unfussy and uncluttered, even when the rooms are busy. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The precise timing of the attack was sickening, both in terms of maximizing carnage and inflicting spiritual wounds. Weekly Culture Review: Tragedy at an Ariana Grande Concert, and More 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But don’t mistake her for a white knight who will save K. The acting is precise, finely honed. A spellbinding descent into chaos: ‘The Trial’ 2013-04-11T18:36:42Z

“There were some key frames that we were really careful to transcribe as carefully as we could, so that the mise-en-scène would be as precise as possible,” Lyn said. ‘Heartstopper’ Is a TV Love Story With the Soul of a Comic 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Visual art and design are as important to the work of this choreographer as the movement itself — precise and impressively controlled motion like that of Merce Cunningham, whose work Bokaer performed for years. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The group presents a volatile compound of attributes: deft and boomy, ragged and precise. Playlist: Straightening Out, Rapping and Leading a Band 2010-12-10T20:18:00Z

There’s a Chinese flavor to Hida Shuzan’s misty mountain scene, whose haziness contrasts with the precise gold detailing on a building’s roof. Review | In the galleries: ‘Evolving Traditions’ from a nontraditional artist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

He recently spoke of how it amused him to hold the heads of schoolmates under water, but his occasional violence was countered by a precise, rather Germanic use of language and good manners. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z

“To bring out the soft focus the playing has to be extremely precise,” he said. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z

It’s kind of a pileup under the night stand, to be precise. How Bob Dylan Turned David Remnick on to Serious Reading 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

If you need your tickets now and for precise dates, you’ll have to shop with the usual suspects: Kayak, Google Flight Search and the gang. Frugal Traveler Blog: Miami After Dark (Without the Swells) 2011-11-15T18:58:13Z

“Temporary” reads like a comic and mournful “Alice in Wonderland” set in the gig economy, an eerily precise portrait of ourselves in a cracked mirror. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Or explaining the precise map co-ordinates of where you found your hen's eggs. Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed 2011-04-01T23:06:00Z

What’s left is a tightly choreographed comedy of manners with coolly precise slapstick and the requisite helping of improvised winks at the New York audience. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

He plays with a precise touch and an amber sound, humming and peaceful but, thankfully, never entirely untroubled. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

In interviews, the host, Jeff Probst, congratulated the show for using the incident as a teaching moment: “This is a precise microcosm of what happens in the workplace,” he told Entertainment Weekly. How ‘Survivor’ Failed Its #MeToo Test 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Some al fresco rapping from Cam’ron — still a mercilessly precise rapper at 44 — filmed in a Harlem parking lot, prompted by a friend’s nudging and posted on Instagram. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

And Santos, singing mostly in Spanish, clung to the form’s essential tenderness here, even as his muscular 13-piece band scaled the precise grooves to arena dimensions. Romeo Santos comes on like a king at Staples Center 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

On “What Christmas Means,” Kem’s covers of standards — “Christmas Time Is Here,” “The Christmas Song” — are lush and precise. New Music Releases of the Season, From Jazz to Gospel 2012-11-22T20:23:16Z

The prose here is more relaxed and vernacular than the precise, mesmeric lyricism of Messud's The Hunters or The Emperor's Children. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z

Her Ballerina puppet is pitch perfect: mechanically precise dancing, matched by a sense that her limited stock of pretty emotions is equally run by clockwork. English National Ballet: A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev – review 2013-07-26T12:37:14Z

Slightly elfin, casually stylish with a streak of red lipstick, she was warm but precise, apt to turn a question around to her interviewer. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday, Mr. Bachman, all grown up, made a fine Soldier doll, martially precise. In City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ an Ever-Changing Menu 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Her curling wrists, serpentine arms and scorpion shapes are fatally precise. Review: Sara Baras in a Flamenco Whirlwind 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Well, to be more precise, two musicals are back on Broadway: “Waitress,” about a gifted baker in an abusive marriage, and “Hadestown,” a contemporary retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Musicals Return to Broadway With ‘Waitress’ and ‘Hadestown’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Through careful direction and precise writing shaped by showrunner Bruce Miller, this is a drama that is remarkable in its ability to horrify while maintaining a delicate air. “The Handmaid’s Tale”: A dystopian tale of female subjugation that hits close to home 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t recall the precise make and model he bought, merely that it was a dud. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Small social groups are not precise statistical microcosms of a population. New Girl, Brooklyn 9-9, and Breaking the “One Black Friend” Pattern 2013-11-07T14:39:15Z

The precise age when the veil of infantile amnesia descends is a subject of ongoing debate, in part because only limited studies have been done involving children. Perspective | What happens to our lost childhood memories? Motherhood sent me looking for answers. 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

In the founding documents, Planck described the colleges as being “in tension with the university,” and noted that, for this reason, they “do not aim at the precise definition and finality of a ‘department.’ The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Hankins' style is distinguished by precise slices and filigrees of movement building to intense climaxes. 2 young choreographers to watch in Seattle 2011-11-16T03:43:25Z

The opera begins in a watery blur, with a choir, sounding simultaneously floating and precise, chanting fragments of Woolf’s classic opening line: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

But when the script calls for shorter snippets and quicker alternation, too much energy is dissipated in the handoffs, sometimes involving the donning or shedding of Linda Cho’s sociologically precise costumes. Review: Embodying Justice in ‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

She had visited him in Lucama and was attracted by the grand scale of his larger works, and by their complexity and precise engineering. Vollis Simpson, Junkyard Poet of Whirligigs 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z

Her account of his final months — physical deterioration that happened seemingly overnight, excruciating trips between home and hospital, doctors delivering devastating news in overcrowded emergency room corridors — is unflinching and brutally precise. It’s the End of Marriage as They Know It and They Feel Fine 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

In the late 19th century, he said, “staples got better and more precise, more square on the bend.” Antiques: Repaired China, the Potter John Bennett, Schoolgirl Rugs 2013-01-17T22:21:55Z

I liked the cut of a more basic striped, strapless bandeau, but the otherwise obliging “Olivia” proved elusive at the precise moment I struggled to fasten the clasp. Critical Shopper: Swimsuits at Zimmermann and Malia Mills 2012-06-19T18:14:51Z

A trademark claim on the precise “Chinese Red” that Louboutin uses on its soles might be more palatable, but the company seemingly wants to trademark “red” rather than a particular shade of this color. Opinion: Louboutin and the Little Red (Litigious) Shoes 2012-01-22T02:25:58Z

Tony Bennett is a solid rock on “Body and Soul,” masking Winehouse’s less precise diction and phrasing; she sounds like she’s channeling the sound of the greats, but not their ability to inhabit a lyric. Album review: Amy Winehouse, 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures' 2011-12-05T18:40:00Z

Sometimes, as in the Cattelan piece, artists leave precise written instructions that will outlast them. It’s a Banana. It’s Art. And Now It’s the Guggenheim’s Problem. 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Pillars and squares delineate precise horizontal and vertical axes. At 89, Robert Irwin finds beauty in the benign (and talks about the new artwork that's not for sale) 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Waltz maintains that the kind of nuanced and precise acting that he honed in the theater and on movie sets can be applied to opera. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Schönebaum, whose act requires exceptionally precise lighting, had to divide up crucial access to the real stage with the other teams, leading to a schedule that he called “extremely tight.” One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

Once, to gauge the precise amount of salt sprinkled on duck breasts before searing, she slipped a piece of paper between cook Ariane Daguin’s fingers and the meat to measure how much fell. Review | ‘Unforgettable’ pays tribute to ‘the most influential cookbook author you’ve never heard of’ 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

“I cut a quarter-inch off the left boot and one inch off the right, and even though I hadn’t been at it very long, I was pretty precise,” he said. Package with 1979 postmark delivered to Md. suburb: ‘It only took the post office 41 years’ 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I find the silence unbearable,” Bejar sang in the second verse, his voice sour and precise. Review | Dan Bejar is not here to comfort you 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

It is broad, rich and intense, deep and long yet precise. Champagne Seeks to Discover Itself in Single-Vineyard Wines 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

This cava offers precise bubbles and refreshing acidity, with a beautiful core of peach and apricot fruit. Five bargain bubblies to try

It examines Roman sexual attitudes in a very precise way, and it lays out for the reader attitudes that we would find fairly remarkable. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z

Many shots in Mr. Anderson’s films have a precise symmetrical framing, and they often stick to one particular color palette throughout, Mr. Koval said. How to Make Your Life Into a Wes Anderson Film 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

The term “progressive,” less precise but currently more popular than “liberal,” implies that America will progress in adherence to the navigational principle “liberty and justice for all.” “Cultural anxiety” is unpatriotic: America’s mission is for liberty and justice for all 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

The dough's high butter content marries sugar and just the right amount of salt to create the precise flavor profile to make people swoon. The "Ted Lasso" way to make shortbread fit for “Biscuits with the Boss” 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

The conversation paused as Mr. Colbert and his staff considered a sketch that began with him addressing his audience directly, and they contemplated the precise language he should use. Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The team worked closely with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation to engineer precise travel routes. ‘Hopscotch’ Takes Opera Into the Streets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The rigorously structured show is impressively precise about parody, particularly in capturing the language or look of a particular kind of television documentary or the costumes of Silicon Valley pioneers. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z

“He has spent the past couple of decades really homing in on this method, one that results in hyper articulation on the page, but also in the music — it’s a highly precise execution,” she said. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

It follows the character Leopold Bloom through Dublin over the course of a single day – 16 June 1904, to be precise – but it's best known for its stream-of-consciousness prose style and its dense, complex structure. Pass notes, No 2,955: Ulysses 2011-04-06T19:00:02Z

Among other amusements, the Maries accept dinner invitations from middle-aged men of the precise sort who might censor the film. ‘Daisies’: Two Wild and Crazy Gals 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

All right . . . to be fair, it is a little bit about the dog — a beagle puppy named Daisy, to be precise. Why do women love John Wick? (It's not just the puppy) 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Drew Watt, as he’s known, joined the gallery as a carpenter but became interested in the precise metalwork of mountmaking. Perspective | Who mounts those ceramic plates or small glass sculptures at the National Gallery of Art? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Birney’s direction, for all its giddy inventiveness, is also precise and emotionally calibrated. What to Stream: “Tux and Fanny,” Albert Birney’s Boldly Imaginative Instagram Animation 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday called the film “one of the great love stories, an epic romance” and a “precise, graceful and intellectually rewarding work worthy of Murdoch herself.” John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

That would be Snow White, of course, played by Kristen Stewart at the precise point of intersection between action heroine and damsel in distress. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z

A week in the life of Ben Crump — last week, to be precise. Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

We see the consequences when equipment won’t cooperate on the precise schedule required. Review: In ‘Antarctic Edge,’ a Region of Retreating Ice 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Moore’s delicate, precise prints are made with various techniques and finished with hand coloring. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

“I guess they both are very precise in the way they talk, it’s true.” Mindy Kaling: ‘I was so embarrassed about being a diversity hire’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The chorus line emerged from a time of regularized movement, from the fascination with moving parts and precise timing of the machine age. Perspective | The Rockettes, still kicking after 85 years. Here’s why we love them. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

He gets four lines in like this — technically precise, tender, heavy with the sense of regret just around the corner. Jodeci’s Unplugged ‘Lately’ Was Its Pinnacle. Andre Harrell Made It Happen. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Seventy-two minutes are devoted entirely to the precise time it took Breivik to shoot dead 69 people and injure a further 200. Utøya massacre re-enactment stuns Berlin audiences 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

“You will need to fill out a form to find the sentença, the precise judgement. The court will telephone once the judge has decided whether you can see the file.” I was assaulted at 18. Eleven years on, could I find out what happened to my attackers? 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Digital printing technology is so precise that the new “handwritten” fonts look clearer than their predecessors, but they are still harder to read than separate characters, especially on computer and phone screens. Design: Company Logos Aim for the Personal Touch 2011-06-13T08:00:06Z

So that would be my guess, you're going to see a really precise, outraged kind of comedy. "Other Guys" director Adam McKay opens up on Ferrell, comedy 2010-07-28T06:02:00Z

Achieving that kind of narrative authenticity required a precise attention to detail, Nicholls said. A Refugee’s Harrowing Story, Finally Told Through Animation 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The precise year of this metamorphosis is unstated, but the action occurs sometime in the 1930s, when cars were still called “motors” and the smart set dressed for dinner. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

It's so much more precise and consistent in your baking. "I bake for every emotion" — Zoë François on finding connection through cake 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The film’s main attractions, though, are the patterns themselves: fantastically precise whorls and curlicues, radiolaria and mandalas that drift across the screen like the endlessly reforming crystals in a kaleidoscope. | 'What on Earth?': ?What on Earth? Probes Mysteries of Crop Circles 2011-04-22T04:53:01Z

Bathing the ribs in steam by adding hot water to the roasting pan produced the precise texture I was after: tender and succulent. Mastering Chinese-Style Ribs at Home 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

It's also a book about love, friendship, brotherhood and ultimately the human condition, narrated in a precise, beautifully translated prose. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

His precise description of exploring options, settling on morphine and suggesting that route is ruthlessly frank and relatively unadorned. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z

But the precise word or part of the image that created the problem is not identified, meaning it is up to the company to effectively guess where the problem lies. Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Its wines are precise and jewel-like, and this one is no different, rocky on the palate with an almost razor-like focus and just the most tender touch of residual sugar. 20 Wines for Under $20 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

His refined, surgically precise performance ticks off seventh leaps, endless passaggio singing, clean runs and, in “Phrase,” a pianississimo high B flat. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

To list all of the verses in these categories would take a book almost the size of the Bible; one the size of the Bible minus the Jefferson Bible, to be precise. 11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

They usually don’t, but that controlled tension and the sparse lighting and chilling soundscapes she favors add to an ominous atmosphere that Ms. Yin punctures with quick, precise gestures or paints with melting bodies. Dance Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:42:32Z

And when the orchestra met his challenges — in the magnificently crisp, precise performance of the winding cello line in the third movement, for example — the results were thrilling. Music Review: Recreating a Bill of the Obscure and the Familiar 2011-02-25T23:59:27Z

In the Air Force base where he becomes a “houseboy,” he is given the nickname Hong Kil-dong, the Korean Robin Hood, a curiously rakish nickname for someone so quiet, precise, observant. Like Kimchi on Mashed Potatoes 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Her writing is so precise and so lyrical, though, that the stories merge and coalesce into a beautiful whole, creating a whole new story for each of us to appreciate and learn from. Solnit’s ‘The Faraway Nearby’: stories that explain and sustain 2013-07-24T21:57:43Z

And that all starts with her precise but powerful line, as the exhibit makes clear in a tantalizing handful of drawings and prints. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

In a powerful translation by the novelist Henning Koch, there are sentences of precise and subtle lyricism. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

She also enjoys the self-imposed limitation created by drawing exclusively with pen and ink, particularly the fact that using ink often means relinquishing any ambitions of coloring to the precise edges of an outline. A Garden Designed to Run Wild 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The Ariel Quartet’s players turned in a gripping and often very subtle reading, setting ear-melting tenderness against seething passion with a deft and precise touch. Ariel Quartet turns in a flavorful musical ‘appetizer’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

He’s the drummer on most of the record, and a swift, manically precise rhythm guitarist. New Releases From Brad Paisley and Ty Segall 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

As I said, it’s hard to be precise. Beer Review: American Lagers 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

"My childish fantasy of motherhood was soundly corrected as I weighed answers to their very precise questions," she wrote. "I have no regrets": Uma Thurman shares her teenage abortion story in criticizing Texas ban 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Harry's friendship with George, an eccentric loner, and Parrett's starkly precise evocation of Tasmania's winter landscape, are both compelling. First fiction – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:03Z

To her, a horrible sofa is horrible for a precise reason – because it's covered in dralon fabric. Oscars 2011: Will the Brits win big in the technical categories? 2011-02-27T00:05:55Z

The Langdons both come from farming stock — his English, hers German — and know constant work, much of it described here with the precise attention that grants labor its own grace. Book review: ‘Some Luck,’ by Jane Smiley

But something important in Pina’s work is that feelings are very precise too.” When Pina Bausch Made Tanz Into Tanztheater 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Eleven Madison Park has trained its audience to expect “endless reinvention,” one of 11 touchstone words and phrases on a sign that hangs in the restaurant’s vast and precise kitchen. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

“Robert E. Lee’s precise professionalism and orderly intellect made him what the military most needed in the 1830s and 1840s: a gifted civil engineer,” the narrator, Michael Murphy, says. Television Review: How an Engineer Became a White-Haired General 2011-01-02T22:11:34Z

David Hyde Pierce delivers a stoically precise performance as the academic in an evening directed by Daniel Sullivan that nevertheless relies too heavily on editorial indignation. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

In "Bittersweet", the use of literal roots to suggest metaphorical ones is not exactly surprising, but it's effective because it's grounded in clear and precise description. Water Sessions by James Lasdun – review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z

Recording is a very precise thing – it's playing it dead right every time, and it can be fun. Charlie Watts: 'Glastonbury? I don't want to do it' 2013-04-04T14:00:00Z

Resheathing must be done with composure, Mr. Rashi told the class, keeping the breath even, the mind still and movements precise to show self-possession. Urban Athlete: Lessons for All Would-Be Jedis 2013-06-27T20:54:04Z

The harmonies couldn’t have been purer, or the picking more precise, when the trio I’m With Her — an alliance of Americana virtuosos — performed at the Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night. Review: I’m With Her, Three Americana Virtuosos 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

You never learn the precise details but can easily imagine life in a flyover state after a nuclear war. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z

It’s not what you would expect, and it makes a comment about the way that culture now doesn’t necessarily come from these precise points you’d think it would come from. 2010-01-29T19:15:00Z

Ms. Rethorst’s specialty is quotidian movement that, through precise repetition, theatricalizes the mundane things people do when no one is looking. Dance Review: Moving On Simply by Moving Out 2011-06-16T22:15:24Z

It’s a hushed, intractably sad scene, drawn in precise detail — naturalism I wouldn’t expect from Ms. Ruhl, whose imagination is among the most adventurous at play today in the theater. Humana Festival, Turning 40, Looks at Mortality, Dystopia and Change 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

“Solitude demands a precise assessment of time,” she says. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Like her fellow New Zealander, Adcock is a literary writer in her limpid, apparently artless style and the precise emotional intelligence of her observations. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z

His cuts are skilled and precise as he lovingly fans the meat onto the platter — dark meat to the right, white meat to the left. Perspective | My grandfather has carved the Thanksgiving turkey for 70 years. Here’s what he taught me. 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Or to be more precise, Josh’s film is about what he feels about the pregnancy: because it’s hard work, this pregnancy lark, for Josh. New man becomes new dad – the very hard way 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

But the orchestra; the superb quartet of vocal soloists; the powerful, precise San Francisco Symphony Chorus; and the crisp Pacific Boychoir are part of a misbegotten theatrical presentation that confounds far more than it illuminates. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

She was at that precise moment in thoughts of, very conservatively, tens of millions of human beings. I Also Went to the Royal Wedding 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

In other words, in cases of PAH, the body permanently takes on the precise contours of the tool used to reshape it. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Humans are producing such quantities of data—2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily, to be precise—and on such a steep curve, that 90 percent of all existing data is less than two years old. The Internet can’t replace libraries: Why they matter more than ever in the age of Google 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Some of the renderings in her Touchstone Gallery show are precise enough for a modern-day Audubon, but she mixes realistic creatures with cartoonish sketches and diagrams of origami avians. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The precise reference is to an episode in which a young courtier, coming upon flowers, is moved to compose a love poem using irises as an image. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z

The precise and beautiful food draws you in. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

And while putting is difficult and precise, that is also as it should be. Video Game Review: The Course Is the Star of a Celebrity?s Game 2011-04-05T18:47:42Z

Excellent and precise question which has been on my mind since the swift and harsh fallout of Kevin Spacey's actions, works, awards, and career. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Yet the precise ingredients, and how they should be cooked, are hotly disputed. In Spain, finding peace — and paella — on Mallorca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

He certainly talks a lot — in precise elocution, full of long sentences he’s memorized from self-help websites — but with the demeanor of a robot programmed to speak like a business executive in a hurry. Review: Nightcrawler: Jake Gyllenhaal Wants to Take a Picture of You in Pain 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The ALA doesn’t keep a precise figure for how many books have actually been removed, but cases have come up routinely over the past year. Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

More than anything, though, I am amazed that all the way back in 1989 Joel somehow managed to predict the precise, decontextualized mania that I feel when I’ve spent too long on the internet. Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Christie’s most acclaimed mystery, And Then There Were None is as tick-tock precise as a Rube Goldberg machine. A Gone Girl Reading List: What to Pick Up After Finishing the Book (Or Movie) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

“The Nose”— which Shostakovich started at 20 and finished within a year — is chock full of musical effects that are graphically precise yet often mysterious. As Plain as the Nose on His Stage 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z

“One of the things that you’re taught if you hang around master distillers is that distillation is extremely precise work,” Mr. Wondrich said. 900 Pages of Drinking Wisdom, a Decade in the Making 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

You don’t need to know their precise meanings to feel it. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

President Trump laid a patriotically bedecked wreath at Arlington National Cemetery — or to be more precise, he patted a wreath that was positioned there. Perspective | Biden wore a mask. Trump did not. Now a single accessory can define the presidency. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The six historical portraits are precise as clocks and each as compelling as the last. O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler – review 2013-04-06T15:00:01Z

The Nutcracker is embodied by a woman, the aptly crisp and precise Brittany DeStefano. Review: A ‘Nutcracker’ Taps and Swings 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

While the precise placement of videos and spoken texts changed from night to night, the musical sequence was largely the same. Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Asked the cost of the project, a museum representative estimated the amount at “tens of thousands of dollars,” but officials did not provide a precise figure. What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

The anecdote illustrates Waltz’s dry humor and precise timing, as well as the way he envisions the best conversations: as impish dialectic. Christoph Waltz Has Some Thoughts 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

The precise ways in which Mr. Ingels deranged Ms. Jones, who was known for her demure, Middle American screen persona, can be gleaned from his activities over many decades. Marty Ingels, Actor and Comedian, Is Dead at 79 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

To kick things off, the gallery has a new show of Krifka’s exuberant figurative paintings, all full of sex and death, balanced by the precise and cerebral abstract installations of the L.A.-based Goeritz. Datebook: Vintage car design, objects of desire, flight of the bumblebee 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Its careful typography and precise lines cover up the disorder underneath of random stacks of disorganized sheets of unrelated papers. Maps new and old offer shelter-in-place globe-trotting — and lessons in human history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Digestive troubles, to be precise, which disrupt his sleep and sour his already gloomy mood. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

But he said he was focused on the music: “While I’m writing, the precise choice of notes is what consumes me, not how they will be received.” Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Set in modern-day Kazakhstan, where the quiet is broken only by brutishness, this classically shot and edited film is a spare yet entrancing tale drawn with precise strokes. Movie Review: ‘Student,’ Directed by Darezhan Omirbayev 2013-05-30T22:51:36Z

The runway’s precise, intersecting lines formed graphic patterns on slim dresses, although fluffy fox fur, perhaps just at the wrists, softened the silhouette. Special Report: Fashion: Surface Attraction 2011-02-27T17:05:09Z

First, while telling the kids what is what, she peels garlic with precise violence. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

“There is a kind of precise professional sell-by date where both you need renewal and the organization needs renewal. My guess is that he began to hear the professional ticking clock.” Departures Force Los Angeles Philharmonic to Reinvent Itself, Again 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the Ravel, Ms. Jansen’s centered tone and rich vibrato and Mr. Barnatan’s precise, crystalline sound yielded a refined intensity that put the “Blues” movement in its Parisian perspective. Music Review: Violinist Adds Intimate Stage to a Concert Hall Week 2011-03-02T23:02:56Z

The precise origin of the word is uncertain, the editors say, but it may be a blend of twist or twitch and jerk. Oxford Dictionary Adds 'Fo' Shizzle,' 'Masshole' and 'Hot Mess' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

But his pacing is more deliberate, almost classical in its precise calibration of cause and effect. | 'Micmacs': In Jean-Pierre Jeunet?s Work, Misfits Battle Arms Manufacturers 2010-05-27T22:46:00Z

Orlando Bloom appears at almost the precise moment you’ve forgotten he was supposed to, wearing a man-bun and an air of rugged weariness. Review: ‘Digging for Fire,’ a Comedy by Joe Swanberg 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

While there is no precise rule for what counts as a session cocktail, Mr. Lazor says it should contain no more than three-quarters of an ounce of strong spirit. In Summer’s Heat, Lighter Cocktails Keep You on Your Feet 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Millet’s boldly playful and intellectually charged body of work combines lightning bolts of emotional acuity, moments of precise poetry and subversively dark comedy along with investigations of existential ideas and real-world concerns. In These Stories, Home Is Where the Heartache Is 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Building the screen frames is easy if you get corner pieces that eliminate the need for precise miter cuts. What to do about a torn window screen 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

That precise tension—rhapsodic devotion versus a kind of measured elegance—is present, in one form or another, in nearly every great work of American art. The Intoxicating Promise of John Coltrane’s “Lost Album” 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Lebowitz knows the precise number of her collection because, each time she moves, she hires specialty book movers who tally her holdings. We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking. 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Time unfolds relentlessly here, a limitless resource, marked by a steady stream of precise steps, ballet steps especially, and the dancers’ methodical counting. Jillian Peña’s ‘Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack’ at Danspace 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

He is precise, weighing in on the intersection of orange and natural wines, without being pedantic. The Best Wine Books of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The language, at first blush plain and functional, reveals itself as the right medium for a story of unusual urgency — not simple but bony, spare and precise. Jung Yun's family drama 'Shelter' reads like a suspenseful thriller 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stewart gave her age as 91, though biographical sources differ on her precise date of birth. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z

Checking the mirror, making sure not to dent the front or the walls of the vestibule, Antonio slowly pulls in, with Cuarón documenting every precise movement. Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” is a masterpiece — see it in the theater if you can 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

But "if you give me the precise instructions, tomorrow I'll make you a helicopter!" From landfill in Paraguay, sweet music emerges 2012-12-15T21:57:05Z

The playing was typically precise, with only a few slight departures from the recorded versions; Rush slowed it up during the bridge of "Red Barchetta," and a few bars went missing from "The Camera Eye." Rush concert a workout for air drummers 2010-08-17T01:04:00Z

Anderson is so precise in his choices that it's a temptation to keep freezing the frame so you won't miss a bit of what he's so cleverly embedded. 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is most magical on the big screen 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Exit polls soon provide precise demographic breakdowns, illuminating just who voted for whom. ‘53% Of’ Review: Zinging Pro-Trump Women, and Everyone Else 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Brown’s diction, her bearing on the page, is precise but unfussy. Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Soffin said there's a chance that snippets of famed literature still "might return" to New York subways, but no precise plans are in the works. NYC subway service ads replace poetry, literature 2010-12-25T21:01:05Z

With extensive archival research and a close examination of early images of the painting, including a precise ink wash executed by Eakins shortly after he completed the canvas, the nature of the changes became clear. 'Gross Clinic' painting undergoes its own public surgery 2010-05-13T23:44:00Z

He did several things at once, singing in grunts and high precise wails, working bits of melody and middle-register guitar cries into the music without breaking the flow of the chord riffs. Music Review: The Truths That Only Repetition Reveals 2011-07-13T21:39:49Z

So he commissioned a mural from his mate Stuart Sam Hughes, who does very precise spray painting, usually customising motorbikes, of a great colossus picking up the oligarch's yacht and chucking it into the lagoon. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z

The American empire, over by the 1980s - precise date, Sept. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z

For the dancers, used to the kinetic motion of Petronio’s productions, it means learning a new and unintuitive way of moving, following precise directions from dancers who knew Cunningham, who died in 2009. ‘If the Dancer Dances’ Review: An Inheritance in Motion 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Together they repeat lines of seeming nonsense — Roxie Perkins’s libretto is full of the ominously capitalized words of dystopian fiction — and follow eerily precise rules as they try to cure the daughter’s illness. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It is precise and it’s good and we loved it,” Ms. Urbaityte said. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

They're still painted in Dargan's precise graphic style, with each blade of grass picked out and every silhouetted tree as defined as a razor cut. Artist of the week 200: Sam Dargan 2012-07-26T16:18:06Z

But what’s vital here is to show you, the reader, the precise hit that Trump was referring to, which took place at the very end of Saturday’s playoff game between the Steelers and the Bengals. Trump, the impotent warrior: Donald’s only exposing himself when he says the NFL isn’t tough enough 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

“I assure you, it was a precise tie,” Frank Johnson, of the accounting firm Price Waterhouse, said. Oscar Rewind: Pop Star Plays a Performer and Wins? It’s Happened Before 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

The precise transmission dates have yet to be announced. Good Omens set for radio adaptation 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

It’s an excellent and deceptively precise show about the human condition. Review | After all the praise and hype, what if ‘Atlanta’ is just a great show about the human condition? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Few television creatives are as conscious about locking down the precise details of a place and an era as Simon. The dirt on "The Deuce," David Simon's next great HBO drama 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

For those wondering when things will die down, I spoke to a made-up Hollywood scientist who calculated that moment will come that at the precise second that anti-Weinstein coverage stops grossing more than Weinstein movies. Harvey Weinstein’s rehab – just your basic $2,000-a-night sex offender programme 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Or to be more precise, the space where their living room should be is dominated by two manual looms the size of upright pianos, leaving no room for furniture. Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke’s Homespun Abstractions 2012-11-11T22:48:11Z

The precise cause of death on Wednesday was unclear. Greg Giraldo, Insult-Humor Comic, Dies at 44 2010-09-30T05:32:00Z

"Any participation in violence of this nature, irrespective of your precise roles, is serious." 21 men sentenced following 'disgraceful' bar brawl likened to something out of a Wild West film 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Then it all fell apart — or, to be more precise, drained away. Challenging the whiteness of American architecture, in the 1960s and today 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The performance—vital, precise, and jolting—was one of the very few moments worth paying attention to throughout the broadcast. Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and the Warping Power of the Grammys 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Years ago, I pressed a bit of a New Hampshire fern—the green frond of an Interrupted Fern, to be more precise—into my copy of “Without.” Donald Hall’s Life Work 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The theft had been precise, surgical, about gain and not destruction. You’re the kids who robbed us: Our strange online encounter with our burglars 2014-04-12T23:00:00Z

Ferrante never shows us the letters that her heroine, Olga, composes in the throes of her frenzied grief; in “Ties,” Vanda’s precise, coldly furious letters are the only expression of her suffering that we see. A Novel of Infidelity in Dialogue with Elena Ferrante’s “The Days of Abandonment” 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Place them on a baking tray and drizzle well with olive oil – or, if you want to be precise, brush them all over for a perfectly crispy outside. Anna Jones’s recipes for Valentine’s Day 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be quite precise to say that Mr. Swanson loves being in the office. He Can’t Quit the Office 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

She was exacting and precise, envisioning and recounting her step-by-step process and the tactile cooking experience that she's become so accustomed to after years and years of cooking this storied dish. This 5-ingredient cream chicken with rich, tomato gravy is a winter weeknight must-have 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mol’s acting throughout is understated and precise — and it’s matched by the nuanced work of the supporting cast — but precision and understatement can’t really make up for the character’s illegible psychology. Theater Review: ‘The Good Mother,’ at the Acorn Theater 2012-11-16T03:00:00Z

His platform manner is unaffected, almost bookish, and his playing is free from flamboyant musical gestures; this is considered and unfussily precise pianism, which repays close listening, and doesn't reveal all its subtleties easily. Francesco Piemontesi – review 2012-11-08T17:26:49Z

Here, though, the direct address has a shock of empathy, the kind you feel at the precise moment when the thin veil separating us from other people falls and you see, really see, their humanity. ‘Drive My Car’ Review: A Director Takes Your Heart for a Spin 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

It works because her voice is a thing of wonder: a warm yet precise tool that locks into the expansive humanity at the heart of these ancient songs. Cara Dillon ? review 2011-03-07T22:30:01Z

“It depends on the dog,” she said: five words of such logical, precise coherence they nearly stopped my heart. Perspective | My mother has forgotten everything, including me. But her love is still here. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

So it is especially tempting to question, when one stands shivering on the sidewalk of 46th Street with hundreds of other hopefuls, whether theater might be the precise wrong medium for this show. A “Hamilton” miracle: I lost the ticket lottery, but discovered something priceless 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

They contribute immensely to Jared’s charming self-portrait and often evoke laughter with their precise placement. Review | Simon Stephenson’s hilarious ‘Set My Heart to Five’ follows a robot with Hollywood aspirations 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

“God provided me with the strength I needed at the precise time when conditions were ripe for change,” Parks observed. “Finally, we demanded, ‘Let my people go'”: Remembering the bravery of Rosa Parks, on the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

More expensive equipment tends to be lighter weight and more precise. The New Detectorists 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Were I an actor, I’m not sure how helpful I’d find Adler on the other playwrights under discussion here, though there are some lovely and precise instructions to students attempting particular roles. Books of The Times: ‘Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights,’ Lectures 2012-08-30T14:03:07Z

With recipe developers at the helm, it should be no surprise that the Short Stack recipes are consistently clear and precise, the descriptions vivid. Review: Short Stack Editions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

It’s fascinating that Balanchine’s ballets — so extremely precise, strict and fast in the demands they make — don’t limit the expressiveness of dancers. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

And though “A Quiet Passion” is small — modest in scope, inward rather than expansive, precise in word and gesture — it contains multitudes. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The play has the occasional longueur, and it helps if you realise that Ui's key lieutenants are precise replicas of Goering, Goebbels and Röhm. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review 2012-07-12T11:13:26Z

There were no wall texts or guided audio tours to answer these questions, just Ms. Brenner’s expressive, sure body, as she undulated her small frame through Wigman’s swooping, precise lines with a flowing clarity. Dance Review: Glancing Backward, Then Facing Forward 2011-04-10T21:54:32Z

One legacy of these formative years is the author's prose: effortlessly erudite and often startlingly precise. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z

At the same time, these are precise bits of machinery. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z

What Germaine Greer called an "absurd version of masculine uniform" was often policed with vigour: gymslip-type tunics over collared shirts and masculine ties, precise regulations stipulating skirt lengths and the thickness of stockings. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

A Web series about that precise experience was a way to "remind people that just because you're a graduate doesn't mean you're dead to the social world of stupid and ridiculous parties." Evanston native stars in slacker comedy 2011-04-06T01:01:00Z

She and Vinnie seem to exist in precise, kinetic counterpoint, like the left and right hands of a piano étude. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Instead of toys, lawn ornaments: ceramic garden gnomes, to be precise. | 'Gnomeo and Juliet': A Kitsch-and-Tell Movie of Garden Variety Love 2011-02-11T01:37:31Z

From the modernist materials to the precise patterns, everything seems to be connected to the wired world. Special Report: Fashion: Peter Pilotto Illuminates London Fashion Week 2011-09-19T17:48:59Z

Mr. Murphy is extremely precise about what he wants in all his projects. Film: Ryan Murphy Directs Julia Roberts in ?Eat Pray Love? 2010-08-06T03:38:00Z

As the name suggests, every piece in Ovale is in the shape of an oval, but the precise shape is slightly different for each type of object. Gems to See, Sail and Serve 2010-10-03T15:00:00Z

Mr Chesterton's drawings are capital, and indicate a precise appreciation of his friend's ironies. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z

His visual style is precise yet unassuming, as is his approach to narrative. ‘The Truth’ Review: Being Catherine Deneuve 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Some experts caution that while involving children in planning is good, there are no precise guidelines. When Your Child Is the Travel Agent 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Walsh is a deep reader of Debussy’s music with an uncommon ability to translate complex details into words that are precise yet evocative and that are refreshingly free of academic jargon. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“The qualities that make it poetic to me, I think, are the parallelism and repetition, the openness to the world, the expert and very precise vocabulary,” Mr. Jenkins said. Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

I was impressed by the precise lines of his clothes, their sophistication, and the fact that he didn’t have a funny concept. On the Runway Blog: A London Design Maverick as a Pragmatist 2011-11-17T22:29:07Z

To be precise, Ma said: “To be able to work 996 is huge bliss.” Is having sex six times in six days the secret to work-life balance? 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

“They work in much the same way as poets: the search for a random word, at the right instance, making the poem itself so much more precise,” the author says. Review: Colum McCann’s ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking,’ Stories Linked by Unease 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

With precise artifice, Mr. Cohen made it appear to be an utterly natural setting. Music Review: Leonard Cohen at the Barclays Center 2012-12-22T00:28:21Z

The precise effects are likely to depend on the chemical formula and, probably more importantly, on the concentration of the substance in the product. 'It's worse than heroin': how spice is ravaging homeless communities 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

And, at this precise moment in time, it is the small-scale critical darling of the moment. Sorry For Your Loss: has Facebook created its first great TV show? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Few filmmakers are as precise or obsessive as Mr. Hong in finding variations on a theme. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A Return Visit for a Director Fond of Repetition 2012-05-23T18:10:16Z

Stories of onetime romances returning perhaps to seek another day abound onstage: the National Theater’s current revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical “Follies” mines that precise topic to wounding effect. On London Stage, Absurdity and Terrorism Aren’t Mutually Exclusive 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Cupping” experts use a precise scoring method to rate specialty coffees, I learned. Drink your coffee, it’s good for you 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

There’s no precise analog for “inshallah” in English, or any other Western language for that matter. The Perfect Phrase for This Relentless Year 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Each time the call would come, Mr. Palmer would pile in a crowded car and head to a remote country lane, the precise location a secret to prevent the authorities from showing up. Movies: ?Knuckle,? by Ian Palmer, Follows Irish Travelers 2011-11-27T05:03:03Z

Absence and loss were recurring themes for the writer, who was known for his precise language and surreal imagery. Mark Strand, US poet, dies at 80 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

“He appreciated that instantly, because he is very precise.” Neil Patrick Harris Prepares for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2014-02-19T13:00:18Z

That is, of course, the precise details of Auggie’s ravaged face, which at his birth was so dangerously misshapen that basic functions like seeing, hearing, breathing and eating were in question. Why ‘Wonder,’ the Movie, Can’t Best the Book It’s Based On 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

The list of comedies that spin stunning humor out of this precise se-up or ones closely resembling such a situation is longer than I could list here. "The Duchess" proves that not every stand-up comedian should get a series 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

His clear vision, his precise cut and remarkable workmanship will not be tweeted across the cyberworld or live-streamed to corporate stores. Special Report: Fashion: Ala?a Opens Up His Universe 2011-07-07T17:26:03Z

The figures are thorough, but rudimentary, while the colors, applied with marker, are vivid and precise. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The director exercises surgically precise control over each minute in the nearly three-hour run time of his latest feature, Dragged Across Concrete. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Slender and toned, she wore a green tank top; her muscles spoke loudly as her body moved in precise ways on each song. Music Review: Fiona Apple at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2012-03-25T22:04:58Z

But the virtual show required more work, including transforming each garment into a 3D image and using the body of an avatar to tailor the item with precise measurements. Congolese fashion designer goes virtual as virus hits runway shows 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Or, to be more precise, it was obvious that constitutionalism and populism had become interchangeable. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

He can lick a snowflake off his nose with precise comedic timing. ‘Call of the Wild’ Casts a Digital Star. Is He a Good Dog? 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

It’s the size of a parking space: the mayor’s parking space, to be precise. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

It's hard to explain, but when I write, I don't have such a precise idea in my head. Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z

Main courses are solid with precise seasoning: there is skill at work here. Choice Tables : London’s West End, a Stage for Good Eating 2014-02-13T22:55:59Z

For those who want a more precise portrait, Franklin Lewis’s scholarly biography remains the definitive work. How Did Rumi Become One of Our Best-Selling Poets? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

"We've gone a little bit disheveled to break the precise nature of the clothes." | Marc Jacobs 2012-09-11T15:48:27Z

This man duly hired 16 full-time staff who conducted polling so extensive and recherche that a significant body of it focused on the precise length of ponytail for Seagal that would play best with voters. Steven Seagal: how the would-be senator was ahead by a ponytail 2013-03-21T18:40:01Z

Real character in photography comes from a precise, rich engagement with the suggestiveness of the physical world. From Ansel Adams to Stephen Shore: famous photographers shoot their favourite food 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

The precise location where the wreath and armband were found was not immediately clear. Greece: 2 caught with ancient gold wreath, armband 2012-06-08T14:33:08Z

Below Lorde’s somber voice and precise pop melodies, the tracks pulse with tension, like racing heartbeats behind a cool facade. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

As astronomical observation improved by the late 18th century, nautical almanac tables became extremely precise, vital to navigation. Review | Outhouses are gone, but ‘The Old Farmer’s Almanac’ is still here. Why? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

The 54-year-old actor has only recently washed the character out of his hair — shaved him out, to be more precise, with Varga’s scraggly locks replaced by an inch of fuzz. 'My brain was on fire': David Thewlis on Naked, Fargo and creeping out the Coens 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

The engravings are more precise and clearly more time-consuming; the largest prints are all woodcuts. Review | In the galleries: Natural order, and natural disorder, at VisArts at Rockville 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Only Ms. York, a Broadway veteran, pounces on her role with the precise attack that’s demanded. Review: Ye Olde Go-Go’s Songs Hit the Renaissance in ‘Head Over Heels’ 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The novella's strength is in its precise rendering of decaying bodies — both heavenly and corporeal — while maintaining a sense of ever-present longing. Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The drawings, which recall the precise pen-and-ink work of the early-20th-century artist Franklin Booth, are stunning in their obsessive detail. Bernie Wrightson, Artist and a Creator of Swamp Thing, Dies at 68 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

And the chief virtue of the new staging now at Forum Theatre is a playful and precise acting style that director Michael Dove’s ensemble absolutely nails. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Belém's installations depend on the precise placement of elements within sites that set the scene for a freeform lyrical reverie. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-25T23:05:24Z

Mr. Oelhoffen sometimes explains too much, but his work with the actors is precise and delicate. Review: In ‘Far From Men,’ a Teacher Caught in the Crossfire 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

This bottle is structured and precise, from the Deep End of Anderson Alley, as the cool northwestern corner is known. For Pinot Noir, Put Anderson Valley Among California’s Best 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Its sweep is larger than might be expected, its fine-tuning more precise. Books of The Times: A Smart-Aleck Girl With a Gimlet-Eyed View 2011-02-23T15:27:12Z

The more precise, and concise, a lyric, the more likely it is to liberate the ideas behind it. Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z

But label laws and quality control differ among states, and, the FDA warns, the amounts of THC and CBD listed on a package aren’t necessarily precise. Perspective | Milk, bread, hemp oil? A dietitian’s guide to the cannabis items in your grocery store. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

“It was amazing how she was able to dedicate so much precise attention to plot points and to editing leading up the election last fall,” Kaufman said. Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Finger swipes, hand waves or voice commands are less precise. Less Flailing, More Pushing: The Joy of Joysticks 2012-07-06T14:17:58Z

The audience was completely hushed, awaiting each fiddle line or banjo lick, each unexpected harmonic turn, each precise swell of three-part harmony. In Its Own Quiet Way, I’m With Her Is a Supergroup 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

The techniques are complicated and precise, and the ingredients are often farfetched. Celebrate Bastille Day with a low-effort and big-flavor take on the classic French canelé cake 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

“The whole affair was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic.” In Y.A., Where Has All the Good Sex Gone? 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

My only real quibble with this compelling, surgically precise revival isn’t interested in preserving that unity: to keep our sympathy for both characters as balanced as Ibsen evidently intended. Review: Jessica Chastain Plots an Escape From ‘A Doll’s House’ 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

“The words are so precise, but the mess they want to bring them forth, and the rhythm they need, is really amazing.” Laura Dern is at the peak of her powers 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

If the band were always this precise, they would be devastating. The Tiger Lillies ? review 2011-07-21T17:17:28Z

You supply the everyday items like shallots, onions, sesame seeds and fresh ginger for the precise seven-step recipe that will take a good two hours to prepare, and time to cool. Make a Spicy Gift This Holiday Season 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

At points, onscreen text links the footage before our eyes with facts such as Apollo 11’s precise velocity, distance from Earth and fuel level. Piecing Together the Visual and Audio Puzzle of ‘Apollo 11’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

"It was heavily art-directed. The animation was so pristine and precise." '101 Dalmatians' was just the hit a flagging Disney needed 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Tavernetta Al Molo is a casual and unhurried respite from city dining, one where the seafood offerings are straightforward but also precise. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Yet it’s ultimately impossible to resist the gale theatrical force as Mr. Murfi presents his heroine through a multi-angled prism, with body language as precise, condensed and evocative as Morse code. Review: A One-Man Funeral With Many Lives in ‘I Hear You and Rejoice’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Why is there this bizarre obsession on knowing the precise identity of the silent figure behind the helmet and in the white racing suit? Wendy Lewis is not the forces' favourite, but the veterans went too far 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

The EU is very precise about its financing. European arts funding: why don't more UK cultural organisations apply? 2013-05-01T10:30:00Z

The program, and its successors, would come to define what might be called the PBS style — deliberate, precise, a hegemony of facts over emotions. Perspective | Always low-key, Jim Lehrer anchored TV news for grown-ups 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Both the humor and the pathos spring mostly from wordless interaction, which is testimony to Ms. Wohl’s intrepid writing, to the superb acting and to the precise work of the production’s director, Rachel Chavkin. Review: ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ Silence at a Spiritual Spa 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Be aware that some states and countries do not accept this test, which is not as precise as the PCR. Here’s what you need to know about getting a coronavirus test at the airport 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Miller links her two main characters together with deft, precise stitches. Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller – review 2013-07-25T09:00:00Z

Mr. Erlingsson has a dry, precise style that erases the distinction between comedy and tragedy and emphasizes the dignity of his equine characters and the ridiculousness of their supposed masters. New Directors/New Films Festival Opens With Bold Strokes 2014-03-18T21:30:55Z

"The Missing," which begins Saturday on Starz, is a new miniseries about the disappearance of a child — the aftermath of the disappearance of a child, to be precise. Gripping 'The Missing' advances with Hitchcock-like tautness 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

It feels studied, but maybe we're saying that because she's done a lot of studying: visual and media studies, to be precise, in Berlin, where she also, she says, "experimented with working with audiovisual techniques". New band of the day – Dena (No 1,335) 2012-08-21T16:01:51Z

After we relived the Jon Snow–Ygritte romance—frankly, I had enough of it the first time—Djawadi brought the strings to a close with a satisfied, precise gesture of his hands. Music Is Coming: “Game of Thrones” Live at Madison Square Garden 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

It's a simple structure, realised in precise musical imagery. Castiglioni: Altisonanza; Le Favole di Esopo ? review 2011-07-14T19:29:00Z

I’m talking about a word more precise than “monthly.” 7 New Songs You Should Hear Now 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

This is a precise, if somewhat abstract, word for a chaotic, destructive pattern of behavior that Lydia’s position has allowed her to get away with. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

It would be unrealistic to expect a precise equivalent when our consumption is so fractured and dispersed. Who turned out the lights? How the decade's final month changed cinema for ever 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Rereading Woolf newly attuned to color, I notice that precise tints and hues daub nearly every paragraph: birds' breasts are "specked canary and rose," morning air is "grey-blue," brooches "sea-green." Confessions of a synesthete: What it's like experiencing the alphabet in full color 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

His precise portrait of Hatch in the 1978 TV adaptation of Edward Bond's The Sea still breaks my heart. Victor Spinetti obituary letter 2012-06-22T15:25:13Z

With its precise shaping, this collection, absolutely free of froufrou, showed the power of a fashion architect in a couture world often dominated by decorators. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier: From Cheek to Chic 2011-01-27T18:38:23Z

Someone who prefers these more polished wines might call the d’Aupilhac rustic in a negative sense, even if they are not using that precise word. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

In the statement on the “Prairie Home Companion” Web site, Mr. Keillor described Mr. Keith’s “graceful, precise, understated” sounds, like “shotgun volleys” and “the singing walrus.” Tom Keith, Creator of Radio Soundscapes, Dies at 64 2011-11-02T03:54:16Z

In Ms. Lawrence’s watchful, precise and quietly heroic performance, Ree is like a modern-day Antigone, making ethical demands that are at once entirely coherent and potentially fatal. | 'Winter?s Bone': Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik?s Bleak Ozarks Film 2010-06-10T21:59:00Z

"The Morning Show" took almost two seasons to reach that point – or to be precise, one season and nearly eight episodes. "The Morning Show" finally finds its raison d'etre as a satire about workplace toxicity 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

Marsh’s December concert presented four of the six cantatas of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio”; Patrick Rucker, in The Washington Post, called him “a superb choral conductor, energetic and precise.” Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Even the precise way the chicken is cut for a sweet-and-sour dish contributes to the overall experience of eating it, Mr. Jew said. More Than ‘Just Takeout’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

The French title, “Les Amours Imaginaires,” is a more precise description of this palpitating confection, a study of an unconsummated romantic triangle. | 'Heartbeats': Three to a Bed, but No Funny Stuff 2011-02-25T01:16:10Z

I suspect, in this case, the precise moment of corporeal undoing was something nobody wanted to get too close to or linger on. We Can’t Quit You, Hank Williams 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

But he also insists on putting into each dizzyingly precise portrait or still life more visual information than the eye can take in. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

The lack of precise co-ordination creates the sense of every sound constantly being reassessed and placed in a slightly different context. Feldman: Crippled Symmetry – review 2012-08-15T15:35:10Z

It was perplexingly precise, as though she were making a teaching video for people who themselves might be called on to reconstruct a face. TV review: The Baby with a New Face - Extraordinary People; Kitchen Wars 2012-06-28T21:00:03Z

Whether you use your discards to whip up a syrup, a cordial or something else, don’t get too caught up in precise measurements. How to Embrace Your Inner Trash Animal 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

They are given such narrow and precise roles to play — abandoned sister, loyal partner, flighty daughter — and they play them so responsibly, never deviating from their scripts, that repetitiveness and flatness creep into the writing. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Recently he made a sturdier, more precise version from scratch, which unexpectedly yielded a wax model of the piece, in addition to the radiant aluminum final cast on view at Marks. Art Review: Sculpture in High Relief 2011-05-19T22:00:20Z

He's as nasty as he is nattily dressed, and Pearce once again seems to relish playing this type of precise villain. Review: `Lawless' a visceral, fitful fever dream 2012-08-28T22:50:58Z

The new emphasis on punctuality in daily life has arrived when scientists are working to gain a more precise accounting of time itself. Punctuality Is Having a Moment 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Golden, crisp and bracing with a malty aroma and snappy, precise flavors. Beer Review: American Lagers 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Every nuance, every detail is shiningly precise, whether the dancers are massed into abstract ensembles, or temporarily deep in character, such as the brilliant Dana Caspersen, swaggering and growling as the B-movie villain. The Forsythe Company: I Don't Believe in?Outer Space ? review 2011-02-24T18:19:15Z

The polyester is also less tricky to use because it hardens even if you don’t use the precise proportion of hardener, which can’t be said for epoxy. Natural stone counters showing their age? Here’s how to repair those divots. 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Divers offer a precise form of population management, since underwater hunting results in little collateral damage. Behold the Lionfish, as Transfixing as It Is Destructive 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Doom tends to stay slow and precise; he cycled a few chords, or sometimes only one, over and over. Music Review: The Truths That Only Repetition Reveals 2011-07-13T21:39:49Z

Virtopsy also allows pathologists to see that precise location of foreign material, such as shrapnel or bullet fragments, making it easier for the material to be extracted by hand. Virtual autopsy: does it spell the end of the scalpel? 2013-02-23T21:00:00Z

Mr. Jarrett’s pianism, precise and aglow, was irreproachable even on the less engaging pieces. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The results are stunning in presentation and precise in flavour combination. Mexico City: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Yet at first the audience behaved as though at an eighth-grade dance — or, to be more precise, like the chaperones at such a dance. Admit One: ‘Here Lies Love’ and the Era of Audience Participation 2013-07-11T21:22:46Z

Cuiffo, who has an amiable if strained smile, a precise gait and spiky hair, is stymied if not baffled by this request. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Yet the precise patterns on the runway, which at first glance looked like chevron rugs, were literally drawn in sand. Milan Men’s Season Ends With a Sense of Theater 2012-06-26T17:22:53Z

Several deans and other administrators said they were not aware of precise statistics documenting growth across the field. Film School Students Aplenty, but What About Jobs? 2011-07-04T15:57:39Z

But her supply of complex characters and subtle, vivid scenes was inexhaustible and she caught the ambiguities of human behaviour and the pleasures of the senses in precise, perfect words. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obituary 2013-04-03T15:24:01Z

Everything lies in the exteriors – the prosthetics, the precise approximation of a famous person's timbre or manner of speech. FX's "Impeachment" doesn't acquit itself well, despite a humanizing portrayal by Beanie Feldstein 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Nothing is sacred; medical records, even a person’s precise location at any given moment as determined by cellular tower triangulation technology, can be had for a price. ‘Hack Attack’ Puts a Spotlight on Rupert Murdoch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

I bet she felt pretty smug when those precise things happened to her in Paranormal Activity 2. Paranormal Activity 3: Is there a demon in the house? 2011-07-27T07:58:18Z

The lighting, the colour, every detail is precise.” Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

As the neighborhood philosopher from next door, Jonathan Hadary emits sour bulletins from Schopenhauer with precise, funny inflections. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z

Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, and Douglass, a former slave who did not know his precise birthday, celebrated his date of birth on Feb. 14, Fox 10 also noted. Black History Month facts: 10 things you should know 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Fassbender's Jung is pernickety and precise, a bourgeois academic, his eyes gleaming not so much at the thought of sex with Sabina but the prospect of making a name of himself and supplanting the master. A Dangerous Method ? review 2012-02-09T15:29:01Z

Either way, as with Hereditary, Midsommar feels like a highly considered piece of storytelling beneath the craziness – technically precise, meticulously designed, dense with allusions, clues, references and riddles. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

The work ends in a fitful release of coiled energy that achieved all the more visceral power here for the precise rendering of every offbeat accent and rhythmic twist. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z

Their work was fast but precise, and they shooed me away if I tried to distract them. Tejal Rao’s 10 Essential Indian Recipes 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

He taught Isaiah how to sell Johnson’s famously artistic passing — the way he turned his head for no-look passes, the subtle movements that made his bounce passes so precise. ‘Winning Time’ Is Back. Here’s What to Know Ahead of Season 2 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

Knausgaard’s assets are on full display, including his precise writing style and his unerring sense of detail. Review | If you feel intimidated by Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ try ‘Spring’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

He cuts a striking figure; some say there is a physical resemblance to Leonard Bernstein, but his graceful, precise right arm motions bring to mind former L.A. David Lockington kicks off Pasadena Symphony with precision 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

One of very few surviving Austen manuscripts, “The Watsons” is interesting for being extensively revised and corrected in her tiny, precise handwriting — evidence of Austen’s painstaking writing habits. ArtsBeat: A Reunion of Sorts: Two Pieces of Unpublished Austen Novel Are Both in New York 2011-06-10T14:33:42Z

It’s difficult to calculate the precise effect of the pandemic on these figures. For the Wine World, 2021 Brings Familiar Problems 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

A fight at a wedding to be precise - after her best friend, Sara, threw a cake in her face. Jessie Ware: 'I sing like a dolphin!' 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Soft yet crisp, the freehand pictures of lined-up chairs are precise enough for architectural renderings. In the galleries: Phantom people make a statement — a beautiful one 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The point of the comparison is that great dirty art like Schiele's needs to be fiercely precise to make the carnal grab us. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z

There have been absurdities, where pernickety preservationists have fretted over the precise intentions of bygone Cuthberts and Augustuses, and the conservation of works of concrete brutalism has led to special contortions. Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z

The video quality was too poor to see the precise movements of lips, but the musicians upstairs had trained for weeks to know every beat of the singing without visual cues. Moving Orchestras Out of Sight, Maybe Even Out of the Theater 2012-03-24T02:16:49Z

She had the outer swagger, she had the precise and hard technique, and while Mia thought she didn't have "kill" in her eyes, I thought every component was right on. Dancers, minus Alex Wong, mix things up on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-08T11:40:00Z

“Her singing was precise and even, each tone clear and true, and her Italian rippled along like a second music,” critic Louis Biancolli wrote in The New York World-Telegram and Sun. Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig dies at 94 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, O’Neill was a copious writer of stage directions, sometimes giving long, meticulous descriptions of his characters as they are introduced and precise indications of both actions and their emotional inflection. | 'The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O?Neill Volume 1': Neo Futurists Present Stage Directions From O?Neill Plays 2011-09-13T02:05:01Z

Far more precise: the drama inside the courthouse. Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong) 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

“As a scientist, you get inculcated with the notion that being factually correct and precise is important,” he said, and Mukherjee doesn’t present that rigor. Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

He used my name more often than he needed to, and with an oddly intimate intonation that, in combination with his British accent, seemed not only precise but proper. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Miranda is straightforward about the fact that his musical is not precise history. A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Yet the precise outlines of her fledgling group's agenda remained fuzzy. Visionaries search for key to civic engagement in L.A. 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Low budgets and precise targeting, he said, are critical to reviving the genre. Alliance plans to bring black-themed films nationwide ? including Seattle 2011-01-12T23:36:04Z

Length aside, the rest of “English” is precise bordering on surgical. Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ Is Very Good. And Scandalous. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Govan, who questions the $1 billion figure, said the museum was working on more precise cost projections as part of the feasibility studies. Los Angeles Museum Alters Plans to Protect La Brea Tar Pits 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

This allusion, though, only becomes evident after — and if — you recognize that her precise framing also owes a great debt to Bresson. ‘I Was at Home, but …’ Review: In Grief, What Dreams May Come 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Musicians generally have a better go of things, channeling their natural stage presence into a more precise format. Saturday Night Live: the best and worst musical hosts 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Everyone ambled toward the precise spot where the gadget, a plutonium core surrounded by TNT, was detonated on a high platform. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Considering that, Oliver's restraint in waiting two months to deliver a precise and devastating barrage of body blows the monarchy is commendable, although it's highly unlikely its drop date was randomly selected. "Last Week Tonight" slams the monarchy in a way that may change how we see "The Crown" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Spectacular technological advances — weaponry that’s more precise and less deadly — have combined with a lack of moral vision to induce a wan sense of complacency. The Dangers of Making War Less Dangerous 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's worth dwelling on Southall, a precise player who executes guitar solos with all the mechanistic selflessness of the pre-rawk era. The xx; the Coral 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

As for the bass, let's just say it was powerful enough for you to discern not only the frequency, but which precise bones in your body it was rattling. Freddie Gibbs at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T15:50:57Z

Yet a precise schema of measurements to date the stages of early pregnancy – between seven and 16 weeks – wasn’t established in modern clinical practice until 1973, with the advent of ultrasound imaging. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

“So whoever draws the districts has a lot of power, and thanks to technological advantages it’s possible to use that power in very precise ways,” the late-night comedian explained. WATCH: John Oliver says gerrymandering threatens the “foundation of democracy” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

However, it was clearly from someone who had precise information about the émigré, not only in Brussels under the occupation but also in Antwerp postwar. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z

“At times pop, or modern, music — not that it’s rigid, but it has very predetermined structures,” mused Lafourcade, pausing as she did many times in our conversation to find the precise thought. Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

Still, a full year after the first models were put on view the precise layout and scale of the interior spaces, including the galleries, remain a mystery. Peter Zumthor's L.A.-LACMA vision in need of update 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

“I try to remain vigilant about that, and that my partners do as well. There are pauses, there are beats — it’s like music, and it’s very important to respect that in a very precise manner.” Isabelle Huppert Is Busy. But There’s Always Time for Theater. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

These acute character details create a rich triptych of the ails of a social milieu that’s precise in stroke, impressionistic in structure. ‘Toros’ Review: Why Are We Still Friends? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Cast members and production team are coy about precise details of the "inquiry" and its fallout, but it is not specifically related to the media. The Thick of It: 'it feels more like politicians copy us' 2012-08-21T23:05:01Z

In this precise, delicately constructed memoir-in-essays, Talusan writes about her experience as an immigrant to the United States, her survival of childhood abuse and returning to visit the Philippines, her native country. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

It’s the Bordeaux formula, but this wine, from the Veneto, is very different, lively and precise with earthy flavors of red fruit. 20 Wines for Under $20 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

When it’s not precise, it’s like a sugar crash. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Less precise in its assembly than a pie, this cobbler is fun and fast to put together. Garnish this pineapple cobbler from “The Latin Table” with a few fresh summer berries 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

I wanted to show where the black box location is in the plane, and, in a very precise manner, show all of the actions that preceded the crash. "Black Box" filmmaker on making a plane crash thriller that requires you to listen closely 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

In Laura’s account, health care is intuitive and mechanical, a process of precise movements and calculations performed day after day and year after year. Review | Emma Glass’s ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ powerfully describes what it means to be a health-care worker 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

There was no precise “date zero” after that “negative-fifth date” — the transition was gradual — though they do recall a pivotal discussion at a sushi restaurant where they agreed to give dating a shot. They Traveled the World Together, Long Before Their First Date 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

A better approach would be to describe a wine’s structure, texture and underlying character rather than its precise flavor. The Paradox of Chenin Blanc 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

But these guys were so precise and so detail-oriented and so sure of themselves. House Tour: Milan, N.Y. 2011-06-03T01:21:55Z

So it goes with Little Big Town, a country group that almost always chooses politesse over tension, letting its precise, sometimes clinical harmony stand in for feeling. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z

Instead, with raw, textured fabric and wood to bring out the soul in sparingly arrayed and geometrically precise furniture, Van Duysen’s interiors evoke silence and calm. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

“A Small Fire,” at less than 90 minutes, retains a crisp economy and a precise focus on Emily’s strange affliction, and never descends into bathos. | 'A Small Fire': A Sense of Touch, a Sense of Life 2011-01-07T03:30:20Z

Das explains, in a beautifully precise essay, “On Parsing”: “Your manuscript is not a good fit”: How “we need diverse books” can move beyond wishful thinking 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

It’s calm, slick and precise, and atop it, Brown asks over and over, “Ain’t it funky?” Clyde Stubblefield, the ‘Funky Drummer’ for James Brown, Dies at 73 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

You can safely bet on a few things whenever the conductor John Eliot Gardiner comes to town: agile, historically informed performance; obsessively precise articulation; and virtually ideal readings of beloved repertoire. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

I adored Green's latest book, devouring it as I did with everything else he has written - his style is clear and precise, always refreshing to read like the sun after a storm ... Reader reviews roundup 2013-04-26T08:05:00Z

Ress does small, precise nature drawings on large pieces of paper. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Actually, the V60 Drip Scale only measures in grams, which is fine, because you should be using grams, which are more precise than ounces, and more intuitive. | Scaling Up for the Holidays 2012-12-20T14:00:13Z

Its masterful climax is a sudden torrent of prop lights, which shatter on the floor at the precise moment that Starlite, in a kind of full-body rebellion against gravity, departs from it. Francis and the Lights, Pop Star Interrupted 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Freud came up with a more distinctive and precise account of the structure of the unconscious, but the general picture is very similar. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

Who would you most like to hit in the face with a custard pie at this precise moment? Wiley: 'I did a tune for Ed Sheeran, but he didn't want to do one for me' 2012-11-15T11:00:00Z

"The result felt like someone had neatly arranged forty-eight rusty old cars into precise formations at a scrapyard," a music blogger said colorfully, and intending high praise. "Silence" is golden for composer John Cage's legacy 2012-10-18T16:02:34Z

With a voice as slender as it is precise, she can ill afford to be even a quarter-tone flat; as she took flight, she hit every note dead center. Music Review: Judy Collins at Caf? Carlyle: Folk Days to 9/11 2010-05-05T22:44:00Z

And while her shapes were not the most precise or energized, her acting was uncommonly vivid. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z

The location is not: Once you reserve your spot, you’ll be sent the precise location of this casual concert. 7 Seattle-area classical events you won’t want to miss 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

But Mueck's work is difficult – it's just that by creating models that are precise in their parts, while altered in size, he has produced art that is both affectively immediate and comprehensible. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

It's tough enough to nail that Leonard vibe -- relaxed yet precise, cool with a buried romantic streak -- without seeming affected. "Justified": A poignant end to a bloody season 2011-05-05T12:06:00Z

The way is cleared for W. F., with his aura of slovenly glamour and precise knowledge of the cooking temperature of heroin, to steal the show. Review: ‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ Rejects Dad’s Money but Not His Mistress 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Nicholas Phan, 42, a tenor of Chinese and Greek descent, said Asians tend to be seen as technically precise yet artistically vacuous. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

With one of the most golden voices of any genre, a clenched, precise, profoundly expressive baritone, Jones had No. 1 songs in five separate decades, 1950s to 1990s. George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 2013-04-26T14:36:09Z

He’s wily and sarcastic, precise with his intentions and language: “Peace,” he says with disdain in an opening speech, hissing that “s” sound like a dangerous snake. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

It's a book that's perfect for the person who doesn't fall for all the intimidating hype around baking, who knows it's not really as ruthlessly precise and scary as it's often made out to be. Nadiya Hussain's bread pudding will have you baking with ice cream 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

“If you come from a musical theater background, you’re used to being very correct and precise, but that’s not how rap works,” he said. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

As she notes, "Work of this caliber requires uncompromising effort and time"—three years for the whole collection, to be precise. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Collaboration with Artist Nancy Lorenz 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Red Elk’s precise category is “contemporary Jingle,” with much more elaborate footwork and spatial patterning. A New Kind of Native American Dance Troupe 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

“They can see every little precise thing that can go wrong that might get you killed.” Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

"It's not something that is well known," Delijani tells me in her faintly accented, precise English, over coffee in a London hotel. Sahar Delijani: 'I had to tell my family's story of the Iranian executions' 2013-07-06T06:45:00Z

Xanman promised to fill an enemy with lead like “mechanical pencils,” making all six of those syllables sound as precise as the metaphor demanded. Perspective | Teen rappers Xanman and YungManny master the art of getting ahead of yourself 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

But in 1962 he bought a perforated industrial screen, which was more precise. Inside Art: A Fresh Look at Lichtenstein at the Morgan 2010-07-08T21:40:00Z

There is a point in all these antihero sagas, around the finale, where the viewing process turns into a kind of moral people’s court, where fans debate the precise retributive price the series should exact. ‘The Americans,’ at Last, Lets Us Exhale 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

So did Lancaster’s precise physical performance as the cosseted hero in crisis, Neddy Merrill, running in a tiny swimsuit from pool to pool in some wooded American Arcadia. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Paul McCartney to ‘Puss in Boots’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Still, it’s all exactingly played; Gandelsman is attuned to the precise nature of each artist, and tailors his sound to each one. What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers. 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s like watching someone rummage around in their home pantry and reproduce the precise formula for a Red Bull. Welcome to His World. And Hers. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The cut is too precise to be from a boat injury or a shark bite. ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ Begins on Tuesday on CBS 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

And the voice is good — husky, imperious but lyrical, with the precise, signature caesuras. Theater Review: Bette Davis Stays and Stays in ‘Me and Jezebel’ 2013-07-25T02:00:01Z

In these remarkable archival recordings, the team’s youthful faces glow against bright green, red or white uniforms, and they are shown to be as precise on the court as they are in the factory. ‘The Witches of the Orient’ Review: Symphony of a Sports Team 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

But whole lives are revealed, along with the ever-charged roil of tradition and modernity, in the precise way he frames his characters' experiences, his rigorous craft tapping fathomless wells of history and emotion. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

He said he worked for a month on his speech to the “Curious Incident” group, because he doesn’t like surprises and he wants to be precise. An Autistic-Friendly Version of ‘The Curious Incident’ 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

A: No, but the prevailing scientific sentiment seems to be that because time began at the precise moment mass and energy did, there was no “before.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten answers your religion questions. Heaven help us. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

“How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success” seems to lie at the precise crossroads of this inherently conflicted approach. ‘How to Raise an Adult,’ by Julie Lythcott-Haims 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the replication process is so precise, it brings new insights to the original, helping academics and tour guides alike. Your last chance to see Tutankhamun's tomb 2011-01-17T20:00:03Z

Bertillon instituted a method focused on measurements of certain body parts, precise descriptions and mug shots. Review: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ Is a Rogues’ Gallery 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Assisted by German literary experts and a manuscript expert, they will convey to the court a precise record of what the boxes contain. Lawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts 2010-07-19T10:53:00Z

Mullins, a tornado of aggression whose favorite idioms are both anatomically precise and anatomically impossible, terrorizes suspects and supervisors alike. Movie Review: ‘The Heat’ Is a Buddy Movie Without Any Guys 2013-06-27T16:22:35Z

Men were buying pants and outerwear, and even stocking up on socks — $2.8 billion worth of socks, to be precise. Waif vs. Adonis: Fashion week sets up a great manliness debate

It was left to the lighting and scenic designer Joe Levasseur to organize the space, piercing the vapor with precise beams and more diffuse panels. Dance Review: Fog Blurs Vision, and Lines, Between Performer and Audience 2011-06-26T22:17:56Z

The melody, as in most of the songs on the album, is a jumpy dotted line sketching sharp angles, a nervy but utterly precise zigzag. Review: ‘Me,’ by Empress Of, Has Cool Assurance and Jumpy Lines 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

There’s a certain rhythmic fluffiness, too, a reluctance to grant rhythms a precise character. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

“I am more precise with my movements, which is more suited for the male characters,” she said, “and Madhu is more graceful.” The Indian Monks’ Dance, Flowering With the Aid of Women 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

They each claim the sort of formidable mother whose precise proclivities reverberate, for better or worse, throughout a lifetime. Review | You’re invited to dinner with Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, but you’ll have to go to Staten Island 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

No one advocates precise allotments of contemporary music. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

“By pinpointing and correcting the precise circuits in the brain associated with the symptoms of some of these conditions, we are finding additional options to treat these illnesses.” Could a brain implant cure anorexia? 2013-03-08T17:53:00Z

We agreed on standard documentation and precise payment terms. Perspective | Ask Amy: Biblical lender should have looked to Shakespeare 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Sheng Wang has a droll and relaxed delivery, which makes the focus and inventiveness of his material land even better — the happy chill of stoner musings contrasting with the rigor of precise observational comedy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Not enjoying, investing or to use a more precise term, enduring. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Much of his work, built on precise tailoring linked to a soaring, romantic softness, was elegant in a skewed way. 2010-02-11T21:30:00Z

Some American taprooms have begun to emulate Central European beer culture by installing side-pull taps that work like a dimmer switch, allowing bartenders to create precise amounts of foam. Now Rising to the Top of the Beer World: Foam 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

He’s more than a little precise, and he can make your forebrain hurt after a while, but his patterns and accents and small, strong fills cut through the nonsense; he’s got a sound, a fullness. Music Review: A Little Bit Like a School Orchestra 2011-07-04T20:29:29Z

That featured the percussionist Jonny Allen jogging a precise route around the bells, hitting a gradually evolving riff — sometimes with delicacy, sometimes with violence. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Technological advances have made their methodology more precise in recent years; the Brinkmanns say they collect upward of 500 measurements from a single sculpture using such tools as portable X-ray fluorescence and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

The best thing about 11/22/63 is King’s warm, precise portrait of the 1950’s, for which he clearly feels a powerful longing. In Stephen King?s Latest, Trying to Stop Lee Harvey Oswald 2011-11-02T15:57:51Z

With her beautifully precise style, Forna sensitively depicts members of a community resuming day-to-day life after violent civil conflict – each with the knowledge of the heinous crimes they committed against one another. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna – review 2013-04-21T08:00:02Z

His movements are precise and consistent, even on the run or under pressure. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

She makes precise choices in pert, clever sentences. Plot Twist: Your Big Secret Crush Is Also Your Housemate 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

So Linton Kwesi Johnson's sober, precise reflections on racial unrest 30 years ago were not crisis music; the Ruts' apocalyptic Babylon's Burning was. Why the Specials' Ghost Town is still the sound of a country in crisis 2011-08-09T15:42:04Z

Ferguson was precise on his drums and dashing on his cymbals — the sound a typewriter might make if it could shimmer. Review | Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash is making a jazzlike sound you can look forward to 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

She’s very succinct and precise; I’m very broad stroke and emotional. A Connection Was Made ‘Within Seconds’ of Their First Call 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the truest sign that this evening was more skillful than haphazard, the finale’s fugue, a flash of Bach, was satisfyingly precise — Cho and the violins aligned even in their fleet delivery. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

But “Transverse Orientation,” at nearly two hours, is mostly a long act of artistic magic created before our eyes by the superbly precise performers. Lyon Dance Biennale Begins, Reduced but Unbowed 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

He owns being a “memory-tourist,” “dancing my stupid nostalgia dance,” but he seems too emotionally precise to get swept up by whimsy. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

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