And they exploited that tension with amazing inventiveness and precision.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though the sun and the shadows had seemed plenty to let him know roughly what time it was up to that point, being a Runner probably required more precision. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They were careful about their work, protecting Theresa’s shoes with lunch bags, folding her clothes so as to fill their father’s old black trunk with precision. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inflatable shark naturally led to the puddle of heavy cream, which, if lapped from the floor with slow, steady precision, could account for up to twenty minutes of valuable stage time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She imagined him as she had met him, mounted and firing flaming arrows with such precision. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A cat, perhaps, who will love her order, precision, and constancy; who will be as clean and quiet as she is. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the background radiation, when examined to finer precision, proves to be imperfectly symmetrical. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envied them the order of their lives, the precision with which they marched with no prodding and no harsh glances, the mysterious black figures beside them like veiled anchors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Look at the concentration in her face, judging the angle, never fudging a shot, taking each nettle with inhuman precision. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The reality Giotto wants to convey is not just visual, while in Brunelleschi’s test pieces the whole and sole point is geometrical precision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was a short, stocky, muscular man, fluent in English, Sotho, and Zulu, expressing himself in all of them with precision, humor, and confidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The turtle’s filmy inner eyelids blinked with uncanny precision, deflecting each shot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As the drumming and choral singing intensified, they crouched slightly and stepped more quickly, moving together with precision. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But a well-rehearsed game; the rats had planned carefully; they knew exactly what they were doing; they moved with precision and never wasted a motion. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

This model permitted reasonably accurate predictions of planetary motion, certainly good enough for the precision of measurement available in Ptolemy’s day, and even many centuries later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless, the culturists who called the meeting said, precision was essential in science, and researchers should know what cells they were using, and whether they were contaminated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With precision, she hopped over the front seat and sat like an obedient soldier midboat, where there was more room. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Its hydrofoils were retracted, but with the carbon- polymer hull shattered, Nailer could see into its workings: the huge gears that extended the foils, the complex hydraulics and precision electronic systems. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His ultimate aspiration was to be president of the United States, which meant his approach to solving the threat would require precision and shrewd calculation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They gathered their weapons and equipment and loaded their vehicles with speed and precision, thanks to months of practice. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re amateurs compared to us. We can teach you to use your gifts with the precision of a scalpel.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We could integrate this into our narrative,” Catherine says, choosing her words with extreme precision. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Set down with geometric precision at the cardinal points were four monumental slabs of the same alien metal as the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They unflinchingly respected the accuracy of observational data, and their predictions of the motion of the planets to high precision provided compelling evidence that, at an unexpectedly deep level, humans can understand the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormously complicated sequence of movements, each of which an oarsman must execute with exquisite precision, becomes exponentially more difficult to perform as the stroke rate increases. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Where Anatole France’s work had been about ideas and wit, and Thomas Mann had been about precision and the ordering of character and plot, Honoré de Balzac, to me, was all about character. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the wild look changed in his eyes and he stepped back and saluted with stiff precision. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making an L doesn't take a lot of precision. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes we were standing in front of the J-3 as Dad explained my duties with military precision. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Again we ran through our checklist with great precision, because we knew we had only one chance to make a good entry. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a psychologist by training, but he also studied mathematics at MIT, and the rigor and precision of mathematics clearly moves him as much as anything else. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to their potential advantage of combining precision with simplicity, alphabets have now been adopted in most areas of the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Six times it came, nearer at each blast, and with his watch he timed the precision of its intervals—one minute went by between each. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Measures like these added precision to the understanding of how long it takes the brain to react, findings that were very much in the spirit of Helmholtz and mental chronometry, the study of brain structures. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Thirty-five gallons,” Kelton brags, as he applies the caulking with the precision of a jeweler. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sharp precision of the world of steel and stone dissolved into blurred waves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered her things with the precision and care of a first grader, but it did not matter. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Leo must have programmed the weapons with surgical precision. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She aimed for the edge of the innermost ring, which she hit with deadly precision. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was blown away by their finesse; they could take the tip of their blade and hit their target with such precision. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The subtlety and precision of the modeling, the fine gradation of planes and ridges, the feeling for the relationship of flesh and bone would be remarkable enough in themselves, quite apart from the early date. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They move with precision and silence, grabbing every belonging and disappearing up the ladder without disturbing the chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pours the steaming water into the mug with precision, adds two perfect spoonfuls of sugar, and methodically stirs the sugar like he’s making a formula. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

By the time four bells struck, Sefia was exhausted, but she could wield her Vision with the precision of a filleting knife. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I’d been struck by this picture because the guillotine looked like such a precision instrument, perfect and gleaming. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

As the need for precision grew, they scratched marks on the tokens as mnemonic devices. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would be wrong to read it back into the Scientific Revolution; before the precision instrumentation of the Industrial Revolution impartiality and judgement were virtues, not ways of re-describing professional competence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thinking, as he always did, about precision of language, Jonas realized that it was a new depth of feelings that he was experiencing. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The postmortem was not performed with modern precision, and it was controversial even at the time. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Quicker than lightning her mother appeared, her long red curls whipping around her as Fox grabbed Seven’s cape off her with ease and precision and used it to block the spell. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their chromosomes and proteins have been studied with such detail and precision that scientists know their every quirk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She watched her uncle maneuver salad greens, olive oil, vinegar, and several ingredients unknown to her with the same precision and assurances he employed on a difficult osteotomy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her voice seems to materialize out of nowhere, reciting verses with precision and rhythm. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s name—John Singer—was engraved in the center, and beneath this, written in ink with the same elaborate precision as the engraving, there was a brief message. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Well," Brother Jack said, "you are on time. Very good, we favor precision in our leaders." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience applauded like mad, and some guy behind me kept saying to his wife, "You know what that is? That's precision." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They’d dug in with their usual military precision - ten-foot-deep trenches and spiked earthen walls around the perimeter, a watchtower on each corner armed with ballistae. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The drill ended with a grand finale: With perfect precision, they marched into an intricate formation that spelled out “Adolf Hitler.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, against the backdrop of scientific endeavour and machine-like precision there was a very human emotion that enriched every note of Handel’s solo arias in opera and oratorio: compassion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Felicia was only six, her brother wasn’t even bom yet, but she remembers that day with precision. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a book from his pocket and began energetically to read it, judging by the precision and frequency with which he turned die leaves. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

With precision—it can be done and it won’t require us to show our faces outside in our time at all. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

By comparing the C’4 level in bones and wooden implements to the normal level in living tissues, Libby reasoned, scientists should be able to determine the age of these objects with unheard-of precision. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The jovilabe allowed the modelling of a highly complicated theoretical system without endless calculations or any loss of precision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But much more importantly, it means a precision soft landing can be done remotely by a pilot in orbit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they rowed upstream in the warm summer dark, Ulbrickson saw that they were pulling flawlessly, with the exceptional grace and precision that was quickly becoming their norm. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The princess twirled her staff with strength and precision that made him gulp. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All working with a precision saying they’ve done this thousands and thousands of times. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher made throwing a pot look easy, but the thing is, it takes lots of precision and skill. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sandra is sitting next to me, peeling an old student council vote sticker off her desk with precision, lifting this end, then that corner, making her way around the edges carefully. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as they arrived, the entire bar went into a sort of practiced precision. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were so many people out there, hunting so competitively, that it is often not possible to say with any precision who discovered what. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After starting his classmates in song, the young man stepped off his chair and joined them in performing a heartbreaking melody with tremendous care and precision. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He would later study attention with unprecedented precision. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Monday morning they were sluggish, moving with less precision, dully. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay has a high-top fade with precision cuts on the sides. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The penguins began to drill very nicely, wheeling and changing their formations with great precision, until Mrs. Popper stopped playing in the middle of the piece. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

His design called for “a hundred or so pieces,” he explained, “which had to fit together to within a precision of a few thousandths of an inch.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I know, too, of the basic comfort in this familial precision, where the relation abides no argument, no questions or quarrels. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

During high mass, her sister and father recited the Lord’s Prayer with loud precision and clung forever to the last syllables of the hymns. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No mistaking him: matchless rider gliding over rail fences in parade-ground precision, effortless motion, always a superb rider. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke was pivotal in helping me maintain my precision and hand speed whenever Akhi fell off the map. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This time multiplied by the speed of light gives us the distance to the Moon at that moment to equally remarkable precision. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With impressive precision, he explained the operation of bombs, land mines, and grenades, and how MK worked from underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All places on Earth are, to high precision, the same distance from any star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's very kind, Mrs. Taylor”—Ewan's excuse was seamless—"but my mother's birthday dinners run to military precision. If she suspects me of dawdling, it'll be the execution squad at dawn.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had carried this innocent precision, these dainty demoded cusps, through misery and passion to old age. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifths of a second ticked off with precision in his head; Woolf timed his horses’ rallies so precisely that he regularly won races with heart- stopping, last-second dives. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like code breaking, it was a pursuit that required patience, precision, and attention to detail, and she was good at it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This is what I’m thinking about while I’m unloading the dishwasher, with great care and precision, because Evie is napping and the clatter of cutlery against crockery might wake her up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not understand how muntu could refer to a living person or a dead one with equal precision, but Nelson just shrugged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ultimate explanation of Lawrence’s error came, perhaps inevitably, from Rutherford, who demonstrated once again the potency of his theoretical instincts when they were yoked to the experimental precision of the Cavendish. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Olanna moved back; the tumultuous crowding of pain and thoughts and anger that shot through her made the words flow out of her mouth with quiet precision. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself writing longhand, an old-fashioned dip pen stabbing furiously into a bottle of black ink and then scratching with amazing precision across sheets of white paper. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This is accomplished with extraordinary precision by a change in the behavior of the chromosomes that occurs at one of the divisions producing those cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The goings-on of the circus are dutifully reported, but with such matter-of-fact precision that he cannot picture it in the richness of detail that he desires. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These words are Milton’s, but they express with precision what the Greeks thought lay back of the very first beginning of things. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, we know, with some precision, the position of the particles inside. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but a demonstration of the military’s loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the precision of a chemist, Baroness Hoover dropped three cubes of sugar into her tea. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The trail barks seemed to be spaced with the precision of a juggler. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genuine science and mathematical precision are more intriguing than are the “facts” published in supermarket tabloids or a romantic innumeracy which fosters credulity, stunts skepticism, and dulls one to real imponderables. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mission was colossal in its scope, but it required both extreme precision and the utmost accuracy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His strong, skilled fingers shaped the signs with loving precision. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He takes sharp turns, navigating the maze with expert precision. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I’ll be able to get away with my complete disregard for the clockwork precision of attendance required by my hosts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Andean textiles were woven with great precision—elite garments could have a thread count of five hundred per inch—and structured in elaborate layers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chaol delivered each blow with such precision that Dorian had to admire him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Occasionally researchers can detail that process with some precision, as in the case of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He designed new instruments, capable of an exquisite precision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even though they were already flying combat missions, he made them drill in high-altitude flying and precision dive-bombing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Stopping time wasn’t just a matter of pressing the on button, there was a series of delicate procedures that had to be performed with utmost precision. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

While the room was very old, the acoustics were perfect, and there was a balance and precision to the space that seemed almost magical. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fischer began fighting for a draw, but Spassky’s moves were a study in precision and his position got stronger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d really planned out her escape to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with great precision. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

All her life Marilyn had been awed by that precision and beauty in her husband, in his body She had rarely, if ever, seen him make a mistake off the diving board. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned my attention away from the woman heckling me as the soldiers paraded down the aisle with military precision. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt himself included once again in the circle of humanity and was expecting from both the doctor and the locksmith, without differentiating between them with any real precision, splendid and surprising results. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found your performance curious, and the reaction of your audience somewhat perplexing. You were lacking in precision.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They moved down the field with maniacal, relentless precision. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His movements, as he was later to describe those of an acquaintance, were activated with oiled precision. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably this whole segment of the woods has been armed with precision launchers that are concealed in trees or rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Then listen carefully. You’ll have to remember this. Go to Paddington Station—” With a sort of military precision that astonished him, she outlined the route that he was to follow. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then with deft precision she cornered the goose, leashed its head, and dragged it to a corner where she tied it to a table. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Joseph looked around the room at all the objects placed with such care and precision. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The door to his closet was open, all of his sweaters folded with precision. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pearl had loved watching her mother at work, bent over the kitchen table, laboring with the precision of a surgeon—scalpel, needle, pins—to transform these toys into art. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Improvements in anesthetics, and new drills and bone saws that allowed for precision cutting of the skull, made it possible. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Libraries were all about order, control, precision, and predictability! Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

So instead of orderly precision, it’s chaos as everyone begins moving around in the dark, the moonlight too dim to see much. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When a laser beam from Earth strikes the mirror and bounces back, the round-trip travel time can be measured with remarkable precision. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did return to housekeeping, it was not with the precision he had always insisted upon. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Wes had his entire operation organized with the precision of a military unit or a division of a Fortune 500 company. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And if you know a particle's velocity with infinite precision—zero error—you have infinite error when you measure its position; you know nothing at all about where it is. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to get to the point where I looked like those kids and I could wield my sword with such precision. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And precision of language was one of the most important tasks of small children. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

With the precision born of practice, a night rider threw the rope over the thick, sturdy branch with a single toss. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Bushes and hedges are trimmed with a precision that seems almost silly. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Alas, Orange Juice’s defence lacked precision and coherence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He arranged the food, leaving half-eaten bits on the plates, poured wine to different levels in all the glasses, and finally, with great precision, returned the napkin to the floor beneath the chair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With infinite precision, the tubes were lifted out, brought around, and then dropped into the exposed compartments. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the table, Mom and Dad would dissect them with precision, leaving no meat to waste. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When the proslavery advocates of the Deep South unveiled their racial argument—What will happen between the races after emancipation?—the census of 1790 allowed one to predict the response with near precision. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As precision of measurement improved, records had to be kept, so astronomy encouraged observation and mathematics and the development of writing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queen Mary glides in wearing slate-gray separates and a stony expression, her gray bob arranged with razor precision around the edges of her face. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her blond hair was precision cut, and her jewelry was subdued yet elegant. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At the most obvious level, these numbers confirmed with enhanced precision the self-evident reality that slavery was a sectional phenomenon that was dying out in the North and flourishing in the South. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Apartheid, despite its intricacies and precision, didn’t know what to do with them, so the government said, “Eh, we’ll just call ’em black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Within small areas the beetles accomplish their own dispersion, moving on as soon as the Klamath weed dies out and locating new stands with great precision. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She repaid the gift by giving it magnificent care, expert service and maintenance that was given with the emotionless precision of a mechanic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like all guns, it has precision, guided by magnets and electric currents, and can accurately shoot a target three blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This time, snakelike in its precision, it encircled the tree. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She can pick up a single peanut with elegant precision, tickle a passing mouse, tap the shoulder of a dozing keeper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I would have tried my hand on the lathes and shapers, but the machinists were having none of that—this work required too much precision for my clumsy teenage hands. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no sign, no movement, the face did not change, but the secret hand behind the desk missed in its precision. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Father, peeling potatoes is not a chore, but precision work. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“When he began to talk again, it was with greater precision. And now his lapses are very few. His corrections and apologies are very prompt. And his good humor is unfailing.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of feet across from the women, behind yellow, featherless chickens hanging from hooks, men in bloody aprons raise their cleavers and cut into slabs of beef with the precision of many years’ practice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Absolute precision was necessary, as few of the parts could be put together until they were upon the ground and an error of the smallest fraction of an inch might be fatal.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This, to them, rivaled the precision and logic of mathematics. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But even these soldiers did not march with the smartness and precision of the Ethiopians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got dressed and walked out into the gymnasium, where the mats were already rolled out and taped down with precision. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I am impressed by the precision of this and am wondering how long he has practiced it, when he says out of the corner of this mouth, “I’m listening.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Henry lets Alex take him apart with painstaking patience and precision, moans the name of God so many times that the room feels consecrated. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It's the culmination of a piece which, if it is to play to fulfilling effect, must be taken at full tilt, but with absolute precision. Chase the Dream; Tales of Beatrix Potter ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:16Z

While Nolan's images are visually impressive and powered by state-of-the-art digital effects and accomplished stunt work, they're always ordered and organized with anal precision. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z

"It's slow work, demanding precision, but it's very gratifying," Romero said. From landfill in Paraguay, sweet music emerges 2012-12-15T21:57:05Z

The precision of the cooking was remarkable: The squash was impossibly plush, the fava beans plump and creamy, the humitas like fragrant, fluffy bouquets, and the chicken succulent, with a beautifully charred crust. For a Taste of Ancient Peruvian Cooking, Head to Vermont 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

"They are all excellent works from brilliant writers early in their careers; they are object lessons in precision, inventiveness and wit and all only two or three pages long." Lost short plays by Harold Pinter and John Mortimer to be revived 2013-05-11T23:06:33Z

“Throughout this intimate collection, Blackburn renders her characters’ interiority artfully, with emotional precision — unearthing things we often leave unsaid,” Jared Jackson writes in his review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

It's also a little different to traditional hardcore, swapping the original genre's precision and military discipline for a carefully nurtured sloppiness. Iceage: You're Nothing – review 2013-02-14T22:25:01Z

The film’s strong and simple dramatic backbone sustains a wide range of incidental events that arise from the premise and fill in the background of the story and the characters with a cleverly calculated precision. The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic” 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

It wouldn’t take long for Ulrich to examine every note of Deep Purple’s live record, "Made in Japan," with surgical-style precision. Metallica's unlikely origin story: Injecting Americana into the metal universe 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

The band of brothers — three of the five are related — plays with a precision that comes from a lifetime of making music together. Lollapalooza ends on a high note on day two 2013-08-04T11:59:00Z

Instead, with visual precision and emotional restraint — and aided by Mr. Driver’s tamped-down, sober and gently endearing performance — Mr. Jarmusch creates that rarest portrait of the artist: the one who’s happy being hard at work. Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson,’ a Meditative Flow of Words Into Poetry 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

British herself, she longs for her mother, far from Indiana, and notes with painful precision the pitfalls of modern mothering: isolation and lack of support. A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

It sequences horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in various combinations across a grid; its austere precision still packs the same philosophical and visual bite. A Discreet Jubilee for a Groundbreaking Chelsea Gallery 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

“The twisting and cracking of the British class system is always fascinating to observe, and ‘The Little Stranger’ traces the details of its chosen moment of social change with precision and subtlety,” A.O. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Lincoln Rhyme’ and ‘AJ and the Queen’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

The elite Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, a precision machine and one of the best in the world, was founded in 1949. At 100, orchestra has a midlife crisis 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Jess developed a technique that was better suited to his gift for meditative, labor-intensive precision: paintings with thickly layered surfaces from which images seemed to be incised. Art Review: Robert Duncan and Jess, and Their Wonderland of Art 2014-01-16T22:59:26Z

He somehow manages to write about the effect the war has on them -- and, in Bartle’s case, its psychological aftermath -- with enormous emotional precision. Books of The Times: ‘The Yellow Birds’ by Kevin Powers 2012-09-06T16:01:27Z

An apt closer, “Stay On It” is a bright party, veering between precision and lush chaos. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

He began to choreograph almost at once and quickly acquired a reputation for his unusual movement style, which combines a rooted, earthy quality with physical humor and balletic precision and stretch. Mats Ek, the Swedish Choreographer, Says His Goodbye Isn’t Quite a Farewell 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

And despite being so relaxed on stage, there is a great precision in the way his body strikes poses on punchlines, his features sliding to a stop. Comedy gold: Kevin Bridges' The Story So Far 2013-03-08T10:00:04Z

Whether theses architectural marvels add significantly to precision is a matter of debate, though watch aficionados do not really mind. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: The Triumph of Unnecessary Beauty 2011-03-23T15:28:24Z

The placement of features in her delicate, masklike face is exact, and he gets her forearm and fingers especially with precision. Klimt, Schiele and Picasso: Erotic Visions From Three Modern Masters 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Still, the tentative promise of the opener faded quickly alongside the flinty precision of the headliner. Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z

To revisit the movie is to appreciate the precision of Mr. Yang’s period details and novelistic touches. On DVD: Rock ’n’ Roll High Schools in Taiwan and America 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

In these books, James functions as an omniscient designer-director and as an intimate portraitist, blocking out complex compositions with epic precision and pushing figures forward for expressively pitiless close-ups. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Connecting physical phone lines with robotic precision is nothing compared to stacking one joke on top of another as a room fills with people watching in judgment. Smart Watch: Emmy winner “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in a dazzling season 2 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

A “Data Abundance” chart that shows how many messages are sent and photos shared on various platforms each minute renders life’s new entwinement with unsettling precision. Move Over, Metaverse. Here’s Something Meaner. 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, with unblinking precision, he tears through two would-be killers while a shocked group of tough guys watch in fear from an elevator. ‘The Killer’ Review: Stylistic Action Without the Heart 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The stitching falls between as well as within stories; the collection proceeds with fractal precision. Mining the Madness of Pure Logic in Stories That Dazzle and Discomfit 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The slow-motion shots of a pelican dive allow you to see, rather than merely sense, the precision involved. Rehabilitating birds soar in 'Pelican Dreams' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

You employ a discipline and a precision in your shots, in how you compose a frame and how long you hold a scene to let viewers absorb all of the drama and emotion. "It is a civil war": "Heroic" director on how the Mexican military makes ordinary men into killers 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

And when he brought it out into the audience, and threw it up to the balcony, he showed how precision delivery and command of a room can make even the oldest, silliest material impossibly compelling. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Too soon this precision seems precious and fussy. Dance in Review: Dance in Review 2010-10-04T21:10:00Z

Neither strictly dance nor theatre, these constellations of stylised action are taut with concentration and executed with astonishing precision by performers drawn from mostly non-dance and non-theatre backgrounds. Birds with Skymirrors 2010-08-19T21:30:00Z

That Ms. de Niese was in superb voice was clear from the start, when she negotiated the bright filigree of the Mozart with graceful precision. Music Review: The Metropolitan Opera in Central Park 2012-07-26T21:57:22Z

"For me," says Fiennes, "Gustave is representing that bygone world, where things like a table beautifully laid with precision and order mattered, because they're about a civilization and the best of human aspiration." Ralph Fiennes on nostalgia, heart in Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

In 1991, she recorded her first album, the best-selling “Debut,” signaling the arrival of a great talent combining technical precision and finely shaded emotional expressiveness. Violinist Sarah Chang returns to Olympic Music Festival 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The dancers move their whole bodies with a mixture of freedom and precision that’s startling, and they look motivated in every moment. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z

To make that right turn, at least with any precision or efficacy, you have to have been around the block a few times. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Performed with whiplash precision and abandon by Spectrum Dance Theater, "The Beast" is Byrd at his most intense and most disciplined. Spectrum's 'The Beast': brutal rigor and energy 2011-10-01T17:17:04Z

Though the movie seems scripted and the action is staged with a calm precision, Hartigan wants to see, not to show. The State of Independent Film in 2016 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

“I prefer the precision of my wooden tools to modern equipment,” Mr. Rizzetto, 65, said as he polished a diamond-set bracelet with a handheld tool resembling a slingshot. Creating Golden Opportunities Amid Austerity 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z

“He has a beautiful way of hitting the floor with great precision, but without slamming the floor, which is very rare. Like my grandfather used to say, ‘He has a beautiful touch.’” ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

Every “i” was dotted, every “t” crossed; such was the precision that Settles communicated even in his most impassioned, frenzied lines. Brian Settles gives excellent, thoughtful performance at Bohemian Caverns

Not since Absolutely Fabulous has a programme used clothing with such humour and precision, deploying a drop-crotch trouser or a dramatic epaulette with the meticulous timing of an exquisitely crafted punchline. TV style icons of 2020: Schitt's Creek's absolutely fabulous fashion overload 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

He calibrates his anger, vocally and physically, with chilling precision, from political aggression to power-lust to sexual frustration. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z

Some 10 years later, the “Fold” paintings continue to charm with their keen balance of beauty and precision, Auerbach’s assiduous process fully complementing the canvases’ delicate colors and lines. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Ibarra plays the drums with cool precision and a sense of architectural awareness that befits a great composer. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

“For the treacle that usually infuses treatises on aging, he has substituted a seductive frankness and bracing precision,” the New York Times wrote. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

And she enacts that wrongdoing with an equal measure of precision and heartlessness, talking about it later as if it were a dreamy sequence in one of the cheap romance novels she escapes into. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

He celebrated the qualities of “clarity, precision, plainness, lucidity and the sort of magical compression that enriches instead of vitiates.” Book Review: ‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace 2012-11-15T16:55:36Z

What they lacked in genuine ballroom technique they made up in verve and precision. Rumba 101 With Two Ballet Pros 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

There were precious few women before her, if any, who could dispense one-liners with such machine-gun precision or overpower an audience with such an outrageous personality. Phyllis Diller, Sassy Comedian, Dies at 95 2012-08-20T20:28:37Z

Here was someone who not only proved that it was the world and not you that was crazy, but who deconstructed that insanity with breathtaking precision. Dry your eyes, America: We should be glad Jon Stewart is leaving “The Daily Show” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

With its tone changing on a dime, “Sweeney” is an elaborate sendup of music-hall entertainments that needs rhythmic precision to have its impact; here, ensembles too often feel blurry. ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘The Crucible’: Not New, but Darkly Up-to-Date 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Two dozen coral-tutu'd young students from the PNB school danced Act III's "Waltz of the Golden Hours" with smiling precision, moving through George Balanchine's intricate choreography as if doing so made them happy. PNB's 'Coppélia': A classic that glows with childhood innocence 2012-06-04T19:17:04Z

Part of the precision on the set of “Drive” involved Mr. Gosling staying in character as a guy who didn’t talk much. The Carpetbagger: Albert Brooks Finds a New Use for His Character's Backstory 2012-01-11T14:00:13Z

At first Mr. Adams approaches these distinctive personalities with energy and precision, opening the work with a harrowing account of Mary’s night in jail, followed by Martha’s calm summary of her charity work. Music Review: ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary,’ by John Adams 2012-06-01T21:51:19Z

What comes through immediately is that the chords, riffs, fragments and themes have been chosen with precision. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z

Even though he lived in the 17th century, Vermeer's pictures have a cool, silent precision that can be emulated by photographers. Johannes Vermeer is a pearl – not a diamond 2013-06-20T13:56:50Z

The WDR Big Band Cologne, a precision German ensemble, handles this task with evident feeling. 2010-02-15T01:32:00Z

“Lend Me a Tenor,” by Ken Ludwig, is a classic farce with lots of slamming doors, mistaken identities and precision timing. Stanley Tucci, Director 2010-02-17T18:52:00Z

Lean’s Dickens films handle visual hyperbole with dexterity and precision, and are poetic, poignant and at times truly terrifying. Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson Peak 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

The combination of precision and looseness is arresting. Dance Review | Liz Gerring Dance Company: At Baryshnikov Center, Bringing the Outdoors In 2010-03-13T00:04:00Z

This allows you to see and luxuriate in the performers’ physicality, in their grace and steely power, as well as to appreciate the geometry and precision of the fight choreography. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Porter captures the imagination because his style choices are as outré as they come, but they’re done with precision and intent and pleasure. Perspective | The Golden Globes red carpet showed it’s okay to delight in fashion rather than just tolerating it 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Milarsky is a percussionist by training, and his conducting is the kind that is enlightening to watch, combining geometric precision with a bighearted feel for phrasing and a knack for making repetitive patterns swing. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z

Her seventh book, “Your Duck Is My Duck,” showcases her inimitable voice and captures our current national mood with eerie precision. Review | ‘Your Duck Is My Duck’ isn’t exactly political, but it eerily captures our national mood 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Costanzo, on the other hand, is used to the precision of classical music, where every note and step is carefully planned. A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage … 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

“Ballo” is full of simmering quiet, from which the full orchestra was able, time and again, to suddenly explode with savage, Mutian precision. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Both were done, however, with crisp precision and acerbic wit. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2012-05-16T17:13:13Z

The group approaches its task with a military precision, with a few dozen staffers churning out new videos overnight. The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

They all played and sang with the thrilling mixture of precision and abandon the work so crucially demands. Prom 32: Bernstein's Mass – review 2012-08-07T15:46:59Z

But the busy tedium of their lives is given shape and direction by the skill of the cast and by the precision of the director’s eye, ear and editing instincts. Movie Review: In Joe Swanberg’s ‘Drinking Buddies,’ Couples Face Tests 2013-08-22T20:54:18Z

All are wonderful, and Fey is terrific too: Her timing has always been superb, but lately, she’s settled into a kind of autopilot precision. Review: Tina Fey Falls in Love With a War Zone in 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Green screen acting requires precision and a lot of imagination to pretend to interact with people, objects, creatures and backgrounds that will be digitally filled in later. How Tig Notaro became a badass action star at age 50 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

With the precision required of them, are elite athletes more prone to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder than the rest of us? Do Olympians get OCD? 2012-08-02T17:20:00Z

Ballerinas absorbed in the pinpoint precision of sewing the ribbons on their toe shoes. ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

But everything was bound by a gentleness and precision of touch, and enhanced by Carrie Wood’s wonderfully subtle lighting, which suggested murky waters, cozy interiors and, most evocatively, moonlight streaming in through a back window. Dance Review: Creating Primal Wilderness With Lunges and Antlers 2010-12-02T21:46:00Z

But most depict flowers, fruits and vegetables with academic precision. In the galleries: An early spring is always welcome 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

He said he valued precision and clarity over showmanship. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor known for his subtle interpretations, dies at 80

They made subversive queer-themed paintings, and their photographs — created in antique styles, with painstaking precision — depicted them as dandies of a bygone era. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

In a form that prizes precision and unison, the artists experiment with ceding control, making room for spontaneity, imperfection, the freedom to fall apart. Tossing and Catching Rhythms on Stages and City Streets 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Sarah Lamb, whose performance in the lead role opened the season, is a very modern Swan Queen, sharp-cut in her technical precision and icily beautiful throughout. Swan Lake ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:59Z

“Trio” is much softer, almost a balletic pas de trois, but without balletic precision. Dance Review: Keigwin + Company in Two Premieres at the Joyce Theater 2012-06-14T21:46:26Z

Whether swinging her legs like a mischievous child or squatting on a toilet — yes, Elliott’s staging goes there — she brings her precision comedy and riveting charisma to every moment she’s onstage. Review: In a Gender-Flipped Revival, ‘Company’ Loves Misery 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

But without Mr. Alaïa’s precision, his mastery of craft and his ease around women’s bodies, this will only lead to bad parodies. Azzedine Ala?a: The Master of the Female Form 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z

But the polish and precision, the perfect dovetailing of moving image and live sound, seemed in some ways the opposite of performance art. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11 Is Bigger but Not Better 2011-11-25T23:51:33Z

It’s a mind-blowing feat of acrobatics, precision, adrenaline, heft, costuming. Tornado. Treasure. There Was Nobody Like Tina Turner. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

But the ceremony wasn’t just notable for the remarkable precision and timing of its participants. The Choreography of Public Mourning 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Windows, placed with mathematical precision, were large and often shuttered — Georgian builders seemed to understand that in the late afternoon, taking tea, one might want to ease gently into the dusk. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Consider the extra grammatical “aspects” of African-American English, the “be” aspects conveying habitual states, which add descriptive precision and nuance. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The older MJ, in the show, fights for rigid precision — movement phrases are knotty, spiky, full of angles, while Little Michael is smooth and enviably relaxed. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Its sense of tradition, craft and precision and the importance of the figure ultimately set his artistic ideals. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Ocean's producer Malay has spoken about the recording process, revealing that there were barely any leftovers from the sessions, which gives an idea of the precision involved. Best albums of 2012, No 1: Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 2012-12-14T00:00:00Z

The information is delivered with wit, economy and precision, and the author never falls back on lazy generalizations. ‘It’s Not You, It’s Brie:’ Blessed are the cheesemakers 2013-01-02T22:44:37Z

Shaw’s conversion is depicted with revelatory precision, his epiphany realistically subdued and painstakingly gradual. Book Review Podcast: Texting While Driving 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The physical precision he brings to Patrick’s disintegration is remarkable. Review: ‘American Psycho’ Hits Broadway, So Smooth, So Rich, So Ruthless 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

And like Dalí, Tanguy had no qualms about returning to the light, space and precision of the Northern Renaissance — with some updating via post-Freudian subject matter. Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z

Mr. Noseda conveys the Russian character of the music, while conducting it with clarity and precision. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z

When using a viscous or thicker liquid for plating, a cornet may come in handy for assisting in accuracy and precision. Learn the secret for parchment paper piping bags 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

There's a precision and inevitability of movement from line to line which seem self-forgetful. Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z

“Family Business” is also a work of graceful yet severe precision, distilling a wide range of experience into a tautly compressed style. What to Stream: A Rediscovered Short by—and Starring—Chantal Akerman 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

In its combination of precision and exuberance the show matches the spirit of Environmental Communications itself, whose work always a cultural contradiction in terms, a carefully indexed card catalog of scruffy, genial radicalism. L.A. in the 1970s: A visual and architectural treasure trove at LAXART 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Somin disagreed, noting that the dragons gave Daenerys an enormous advantage over her enemies and could in fact be used with some precision. Ice and fire: what Game of Thrones can teach us about power politics 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

If Japanese cooking champions precision and beauty, then Kizuna is the cuisine’s lumbering, lovable American in-law. Kizuna review: There’s nothing subtle about this Tysons newcomer 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Joined by a six-member orchestra led with verve and precision by Raphael Fusco, the cast energetically inhabited a world both realistically contemporary and timelessly comic, creating characters simultaneously stereotypical and personal. Music Review: Call It ‘The Green Card of Figaro,’ With Thanks to Mozart 2013-06-16T21:49:33Z

Litton ensured a thrusting, rhythmic precision, but he was also able to underline the characteristically quirky moments and its edgy, malicious bite. CBSO/Litton – review 2012-05-29T16:37:51Z

But all offered teeming dance invention, heady gymnastic prowess and refreshing precision and wit. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z

Dancers wearing short shorts — known locally as batty-riders — ground their hips with mechanical precision. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

In every aspect of technique — from the smoky colors and the bustling, off-center compositions to the architecture of the story and the emotional precision of the performances — this film is a work of absolute mastery. | 'A Brighter Summer Day': ?A Brighter Summer Day,? by Edward Yang - Review 2011-11-24T21:00:30Z

Plus you get the excellent Dean, who runs the Azur with precision, pride, passion and panache - pretty much as if it was the Aman Canal Grande hotel in Venice, in fact. My £999 Wedding review – there’s pride in thrift 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

His Merrill Lynch account contains shares of companies like Sarepta Therapeutics, a maker of precision genetic medicines that treat rare neuromuscular and central nervous system diseases. Here’s How Bored Rich People Are Spending Their Extra Cash 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

The pair's Hands album is a triumph, but the music was all the more vivid for hearing Habichuela's whiplash emphases and steely precision of phrasing in a live show. Holland/Habichuela 2010-07-06T21:15:00Z

Ezhokina's supple sway on the keyboards dovetailed beautifully with Singer's protean precision on the cello. In Leavenworth, the hills come alive with the sounds of chamber music 2011-07-15T20:42:37Z

Radnor's simplistic formal structure is executed with precision, but there's no finesse, particularly in the transitions between relationship sagas. 'happythankyoumoreplease': three love stories that run together 2011-03-24T22:23:08Z

Yoakam said the recordings reflected the emotion in the song, rather than the precision of the notes, which was key. Dwight Yoakam to release '3 Pears' on Sept. 18 2012-07-19T10:39:08Z

It was a show of superhuman precision, control and stamina, of hitting his marks on a heavily trafficked stage, and he was just getting started. Usher Shows Superhuman Precision at Madison Square Garden 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

The range of his portraits and their shocking, evocative precision belie a modest setup. A Photographer’s Elaborate Transformations in His Childhood Bedroom 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

His portrait of an age-gnarled Lear is rendered with exacting physical precision that suggests both the peasant stock and ruthlessness of his character’s past. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z

Though the future first lady would later debate the technical precision of the word “date,” she did elect to meet this bold young man on a Saturday afternoon. Breakthrough Performances From the Summer Movies Season 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Music needs precision to push against for creativity to occur, whether actual science is involved or not. Symphony of life: making music out of the human genome 2010-06-24T21:29:00Z

The ability to transform an extreme muscular control and technical precision into an unearthly, floating beauty hasn’t lessened as Ms. Whelan has grown older. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Corrag's descriptions combine the oblique originality of a child with the precision and control of a poet. Corrag by Susan Fletcher | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

“South Park” dudes + “Avenue Q” dude = precision choreography, Mormons. Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2011-03-30T19:52:19Z

That's something that I'm always trying to do, is remind people that even though, yes, we need to follow these baking rules, yes, the goal would be to follow the recipe with some precision. From cheesy brie bites to gooey jalapeño poppers, "Savory Baking" has a place at your holiday table 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

My hunch is they will: The mixture of antiquarian precision and entrepreneurial self-confidence that drives “La La Land” will be embraced by a generation for whom preservation and invention often go together. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Surprisingly, given our long-standing devotion to kill-everything chemical pesticides, it was in the United States that this precision biological approach was first employed. Shifting toward a greater understanding of bugs – the good and the bad 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

And for a genre perceived as touchy-feely and lightweight, romantic comedy demands incredible precision in its execution. How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Rom-Com? Three Comedians Try. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

I revel in precision and attention to detail — these are my superpowers. Preserving the Season at Its Peak 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Gilbert and his players certainly dispatched the intertwined lines of this densely contrapuntal music with precision and point. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z

Mr. Mengestu writes from the points of view of Helen and Isaac with poignancy and psychological precision, deftly evoking their very different takes on the world. Books of The Times: Dinaw Mengestu’s ‘All Our Names’ Describes Unexpected Love 2014-03-03T21:42:23Z

In the “Overture to ‘West Side Story’ ” and especially the “Three Dance Episodes from ‘On the Town,’ ” the orchestra played with verve and a willingness to get dirty, if not always with absolute precision. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Balanchine’s account is only a half-hour long but demands no less in technical precision and emotional dimension than a full-scale production. Suzanne Farrell Ballet soars in ‘The Concert,’ stumbles in ‘Swan Lake’

“The precision of what she does is extraordinary, and her instincts are just so right,” Mr. Chibnall said of Ms. Whittaker, adding that she is “incredibly funny.” Jodie Whittaker Brings ‘Doctor Who’ Its Biggest Change in 55 Years 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

In writing of any kind, the most important qualities are precision, boldness, imagination and flair in the use of language. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Whole stretches of the score evolve without a trace of overt theatricality, just pensive choral writing interspersed with solo voices in music that values unhurried elegance and precision. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z

“So the tone of everything has to convey strength and precision.” A Hit in Germany, a ‘Rocky’ Musical Aims at Broadway 2012-12-05T17:01:32Z

"Goldberg" blended humor, mathematical precision and exquisite beauty in a highly varied package — and finally let Haim realize a longstanding dream of performing. The stop-start career of Seattle choreographer Mark Haim 2012-03-21T21:35:03Z

It can have the same biochemical make up as animal milk, but is grown using an emerging biotechnology technique know as "precision fermentation" that produces biomass cultured from cells. Synthetic dairy milk made without cows may be coming to a supermarket near you 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Actors and puppeteers manipulate props and puppets with precision. ‘BFG’ is a fun puppet adventure for parents and kids at Imagination Stage

She hasn't strayed from the British bistro feel, but what's important with straightforward dishes such as shepherd's pie is the quality of ingredients and precision of cooking. Food & drink picks of the week 2010-05-07T23:14:00Z

Hear how, alongside precision, the purity of sound — in the strings, and in Lucile Richardot’s robust yet smooth tone — maintains rending beauty and a softly dancing lilt. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

He transgresses all sorts of formal boundaries, binding together cheap materials with craft and precision. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

But it’s also an era in which “influence”—as determined by the number of followers a person can amass on any given social-media platform—can be quantified with horrifying precision. The Eagles’ Ascendance and the Problem of Ranking the Top-Selling Album of All Time 83 chars 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Sit at the bar and watch meticulous chefs flip, slice and arrange plates with the precision of a martial arts performance. 36 Hours in Vancouver, British Columbia 2013-06-20T15:46:07Z

The collection seemed to have been worked out with a pen and ink, square and ruler, for perfect precision. Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z

They do the same kind of acting onstage as off—the sort of modern naturalism, without eccentricity of gesture, excess of expression, or heightened and formalistic precision, that is the business-casual of contemporary cinema. “Birdman” Never Achieves Flight 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

In “Wolf Hall,” Hilary Mantel imagines Thomas Cromwell’s first glimpse five centuries ago of his hard-boiled portrait by Hans Holbein — who looked with the same fierce precision upon royals, bankers and ambassadors. Seeking Historical Exhibits That Speak to the Here and Now 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s a playful site gag that’s also a genuinely exciting car chase—an essential preview of the unique Arnold-Schwarzenegger-meets-Buster-Keaton mixture of muscle-car wild action and geometric precision that Lin brought to his films. Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

His house, designed with the same intelligent precision that marks his acting, is like the elegant toy shop of some cheerful Post-Impressionist. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The story is based on a 1735 series of engravings by William Hogarth, and Stravinsky’s score has the etched-in-acid precision of that medium as well as classical mastery of line and proportion. Review: ‘The Rake’s Progress’ Makes a Brief Visit at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

His precision and references to crafts evoke the Renaissance and its optimism. Art Trek: Roberta Smith’s Tour of the Sizzlers on the Upper East Side 2014-04-03T22:52:07Z

His reading sacrificed some of the work’s mischievousness in favor of sheer virtuosity but was irresistible for the precision, power and sheer opulence of the orchestra’s sound. Music Review: Fabio Luisi With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-17T15:15:08Z

Mr. Hou said that he didn’t rehearse the film, which is fairly astonishing given the precision of the camerawork and how bodies move through his space in it. 'The Assassin' Director on Long Takes, Fast Edits and a Warrior in the Shadows 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Andrew Veyette, the lead, is dancing this season with twice his former power and twice the precision. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z

Known for his precision at the mixing board and his imaginative use of echo and other ambient effects, Mr. Tarsia was the engineer on scores of gold and platinum recordings. Joe Tarsia, an Architect of the Sound of Philadelphia, Dies at 88 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Foster, the endearing goof of the duo, is a gifted mimic who can differentiate between the contrasting adenoidal yowls and yelps of the lead vocalists of the genre with remarkable precision. | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

Careful with that flour: Once flour becomes involved, the process requires more precision. How to decorate cookies like a pro baker 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Lin’s gifts of minute observation and psychological acuity, and the precision and nuance of her writing, redeem what would otherwise be an unbearably sad novel. Review | Turn up the volume: This month’s best audiobooks have something to say 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Then she went in for the precision shot: "Cause that's what you want — you want someone to just gas you up." The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

She delivered some of the most difficult coloratura passages with scintillating precision, evidently at ease in this repertory. Music Review: ‘Le Comte Ory,’ With Pretty Yende, at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-01-18T23:09:37Z

On the one hand, it’s a chaos of castoffs; on the other, it’s a miracle of labor-intensive precision, with its countless minute elements shaped, grouped and placed just so. Elias Sime Recycles Discarded Objects Into Abstract Works 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

In the slightly-larger-than-life preliminary nude of Wiessant that begins the show, Rodin captures both the posing model and his own process with uncanny precision. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

That said, the elegance of his dancing and the precision of his partnering are spellbinding. Swan Lake ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:59Z

But you can also hear the passion and precision in the core band. Playlist: CDs by People, Places & Things, and Anibal Velasquez 2010-04-30T19:54:00Z

Speed, precision, complexity and sudden change have always been at the band’s fingertips, which can move incredibly fast. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s confidence, maybe it’s precision, maybe it’s lethargy, but he’s been admirably consistent throughout his career. Music Review: Wiz Khalifa Raps Beyond His Years 2011-03-30T16:06:49Z

The show is too long, and the big numbers that aren’t set in the dance hall are short on Broadway precision and pizzazz. 2010-01-13T00:41:00Z

He musters his inner sinister to snarl and glower with gusto, and his singing has both power and precision. Theater Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Returns to Broadway 2014-03-24T02:00:01Z

Her consistency of dress was a sign of reliability in the face of global change, a physical expression of her job as a living historical symbol and a tool wielded with precision, aforethought. Queen Elizabeth II and the Shape of 20th-Century Power Dressing 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Facing an elite unit of armed police, the youths marshalled their campest street repertoire, joining arms, kicking their legs in the air like a precision dance troupe. LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

For a band that thrived on an anything-goes approach to performing, the Riot Fest show ran with relative precision, with barely a pause between songs. Replacements at Riot Fest concert review 2013-09-16T06:03:00Z

Unlike neo-Classical paintings of the day, in which figures and their relationships were articulated with unnaturally glassy precision, Watteau’s paintings convey a feeling that other people are unfathomably mysterious. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Another aspect of El Sistema was on display at the Carreño theater, a network of outdoor terraces, walkways and plazas: orchestras playing with great precision and energy. ArtsBeat: A Musical Exchange in Venezuela: El Sistema Performs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2012-02-17T00:04:15Z

The California artist subverts the precision of digital photography by exposing his camera’s sensors to heat and electromagnetic static. In the Galleries: Exploring Cuba via the artwork 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

It brings music of classical precision and the explosive energy of pop and rock to the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Patricia McGregor directs. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Ballet skiing, which prioritized precision and couldn’t untangle its confused relationship to artistry, had trouble attracting young skiers. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Informed by unforced compassion and precision, his elliptical narratives are the opposite of spoon-fed entertainment. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Gen. Nick Carter, the head of Britain’s armed forces, said the ceremony would “reflect military precision and above all, I think, it will be a celebration of a life well-lived.” UK military prepares for big role in Prince Philip’s funeral 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Gelb preferred something closer to the danger and thrill of the Met’s stage, where you never know whether a singer will overshoot a high note or land it with sublime precision. How the Met Opera Is Throwing a Gala Concert With Smartphones 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

While I always try to burrow into my perceptions in order to create characters, I am stopped short of actually visualizing them with police-artist precision. Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Dozens of people, their functions mysterious, busied themselves in the side aisles: everything was done with hushed precision and respect for instinctively understood hierarchies. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Resounding proof that Sondheim, at 60, had lost none of his artistic daring or precision, or his willingness to defy convention. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

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

The meal — especially the sort of potluck buffet where guests bring all sorts of family favorites — is too complex and disparate to worry about precision matching. Even Bad Jokes Can Make Good Thanksgiving Wines 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Sweeping, spacious dancing and stringent footwork crystallize the lifeblood of ballet: passion and precision. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Russian Seasons? From New York City Ballet 2012-02-05T22:36:15Z

He was already winning bluegrass competitions, playing the instrument with a remarkable precision and speed usually matched only by banjo pluckers and bluegrass guitarists. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Chiara players were ideal advocates for both pieces, their care and precision enhanced with tangible commitment and abundant heart. Music Review: Trinity Church Brings New Music to 9/11 Remembrance 2011-09-09T23:31:31Z

He is trying to capture, with almost clinical precision, the patterns of speech of a willful woman sliding into senility. Review: Elaine May Might Break Your Heart in ‘Waverly Gallery’ 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

It exemplifies an admirable erudition, precision and devotion to the collection, but also a tendency toward the cerebral and austere, visible in many temporary exhibitions of recent art here. MoMA Takes On the ’60s in a Welcome Shakeup of the Permanent Collection Galleries 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Many events were repeated twice in sequence, underscoring the precision of their enactment. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z

So in order for his teams to compete against superstars, he designed an unusual playing style that required patience, precision, and dead-eye shooting. Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z

Complex and minute watch parts can be produced with extreme precision using silicon because of a manufacturing process called Deep Reactive-Ion Etching, or DRIE. Precise Future of Silicon Parts Still Being Debated 2012-11-23T13:35:46Z

As Goldstein observes, Levi consistently “strove in his writing for lucidity, precision and conciseness — qualities that he attributed in part to his training and profession as a chemist.” ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’: A literary treasury on humanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

“When someone tells me I can’t do something,” she said, holding the pause with precision timing honed over three and half decades of telling jokes, “I’m grateful.” Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

He mimes the barber shop with such precision and accuracy one can almost smell the barbasol. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Marie-Aude Rose, the chef, applies classical precision to eggs, salads, bouillon, boeuf bourguignon and other French cafe standards, which is more than you can say for some cafes in France. New York’s Top 10 New Restaurants of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

More than equal to the flirtatiousness and flick jetés of Act 1, she brings fragrant grace notes to the classical passages and a fine precision of line to the grand pas de deux. Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:13Z

Often they move as a pack, a horde, with drugged slowness or with mechanical precision. Dance Review: L-E-V Performs at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-07-26T19:49:48Z

With the instinct of a hunter himself, Hammer tracks Lendrum’s nefarious career, structuring the story with elegant precision. Meet the ‘Pablo Escobar of the Falcon Egg Trade’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

There is a precision to the stone construction and its plan, with symmetrical side chambers. Winter solstice: See the light on the darkest day 2010-12-21T11:46:02Z

The orchestra offered a taut, energetic performance of the brooding work, deftly conveying the contrast between the stormy elements and the gracious minuet that unexpectedly surfaces, rendered with genteel precision. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

According to King, writing is primarily about seduction, not precision. 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

This classic of precision choreography by Russell Markert, “The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers,” is part of the “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes.” A Rockettes Precision Routine: Falling Like Dominoes 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

The vintage Champagne is a step up in precision and complexity, made from a blend dominated by pinot noir. How Climate Change Has Altered the Way Cristal Champagne Is Made 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Those who are new to her work will marvel at her ability to address difficult subjects — slavery, the challenges of mixed-race families and the murder of her mother — with precision and compassion. Review | These new voices in poetry should make us sit up and listen 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

But the teeming energy that floods the stage, which has been choreographed with impressive precision by Mr. Mantello, helps roll past the more heavy-treading passages. Review: ‘Airline Highway’ Is a Portrait of the Underclass of New Orleans 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The research, precision and perhaps even genius that go into these instruments far exceeds our ability to use them. Mach2 modernism 2010-07-02T11:03:00Z

Vänskä's preference for tension and detail over volume and textural weight results in playing of exceptional lucidity from an orchestra that often functions with the precision of a chamber ensemble. Proms 56 & 57: Minnesota Orchestra/V?nsk? 2010-08-29T11:52:00Z

Davis is often called on to go big in her roles, to let the emotion and snot flow, so it’s a pleasure watching her hold back and change it up with lapidary, minimalist precision. ‘Air’ Review: The Game Changers 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

She combines these with a balletic precision and control that to some might seem the opposite of the improvisational quality often associated with flamenco. The Anarchic Side of Flamenco 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

But the terror in Ms. Bartoli’s singing came from precision, attack and raw emotion. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

The NSO is a powerful orchestra that loses some of its force through inattention to details, and it didn’t quite mesh with Ax’s fluent precision. Review | A light Ax, a ponderous Fate: NSO plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

But this is not the first time that scholars, even those respectful of and grateful to Mr. Craft, have questioned his precision. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z

She also delineates Sabina’s efforts to articulate an identity of her own — through her relationships with her family and the men she dates — with unsparing psychological precision. Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z

Cerebral precision and mindless abandon are an irresistible combination – and those jiving elementary school kids aren't the only ones to know it. Phoenix Metaphors 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z

Then, with sacred devotion and characteristic precision, Mark Kuhn’s rituals will begin once again. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

While some prefer the treacly sweetness of rom-coms and family favorites, others among us long for fare that’s meaty, lavish and carved with surgical precision. "Knives Out" isn't as sharp as it thinks it is 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

One thing about “Esplanade” was not democratic: its absolute precision. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z

Things happen, quietly, and with scrupulous precision, and María’s life slowly fills in. ‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: A Tequila Factory’s Story, Sip by Sip 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The show works at every level, as satire, parable and romcom, and from the first appearance of Ross Green's wry narrator unfolds with luxurious, rapid-fire precision. Some Like It Hip Hop – review 2012-09-29T23:05:24Z

Another participant in "Alien She" who seeks to hit that moving target with precision is Miranda July, the avant-garde filmmaker and writer. Riot Grrrls stake a new space in 'Alien She' 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Don’t mistake the show’s unassuming style for a lack of precision — “Work” is nuanced and focused, with a rich understanding of its characters’ world. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

And his precision with the tricky Argentinean tango technique was stunning for a contemporary dancer. An underwhelming night on "So You Think You Can Dance" 2010-06-24T12:01:00Z

“It was a necessary reaction to a certain lackadaisical way of attacking tasks, and Toscanini in forwarding it did a wonderful service. But now precision has become an ideal, which is wrong.” Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

It is an orchestra with a supreme dedication to ensemble values, equally capable of power and precision. Budapest Festival Orchestra at Strathmore 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

I thought French cuisine was the height of precision. Perspective | What raising multicultural sons has taught me about food and appropriation 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

The music, recreated with precision timing by a group of more experienced, and sober, musicians played through technologically advanced sound systems, sounds better than early concert recordings. Music: The Specials, Ska Revivalists, Enjoy a Revival 2010-04-01T21:52:00Z

Ms. Hadid has been paired with the couturier Hussein Chalayan, whose costumes tend to be made with geometric precision and Easter-egg colors, like a Kentucky Derby party at Robert Wilson’s house. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Horibe, with a chiseled, lithe body that credibly evokes Lee’s own, gives demonstrations of his highly personalized version of kung fu that are often breathtaking in their precision. Theater Review: David Henry Hwang’s ‘Kung Fu’ Opens at Signature Theater 2014-02-25T03:00:01Z

The walls, decorated with vintage oyster plates, and the wrap-around bar, populated by precision shuckers with the gift of gab, also strongly suggest that you get some bivalves. 10 great places to eat in Philadelphia, for convention-goers and the rest of us 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

This is in stark contrast to the interpretations of Bach keyboard works we have grown used to, in which we prize, above all, clarity and precision. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

For decades, I hated the idea, but now I like the odd balance it requires between force and precision. Snow Boots to Sockless, Briefly 2010-03-03T03:00:00Z

And like Mr. Simons, the Givenchy designer went for peony pink in couture silks cut with graphic precision. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z

Mr. Lorber, who will turn 60 this year, brings a clinical precision to his output in the studio, on Fender Rhodes piano or various other keyboards. New Music: Albums From Gotye, Candy Dulfer and Jeff Lorber Fusion 2012-01-30T23:25:12Z

It was everything a good début is made of: ambition, artfulness, and surgical precision. Eight Albums That Defined 2018 for Me 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Adapting a novel for television means losing some of the precision of the characters’ interior life. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Hughes, equally well known in Britain for her popular historical documentaries, gives us an even heftier opus written with a classicist’s linguistic precision. A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Surprisingly, in spite of the precision cutting and fabrics that often looked like carpet underlay, the clothes seemed charming and interesting, rather than haughty or weird. Fashion Review: Ralph Lauren Plays Polo 2014-02-13T19:01:54Z

That’s especially true on “He Loves to Make Me Cry,” which is one earthy howl after another, a striking disruption to mainstream country’s emphasis on precision and linearity. Playlist: Fort Lean, Kristen Kelly, Chingo Bling and Other New Music 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z

Sam Gold, the director of “Corsicana,” who in an email noted both her “free and open energy” and her extreme technical precision, gave her notes. She Won a Tony. But Deirdre O’Connell ‘Can’t Think About That.’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

None of this quite explains why it was Switzerland, rather than Germany or France, that gained the pre-eminent reputation for precision and beauty. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The precision and control in his phrasing used to feel like a generous craftsman’s gift to humanity. Perspective | Every Michael Jackson song sounds different today 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

And when Ms. Tyson pronounces it with solemn and melodic precision, you see Carrie seeing that young man. Theater Review: ‘The Trip to Bountiful,’ at the Stephen Sondheim Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:06Z

The “precision running labs” are basically darkened rooms full of people running in place at the whims of a fiery, toned instructor. Running is the hot new fitness trend – only now you pay for it 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

But, more often, the impression is less of preciousness than of an intelligence jealous of all its resources for precision. Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and the Power of Literary Form 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Played with unflinching precision by the Philharmonia, the performance was a reminder that it's one of Shostakovich's greatest and most Mahlerian achievements, full of strange, beautiful and profoundly ambiguous music. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2013-05-17T15:50:26Z

The stonework at Choquequirao lacks the Lego-like precision of the finest temples at Machu Picchu, but illuminated by warm mountain light, the overall effect is more welcoming; one could easily imagine people living there. The Hidden Route to Machu Picchu 2011-06-24T19:06:22Z

The madrigals must be sung or, in this case, played, with pinpoint precision, so listeners will realize that the strange chords are intended. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z

Yet there are long stretches of pliant, lyrical Italianate melodic lines, sung with melting beauty by the impressive soprano Tony Arnold, who also easily navigated every vocal leap with uncanny precision. Music Review: Elliott Carter Memorial at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-01-15T22:48:02Z

For that reason, I’m grateful for Freitas’s reclamation of her voice, and for Goldberg’s precision on the particulars of one of the most frightening technological frontiers of our time. Fighting Harassers and Stalkers on the Web, in Court and in Print 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Is a docudrama’s goal to recreate every detail of its subject with photorealistic precision? ‘Impeachment’ Review: A She Said, She Said Situation 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

He was an exacting teacher who demanded that his students follow his instructions with precision. The Fight for the Soul of Pilates Moves From Instagram to Court 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

I’d read the spate of recent articles lambasting supermoms, helicopter moms, tiger moms, anorexic celebrities walking red carpets three days after giving birth, Pinterest queens and their precision crafting. What kind of monster hits her kid? Now I knew exactly what kind of monster 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

“It was so random, so chaotic,” he said, “especially in contrast to our electronic studio where we worked with unbelievable precision.” Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

He is aiming, after all, for what he termed “the precision of anarchy.” The Professor of Pratfalls 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Sunday Best follows the Idol formula with the unwavering precision of a pastry chef. Why You Aren't Watching BET's 'Sunday Best' 2010-05-14T00:09:00Z

There are orchestras that play with more precision: Here and there an entrance was frayed, an ornament rendered with subtly smudged contours. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

This sleight-of-hand, which required great precision, produced two distinct notes from a pair of strings that were usually played in unison on the mandolin. Jesse McReynolds, Lead Singer in Long-Running Bluegrass Duo, Dies at 93 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

It was so deliciously dark that I reread “The Sleepwalker” to pick up on all the subtle clues this clever novelist dropped with poetically perfect precision throughout. Chris Bohjalian’s ‘The Sleepwalker’: Sex, secrets and the mysteries of sleep 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

But that’s their task: in an Apollonian art that requires purity of line, precision of execution and harmony of appearance, dancers with less than ideal shapes must bring other qualities to bear. Critic?s Notebook: Judging The Bodies In Ballet 2010-12-04T00:15:00Z

The country’s premier ballet company, which has defined grace, speed and precision since the days of its co-founder George Balanchine, is now also a stage for the era’s #MeToo convulsions. Vulgar Texts and Dancer Turmoil Force City Ballet to Look in the Mirror 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Young girls comment with the brutal precision of scientists. The Concealed Weapons of ‘Kiss Me Someone’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Bircher muesli: rabbit food or a superlative piece of Swiss precision engineering? How to make the perfect bircher muesli 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“We got a lot of good reviews in newspapers because of our precision. We just felt things the same.” She’s Mrs. Rogers. But Joanne Rogers Has ‘Always Been Her Own Person.’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The Seventh, first performed in 1813, requires both unbridled power and unceasing precision, savagery in its finale tempered by sensitivity in its sorrowful Allegretto. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

The Philharmonic played with precision and thunderous power; in the audience, several voices, old and young, could be heard singing “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit.” Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

How many songs are written with such precision that you feel you’re actually within the song and the relationship? The science of Jerry and Elaine: The unsettling reasons why some exes keep each other close 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The piano writing is challenging and effective, full of intricately worked rhythmic patterns and clumping chords, and Douglas played it with great brilliance and precision. Prom 51: BBCSO/Dausgaard ? review 2011-08-23T10:15:20Z

When she does sing even or discernible pitches, her precision is remarkable. Live Jazz: Three September Standouts, From Fay Victor to Starebaby 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Throughout the piece, Stehlin brings luminous clarity and precision to some of the most intricate verse in the Shakespeare canon. A potent tragedy for the Twitter age: It's the 95-minute 'Macbeth: Revisited' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

And it's a tribute to the work's knife-edge precision that it contains optimism and despair in such brilliantly equal measure. Babel 2010-05-19T20:31:00Z

They now use both, depending on whether they want the puppets to appear more rough around the edges or cut with more computerized precision. A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

And that paradox — the synthesis of casual airiness and spotless precision — is the key to Brown's appeal. Trisha Brown Dance Company delights with perpetual motion 2011-04-01T16:53:04Z

The protagonist’s experiences are “relatable on one level and full-stop alarming on another, a hallmark of the psychological thriller genre that’s executed with gripping precision here.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

With her opening solo, she set the tone for the breathtaking precision and drive to come. Alvin Ailey Dance Highlights Teamwork in Recent Performances 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Layering was almost a story in itself - and done with a lightness and a precision available only in a couture atelier. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Plants His Couture Garden 2013-01-21T19:01:36Z

With “Youarenowhere,” which played at the Coil festival in 2015, Mr. Schneider established himself as a sorcerer of technical theater, able to control light and darkness, sound and silence, with astonishing precision. Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“The precision and timing of the movie’s chilling chase scenes reveal an artist who understands that truly resonant scariness could not be dumb,” Zinoman wrote. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Undoing’ and the Presidential Debate 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Playing with bloodthirsty force and on-point precision that heightened the high-stakes noir narratives, the rejuvenated group incinerated everything in its path, leaving nothing in its wake but the smoldering aftermath of toxic decisions. Afghan Whigs uncompromising at Metro 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

He accents the rude comedy of the Kims’ struggle with slyness and precision timing, encouraging your laughter. ‘Parasite’ Review: The Lower Depths Rise With a Vengeance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

There are power tools, precision cutters and a forklift, as Booker’s materials are heavy and her sculptures large. For Chakaia Booker, Whose Medium Is Tires, the Art Is in the Journey 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Every clue leads directly to another clue; each expository nugget pays off with clockwork precision. ‘Artemis Fowl’ Review: Fowl, Not Fair 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Part melodrama and part Cold War thriller, that film won an Oscar in 2007 and was embraced by many critics, including this one, for its blend of suspense and ethical precision. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

The mission involves chaos, turmoil, trouble—but Percy’s vision, his efforts, and his reports are models of poise, purpose, and precision. “The Lost City of Z” Resuscitates Cinema’s Classic Adventure Tale 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Revelation” describes frog dissection with vivid precision: The heart, excised still pumping, “sends plumes / of blood into suspension, then beats itself clean.” Sex, Death, Suffering and Surrealism, in New Books of Poetry 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

There is a precision about who is regarding whom and what it means that is worthy of Claude Chabrol or Alfred Hitchcock. ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Review: A Brush With Passion 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Switch is something more: an attempt to bring the control precision and power of traditional console controls to a panoply of mobile scenarios. Switch Is the Dream Console Nintendo's Been Working Toward for Years 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Yet the physical world of the story is important, and you describe the outer trappings of Michael’s life with great precision. This Week in Fiction: David Gilbert on Writing About a Man Who Is Trapped as a Boy 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Awards were also given for the flying camera that can be programmed to whizz through a house with exact precision and for the Helicam miniature helicopter camera system. Top techs behind moviemaking get their star turn from Academy 2014-02-16T08:55:00Z

Each item is styled with editorial precision, usually on flinty-faced models, like the kind you may find meandering through Dimes Square in New York City, against open white backgrounds. The Sensibility of Ssense 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

“My goal for this menu was just to do simple, good, elegant food with precision and excellence, taking simple things like chicken liver mousse, bone marrow or a piece of fish and executing them well.” Behind the Scenes at the Top Chef: Seattle Finale 2013-02-28T16:54:25Z

Undeviating precision is the rule for many recipes. At In Situ in San Francisco, Originality in Careful Copies 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Sally started as the clever young reporter who dissected — with surgical precision — the corpus of Washington elite, then became his girlfriend and finally his beloved third wife. Sally Quinn throws Ben Bradlee one last A-list party

It was a punk-rock group with prog-rock skills, the rhythmic precision of an old-fashioned soul band and a feverish stage presence that was equal parts punk, vaudeville and revival tent. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z

Every quilt-like coat, every skirt with deep and extravagant folds, every perfectly tailored tweed jacket spoke of luxury and precision. Balenciaga put engineers, architects and moms on its runway — to make a statement about power in the workplace 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

I kept expecting the company’s precision to get in the way — to inhibit the folk exuberance of each item — but no. Dance Review: Moiseyev Dance Company and Ballet West Fall for Dance 2012-10-03T22:32:53Z

In the high desert 100 gleaming aluminum forms — each the exact same size — are aligned in rows with military precision inside two former artillery sheds, just as Judd had ordered. What Would Donald Judd Do? 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Its short, choppy chapters are both methodical and kaleidoscopic, introducing new characters in flashes and bursts; there’s a remote precision to the writing that succeeds in projecting both the stakes and wonder of a spacewalk. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The request, which is still relatively rare, she says, fills her with dread, not because of the extreme precision required but because “it can get real male-dominant on set,” she says. How to Create Two Minimal Makeup Looks for Men — or Anyone 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

But the prose compels with its astonishing range and precision. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – review 2012-07-06T21:55:12Z

A blended heritage became enshrined in policy as a matter of minute fractions and “complicated racial math,” Hyde writes — “a false precision that empowered racism as federal law.” An Immersive History of Mixed-Descent Native Families 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

On Saturday, he didn’t seem to be as concerned with ensemble precision as he was with getting the curvature of a phrase shaped as gracefully as possible, using his left hand expressively. L.A. Chamber Orchestra gets a hand from Joshua Bell and guest conductor Jaime Martín 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Note, too, the precision with which the hands and feet of his subjects are rendered. Review: Norman Rockwell more than just an illustrator, Tacoma exhibition shows 2011-04-15T00:34:43Z

But if you want to make the process a little easier, use more precision or just need an excuse to purchase another kitchen appliance, there are plenty of decarboxylators on the market. Here is your ultimate beginner's guide to cooking with cannabis 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The poetry and beautiful precision of which he is capable are not in evidence here. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z

The clash between metronomic precision and brief, wanton Latin passion is the heartbeat of this short, perfect work. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z

The detail and precision of the papercutting art form and these specific works are stunning and at times a little overwhelming. What to look for in Seattle’s National Nordic Museum’s stunning exhibit of intricate papercutting art 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

They punch, strike, and kick with precision, breaking bones and saving feckless boys from themselves. "Bottoms" takes a swing at the meaning of ugly, reclaiming it for us average, untalented people 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z

The layers of selfish deceit and lies unravel coolly and bleakly, drawn with a deadly precision that this production relishes. A week in radio: Harold Pinter's Betrayal 2012-07-19T20:30:02Z

He recalls Mister Rogers’s kindness, but also his precision: No detail was too small to be a teachable moment. Perspective | My family knew Mister Rogers. And yes, he was like that in real life. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Measured precision can’t be achieved in everyday life, but Snow’s film still feels structurally, cosmically sound. In Moving Images, Michael Snow Teases the Eye and the Mind 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Any shadow of preciousness is quickly dispelled by the clarity of Krivak’s prose and the precision with which he delineates the girl’s struggles during a bitter winter when she is once again alone. Review | Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ takes a gentler approach to post-apocalyptic fiction 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

If it lacked the unchecked fury of last year’s Wavves live shows, it made up for it in precision thrash intense enough to rouse a bevy of stage divers. Music Review: At the Knitting Factory, Wavves Move Past Meltdown 2010-06-25T23:59:00Z

With the probing, restless spirit of the flâneuse, Sycamore traces topographies of hurt and want during long walks on Seattle streets mapped with the same precision shown to Boston in her third novel, “Sketchtasy.” Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Winchester tells us that precision had a birth date. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Jamelia is wearing a banana dressing gown, and again her arms lack control and precision. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

This period might be framed by the photograph of the sinking of the Belgrano and images broadcast by CNN of precision bombing in the Middle East. Photography's bodies of evidence | John Perivolaris 2010-04-04T14:00:00Z

More often than not, though, Doyle plumbs the bleaker aspects of literary life with startling precision and candor. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

At times during the “Daniel Variations,” the strings’ rhythmic precision frayed a bit. Review: One Birthday Tribute (of Many) for Steve Reich 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s no wonder that the painted-egg precision of short stories allows reviewers to comfortably celebrate female accomplishment, even to celebrate it prominently in the case of Alice Munro. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Unlike those choreographers, who initially rejected dance technique, Ms. Meehan insisted that highly trained dancers execute her own nonballetic idiom with refined precision. Nancy Meehan, a Dance Choreographer, Dies at 85 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Gray films the dangerous doings with a tension-stoking clarity, and his cinematographic view of New York neighborhoods blends documentary precision and poetic romanticism. What’s New On Streaming: James Gray’s Superb Crime Drama 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

With his wide forehead and a broad, elastic face, he is an actor of unusual precision, but there’s a vein of waywardness to him, too, a wildness only barely contained. Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Only Marianela Nuñez, in the Fonteyn role, really masters the switchback subtlety of the steps, enunciating the contrast between the swooping extravagance of her arms and shoulders and the flickering precision of her footwork. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2012-07-07T23:05:36Z

But as the episodes unfolded, art met life to an uncanny degree, sometimes with real-time precision. This Season of ‘Homeland’ Was Written in Something Like Real Time 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

This liberated Fletcher from the constraints of biographical precision. Elton John helped make his own biopic, ‘Rocketman.’ That actually made it more honest than ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

His haute couture collections were a breathtaking display of artistry and precision. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

The cast of eight perform with repurposed household objects and urban detritus, creating rhythm out of garbage cans, suitcases, radiator hoses and precision choreography, all while threading in humor through one-upping showdowns and zany mishaps. Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The executive chef, Nicolas Ferreira, cooks all the food with precision, over fire in an open kitchen adorned with flowers and plants. A California Chef Learns to Swim in Changed Waters 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

“In Their Lives” satisfies this formula with eerie precision. Ask me why: Great writers on the Beatles songs they love most 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

The two men both started as performers and shared certain traits: a sly wit, an impeccable eye, a meticulous style and a blend of precision and improvisation in their directing styles. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The burglar pulls a gun and yells for him to stop, but he moves, anyway, and with military precision overpowers his foe. Physically Disabled. Menaced by Evil. Up for a Fight. 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Gerring’s dancers always look like they’re working hard, which is part of the point: Effort is a recurring theme, presented with almost mathematical precision. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

True to their sponsor, Roc's team produces the episodes with military-like precision. Sitcom takes aim at danger, boredom in Haiti camps 2010-05-24T06:29:00Z

Charlotte Dobbs, a soprano, illuminated those shifts with precision and sensitivity. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z

Mr. Le Guen took up the challenge, making fans that blend frivolity and fantasy with precision craftsmanship. Fantasies Unmasked in the Folds of a Fan 2012-11-21T15:59:44Z

The precision is impressive as Wilson pivots between characters and fiddles with props. Surely, he jests: Matthew R. Wilson’s classic clowning in ‘One-Man Commedia Epic’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Their influence — the combination of rawness and precision, the complete commitment to the emotional reality of the character — is evident in nearly every scene of “A Prophet.” T Magazine: Changing of the Avant-Garde 2011-02-25T20:22:41Z

“Much of it is more about texture and timbre than precision or attack.” Seattle Symphony to present world premiere of John Luther Adams’ highly anticipated ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Meticulously prepared and singing from memory, the chorus was remarkable for its precision, unanimity and power. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

For us, it was a perfect mix of technical precision and a relaxed... Restaurant Review: Tuome in the East Village 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Even in his weaker stories, he lands, with gleeful precision, on death, sex, regret and then death again. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Clare, who speaks with a clipped, mysterious precision, is an early indication that Ives’s interests point toward the philosophical, even the mystical. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

The character is not dissimilar in terms of precision and drive, what's different is this idea of duty, part of an institution they feel great duty towards. Netflix's "Return to Space" filmmakers on why people follow Elon Musk: "He always sees the problem" 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination. Norman Foster at 75: Norman's conquests 2010-06-29T20:31:00Z

There was a certain precision and candor, very incisive and sharp. Remembering Mary McCarthy’s Style 2012-10-19T22:52:01Z

He used both dice and computers to help him prepare his dances; awkwardness interested him as much as precision. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

"His conversion," Akhtiorskaya writes with surgical precision, "was bound to remain an open wound in the family flesh, susceptible to infection." 'Panic in a Suitcase' a vivid immigrant tale of two cities 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

He launched into the first set of his doubleheader at the Fillmore Silver Spring with an almost workmanlike precision, throwing words into the air as if he were hammering nails into a wall. Review | GoldLink’s homecoming gig featured Mya, Shy Glizzy and a platinum plaque 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

They have, however, kept their chops and deliver the songs you want to hear with power and precision. Stones returning to stage: Why should we care? 2013-04-02T19:56:08Z

He marks up the text with a newsman’s precision, squinting intently at the page. Jim Lehrer’s New Play, ‘Bell,’ Is Opening in Washington 2013-09-11T21:49:44Z

This precision, which is so moving, is not only gestural, it is found in the texture of Costello's prose. The China Factory by Mary Costello – review 2012-06-07T07:00:01Z

The scherzo was taken, I think, a fraction more slowly than in previous years, and if anything gained thereby in rhythmic precision. 'Ode to Joy': Seattle Symphony delivers a rapturous rendition of Beethoven's Ninth 2010-12-30T21:22:04Z

Nobody’s house, including my own, regularly resembles the tidy and colorful precision we see in the media. Perspective | Organizing isn’t about perfection. It’s about compromise. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The precision required to assemble the components is reaching 3 microns. Special Report: Watches: Magic in the Timing 2010-03-17T20:20:00Z

For those who’ve never known it, Alyan plants the riches of the city with stealthy precision, making the maddening conundrum of Beirut yours, whether you want it or not. A Family Reunites in Beirut, Where the Past Is Never Past 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

The playing is vivid — strings lush and articulate, winds restrained, brasses secure — with a precision and transparency that emphasize Puccini’s debt to the adventurous instrumental textures, harmonies and gauzy exoticism of Stravinsky, Debussy and Strauss. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

He wears a black silk button-down shirt with a black vest, and has precision engineered his method for making highballs. In the watering holes of Tokyo, the highball reigns supreme 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

What sets Ms. Helou apart from her contemporaries is a curiosity she roots in historical precision. The Vast World of Islam, in 300 Recipes 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

How would his precision find more intensity in moments of stillness? What Set tWitch Apart as a Dancer? His Generous Spirit. 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

It’s a lavishly grotesque role, and Adams attacks it with her usual precision and conviction. Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

It’s what makes her live showings a literal workout as she rolls, splits and slides across the stage with precision. Ciara, a fiery performer desperately in need of better material 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

The choral singing was exemplary in its splendour and detailed precision. Susanna – review 2013-06-13T16:52:40Z

In my testing of both burners and ranges, I found that the thing I valued most was precision — that is, having as many temperature options as possible. The Case for Induction Cooking 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Serrano chilies put some sizzle in cubed raw fish, diced apple and chopped chives, each ingredient cut with such precision they looked like a cache of gemstones in the palm of avocado purée. A quirky name and creative cuisine combine at Blind Pig Bistro 2012-02-16T21:35:04Z

This tension between machine-like precision and more unruly impulses is also on display in the show’s single sculpture: sheets of standard-issue Formica and Plexiglas wrestled into layers of seductive curves. Julia Dault composes musical eruptions of color 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

O’Connell, 70, an actress of absolute passion and precision, has made her career Off and Off Off Broadway, enriching the work of two generations of playwrights, in works both traditional and very strange. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Wood writes as if enmeshed in the text itself; registering shifts in point of view and perspective with seismographic precision. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

“You don’t ask me anything about me, ever,” is not a complicated concept that requires precision in phrasing. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: ‘Conversational narcissist’ husband has something he’d like to add 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

But she was drawn by the precision of Aster’s choreography, the brokenness of his characters and the appeal of jumping down a twisted rabbit hole. Florence Pugh goes down a dark rabbit hole in ‘Midsommar’ 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

And under the attentive direction of Mr. Esbjornson, the flawless cast brings a rounded quality to each character, softening any stock attributes with emotional precision and, where possible, sharp humor. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z

This layers an extra measure of precision to what we see, especially at the point where it looks like Lalo may meet his end by way of an ax chop. The chameleonic importance of Lalo Salamanca on "Better Call Saul" is that his evil travels 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

In just a few minutes, the unionist first quotes the government stats with greater precision than the minister managed, orders “do your homework” then calls him a liar. Mark Serwotka: ‘I read on Twitter eight weeks ago that I was dead’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Every single thing she did, the precision was on another level,” said Cristina Ehrlich, a celebrity stylist who often worked with her. On The Runway: L’Wren Scott: A Legacy of Elegance 2014-03-21T21:01:46Z

Beyond this, the drama seems mostly concerned with maintaining its level of aesthetic precision and the pleasure that brings to the eye. "The New Pope" is still sexy and it knows it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

"My goal for this menu was just to do simple, good, elegant food with precision and excellence, taking simple things like chicken liver moose, bone marrow or a piece of fish and executing them well." Kristen Kish wins 'Top Chef: Seattle' 2013-02-28T04:35:09Z

“Teyonah brilliantly combines precision and planning with total instinct in the moment. She’s equally masterful in comedy or drama, from quiet moments to big physical performances.” Teyonah Parris Didn’t Get ‘WandaVision’ at First, Either 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

While his treatment of location shows him more of a Romantic than the French writer, Meredith brings something of Flaubert's surgical precision to his dissection of the psychologically complex "marriage-knot" entangling the couple. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z

Raja is possessed with a rage against her son’s killer that seems to wrench her apart, even as she speaks with poised precision. A Syrian Filmmaker’s Urgent, Intimate View of Exile Deserves a U.S. Release 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

But the surface of the music conceals the precision and severe, calculated construction of Barry's composition. A guide to Gerald Barry's music 2013-01-07T13:16:00Z

And if not all of them land with bull's-eye precision, the laughs build with increasing regularity as the mayhem intensifies. 'Tenor's' foolishness undiminished in NY revival 2010-04-05T01:16:00Z

Sometimes his language deliberately echoes the razor precision of Camus’s prose. Review: Kamel Daoud Interrogates Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Writing with lyrical economy and precision, Ms. Danticat recounts her characters’ stories in crystalline prose that underscores the parallels in their lives. Books of The Times: Edwidge Danticat’s Novel ‘Claire of the Sea Light’ 2013-09-05T20:49:44Z

Scott declared that "Mr. Corrigan is something of a comic genius, wielding his flabby frame and doughy face with remarkable grace and precision." Kevin Corrigan gets 'Results' with a winning lead rom-com role 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Populated by geniuses and virtuosos, the stories are zanily cerebral and proceed with fractal precision. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

It often delved deeply into their lives and their pasts with a kind of grace and unflinching precision not found in any family photo album or stream of Facebook posts. At home with her memory 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Fitting the theater into a space where the plant’s 120-foot tall boiler used to be required precision. The Luminato Festival Turns a Former Power Plant Into a Creative Engine 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

The painting underwent a similar photographic combing in 1998 albeit with much less advanced camera equipment and without the precision of the robotic machine. Picasso's "Guernica" undergoes medical check 2012-02-24T11:01:05Z

She recounts with great precision her loss, her disbelief, her memories. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

He plainly knows the field inside and out and name-checks seminal figures with precision. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Here those included a woman wearing a “peach crop top,” as Drake described her outfit with typical precision, and a lady clutching a sign that read, “Grandma loves Drake.” Drake and Lil Wayne square off, sort of, at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Alternating between static poses and bursts of motion, this introductory work established the clarity of Ms. Sarukkai’s dancing, her ability to define and shape space, and especially her uncommon rhythmic precision. Dance Review: Malavika Sarukkai at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-11-18T23:04:26Z

Again and again he turns up a surprising and revelatory detail — the averted eyes that suggest Leonardo used mirrors to create a marvelous late self-portrait, human vertebrae drawn with precision and delicacy. A New Biography of the Renaissance Genius 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Lemon bars, in contrast, cry out for less sugar and more precision. Preserve restaurant review: Grounded in tradition, lifted by invention 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Modern times stoke with honed precision our primitive impulses to be on guard, respond to external stimulation, course with adrenaline. For the healthy, safe and secure, the coronavirus shutdown is also an opportunity to let go 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Both are bold performers and both articulated with extreme pinpoint precision, but Mustonen's jaunty, jerky attack jarred heavily with Kuusisto's silvery sound in the opening bars. Pekka Kuusisto/Olli Mustonen – review 2013-04-14T17:12:07Z

Ms. Illes spends her workdays analyzing spreadsheets, and she is full of energy, enthusiasm and precision. Vows: Jennifer Illes and Jonathan Wood: Serendipity: 1. Spreadsheet: 0. 2014-01-24T20:49:46Z

I was inspired by the precision and the tightness of their sound... they were a cog that changed the direction of things. Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band 2013-01-27T09:00:03Z

Dr. Khalili, however, deliberately dated his collection from 1700 because examples of enamel manufactured before the 18th century are virtually impossible to find, and lack the precision and beauty of the later pieces, he said. Special Report: Jewelry: Enamel's Molten Beauty 2009-12-10T05:55:00Z

Their style is rugged but adaptable, with equal emphasis on power and precision. 2010-01-08T03:49:00Z

And the cast, if at times overdoing the grim intensity, enact Benington's intricate staging with precision. New play 'Sextet' explores link between misery and art 2010-10-21T17:11:00Z

But in striving for such breadth in the phrasing and pacing, especially during the first movement, Mr. Jurowski sacrificed some precision and clarity. Music Review: Vladimir Jurowski and London Philharmonic Orchestra - Review 2011-12-10T00:28:17Z

Ms. Quaid wisely avoids lugubriousness and even the expected tearfulness, as Valerie recounts her story with a dispassionate precision that nevertheless teems with unspoken despair. Review: In ‘The Weir,’ Things Go Bump in the Night, at the Pub 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Fine though Davis's performance with the BBC Philharmonic is, it lacks the knife-edge precision and sheer presence of the best versions already available. Holst: The Planets; Beni Mora; Japanese Suite ? review 2011-02-17T22:40:00Z

Waiters answer questions about the menu with monosyllabic precision, as was the case at Laundromat. Cultured Traveler: The Lights and Nights of Reykjavik 2013-01-18T18:26:55Z

She mediates between her mind and the external world with a precision and agility that mostly goes missing when she mediates between texts. Rachel Cusk’s Essays, as Sharp and Glittering as Her Fiction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Prince looked sharp in a black and white tuxedo-style outfit and sunglasses, and he orchestrated everything with the precision of chef serving a multi-course meal: the band, the lights, even the audience. Prince at the United Center more fizzle than sizzle 2012-09-25T06:45:00Z

The acting in immersive theatre often goes on unremarked, and often for good reason: here it is uniformly terrific: everyone has a ghastly buttonholing precision. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z

You also expect skill and precision in the orchestration of large-scale action sequences, and there are enough of those in “Robin Hood” to keep you alert and fitfully engaged. | 'Robin Hood': Crowe and Blanchett in Ridley Scott?s Nottingham 2010-05-13T19:58:00Z

Last season, Charlie built his own cabin, cutting trees and assembling logs with a mathematician’s obsessive precision and patience. Perspective | Nothing really happens on ‘The Last Alaskans,’ which is why it’s still the best reality show 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

In clips from their films, they execute daring feats with precision and skill. ‘Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story’ Review: A Woman’s Right to Fight 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

And it rarely stays the same shape during this one-woman play about sex, longing and what churns beneath them, directed with finely gauged precision by Vicky Jones. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

What surprised him about the experience, he said, “was the sheer physicality of the labor, and the precision of it.” Discovering the Art of Craft 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Every scene is a marriage of touched and untouched landscape, of geometric precision and organic irregularity, of the engineered and the elemental. Toshio Shibata's glorious photos find mystery where man meets land 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

Technical precision, unlike the spirit of a performance, is empirically demonstrable, virtually quantifiable, and the quasi-objective notion of there being a violinist who is “the best” made for an extraordinary selling point and reputation. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

That approach worked better in Chopin’s Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, where Mr. Aimard’s power and precision illuminated the work’s steely architecture. Music Review: Strands Tied Into a French Knot 2010-12-10T22:54:00Z

And it fits Ms. Hahn’s interpretive personality perfectly, drawing on both her pinpoint precision in fast, intricate passages and the singing tone she typically produces in slow, long-lined music. Music Review: Sound That?s Lush and Slow, Speedy and Precise 2011-02-16T22:49:49Z

The process starts with yeast and uses "precision fermentation" to produce the same proteins found in cow milk. Synthetic dairy milk made without cows may be coming to a supermarket near you 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

It isn’t just about the precision, the ringing sound when voices blend together. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

City Ballet’s dancers — including nine principals — gave it terrific energy and precision. Review: City Ballet Salutes Jerome Robbins, a Master of 2 Realms 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

But I’m in awe of it, ultimately, its precision and care, and its wry, understated humor. Mystery Boxes and Budding Loves: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Thom Browne, as usual, was on his own: blowing a red-lippy kiss to military pomp and precision tailoring while delightfully hoisting the surrender flag over the parade. Fashion Review: Paris Men’s Fashion Week Reviews: Louis Vuitton, Rick Owens, Raf Simons and More 2013-07-03T19:50:22Z

Strong performances from Garnett and Orton see both tapping, with acute emotional precision, into the terrifying first moments of vulnerability they share. ‘Little Dog Laughed’ balances emotions, showbiz barbs 2014-01-28T04:07:07Z

Apparently autopsies are performed with far more precision and rigor on fictionalized television than they are in the real world, where some medical examiners aren't even doctors. Bumbling in the morgue: Blind, drunk or merely incompetent coroners 2011-02-01T04:11:04Z

That pinpoint precision subsided in the sweep of Shepherd’s massive and earnest piece. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

His approach to Bach’s music emphasized the emotional core within its rational precision and dancing rhythms, even while retaining the transparency of historically informed performance. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

The exacting precision and attention to detail extends well past what is on the plate, from the 41˚ logo embroidered on servers’ shoes to customized serving dishes that mimic coconut shells, rocks, and ginger root. Bites : Restaurant Review: Barcelona 41? 2011-05-06T20:15:00Z

From the start of Beethoven’s Second Symphony on Tuesday, the musicians played with precision, color and vitality. Music Review: Gianandrea Noseda in His Mostly Mozart Debut 2013-08-14T21:01:46Z

The food, even when flawed, was delicious, heightened both by tradition and technology, all of it cooked with precision. Bites: Restaurant Report: Ametsa With Arzak Instruction in London 2013-07-09T17:46:30Z

Action Bronson rapped with the precision and language of someone whose first passion was that of a chef—which is what he was. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z

Kleiber, again, finds a middle ground, conducting the scene with precision and restless energy, yet still giving Ms. Cotrubas some leeway to sing with poignancy. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

The ensemble works with incredible precision, selling gestures and movements that might otherwise seem bizarre or arbitrary. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Every word is carefully chosen, articulated with force and precision, but never snidely, sarcastically or dismissively, and never with rancor or condescension. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

With Ms. Dorrance, the counterbalance is between footwork of extreme rhythmic precision and a wild, unkempt physicality that dramatizes the sound production. Review: Hot Feet and Cool Bodies at Vail 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gambarini, a vocalist, is all assiduous precision and formidable strength. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

His precision underlined its foursquare connection to the music, whether repetitive piano figures or gongs. Dance Review: Fabián Barba in Mary Wigman Works at MoMA 2013-02-04T23:33:07Z

Scientific precision entered the kitchen near the turn of the 20th century, introducing measurement, substitutions, calorie count and instruction. ‘Recipes are dead’: What the future of cooking might look like 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is a solo in the character of an impish sprite, and from the first steps — an outburst of springy jumps that bend sideways in the air — Ms. Orihara established her technical precision. Dance Review: Miki Orihara Links Today’s Choreography With Yesteryear’s 2014-05-11T20:33:02Z

Look out for an astronomical level of sartorial expertise that’s likely to include monochrome, deftly matched prints and makeup applied with a seemingly impossible degree of precision. Things to Do in NYC This Weekend: MoMA PS1 and Quad Cinema 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

But the orchestra lacked the hairpin precision to do full justice to his concept, so that at moments toward the end, the Tchaikovsky seemed to flag. Review | A Bernstein protege stirs up the NSO 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Under the crystal of cambered sapphire it's just a fog of numbers – a layer of technical precision that's meant to be reassuring but I find as panic-inducing as a maths exam in a nightmare. Mach2 modernism 2010-07-02T11:03:00Z

Yet her secret sauce is not power but precision, the way she remains in control on every single note, like a sniper locked in on a target. Celine Dion, a Consummate Professional, With Winks Galore 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

In breaking away from the quintessential kick line, “Rockettes to the Rescue” also takes precision dancing to new levels; arabesques in particular mark a shift from the usual passé poses. Dance: Rockettes in a Rebooted ?Christmas Spectacular? 2011-11-05T05:23:40Z

They didn’t move with the precision of professional models — posture just so, one foot planted neatly in front of the other. Balenciaga put engineers, architects and moms on its runway — to make a statement about power in the workplace 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Vega is as observant of her own closely guarded inner life as she is of the surrounding urban environment whose details she describes in a song like “Tom’s Diner” with an almost surreal precision. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z

Anderson prizes order and precision above all else – but Dahl, typified by Quentin Blake's haywire illustrations, is the enemy of sterility. Fantastic Mr Fox recap: Wes Anderson reworking well worth another look 2013-06-28T16:00:37Z

“Hezbollah’s success,” Mr. Crist writes, “emboldened Iran on the value of terrorism and the poor man’s precision weapon — the truck bomb — as instruments for successfully beating a superpower.” Books of The Times: ‘The Twilight War,’ by David Crist 2012-07-30T22:09:06Z

Another pleasure to be found in “Intro To,” which is directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant, is Manning’s terrific comic performance, driven by precision timing and constant inventiveness. In a Marathon of One-Act Plays, Boundaries Are Pushed and Pulled 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

But the animals — such as the small, diseased pigs Jurgis is paid to process at work after the inspectors have gone home — exist on the page with affecting precision. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

These two wines are from the Mosel, an area known for the delicacy and precision of its wines. Thrilling and Joyless? The Polarity of Sweet Riesling 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Its seven executants, dressed in black, were admirably buoyant in the instep, invariably upright in posture, moving with brisk precision through jumps and turns in linear sequences: not robotic but intensely impersonal. Lucinda Childs and Alvin Ailey Troupe at Fall for Dance 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

They take place in a dark room filled with 40 hanging bags, led by instructors who wear headsets and run the sessions with SoulCycle-style precision. The New Workout: Boxing Without the Bruises 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Its rhythmic precision and pellucid sound was the perfect frame for the intricate tapestry of Bach’s counterpoint. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center

Dr. Terrace, speaking with precision and detachment in present-day interviews, is either resigned to being the film’s designated villain or oblivious to being set up for that role. | 'Project Nim': Some Humans and the Chimp They Loved and Tormented 2011-07-07T22:30:06Z

The slow movement’s negotiation, with Bronfman seeming to gradually bring the brusque orchestra into his implacably understated orbit, was superbly realized, while the finale coursed with stunt-driver precision. Review | At the NSO, a vibrant program under vigorous control 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

In either case, size mattered in 2018, as shows with the breadth and breathlessness of Victorian novels or the miniaturist precision of New Yorker short stories played with and subverted conventional expectations of scale. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

His impulse toward precision crafting made him a recluse for much of his long career, which the show samples, early and late, in “Secret Compartments.” 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Michael Brown’s impressive “Two Movements for Cello and Piano” is the product of a confident young composer with a talent for precision. At Bargemusic, an Instrument’s Rare Star Turn 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Even without knowing that the cohabitation has been faked, the mathematical precision of his images often seems too exacting to be a representation of something real. Artist of the week 132: Andrew Grassie 2011-04-01T10:35:10Z

The story features lost cities, pirates, anarchists, an exotic carnival and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life.” Dude vs. Chick Rock: Is There a Music Gender Divide? 2012-06-12T13:29:51Z

The circle of figures that make up Patty Warashina's "Gossipmongers" are executed with vibrant precision as their game of Telephone takes a potentially explosive turn. Some smashing ceramics are on view at Bellevue Arts Museum's "Clay Throwdown!" 2010-09-02T19:20:00Z

Only Candy's Room, so dependent on precision for its build and release of tension, suffers a little with stadium sound, but it's a tiny gripe. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – review 2013-06-16T10:39:05Z

There were stories of screaming matches, threats and the sort of epic struggle for control usually filmed by Mann with icy precision and a moody musical score. A change in Luck 2012-02-11T00:03:00Z

The order and precision with which Taiwanese cooks work perhaps provides clues as to how this happened. Special Report: Travel Asia: Savoring Taipei’s Food Scene 2012-09-02T14:39:12Z

There are no shrinking violets in Mr. Ferver’s manic imagination; here, he aims his razor-sharp wit and choreographic precision on the lives and virtuosity of four queer performers. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the special-effects-grade prosthetics and precision paint jobs seen on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” drag performers of every stripe have had to up their game. Drag Kings Are Ready to Rule 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Their sheer precision exemplified the seriousness of all really good wit. Brass quintet cheers up a gray day in Quilcene 2012-07-02T17:52:04Z

A rehearsal pianist needs patience and precision; a class pianist relies more on observation, intuition and the ability to draw on a vast range of musical idioms. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The young men in the Discord and War dance have a virile force you don’t expect in teenagers: precision, too. ‘Live From Lincoln Center’ to Air ‘Curtain Up’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

And last night’s season three premiere was a brilliant first outing, managing to dart from one hot button cultural issue to another with almost methodical precision, yet always with Schumer’s singularly light touch. “Clear eyes, full hearts, no raping”: Amy Schumer tackles rape culture, sexism and transphobia in her season premiere 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

From the set to the choreography — three awkward bodies moving as one — “macromen” lacks precision. Dance Review: At New York Live Arts, Works by Tess Dworman and Niv Acosta 2014-01-31T19:38:38Z

And while "Black Is King" demonstrates a vision of crystalline precision, its tamed sprawl of dancers, actors, musicians and scenery demonstrates the artist's curation prowess above all. "Black Is King" continues Beyonce's immortalizing of the Black American experience through art 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

But the precision and clarity of Mr. Adams’s exurban images is more in keeping with painters like Edward Hopper, whom Mr. Adams mentions in his catalog introduction. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live,’ in New Haven 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z

The precision of his stance is immediately arresting. Flamenco by Israel Galv?n - Review 2011-09-22T15:59:55Z

Further improvements in survival prospects are expected in the wake of recent advances in precision medicine and immunotherapy for late stage cancers. US cancer death rates continue to fall as 5-year survival rates rise – study 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Painted with miniaturist precision, the sections depict dozens of scenes involving humans, animals and supernatural beings. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z

The Beethoven was equally gripping, an essay in opulent string sound, singing woodwinds and punchy, precision brass figures, all molded into a grand, furious explosion of early Romanticism. Music Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Juilliard Orchestra at Tully Hall 2012-04-05T21:20:41Z

It can be really stressful for people who don't enjoy that precision part. From cheesy brie bites to gooey jalapeño poppers, "Savory Baking" has a place at your holiday table 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

Yet the artist’s fascination with adolescence plays as both parody and critique: Imhof’s scratchy way of rendering figures, clouds, and heavenly bodies, especially compared with the precision of the paintings, seems faux, if not sarcastic. Anne Imhof, Dancing in the Ruins 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

This 16th-century Spanish mystic, saint and doctor of the church could sigh over her own limitations with the precision, earthiness and wit of a born writer. ‘Teresa, My Love,’ Julia Kristeva’s Latest Novel 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

I can't help but marvel at this delicate mingling of art and precision engineering, perfected by thousands of epiphanies achieved across hundreds of years — in fields, towns and factories, in home and professional kitchens alike. A love letter to bucatini, the perfect pasta shape 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

"He deserves greater recognition from the industry as the pioneer of precision dance." The Tiller Girls to be relaunched 2013-11-29T10:45:51Z

When they dance side by side, their resemblance, at first, is uncanny, but their synergy extends beyond precision or unison. Dance Review: Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2014-05-04T19:26:22Z

The film is composed with the utmost precision, and viewers will marvel at the rarified air, however stifling. Kristen Stewart stuns in the moody "Spencer," a gorgeous yet superficial biopic of Princess Di 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

They comport themselves with a beguiling blend of panache and precision. | 'Potiche': Labor Strife? Send in the Boss?s Wife 2011-03-24T21:03:06Z

“Eclipse” exists in a solemnly designed space, where the mood echoes the same order and precision of Mr. Bokaer’s uncluttered, straightforward dances. Dance Review: ‘Eclipse,’ by Jonah Bokaer and Anthony McCall, at BAM Fisher 2012-09-07T22:53:36Z

She tries flattening him during a seamlessly choreographed chase sequence in Rome — the stunt coordinator, Wade Eastwood, is also a racecar driver — that mixes excellent wheel skills with scares, laughs, thoughtful geometry and precision timing. ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Still Running 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

His reading is impressive if only because the piece’s challenges, its inflexible rhythms and demand for absolute precision, are all the more difficult with players confined to plexiglass cubicles. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Dancers, shifting seamlessly between the weight of street dance and the elevation and precision of ballet, glide in harmony to classical music. Dance Review: Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Kyle Abraham at Lincoln Center 2013-08-02T21:47:35Z

At the time I had no idea that kites could be controlled with such precision, let alone give someone the ability to fly. From pterodactyls to flying fighters, kites are more fun than ever 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

James Gray, in the opening scene of “Armageddon Time,” his tender and lacerating new film, brings it all back with clammy precision. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Box-office analysts are typically able to predict with eerie precision whether a movie will be a hit or a miss just by examining opening-day ticket sales. ArtsBeat: ‘Wolf’ Leads the Pack of Newcomers at Christmas Box Office 2013-12-27T16:11:35Z

They are not portrayed with the author’s usual psychological precision, and lacking any organic coherence, they fail to engage, much less hold the reader’s interest. Denis Johnson’s New Novel, ‘The Laughing Monsters’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Her exuberance is purposefully at odds with the cool precision of the main actors, all of whom sing with hyper-clarity. Singing in the rain 2011-03-27T00:04:08Z

A Radio City Rockette is a specialist in precision dance technique, a rare, regimented and intricate style that requires both athleticism and artistry. A Trump Inauguration Casualty: The Silent, Smiling Rockettes 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

And so each act went, with unerring dramatic life and musical precision. Booed in Vienna, Dudamel makes revelatory L.A. Opera debut to frenzied cheers 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

In the early chorus “And He shall purify,” the sopranos’ rippling lines had the precision of pinpricks. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

His flash doesn't come via braggadocio but by way of deft wordplay, creative rhymes, everyday observations and laser precision. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z

An amalgam of classical and contemporary vocabulary steeped with intense physicality and emotion, his whiplash choreography is characterized by its articulated lines, razor-sharp precision and quicksilver deployment of steps. The dark side of choreographer Angelin Preljocaj comes to L.A. 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

The precision of detail that silence allows is best expressed in another phrase from that poem: "heaven in ordinarie". Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z

But standing there for a while longer, I began to ponder how long it took Vermeer to capture the detailed worn masonry of the medieval buildings with such exquisite precision. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Rebirth’s trademark is loose precision, unruly at the granular level but cohesive on the whole. Music Review: New Orleans Horns, Raw and Funky 2011-04-11T20:26:08Z

Digital images have such precision that they are practically implacable. The Cinematographer Agnès Godard on ‘Sister’ 2012-09-29T22:53:01Z

The salad I was served at the restaurant was artfully and no doubt painstakingly arranged, most likely with chefs’-tweezers precision. Make the salad Ellie Krieger couldn’t stop thinking about 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

"Wave" is structured with precision and is meant to be listened to as a unit. Review: British quartet Alt-J rides 'Wave' to US 2012-09-17T17:31:04Z

Ms. Sumpter’s enunciation has a near-metonymic precision suggestive of Mrs. Obama’s, while Mr. Sawyers’s gestural looseness, playful smile and lanky saunter will be familiar. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hurt’s evolving expressions as, weary head in hand, Krapp listens to the voice on the tape recorder, draw with absolute precision a scarifying picture of the man’s shuffling, tormenting thoughts. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z

Under Szell’s baton, an orchestra was a highly polished, precision machine, and in music by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák and Wagner, he was untouchable. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The exhibition pinpoints some of the qualities good artists and good doctors share: precision, instinct and patience. Art Review: A Restored ?Gross Clinic? at Philadelphia Museum 2010-07-29T21:51:00Z

Gurney has the same precision, logic and thirst for clarity. Books of The Times: ?Think of a Number,? Crime Story From John Verdon 2010-07-15T21:32:00Z

I can’t get the precision of an old-fashioned brush with the airbrush. Skin Deep: A Magic Wand to Make Skin?s Flaws Disappear 2010-06-09T19:06:00Z

The actors fling themselves into this knockabout scene with admirable commitment, not to mention well-choreographed precision. Review: ‘Permission’ and Spankings at the Lucille Lortel Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The focus keeps changing in “Fun Home,” directed with vivid precision and haunting emotional ambiguity by Sam Gold, as do the time-stopping frames of the woman whose memory we inhabit. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

His trumpet solos were models of rhythmic precision, tonal subtlety and expressive understatement, executed without showboating. Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Bring Rhythmic Precision to Café Carlyle 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

For all of the precision and sophistication in her storytelling, here’s the surprising thing: A song’s narrative arc often follows the sound of whichever syllables happen to materialize in her mouth. How Lori McKenna writes the most devastating ballads in country music 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Her style is ostensibly expressionist, loosely and sometimes sketchily painted but almost always given a weird specificity, thanks to an eye or mouth rendered with photo-realistic precision. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

For a story airing in 1973 it predicted the big conversations of the 1980s with some style and precision. The Green Death: Doctor Who classic episode #6 2013-05-08T15:52:00Z

But her runs and ornaments were delivered with precision and courage. Review: Mostly Mozart’s Opening Concert, With a Chopin Encore 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

One defence he does not offer is that of infallibility, or even great precision. Everyone’s a critic 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

You might have thought that the shift from real-world interactivity to intensively scripted narrative would simply have added a bit of precision and gloss to the same underlying routine. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z

Deep in the fields and forests, other residents are embracing their roles as country guides with Shaker-like precision, despite an initial anxiety about “being turned into a museum exhibit,” as one put it. ‘Behold! New Lebanon’ Offers Rural Tourism 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Scott Thomas is a precision instrument on screen, so it’s oddly reassuring to find her so wayward in person. Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘For me, Brexit is a disaster – talk about not knowing where you belong’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

All three have a presence that conveys both compassion and precision; all three were brought up Catholic. “Spotlight” and Its Revelations 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

This is a world of weapons that can’t be controlled: targeted viruses that rage out of bounds; precision drones that dart across the sky long after their remote pilots are dead. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Metinides's photographs are crafted with cinematic precision and style, yet his compassion for the victims is never far away. Enrique Metinides: photographing the dead for Mexico's 'bloody news' 2012-11-21T14:26:53Z

He was a role model, confidant and mentor who supported and challenged me, talking me through problems and piercing through any of my self-deceptions with scientific precision. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

It's not so much about manipulation as it is a startling degree of precision and perfectionism. Review | In HBO’s magnificent Bee Gees documentary, broken hearts — and icon status — can finally be mended 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Designed by Richard Wilson, the sculpture combines precision engineering with the "sense of velocity and movement of a stunt plane". Sculpture to dominate Terminal 2 2012-05-21T13:45:56Z

The RAF's attack on German cities began unintentionally, because after Dunkirk Churchill had no other weapon, because bombers could not hit targets with precision and because the public demanded retaliation for the blitz. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z

Such precision was not reserved just for her cookbooks. What it was like to be in the kitchen with Maida Heatter 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Evoking the psychological complexities of being a young woman in the 21st century with the technical precision of a 17th-century Old Master, Weyant’s paintings currently top many collectors’ wish lists. Basquiat Tops Phillips Contemporary Sale at $85 Million 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

The phrase crackles with both a deep visceral charge and an elegant precision. Review: Rage and Ritual in ‘What to Send Up When It Goes Down’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

She writes about her first drink, a strawberry daiquiri downed, at age fifteen, in the kitchen of a neighborhood heartthrob, with the tenderness and awkward precision of a first kiss. “Burn the Place” Is a Thrilling, Disquieting Memoir of Addiction and Coming of Age 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Leanne Benjamin, in particular, appears joyously liberated by a dance language that is at once so formal, each turn and curve cutting back on itself with rococo precision, and so intuitive in its femininity. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z

Putting that struggle between science and superstition into the deranged head of Tristan Hart is a very good idea, and Jack Wolf delivers his tale with passion, precision and poetry. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf – review 2013-01-11T20:00:04Z

But every single component is the product of precision and control. He Lost Fingers in an Accident. Now It’s Inspiring His Art. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

His father was a precision grinder at the Ford Motor Company there. Jerry Bradshaw, Jerry Golski 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

And yet, few other shows are able to capture passion and pain with such precision, an entire life story told through one furrowed brow. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

But after the second world war these magnificent ideas, combined with those of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, produced an anonymous, international style with high-rises that shut people up with geometric precision. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z

“Despite the rest of the world’s view of farming, it’s actually very technologically driven,” he said, citing precision spraying, automated dairy units and genetic science. 'Tinder for cows' matches livestock in the mood for love 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

An all-female ensemble sang the kaleidoscopic close harmonies and intricate rhythms with eerie precision and purity. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z

Mr. Martin managed to make both arguments, leading a band whose fallback mode was brawny studio precision. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

So much for surgical precision and winning hearts and minds.  Why I left the GOP 2012-09-10T13:30:00Z

She's a master of precision, grace and dominance, and at the age of just 24, she has cemented herself as one of the most decorated American gymnasts of all time. Our endless demands on Simone Biles 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

As this documentary explains, it was because this bombing was far from a precision undertaking. TV highlights 03/07/2012 2012-07-02T18:59:01Z

Lawrence DiBello, the principal horn player, brought precision and gorgeous tone to luminous passages in which his lines caressed Mr. Bell’s. Music Review: An Exuberant Conductor and a Starry Violinist 2011-08-07T21:48:50Z

The Scherzo, routinely mistaken for a Mendelssohnian confection, was colored in dark agitation, chugging with machinelike precision. Bold and exciting, all-star Chamber Music Society plays a thrilling concert 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Directed from the harpsichord with precision by Bicket, the English Concert have a marvellously acute understanding of Handelian sensuousness. Joshua/Connolly/Bicket 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z

Charismatic descendants like Alarm Will Sound and Signal, meanwhile, now offer a technical precision and idiomatic polish that their illustrious forebear can’t always match. Music Review: Light and Color in an Undulating Cloud 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z

On November 19, one of the most advanced weather satellites ever built rocketed into space, where it will allow Strong and other forecasters to monitor the weather with increased precision. Preparing for the next Snowzilla might be easier thanks to this advanced satellite 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

An intricate, layered narrative told with literary precision and propulsive sound effects, “Shenanigan” feels less like his stand-up or solo shows than something entirely new. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

The precision and detail of Copan’s artists and scribes earned it the nickname: “The Athens of the Maya world.” End of the world 2012-06-12T14:58:00Z

A reason for the frequent comparisons to Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg is the ruthless precision of his technique. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

I remember “The Shipyard,” if the word “remember” makes sense, with hazy precision. Andrés Neuman crosses boundaries across the Americas in 'How to Travel Without Seeing' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

With the latest series, Sinclair and Blichfeld have smartly decided to return to the precision of the early episodes, allowing each half hour the structural flexibility to contain any number of concise New York fables. The Surprising Compassion of “High Maintenance” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, nearly 25 years old, made the gift of its tremendous precision and professionalism to Oliver Knussen and Simon Bainbridge, both 60, and Alexander Goehr, now 80. Proms matinee 4: BCMG/Collon – review 2012-08-20T17:11:17Z

Philippe’s boyish good looks might have made him a pop idol, but when he rehearsed his Wagnerian aria, the precision and beauty of his voice made it clear he was where he belonged. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z

He inhabited Mr. Bernhard’s graphic style with precision in his illustrations, posters, trademarks and more, yet he was not a clone. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Shaver wrote with brutal honesty, a surgeon’s precision and the swagger of the greatest saloon poets of the 20th century. Perspective | Nobody wrote songs like Billy Joe Shaver 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

This is a novel of aggressive introspection, but Greenwell writes with such candor and psychological precision that the effect is oddly propulsive. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

And, today, our lifespans are charted in lockstep precision from cradle to grave. Why I lie about my age: Surely it’s OK to be sexual at any age, without being labeled a “puma” or a “cougar” 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

When he went into his signature “duck walk,” his legs seemed to be made of rubber, and his whole body moved with clocklike precision — the visual statement of his music’s kinetic energy. Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Seattle hip-hop group Fresh Espresso kicked off the music on the main stage at 4 p.m. with an upbeat, precision set peppered with perky plinks and an optimistic message. Capitol Hill Block Party off to sunny, optimistic start in Seattle 2011-07-23T06:07:18Z

This precision is exemplified by the 120-word list of objects and materials comprising her 2017 installation “Brad Johnson, Tape X — on Subjugation,” at the Museum of Modern Art. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

That had stiff competition from the pure frenzied precision that was the live performance of "Naatu Naatu," outdone only by its composer M.M. How the Academy Awards managed to be both uplifting and disappointing -- everything, all at once 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

The best hatchets, in criticism, are wielded with precision as much as they are with force. Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z

The strings laid down a thick blanket of sound for the thin harpsichord texture, as Bezuidenhout wove his web of relentless precision. Delightful evening of Bach, and those he inspired, at SSO 2011-10-29T17:24:05Z

For me, the precision of baking really is almost a comfort. From cheesy brie bites to gooey jalapeño poppers, "Savory Baking" has a place at your holiday table 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

The tidy narrative may advance with clockwork precision, but the clock’s most prominent feature is the snooze button. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Few writers pay attention with the precision, acuity and patience she has exhibited during her career of telling stories about other rank weeds: the faces people show the world. In the Hands of Janet Malcolm, Journalism Becomes Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Moreover, the acting/puppeteering style occasionally displays too little precision, lapsing at one point into slapdash roughhousing/yelling mode. Review | Pointless Theatre’s slapdash ‘Don Cristóbal’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

It's almost animalistic the way that I use my teeth and I find myself satisfied by the ability to control my body with such precision. How preparing crawfish became a shared meditation 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

From drums, piano and bass come a clean, hyper-alert precision, with extra fills and fractured funk and rhythms within rhythms. New Music: New Albums by John Mayer, Haley Reinhart and Linda Oh 2012-05-21T22:24:29Z

It was fascinating to see degrees in precision, and what a difference minute variations in spacing made to the overall balance of the stage. ArtsBeat: Seeing Dance From the Cheap Seats 2011-02-02T15:30:01Z

Simpson trial and the increasing focus on DNA evidence, that criminals could be caught with scientific precision and infallibility. ‘Cops’ Is Off the Air. But Will We Ever Get It Out of Our Heads? 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

With “precision” drone strikes, for instance, the distribution of casualties and risks is extremely — even grotesquely — unequal. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The prose here is complex and largely free of lyricism; instead, McCarthy opts for the precision of scientific or instructional language. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Both can’t escape being identified with New York – or, in Lethem’s case, Brooklyn – and despite working in disparate modes, each brings the formalism and precision of the high arts to popular forms. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

The choreography calls for exacting precision — not just in bodies but on faces. How Does Time Pass at This Rave? With Hypnotic Precision. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Gradually the thrilling precision and permutations, the alternations between motion and stasis, come to feel like a kind of virtuosity, a world of cool perfection you’re sorry to leave. Review: And Now Four Dances, Completely Different 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

There are so many casual pleasures in her work that the precision and dexterity — the darkness, too — can catch you unawares. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Marjorie Harvey, the wife of the television star Steve Harvey, moved with determined precision in a giant fur coat and a floral tiara that spelled “QUEEN.” Dolce & Gabbana’s Runway Experiment 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The Mass is written for a choir, four soloists and a small wind ensemble, and the slim, angular instruments twine with agile precision around the warm harmonies of the voices. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

Plentiful jokes, precision timing, memorable oddballs, kooky situations and beautifully executed physical comedy — “What’s Up, Doc?” has it all and more, including the blissful, counterintuitive pairing of Ryan O’Neal and Streisand. When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

With precision that sometimes tips over into didacticism, Mr. Sayles outlines connections between the war the United States waged in the Philippines and later interventions in Vietnam, Central America, Afghanistan and Iraq. | 'Amigo': The Cause Is Familiar, but the War Is Less So 2011-08-18T21:30:06Z

But the sheer joy the musicians felt in performing together again was palpable, with Xian Zhang, the orchestra’s music director since 2016, molding the program’s disparate moods from the podium with precision and oversize energy. A Conductor Becomes a Virtual-Concert Jet-Setter 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

She planned every detail with the meticulous precision of a C.I.A. operative. Motherlode Blog: Girls ‘Dormify.’ Boys Just Move. 2013-09-01T12:53:10Z

Known for its precision, attention to detail and tonality, the Westminster choir is recorded twice a year by Hyperion, the British classical music label. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

From the start, she was remarkable in material that is almost impossible to master — her fearlessness and precision shifted the mood: Suddenly, the stage was a place of a heightened, incandescent alertness. Sara Mearns, an Explorer Way Beyond Ballet 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The choir members are also products of Cuban music schools, where the precision of classical technique doesn’t restrain the power of island traditions. Music Review: Cuban Visitors Share Sounds and Moves of Their Roots 2011-06-05T22:07:40Z

Ms. White, a deft comedian, finds the stray kibbles of humor in her role and pops them off with her usual fine precision. Review: ‘Sylvia,’ in Which a Man Loves a Dog Too Much 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Straight lines, notes Scurr, along with “precision and order were central to his aesthetic.” Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

He described the four characteristics of fine cognac as “precision, roundness, finesse and persistence.” A two-barrel salute to the friendship of Lafayette and Washington 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Onstage with this band, he’s the least experienced and least skilled musician, working in a genre where precision kills. Music Review: Dierks Bentley at Highline, Raking Through Bluegrass 2010-05-06T21:18:00Z

Finnish guest conductor Susanna Mälkki combined graceful precision and fiery energy throughout the program. Pianist Simon Trpceski, conductor Susanna M?lkki light up SSO 2012-04-20T18:24:04Z

Donald Sutherland plays true to type as the South African surgeon who heads the Belgium diamond cartel with ruthless precision. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Undercover’ and ‘Polar Bear Town’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Li’s clothes are made in Italy, and finished with absolute precision — except when they aren’t. | Yang Li’s Deliberately Imperfect Style 2013-08-12T20:59:28Z

Not that anyone in “Girl” — which has an echoing, imagistic precision you associate with first-rate poetry — has much reason to hope. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

It starts off moving with sweet musical precision and turns into something more wild, womanly and beautiful, needling into male-female power dynamics and rebirth. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

The authors said it was the largest precision medicine trial ever done. 'Precision medicine' for breast cancer could cut need for chemotherapy 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

It sounds coldly methodical but it's great, with that recorded-on-a-MacBook-in-a-bedroom budget lushness, perfectionist precision and scholarly passion we love. New band of the day ? No 940: Star Slinger 2011-01-06T17:18:25Z

Instead, he constructs reality with a precision not seen in fiction since Hardy’s description of cows at milking time. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Both emerge as individuals depicted with sympathy but also with unsparing emotional precision. Review: ‘The Girl in the Red Coat,’ an Abduction Story Told in Two Voices 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

That day, Mr. Panis was slapping backs and chatting with workers, many of them from nearby neighborhoods, as they took a break from work that can require surgical precision. Shinola Takes Its ‘Detroit Cool’ Message on the Road 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Its technical demands are more about breadth of sound and stamina than precision and terraced clarity. Eschenbach takes the NSO back to one of his favorites, Bruckner 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

But we have become unignorable in the social-media age; fully incorporated into the story in 21 Jump Street, this dramatisation of our cultural preferences, done with meme precision, has given the remake a new alibi. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

It brought together six paintings and 14 drawings from 1987 to 2013, showcasing a talent in which Northern Renaissance precision and frugality are met by caustic harshness based in Surrealism and American popular culture. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

What’s valuable about McCarthy’s work is its quality: the nuttiness of her characterisations, the depth of her empathy, the precision of her timing. The making of Melissa McCarthy: how Bridesmaids star kept it real and cleaned up 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

When you're making rice over a stove instead of using a rice cooker, it's very temperamental and needs to be done with precision and care. "Top Chef" producer on that demanding thali challenge: "I'm getting winded just thinking about it!" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

It is precision targeted to this hopeful-fraught moment when a society is stepping out bleary-eyed from its storm shelter and surveying the debris. Review: ‘In Treatment’ Thinks You Could Use a Session, America 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

But “Revelations” — danced these days with a precision that seems geared to weather the waves of applause its every feat prompts — remains irresistible. Dance Review: Hellos and Thank Yous at Family Reunion 2011-01-04T01:20:30Z

But the show doesn’t approach the atmospheric menace of “Darkness” or the brainy precision of “State.” Review: A Defense Lawyer With Hidden Motives in ‘Undercover’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Reyes, with her wide-eyed gaze, seems wholly supported by the music, whirled into multiple pirouettes on its airy currents, while Hallberg evinces a graver joy, balancing perfectly measured phrasing with unhurried technical precision. American Ballet Theatre; LOL (Lots of Love) ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:02Z

From the elegant precision of his recordings in the fifties to his mid-sixties feats of conjuring, he saw himself as a vessel for higher possibilities. Fifty Years of Worship at the Church of John Coltrane 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The Other Guys has some hilarious moments, but they are too capricious for the film to hang together with the chiselled precision and riotous absurdity fostered by truly great comedy screenplays. The Other Guys: star stand-ins or subs-standard? 2010-09-20T15:01:00Z

The designer guides the robots in the same the way that a surgeon combines an understanding of anatomy and a deft eye with the precision of lasers. Iris van Herpen’s astonishing designs don’t look like ‘clothes.’ They look like the future. 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

“The Lovers” is a romantic comedy of the sort that they used to make, a light-toned but earnest love story with a solidly built framework to govern the action with a nearly architectural precision. “The Lovers” and the Limitations of the Modern Rom-Com 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The language of this new war – “surgical strike”, “precision kill” – infuriates her. 'The PTSD stems from this dirty work': new film documents regretful drone pilots 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Unpeopled images of ruined buildings, photographed with an architectural precision, are contrasted with portraits of equally ruined people with truncated limbs and scarred bodies. Kai Wiedenh?fer's The Book of Destruction 2011-01-23T00:05:35Z

The chimes for the memorial required the precision of Fugate’s hand. Forty chimes will ring at Flight 93 National Memorial to honor the 40 killed 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

She points up and down and stands on the chair with rhythmically accurate precision and positions as clear as cut outs. At Paul Taylor, a Drum Circle and a Fierce Sisterhood 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z

They dissect one industry after another with the precision and narrative flair that have won them many awards, including two Pulitzers. 'Betrayal of the American Dream': short-term gain, long-term pain 2012-08-22T19:00:06Z

But the last of the group's gold medals was won 10 years ago, and today Hallmark is on the bill alongside a primary school choir who perform with less precision but more enthusiasm. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

“But if I can achieve specificity and precision in the acting — well, I wanted to see if that’s possible. ‘Rosenkavalier’ showed me, at least, that it wasn’t a bad idea to pursue that. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

For them, the difficulty is in playing with the rhythmic precision of the other musicians. Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

It displayed the clean lines, speed and precision of his ballet training along with surprising off-balance tilts, pelvic thrusts that propel the legs and sudden shifts of weight. ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

"The collection is about proportion, precision, ease, and the simple beauty of the material," Maier said in a statement. Italian designers celebrate sartorial craft at Milan shows 2013-02-23T17:38:32Z

The orchestra moved through these transformations with admirable precision and was equally impressive when asked to create similar effects on the larger and more vividly detailed canvas of Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra. 2010-02-16T22:40:00Z

Directed with admirable control and visual style, “New Order” recalls last year’s “Parasite,” which took similar aim at wealth inequality but with far less intellectual rigor and precision. Perspective | At a perilous time, the Toronto International Film Festival captured the zeitgeist 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

When you never quite know how much about a character is fictionalized, such precision can make the scenes feel reimagined. Hacker for Hire 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

When Marni’s models stepped out on Sunday, the precision, severity and graphic shapes of the collection were far from the brand’s original ethnic naiveté. Special Report: From Ethnic to Elegant 2010-02-28T18:30:00Z

That type of precision proves absorbing, and the suspenseful series has gotten rave reviews from critics — and, possibly more important — accolades on social media. HBO’s ‘The Night Of’ is getting early rave reviews. Can that translate into a hit? 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Two other memoirs evoke their authors’ childhoods — each marked by the death of a parent — with emotional and sensory precision. Women and Maine 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Becker is a historian and writes with a historian’s precision, but she has a fan’s insight and warmth. The plucky author behind the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

But Bartlett does the clash of generational world views with a devastating precision, and the performances throughout are just as acute. Love, Love, Love ? review 2010-10-13T20:31:00Z

In this way “Madness” is akin to types of conceptual art that are more about praxis than precision. He Never Existed. Here Are His Selected Poems. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

“Flying Over Sunset” is choreographed by the tap sensation Michelle Dorrance, and she has taught him a lot, including how to combine speed with precision. They Finally Get to Dance on Broadway 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Here the Ballet Hispanico dancers show off their sleek precision, yet this cool effect also grows tedious. Review: Ballet Hispanico’s ‘If Walls Could Speak’ Offers Vignettes of Urban Life 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Master Chorale, directed by Grant Gershon, sings with power and precision, and the orchestra under Dudamel plays the difficult score with wonderful spirit and grace. John Adams' staged `Gospel' has NY premiere 2013-03-29T13:55:09Z

Every syllable here resonates with a crisp precision that feels earned, especially when it comes out of Mr. Sher’s mouth. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

But in the 21st century, they survive for their art, their precision of language and depth of characterization. At 150, Laura Ingalls Wilder still speaks to readers old and new 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

For professional leagues and broadcasters, offering viewers the best product available means new, customizable camera angles, higher definition, and greater expectations of clarity, certitude, and precision. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Hunt renders the titular character’s resilience in hard times — and her fragile, often fleeting bonds with others — with ardent precision, detail by lean detail. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

An episode like 1998’s The Ski Lodge, where multiple characters roamed around a custom-built set mistakenly looking for sex is an incredible work of comic precision. Shrinking returns: analysing the pros and cons of a Frasier reboot 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Their marriage is far in the background, as is anything that might impair the precision of what amounts to a thorough and rigorous diagramming of the loci of abuse. Review: In ‘Custody,’ a Father Terrorizes His Family 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

They span diverse issues, but each point is argued with steely precision from her unwavering syndicalist anarchism: fundamental beliefs in both the absolute autonomy of the individual, and the humanitarian necessity of social collectivism. Emma Goldman: a thoroughly modern anarchist 2010-10-06T12:00:00Z

With merciless precision, Brodesser-Akner traces the arcing trajectory of doomed affections: the glorious takeoff, the deluded calm, the shrieking descent. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

They are subtle, demanding more precision and more specialized equipment. Beer Review: American Lagers 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

It was something she needed to do to express herself because of the confinement, control and precision. In "Goodnight Mommy," Naomi Watts is drawn to her character's "terrifying and confusing" behavior 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

The scene, one of classical ballet’s most famous, requires extreme precision, with the corps de ballet moving on the same beat and breathing together, each dancer mirroring the arabesque of the dancer in front. Bolshoi Ballet Carries On Amid Acid Attack Scandal 2013-01-28T23:03:44Z

Then it turns to the road-trip imagery of “American Surfaces” and the steely precision of “Uncommon Places” — landmarks in photographic history that scandalized an establishment convinced the camera could find beauty solely in black-and-white. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Adding to the precision approach, Thorne and her team of designers lit rooms according to certain times of day - some rooms are lighter and others darker. Miniature rooms create magic at Chicago museum 2010-04-07T16:55:00Z

In a solo piece that Streb herself originally performed — one that takes its gentle-sounding name, "Little Ease," from a medieval torture device — the effect is one of frenzied precision, breathtaking and unforgettable. 'Born to Fly' captures Elizabeth Streb in action 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It is hampered by Burgess's own sometimes stodgy stage adaptation, however, as well as moments when verbal and physical precision are substituted for rollicking energy. A Clockwork Orange – review 2012-11-22T17:44:03Z

Another 2020, another arrival from extraterrestrial hostiles, this time with the ability to hunt with surgical precision based on nothing but sound. Apocalypse now-ish: what can we learn from films set in 2020? 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The students, ranging from small to tall, lash out with military precision as choreographer Byron Easley marches the gang into formations that sometimes wittily flash the letters. Review | The revolting children have comic bite in ‘Matilda the Musical’ 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

His high-ceilinged office is decorated with thoughtful precision, a single wall covered in wallpaper resembling engraved clouds. Teju Cole on knowns, unknowns and 'Known and Strange Things' 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Dean knows that clarity doesn’t exist without precision; Ephron’s meandering style, for instance, is so controlled it’s practically pointillist. Ten Women Whose Tongues and Pens Were as ‘Sharp’ as Knives 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

At the start of “Dear Washing Machine, Long Night,” Mr. Shugg, a lucid dancer with scrupulous technique, contrasts precision with weight and weightlessness. Stuart Shugg and Anna Azrieli in the DoublePlus Series 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Later, French architects designed with simulated precision elevations of equally unreal structures of gigantic proportions. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z

The precision of his description, here, grounds the poem so effectively that it would seem an act of pretentiousness on the part of the reader to load the activities described with metaphor. Poem of the week: Showing Me by Sam Gardiner 2011-04-04T09:59:20Z

Played here with power and precision by Jared Soldiviero and Matt Smallcomb, the percussion part adds superficial haunted-house excitement — eerie bells, shivery shimmers, sudden crashes — while draining the energy of the main event. Music Review: ‘Rite of Spring,’ With Clanging Pianos and Drums 2013-06-14T20:18:20Z

Removing the priceless painting from a temporary wing and moving it to the main building Wednesday was an operation of almost military precision. Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' back at Amsterdam museum 2013-03-27T13:40:10Z

They looked like enchanted folk dancers as they etched linear patterns and lines onto the floor with razor precision. An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

This manner of interaction requires fleet back-and-forth, but it also needs precision. ‘Royal Blood,’ ‘Checkoff in the Sun’ 2014-03-27T20:58:04Z

“Asturias” is a case in point: he played the outer sections with energy and precision as well as nuanced dynamics, and brought a poetic, gentle touch to the central Più lento. Music Review: No Easy Road 2011-06-23T21:33:45Z

If some of the “awesome precision” the review noted went missing here, a deep sense of musicality and rhythmic vitality made the account persuasive. Music Review: Aeolian Players at Symphony Space, Celebrating 50 Years 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

They are pros: There’s a lovely formality to this performance, a precision of movement and a deliberate pace that’s in line with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers. Round House’s ‘Impossible!’: Offering the top grads of clown college 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Through the years, the deceptively simple dish has come to symbolize precision, restraint and care — and often the intersection of these virtues. From "Columbo" to "Only Murders," a pop culture survey of men making omelets 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

The preternatural precision of Degas’ drawing style is worthy of Ingres, although it gets steadily more casual in the figures’ poses and the touch of the artist’s hand as he gains control. First full Edgar Degas retrospective in nearly 30 years shows an artist who liked to be in control 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

You couldn't fault the playing, either, which was outstanding in its precision and control. LSO/Harding/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-06T13:21:40Z

The question of how to balance precision and freedom, accuracy and interpretation has always vexed musicians. Ticktock as Taskmaster: A Show About Metronomes and Musical Time 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Leonard, too, is polished, with a rich voice that she uses with care, precision and seriousness. Review | Ending his season with a bang: Noseda offers an American program, of sorts, with the NSO 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

In another scene, a Portia spider spends hours positioning herself in exactly the right spot before pouncing on an unsuspecting St Andrews Cross spider in a terrifying show of predatory precision. Dancing scorpions, leaping spiders star in British 3D TV series 2013-05-31T14:05:19Z

He added: “Your every unflattering gesture and nervous tic will be recorded with devastating precision.” Books of The Times: A Murder Trial Unfolds Under a Gimlet Eye 2011-04-26T11:45:00Z

It’s almost unheard-of for a pop soprano in her 70s to surpass her younger self in stamina, precision of intonation and vocal command. Review: Judy Collins’s Clear, Pure Brook of Song 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Madlib, known for his groundbreaking efforts with J Dilla and MF Doom and his seemingly bottomless beat collection, provides the perfect accompaniment to Gibbs’ vocal precision. Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

But the prints are meant to represent memories as much as scientific observations, and the craft and precision Kinneberg brings to the project is very satisfying. In the galleries: Manipulating nature at McLean Project for the Arts 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Their sense of ensemble brings to mind the precision and cohesion of such legendary instrumental groups as the Budapest String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio. Review | Chanticleer shows the power of music 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The ensuing complications and winking misunderstandings are executed with welcome comic precision, but “The Final Girls” isn’t just a gag machine. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

This is Lacey’s specialty: She captures with eerie precision the strangeness of being a person in the world, living alongside other human beings with unknowable thoughts and feelings. In her inventive novel 'The Answers,' Catherine Lacey experiments with the components of love 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Henson brings strength, radiance, precision, and presence to the gags and playful situations and to the drama, however mild it is; she lends the movie’s artifices a surprising illusion of substance. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The reading unfolded with startling efficiency, moving briskly through a cycle of aural imagery, from warm-hued suppleness to mechanistic precision, mysteriousness and sparkling fragility. Music Review: Bamberg Symphony Led by Jonathan Nott at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-05-22T22:06:14Z

It opened with the meter-shifting, harmonically labyrinthine song “The Sloth” and the quick arpeggios of “You Enjoy Myself,” demonstrating its ensemble precision; it also jammed vigorously on basic two-chord grooves. Music Review: Phish at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-31T00:27:32Z

She moves forward with vigor, slicing her arms and elbows with mechanical precision or, later, slipping to the floor and scampering forward on her hips as her knees splay to either side. 2010-02-06T05:51:00Z

Yet for all their size, the best of these wines showed finesse and precision, structure, purity and great minerality. Priorat Reds Raise the Question: Style or Identity? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Some of his songs are about incredibly heavy topics — abuse, addiction, spirituality — but there’s a wit, a precision and a humanity to his voice that makes his music cathartic rather than depressing. An Introduction to the Mountain Goats 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Their verbal wit supplies the pleasures of precision. The Verbal Wit and Bronx-Born Street Wisdom of “Desus & Mero” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

With his 17 fellow elders, an army of administrators, thugs and villains, he created a Jewish hierarchy to carry out his policies with demented precision. The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg ? review 2011-07-08T09:05:01Z

Did the guild members simply not watch all the films this year, particularly the late arrivals like "A Most Violent Year" with its intricate web of shifting alliances a marvel of precision? SAG Awards 2015: 'Birdman' yes, but 'Theory'? Cast nominations a puzzle 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

In “Stomp a Waltz,” from 2006, set to music by the Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos, Ms. Nelson incorporates a predictable use of weight, breath and stomping for bodies that snap and pulsate with robotic precision. Dance Review: Handbook on Elegance Takes Form and Flight 2011-08-10T22:26:58Z

It’s like Old Home Week, and the veterans are in top form, their precision and vitality undiminished. On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars 2013-05-10T21:01:31Z

Her precision with a Molotov cocktail should land her in the Super Bowl. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Every scene unfolds with quiet, meticulous clarity, but Weerasethakul’s luminous precision only deepens the mystery. ‘Memoria’ Review: In Search of Lost Time 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

In their verbal energy, comic timing, emotional power, empathy, and intellectual precision, Wallace’s essays dwarf his stories and novels. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z

She’d signed up weeks earlier, attracted by the notion of precision and discipline. She says she was harassed by superiors. Now she protests outside the TSA for hours. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

That may say more about me or my patience mastering free motion precision than Arms, and it's worth keeping an eye on the eSports crowd's reaction. Review: 'Arms' Is Weird But Maybe the Perfect Switch Game 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

With its stinging satirical precision and looming awareness of risk and loss, “Fabulation” is never just a fable. Review | Lynn Nottage’s comic ‘Fabulation’ maps a slide down the social ladder 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Still, if only Ms. Michelson’s movement were the sole issue, she would emerge as a dogged, earnest choreographer of considerable precision, deliberately narrow vocabulary, and a pleasing if unexceptional feeling for wide stage space. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson’s ‘4,’ at the Whitney, Continues a Series 2014-01-26T22:09:19Z

It is a nicely poised work that, despite its expressive modesty, is thrilling to hear when played with this kind of precision and sensitivity. PLG Young Artists ? review 2011-01-11T23:30:01Z

He builds an intricate web of recurring themes with choreographic precision; this scene is a case in point. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Boulez was acknowledged with a performance of “Messagesquisse” for Solo Cello and Six Cellos, music of wondrous precision and vibrant colors, featuring the cellist Eric Bartlett. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

King chooses his horrors with cold-blooded precision … the sequence that has one of the characters, Lloyd Henreid, dying of thirst and starvation locked up in a county jail is particularly vivid. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z

As masterful as Garland is with his precision, he can get a bit pretentious ... "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The words of the hymn describe both the movement’s precision and its room for error: “without imperfections,” “loving the flaw.” Reviews: Works by Rebecca Davis and Milka Djordjevich, and Lyon Opera Ballet 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

His chapters are organized with the pleasing precision of a bento box. Review: ‘The Big Stick’ Argues for a Robust Military Role Abroad 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s got magic tricks, puppets, pyrotechnics, and big dance numbers, too, and all that requires extraordinary precision to keep everything on track. ‘Beetlejuice’ stars reveal the backstage secrets on Broadway 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Installed with appropriate precision on the Whitney’s eighth floor, the show presents her as an artist of formidable discipline, consistency and clarity of purpose, and a key player in any history of postwar art. A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due at the Whitney 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

This comes across even when Ms. Foster is singing and dancing with her customary polish and precision. Review: A Thoroughly Modern ‘Sweet Charity’ Who Abandons Hope 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Mandvi, a longtime correspondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” writes with the precision of someone who makes jokes on a tightly scripted television show. The best comedy books of 2014, including ones by Poehler and Mandvi 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Mahalchick’s best work an almost devotional sense of precision shines through a thin veneer of slovenliness. Art In Review: MICHAEL MAHALCHICK: ?It? 2012-04-12T19:53:50Z

"On top of being a hilarious comic actor, he also is a beautiful singer and understands how to use his physicality with great abandon and precision." Lauded Broadway actor Daniel Breaker joins Intiman cast of 'A Doctor in Spite of Himself' 2010-09-01T20:42:00Z

In “May B,” Ms. Marin works with the same meticulous precision that characterizes Beckett’s stage directions. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Maazel was admired for the precision and rigour of his conducting. Famed conductor Lorin Maazel dies 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

“The trick is to hire a professional because hanging paper is all about precision!” 2010-02-08T16:41:00Z

Private meanings aside, this work is notable for its deft balance of precision and fantasy. In the galleries: Brick by brick, a dark history emerges 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

With the precision of a sniper's shot, Pratt's soldier defuses the pressure without damaging the mood. Chris Pratt enters a new galaxy with his winning brand of acting 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

That generosity, coupled with the unpretentious precision of their craft, is always moving, though in this case not entirely convincing. ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Most of his energy was devoted to the drum kit in front of him, which he pummeled with more abandon than precision. Music Review: Behind the Mask, Giving Hints of How It?s Done 2011-07-10T21:59:32Z

The precision which has noted proper nouns and bus numbers now records the pre-decimal prices of the toys – and, again, numbers share the potency of the poem's quietly-measured diction. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's full, dark sound is admirably suited to Brahms, and there was singing of great splendour, precision and commitment from the Chester Festival Chorus. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko – review 2012-07-08T14:46:27Z

They played with extravagant precision and almost scary intensity, not to mention volume. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z

Poetry depends on precision, and fantasy in art on a faith that the narrow rendering of fact will be odder than anything we can imagine. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

As Lydia, Geraldine Alexander at times puts Baltic authenticity above comprehensibility but charts the character's physical decline with astonishing precision. In Praise of Love ? review 2011-04-06T17:59:43Z

It’s not a room for relaxing; even trays of hard candies, displayed with absurd precision, seem to treat enjoyment strictly as a still life. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z

Dee focuses with needling precision on three generations of the Firth family. What happens when a billionaire takes over a small New England town 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Where theatrical excitement was lacking, technical precision was abundant. ‘Cinderella,’ with a post-performance touch of happily ever after 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Tempo-shifting with Swiss watch precision, alternating between dynamics in perfect sync and without warning, settling into complex grooves with lazy aplomb, the Smashing Pumpkins sound like equals here. Smashing Pumpkins’ The Aeroplane Flies High Reissue is Compelling and Excessive 2013-07-25T14:47:40Z

It was a day of total warmth and affection and Braben caught the mood with the kind of precision that characterised his scripts for Eric and Ern. Letter: Eddie Braben on the unveiling of a seaside statue with a difference 2013-05-23T13:59:26Z

But it shared many of the same qualities: precision, simplicity, humility. The hard cut beauty of "Treme" 2011-05-23T13:24:00Z

Rather than concentrate on testimony and questioning with a court reporter’s precision, I let it become a wash of words, the background noise of history. Perspective | Is there a right way to watch the impeachment hearings? Yes, just let it wash over you. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The intimacy of the narration is devastating in its precision, allowing us to trace the ramifications of war through generations of family life. Stories of War and Its Aftermath, From Ancient Greece to America in ‘2034’ 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

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

But it was hard to top Tim McGraw, who unified a crowd that ranged from teens to boomers, moving through three decades of hits with a workman’s precision. Review: More than 20,000 country fans fill the Gorge for Watershed festival’s joyous, unbridled return 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

Brown touches on something deeper when, as in "Set and Reset" and "Opal Loop," she finds precision points in a beautifully "random" flow. Trisha Brown Dance Company delights with perpetual motion 2011-04-01T16:53:04Z

She sings with restraint, precision and clarity, but the soothing edges of her voice tend to homogenize the pained and the ecstatic. Music Review: Laura Mvula at the Bowery Ballroom 2013-05-21T21:14:44Z

Llˆyr Williams was the soloist in Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, bringing his customary clarity and insight to the playing, balancing precision with expressive tone, as well as underlining the quirky playfulness of the final Giocoso. BBCNOW/Fischer |Classical 2010-06-25T21:00:00Z

Videos, in which cookies are piped and flooded with icing with mesmerizing precision, pull down millions of views. Meet the Cookiers, Home Bakers With a Bond Stronger Than Royal Icing 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Each season the nominations are unveiled with the pomp and ceremony of a royal event; months of buildup have the precision — and sometimes the cost — of a political campaign. The Carpetbagger: Oscar Night Is Often Reached Via Unlikely Routes 2012-01-26T00:36:43Z

Green Day was always more refined and has honed its edge to the point where its music scythes down conservatives with such scalpel precision that many don’t even realize they are being punked. Power chords and Pollock: Art history and a theoretical superstructure of punk 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The narrative splits its focus between Tallow and the killer, sometimes bringing them within a hair's breadth of each other, and is written with the precision of the finest procedurals. Gun Machine by Warren Ellis – review 2013-01-31T09:01:01Z

Combined with new mathematical techniques, this technology is giving scientists new precision in pinpointing ages of bones and skulls. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

"I'm probably quite introverted, so it's trying to convey that with a precision and intensity," he said. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

But no matter how thick the orchestra textures, the conductor made adequate space for Aimard’s illuminating French clarity and precision. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

But the precision and sting of the music, the steely blasts heaving with dissonance, display a feisty new voice eager to say something important. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

And in some peculiar way the making of those more fanciful films may have sharpened his sense of the importance of visual precision, his highly developed taste for l’image juste. Film: He?s Fought His Own Way Back to Work 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z

She dedicated it, with precision, to “the over 155 female Catholic priests in this country.” Music Review: Sinead O’Connor in ‘Gospel Sessions’ at Lincoln Center 2013-07-28T21:36:14Z

But instead of all that polished precision helping "Alexander," the film quickly starts to feel more like the director is working through a to do list, though I'm sure with a smile. 'Alexander's' day isn't so terrible, film isn't so great 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

But as masterful as Garland is with his precision, he can get a bit pretentious. "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The movies she makes – spotted with raw, precision violence – might suggest a certain kind of personality. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

He wasted no extraneous gestures on the podium, standing compact and keeping time with the precision you would expect for bitty modern scores, not big romantic ones. BBCSSO/Volkov - review 2011-01-31T18:04:33Z

But the success of this production hinges on the moment-to-moment precision of Bernat and Dos Santos, both of whom bring flavorful specificity to their characterizations. 'Julia' updates 1888 classic with passionate acting, stunning staging, modern observation 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – outstandingly awful, should've taken itself less seriously and played humour Snow White: Dark with great visuals and excellent cameos, but let down by a lack of precision in its direction. Open thread: What's the greatest-ever kids movie? 2012-06-29T16:26:03Z

Pastry is defined by the precision of the execution. James Beard Award winner Dominique Ansel heralds a message for the times: "Everyone can bake" 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

Perfectly manicured lawns cut to military precision, gleaming white, brick homes, flawless hair, impeccable, designer clothes. "Bama Rush" reminded me of my own desperate need to belong 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

No one has illuminated the human side of the legal profession with such precision and care. Review | Scott Turow is a master of the legal thriller. ‘The Last Trial’ proves he’s still at the top of his game. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

This rosé of pinot noir is quite refined, its cherry and watermelon flavors guided with laser-beam precision. Keep it in mind for grilled salmon. 5 wines to sip outdoors

In the Australian Review, Barlow was something of a social scientist, approaching his reviews with a blank slate and treating them with methodical precision. Andy Daly on Review: 'There is a limit to how horrible things can get' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

It depends on listeners to be swept into each song as it evolves — and, at times, its songs unfolded a little too deliberately, especially because Warpaint didn’t always match the precision of its recordings onstage. Warpaint Plays Celebrate Brooklyn in Park Slope 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Soldiers march in strict uniformity, with a precision that is evident even on this tiny screen. A scenic spin through the hills of southwestern China 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

At the opposite tonal range is Siobhan Davies's The Art of Touch, with its exquisitely detailed movements plucking and striking the air with delicate precision. Rambert Dance Company ? review 2012-05-16T17:32:04Z

Little's music, conveyed by the warm precision of the ensemble Newspeak under the musical direction of Alan Pierson, makes the family's gradual demise feel visceral. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Jake Arditti, son of the first violinist and the composer, sang with poise, precision and astonishing presence, ensuring this family occasion was at once a world premiere, and a Wigmore debut, to remember. Arditti Quartet/Jake Arditti - review 2011-02-06T17:46:12Z

In particular, songs like “The Look” and “Love Letters,” the single from the new album of the same name, are models of precision and economy. Your week in Seattle music: Eels, Coolio, Metronomy, more 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Their sound is distinctly lo-fi and semi-dynamic, if you can get your head round such a concept, as though they're attacking their instruments in their sleep – it's a kind of sloppy precision. New band of the day ? No 753: The Smith Westerns 2010-03-24T14:57:00Z

And gameplay itself is predicated on innate, graceful precision: The pace is brisk when appropriate, leisurely and polite at other times. Cleveland’s field of dreams: What hope means for long-suffering Indians fans 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Swiss precision” is one of its taglines, looping tampons in with the other prides of Switzerland, watches and private banking. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

"Perhaps I just forgot I was in a land where precision is all and every second is counted," suggested a now chastened-sounding Ferrara. Abel Ferrara thought Locarno festival audience 'were calling for encore' 2011-08-09T14:43:04Z

Its precision is as marvelous as it is captivating. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Under the direction of James Baker, the Talea players played with sensitivity and precision. Finding Beauty in Georg Friedrich Haas’s Darkness 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

I learned that great rock was not about volume and wildness, but about precision and spareness. Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso in London 2010-07-15T20:30:00Z

As designed with unforgiving precision by Soutra Gilmour, it is not a place you would want to try to navigate in the dark. Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z

Throughout, Darnielle switches perspectives, draws miniatures in rhymed couplets and moves through lines with gleeful precision. Mountain Goats' 'Beat the Champ' richly imagines wrestlers' world 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

But Lisiecki’s technique was mature even then, and he won respect from critics and fellow musicians for his clarity and precision. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

These he applied with more zeal than precision, just as an American composer might indiscriminately swap a Sicilian tarantella for a Romagnan saltarello. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z

Even as a group of amateur dancers, the student dance group brought as much force and precision as a professional group. ‘Like a dream come true’: A UW dance crew invited a K-Pop group to dance with them in Seattle. A.C.E agreed. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Most effective, though, are the pictures that maintain a tension between precision and intuition. Review | In the galleries: ‘Poor art’ is often minimalist, but rich in its impact 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Since life lacks the precision of Donne scholarship, you use crude tools like that to beat back the darkness. The Out of Towner: Cancer Survivors See the Play ?Wit? 2012-02-16T23:10:38Z

With impeccably crisp phrasing, the earnest and playful Macntaj cuts through any beat he graces, delivering motoring tongue twisters, soulful reflections and half-sung passages with precision and personality. 16 of the best Seattle albums from 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

The British soprano’s voice combines limpid clarity with laser-focused precision, but with any possible harsh edges softened in a smooth finish. Recording reviews: A limpid soprano’s chance to soar 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

“Some of our dancers just want to be a dancer all the time,” Ms. Madrid said, which, in the urban dance world, means working at precision. Can a Hip-Hop Dance Show Settle In Off Broadway? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Her mathematical background still finds expression in the precision of her work, despite its variousness. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Melford is justly regarded as a fixture of the avant-garde, but in this band, with resources like Mr. Ellman’s light-fingered precision and Mr. Miles’s mournful but succulent tone, she strives for dynamic approachability. Review: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Subtly Recalls Its Inspiration 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

The acute precision with which the metal is cut and the fine-grained sand is brushed resonates against the easy casualness of the figurative activity. At Shoshana Wayne Gallery, a cast of thousands roams an indoor desert 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

And he writes with such precision that even the more peripheral characters emerge as sharply drawn, multifaceted individuals. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z

Rash writes with a direct precision that puts the reader at ease. All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

These are all open to all degrees of precision, rigidity and creative freedom. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

He’s an heir of Ibsen, a master observer who calibrates the torments and emotional bruises, the rationed caresses and playful lies, with a clinical precision. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

They start and end at the appointed times and their set is compiled with mechanistic precision, new songs sandwiching old, every shift in mood and tempo precisely modulated. The Walkmen – review 2012-06-14T17:11:32Z

And staring down a good song from a much earlier point in its career — “Achilipu,” from 1971 — the band booms, with precision. Playlist: CDs by People, Places & Things, and Anibal Velasquez 2010-04-30T19:54:00Z

The orchestra sounded good, but balances and rhythmic precision in the Beethoven were iffy. Review | Ben Folds’s second Kennedy Center concert features . . . everything 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

“Marksman” and “Boxer” underscore the precision and force of these paintings. Review: Keltie Ferris, Woman Warrior 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Every caramel is individually salted, by hand, by blue-gloved ladies with the precision of surgeons. Sweet visit to Fran's Chocolates, and a look at the 'Seattle look' 2012-10-02T03:30:06Z

I really took my time recording that record and rolled up my sleeves and got inside every single note and beat and shot for precision. Rock sideman steels the show: Jason Narducy comes off the road and produces a second album as solo act Split Single 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

She justly took pride in the precision of her diction. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The entire show has a precision of attention that makes it seem lean, made more so by COVID-19 precautions to spread things out. Seattle Art Museum has a new Monet exhibition. Is it needed? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cuckson’s tone was beautifully focused, and she and Mr. McMillen played the music with striking precision and unity of purpose. Music Review: Rite of Summer Music Festival at Governors Island - Review 2011-09-05T20:21:41Z

Slaboshpytskiy says he is most proud of a scene in which a character is run over by a truck, simply for the logistical work involved with several stuntmen and precision planning. 'The Tribe' director aims for realism in depicting troubled deaf world 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Live hip-hop shows are not exactly renowned for their rigorous discipline and musical precision. Wu-Block – review 2013-01-16T18:18:27Z

Much of the dancers’ attention is focused on performing stylized precision at breakneck speed rather than on nuance and details. These N.B.A. Dancers Bring Their High Kicks Courtside 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Sometimes she zooms in on a detail with exhilarating precision: a single escaped hair lying across Gioconda's cheek "like a fine fracture in porcelain". The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z

Perry displayed a remarkable blend of precision and freedom in “The Color Wheel,” broadened its spectrum in “Listen Up Philip,” and brought it to an excruciating intensity in “Queen of Earth.” What to Stream This Weekend: Spike Lee, Jean Renoir, and More 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Small town communities, urban social circles and religious congregations can pull together a plan with a rapidity and precision world military leaders can envy,” she writes. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

The routine requires split-second precision and the seamless cooperation of actors, flight operators and stage managers. In This ‘Peter Pan,’ Something Always Goes Awry. That’s the Plan. 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

There is something about her – her well-organised and formidable intellect, her straight-backed neatness of person, the donnish precision of her conversation – that reduces me to the condition of disorganised undergraduate. Interview: Penelope Curtis 2010-11-30T21:30:00Z

Japanese precision craftsmanship soon created a transpacific trade in devices that tickled the senses. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

In the precision and power of its language and its sheer amplitude of detail, Iles’s latest calls to mind the late, great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

But, above all, he advised, for snowballs that strike with championship-winning precision, players must put their “heart and soul” into making them. In Transit Blog: On the Horizon: A Winter Tournament Waged in Snow 2014-02-11T22:39:29Z

Unlike his reticent, hulking hero, Mr. Diaz has a slight build and a wide smile and an expression that gains intensity as he listens and weighs his words, which he delivers with rapid precision. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Marling is a formidable songwriter who, as her new album I Speak Because I Can demonstrates, is only getting better; and the acuity of her observations is matched by the precision of her performance. Laura Marling | Pop review 2010-03-25T23:30:00Z

Annie Clark wants to measure God’s favors and she wants precision, as if height mattered or as if divine grace were a thing to be commandeered. John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a style so minimalist, it approaches maximalism — and this combination of pulp and precision creates an arresting and unique work of film noir. ‘Twilight’ Review: Film Noir in the Hungarian Hills 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Rossini is also a tougher vocal assignment than Puccini, and though all the voices are strong – even a bit fierce in this tiny space – not all negotiate their ornate lines with enough precision. The Barber of Seville (or Salisbury) ? review 2010-10-19T11:58:00Z

By then, her style was fully-formed; on the Material track Memories, the richness of her tone was balanced by a poise and precision that was uncanny in a teenager. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

She dances, flops over a chair and slams home Coward’s zingers with the precision of an atomic clock, the panache of a seasoned comic. Angela Lansbury’s road, from ‘Murder, She Wrote’ to Noël Coward 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

“Letter From Wayne” is a homage to Wayne Shorter, whose compositional signature has rarely been forged with such loving precision. New Music: CDs From K. Michelle and Leo Genovese 2013-08-12T21:08:44Z

The Navy's precision air team, the Blue Angels, flies the F-18. Jet crashes into Virginia apartments 2012-04-07T02:52:00Z

She repeatedly asked the actors to speak faster, to trust that the “heartbeat” of the iambic pentameter and the precision of the imagery, if articulated properly, will pull the audience along. A Voice Instructor for the Leads in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-09-12T16:20:05Z

Yet throughout there is a constant, distinctive search for a simple, singing sense of expression, for a pliancy of line, for a sophistication and sensitivity that lay in more than technical precision. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

It was done with — dare we say? — robotic precision. Nashville hitmaker Luke Bryan rocks Jiffy Lube Live

Anthony Maras, making his first feature, interweaves these threads with precision and clarity, conveying an impressive sense of the hotel layout, the confusion of the circumstances and the visceral fear of hiding from the gunmen. ‘Hotel Mumbai’ Review: Terrorism as Popcorn Movie? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Rebecca Warner brings a spry, geometric precision to her long opening solo. Review: 'Devotion' is unlikely to make dance lovers devotees of Sarah Michelson 2011-03-11T23:01:04Z

The director Hossein Amini sets up all these pieces and looks, these covert glances and hushed exchanges, with economy and borderline geometric precision. ‘The Two Faces of January,’ From a Highsmith Novel 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The evening’s most effective weapon by far is Hurley, looking entirely Poppins-like in her prim blue jacket, dancing with graceful precision and singing sweetly while flashing an inscrutable smile. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

She will gather the essential elements and arrange them before us with such precision that, without instructing us how to see, she grants us sight. Mingling Fact and Fiction, Jo Ann Beard Bares Her Subjects’ Souls 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Grange saw razors as precision instruments, designed not just for efficacy but to be seductive and welcoming in the hand. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z

Restraining the more flamboyant gestures he employed in a previous concert on Friday, Mr. Heras-Casado led with economy and precision. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z

A musician capable of fusing speed and precision — with a deceptively laid-back execution — Mr. Thompson thrived mostly as an accompanist. Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

These miraculous little things alternate between photographic precision and Whistlerian atmospheres, as in “Seascape.” Wild Waves and Quiet Streets: 2 Artists Working From Memory 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Primavera,” their first duo album, is gemlike in its beauty and precision, and manages to be purely about the depth of their rapport even when another musician enters the picture. Playlist: Sonny Rollins and Jamie XX Have New Albums 2014-05-04T01:50:35Z

In another, he’s adding thin, raised lines of highlight with a calligrapher’s precision. Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

And Reubens brought him to life in a performance of utter physical and verbal precision. Paul Reubens Was More Than Pee-wee. Here are 8 Great Performances. 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z

Noises unsettle him, except in the woods, where he can identify them with precision. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Theirs is a dangerous, scintillating music, fluid as mercury, and its precision is all the more impressive because the performers are as meticulously choreographed as a corps de ballet. The Irrepressibles - review 2010-10-04T21:15:00Z

Its cool radiant precision is heightened by the contrast with its duller, less assertive neighbor: a similarly posed woman in pink by Pier Francesco Foschi. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

A devotee of Henry James, he registers the fluctuations of the character’s inner weather with meteorological precision. Review: Resettling the Meaning of Home in ‘Brooklyn,’ With Saoirse Ronan 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

“I’m not giving it a scientific endorsement for precision,” Dr. Blumberg said. Vegetables With Benefits at ABCV 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

On campus, the blend of precision and sprawl is familiar from any of the company’s stores. Billy bookcases and the ​definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museum 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

But he became much admired for developing a style that combined fingerpicking precision on the one hand with a commanding slide on the other. Sonny Landreth, never straying far from the blues 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Even among other martial-arts stars of his era, Lee stands out for his intense focus, the precision of his moves and the sheer fury of his fights, augmented by his signature screeching. How Bruce Lee Exploded a Stereotype With a One-Inch Punch 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

But the opera is also about coming together, not just in the particulars of its plot but also in the precision required in performance to add the proper fizz to Mozart’s buoyant score. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

“As human interpreters, this kind of subtlety was kind of hard to do sometimes; it’s the kind of precision you can only have with machines.” Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

In dramatizing the oblivious frivolity at the core of the American command, it takes on some of that frivolity, fluctuating in tone between antic comedy and earnest realism, and achieving neither with any uninhibited precision. Brad Pitt’s “War Machine” Stays on the Surface of American Politics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Where Balthus strove for academic precision in his drawings, Pierre drew more freely and more surreally. Pierre Klossowski Drawings Explore Eroticism and More 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

“She raged through her big aria with power, precision and expressive intensity that left no doubt as to the Queen of the Night’s character,” Allen Hughes wrote in The New York Times. Rita Shane, a Met Soprano Known for Range and Intensity, Dies at 78 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

During the Beethoven Ninth, the playing lacked precision and clarity now and then. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

“And if you could mix these ingredients in equal parts, that meant precision, which meant you were jiggering” — still uncommon then. The born-in-Detroit cocktail that has spawned countless variations 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Then it was the buttons on the majority of Claire’s clothing throughout the series marching up her garments with an almost military precision. A Primer on Power Dressing From ‘House of Cards’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The young Ms. Balasubramanian was another cause for delight, showing biting musical precision. Music Academy in Chennai Hosts Indian Dance Festival 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The hairdresser found fame with his five-point bob, which he cut with geometric precision on the model Grace Coddington, now creative director at American Vogue. Saying Farewell to Vidal Sassoon 2012-10-15T13:58:47Z

Character often seems to count for more than precision, as in the pizzicato Scherzo of the Tchaikovsky, where the strings, for all their manic plucking, laid down a plush carpet of sound. Reviews: Chelsea Music Festival, Gregg Kallor and St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

For us, it was a perfect mix of technical precision and a relaxed atmosphere, worth all of 2 stars. Restaurant Review: Tuome in the East Village 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Those are trying circumstances for any moviemaker, especially a relatively unproven one navigating material that requires tonal precision, but both Mr. Owen and Ms. Keener, who play the victim’s parents, said their director remained coolheaded. Out of Character, in the Director?s Chair 2011-03-25T18:45:10Z

This quality can make soft passages beautifully lucid at Geffen, and solos come off with precision, as if the hall were pointing an index finger at the players, one by one. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The look of the Menier production, which features a set by Mr. Doyle, with costumes by Matthew Wright and lighting by Jane Cox, has both the precision and haziness of such photographs. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Prudencia Hart’ Sing Anew in London 2013-07-16T21:56:11Z

The strange underground world Prokopi inhabits inevitably brings us in contact with some serious oddballs, each of whom is introduced by Williams with the economy and evocative precision of a haiku. The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Lully’s score serves Philippe Quinault’s elegant text above all, with clear melodies and dialogue that is both otherworldly in its precision and disarmingly natural, with few of the fireworks of Handel and Vivaldi. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z

“She Said” details a triumph of journalistic sympathy and precision. ‘She Said’ Review: A Quiet Thriller That Speaks Volumes 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

If you measure performances in terms of sheer energy, precision and adrenaline, these were hard to top. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z

I remember the date with such precision because, for reasons known only to my parents, we were told of the divorce the evening before my mum’s birthday. How to help kids survive divorce 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Elite military units must train with less precision. Big Critic, Little Critic? Me, My Daughter and the Rockettes 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

This procedure requires a great deal of skill and precision, which can be impossible if the victim is not under anaesthetic. What is female genital mutilation? 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

And his marvelous orchestra responds with like clarity and precision. Review: Russian National Orchestra Plays Borodin and Prokofiev 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

But I think the other 50 percent is meant to be felt, and for all of Glazer’s formal precision, he leaves plenty of room for viewers to come to their own conclusions. Cannes: You’ve Never Seen a Holocaust Film Like ‘The Zone of Interest’ 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

She has the technique, the timing, the precision; but this role calls for immense authority and a bold range of pure-dance dramatic color that aren’t hers. Dance Review: At City Ballet, a New Work Looks to Ellington for ?That Swing? 2011-01-30T23:49:35Z

But except for its digital precision, the exercise adds little to Minimalism’s vaunted obsession with space and the lengthy tradition of nearly empty galleries as art. Dia Chelsea, Keeper of the Avant-Garde Flame 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

That profession provides the title of “Hangmen,” which is directed with gleaming precision and grinning relish by Matthew Dunster. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s a discipline usually driven by obsession with painstaking detail and technical precision. Art Battle Seattle turns painting into a live competition, complete with DJ, audience and drinks 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Imperious and impetuous, she glides elegantly around the stage as if on casters before disintegrating like a broken wind-up toy in a display of comic precision balanced by emotional heart. Mark Rylance reigns in Shakespeare double bill 2012-11-19T12:31:15Z

Call it a lingering honeymoon glow, but they responded to his every gesture with enthusiasm and virtually flawless precision — especially in the brasses. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

It was clear that they weren’t bothered by the outdated appearance or lack of prehistoric precision. In Virginia, the dinosaurs still roam — sort of 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

July 13, 1798; the precision of the title makes for an apt prelude to Wordsworth's extended meditation on memory, time and place. Poster poems: July 2012-07-13T15:49:08Z

It is precision work — obsessive micro-editing goes into the videos — that draws on a forager’s instinct for finding beauty in the ephemeral and mundane. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Taylor Goldsmith, Dawes’ songwriter and singer, deploys vocabulary with precision, building verses around “symmetrical,” “collateral,” “negotiable” and other four-syllable words. The Playlist: Selena Gomez Chides an Ex, and Remy Ma Stomps on a Foe 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Federer’s extraordinary moments of precision may be fewer now than a few years ago, but his ease of motion and the harmonious flow of his game remain. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

He is able to move large ensembles through tight places with great precision, without losing any of the heart in the music. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z

As he expounded on the five “Ps” of dancerly excellence — “principle, precision, possibility, passion, presence” — the studied tone and delivery became hard to bear. Review: ‘David Hallberg Presents: Legacy’ at the Koch Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The soaring genius of the Italian Renaissance or the bland precision of the cuckoo clock? Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The clear, crisp light gave the contours of the landscape the precision and sharpness of an architectural drawing. In Laos, a Haven for Tubing Offers More Peace, Less Partying 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Rooting the sound in the cellos and basses and demanding precision with his stylish, meticulous movements, Mr. Honeck made the Fourth something shadowy and equivocal. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

And when Mr. Dutoit is in his element, in music that demands coloristic breadth, precision and high voltage, the orchestra can be hard to match. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-26T23:41:47Z

“How ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ became the site of the most deadly antisemitic attack on American soil and what happened afterward unfold with the precision of the best suspense stories.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Glass's long-term collaborator Michael Riesman conducted with formidable precision. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z

The finale of the Seventh, for instance was blistered and raw, but it took a scorched-earth strategy to important rhythms that demand precision strikes. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Passing scuffs in the performance hardly mattered; Mr. Tavener’s music depends more on passion than on precision. Music Review: Washington Square Music Festival With West Village Chorale 2012-07-11T21:56:11Z

On the contrary, the way his film deals with family matters and gender relations is an aspect of its precision and a measure of its insight. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

And when something familiar is described with such precision that it becomes estranged, and I am able to see it with clarity and depth. Dana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Many of them, with vocal techniques built for tonal blend and rhythmic precision in a chorus, favored a straight tone that gleamed like white light but also exposed waywardness in pitch. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Requiring unyielding concentration and unceasing precision to fulfill the composer’s demands, it pushes the bounds of what is physically possible. Exploring a Cathartic Moment in a Lengthy String Quartet 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gold calibrates the declarations and pauses and elisions with knife-edge precision. Sam Gold and Annie Baker Are an Artistic Pairing Destined to Succeed 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

The rise of the record business increased the value of technical precision because, in recording, a mistake is seemingly embedded in the composition for all eternity. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

There was much to admire in the tightly massed brasses and firm winds, and at the end of Part 1, where the harsh aggression suddenly falls away, the exposed strings played with otherworldly precision. Music Review: MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SYMPHONY 2012-10-01T20:34:01Z

Martin had by then grown famous for her softly colored grids, but Mr. Zorn found in her art as much passion as precision. Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

She ushered me into a bright workshop where half-painted nutcracker body parts were lined up with military precision. Dreaming of an Artisanal Christmas 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

On Friday, he’d look over hundreds of jokes and, with machinelike precision, mark off what he liked and what he didn’t. Michael Che and Colin Jost are back for more Trump jokes, whether they like it or not 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Gradually, they added more dancers and used them to create the precision movements for the musicians. The Choreographers Who Set Beyoncé in Motion at Coachella 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Price depicts the creative process with precision balanced by respect for its mysteries. Review | The dying author of ‘The Leopard’ finds new life in ‘Lampedusa’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Its precision is impressive and fussy rather than invigorating. | 'The American': A Man of Few Words and an Artisanal Weapon 2010-08-31T18:35:00Z

Hall is a published poet who compares that craft with Thorn’s tying bonefish flies — precision work that is repaid in pride rather than money. Crime fiction: ‘The Big Finish,’ by James W. Hall

This choreography of grit and grace perseveres, despite an increase of arrests by the New York Police Department, as a delicate wonder, glued together by exacting precision and indelible stamina. Subway Performances Can Be a Wonder of Grit and Grace 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Its modern tactics and its weapons are noted with precision in the ferocious documentary, “In My Blood It Runs.” ‘In My Blood It Runs’ Review: ‘I Want to Be an Aborigine’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Photograph: esri.com Perhaps it was the spurious precision of the headline that caught my eye. The death of Web 2.0 is nigh 2011-08-06T23:06:05Z

Was it improper for me to direct my child to greater precision in the understanding of concepts that she herself identified as relevant? Motherlode Blog: When 'Help' With Homework Is Too Much 2013-02-03T14:22:47Z

You write with satirical precision about the way black people are patronised in the US and the UK – often in a well-meaning way. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: my new novel is about love, race... and hair 2013-04-06T23:05:05Z

But even at their most feverish and fraught, these situations are diagramed with precision and detachment. 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z

The material objects Zhadan describes with an almost grotesque precision—wooden icons of Christian Orthodox martyrs, a Manchester United pendant, a pair of Bosch electric scissors—serve as missing words amid laconic dialogue. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Subtitled “A Memoir of Perfectionism,” the book approaches the mysteries, gaps and obstacles in Tallent’s own story with the same psychological precision and elliptical motivation she applies to her fictional characters. Why Did an Accomplished Writer Fall Silent for Two Decades? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The offerings ranged from exquisite formal precision to eruptive bedlam. NW New Works showcases 8 works at On the Boards 2011-06-13T04:12:04Z

Though its agenda may have seemed fluid to those who haven’t spent much time in black churches, the service ebbed and flowed with its own precision, purpose and meaning. Perspective | Aretha Franklin and John McCain, off to the sweet hereafter by different means 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

He can declaim, slowly and with great precision, about the visual idiom of seemingly any architectural period. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

The range of color that Melissa Hough brought to Terpsichore left the stronger impression, but Lia Cirio’s precision and sweep were also welcome. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z

There are verbal, visual and motion cues, all marks to hit with strict precision. Wes Anderson’s Secret Weapon: The Camera Moves of Sanjay Sami 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

Lead track Made to Stray sounds suitably on point, expertly marrying digital precision with wooze. Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – review 2013-05-25T23:05:08Z

Barely ten years later, and it’s already impossible to recall with any precision the depths of uncertainty that was life post-Hurricane Katrina. “No one knows if New Orleans will live again”: A digital diary of Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

I expected a staged, even canned collision between absolutist Germanic modernism and contemporary culture, or between whiteness and blackness; what I discovered was closer to a three-dimensional essay on various approaches to symmetry and precision. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Hybridizing the precision of cutting-edge fashion with the heady spontaneity of the dance floor, she laid the groundwork for Lady Gaga’s arrival a full year before “The Fame.” Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

It needs absolute precision for its “special effects” to work — and it got it. Ehnes Quartet wows crowd in closing chamber-fest concert 2014-02-03T17:59:31Z

This part requires a little precision: dip each pretzel in a bicarbonate solution for exactly four minutes. Folding, kneading, rolling: seven meditative dishes to cook when you need to zone out 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Not someone who brings military precision to her stage show. At Jingle Ball, Finding Out Who’s Learned to Play Nice 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

With the precision of a woodcut print artist, he slices into the stacks, creating three-dimensional images of astounding complexity. ‘Love Me Tender’: artistic meditations on money 2013-03-07T21:58:14Z

He removed their eyeballs with such precision that, when the eyelids were shut, it was impossible to tell they were gone. A True-Crime Veteran on Our Fascination with Serial Killers 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Drzal traces the delicate emotions packed into a scene with the precision of a miniaturist. Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

It takes precision and planning, but your next brunch contribution will wow the assembled guests. This pretty breakfast Danish is as easy to make as a toaster waffle 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Harvey conveys the hell of insomnia with the precision and passion of one who has come to know it too well. Review | Samantha Harvey’s ‘The Shapeless Unease’ delves into the quotidian torture of insomnia 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Tarantino, whose production company’s name, A Band Apart, evokes “Bande à Part,” the French title of Mr. Godard’s “Band of Outsiders,” distills the essence of movie Paris with characteristic wit and precision. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z

In this new, unexpectedly final blossoming of her unfailing precision, Ms. Charlesworth’s art is softer but no less rigorous and still a source of eye-opening experiences. Review: ‘Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld’ Studies Perceptions Shaped by Photography 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“I was immediately struck by its precision, authenticity and simplicity, as well as its sheer elegance,” he said. Charlotte Perriand’s Work Transformed Rooms. Now It Fills a Museum 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

This is seen by many as a travesty: Close brings a precision to her film work, honed through her years on stage. Glenn Close: ‘You lose power if you get angry’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

The designer’s signature is precision cutting, which made his shearling parkas and snug bomber jackets seem more conscious of the body than in his earlier, stiffer work. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z

But however good or bad these singers were was irrelevant to the larger problem, captured with queasy precision by the image of Darius Rucker crooning — wait for it — “White Christmas.” 'Christmas in Rockefeller Center': Tone-deaf in every way 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Maybe you notice something about his breath, or the delicacy and precision of his phrasing. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

As a poet, Professor Honig was praised for formal precision, masterly tonal control and sometimes biting wit. Edwin Honig, a Poet, Professor and Translator, Dies at 91 2011-06-05T00:27:26Z

“With an emotional precision that captures and rewards attention throughout,” writes Brandes, “Milo rescues Nannerl’s genius from the historical shadow of her brother’s.” Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. Phil wraps up the season, Tony Awards coming up, reconsidering Frank Lloyd Wright 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

To teach precision and control, Booth enlisted two punching bags. Have at thee! Special Forces veteran revives medieval combat skills. 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Miller’s abstract paintings, always geometric, partake of the minimalist virtues of balance, precision and order, standard for that art in the 1960s and early 1970s. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Within such hubbub, the dancers often picked their way around the waiting room with delicacy and ticktock precision. Review | Dutch masters of dance: Rebellious perfection 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Strout has an extraordinary gift of emotional precision in showing loneliness, miscommunication and self-doubt in such a stark yet compassionate way. Review | The best new audiobooks for your Thanksgiving drive 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Connection,” a bracing string quartet by Sampo Haapamaki, conjured similar extremes through control and precision, its visceral waves, swells and slashes produced with exactly calibrated rhythmic relationships and microtonal pitch sets. Music Review: MATA Festival Returns, With Spotlight on Helsinki 2014-04-17T23:21:53Z

Jules, a blacksmith, works with an ease and precision that represent generations of handed-down know-how. ‘Cousin Jules’: a couple quietly living in a state of nostalgia 2014-03-06T20:32:54Z

At the level of precision where we’re talking about human beings and tables and chairs, you just can’t talk that way without talking about people making choices. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

It was an Independence Day tribute almost psychedelic in its bright brassiness, its militaristic precision. New York Philharmonic’s Fourth of July Celebration 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Technical precision enables Cuban dancers to obtain positions with other companies, but thriving in them is another matter. Havana?s Sphere of Influence 2011-05-25T19:32:32Z

The dancers perform it with complete urgency, precision and motivation; the range of physical detail shown by PeiJu Chien-Pott, as the victimized protagonist, is especially exciting. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z

The corpses of young women start showing up at various sites and — in an era when precision bombardment is still well in the future — always at a place that is about to be hit. Book review: ‘The Siege,’ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

With eight of the original cast returning, Lyndsey Turner's production retains its buoyancy and precision. Posh – review 2012-05-23T22:01:01Z

With remarkable precision and emotional weight, these stories depict working-class Glasgow: slummy, rowdy, tribal, drunken, despondent, quixotic and irrepressible. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

I love its precision, its modesty, its clarity and its minimal fuss. Possessed: Better Penmanship, Less Pain 2011-02-05T00:51:47Z

Interestingly, Winchester also discusses the social implications of precision on assembly lines. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Callie is a devoted and gifted curler, and her athletic precision sliding stones is what first clues Max in to the fact that this is a deceptively sophisticated sport. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Other choice tidbits include Kubrick’s comparison of the work of a film director to the precision Napoleon applied to military strategy. ‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Review: Stanley Plays Himself 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Whereas Auster's books are written with a cool precision that creates an oddly dreamy atmosphere, Hustvedt's work in the reverse manner, the seemingly airy writing building up characters that are as clear as light. Siri Hustvedt 2011-03-25T07:00:00Z

Tharp, at that time a fascinatingly manic presence onstage, got a Vidal Sassoon precision mop. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

If such approaches can help to bring much-needed precision to wine reviews, they also seem less likely to stimulate a drinker’s curiosity or imagination in the way that a fruit salad of flavor descriptions might. Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

With sometimes shocking precision, I heard at least a dozen fans recall the first time they heard the opening of an Allman Brothers song. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

But the social fault lines of race, class and gender Norris exposes with near-surgical precision have altered surprisingly little — despite high awareness of them. 'Clybourne Park': A racially divided neighborhood, close to home 2012-04-27T23:34:03Z

In a solo that combines delicacy with angular precision, Ms. Lovette showed a clarity of intention and a musicality that imprinted every step upon the eye. Spring Performance: Dance: Anticipating Glory From a Newcomer And a Guest Star 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z

The veteran soprano Constance Hauman, who plays three roles, emphasized that the precision of Ms. Neuwirth’s indications was, perhaps paradoxically, an attempt to create freedom for the performers. A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Most of the narrative takes place in the claustrophobic, delirious confines of the jungle, an environment Herzog is intimately familiar with and evokes with eerie precision. Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

To this day, neither Lipska nor her doctor can say how much she owes her life to the immunotherapy, and how much to the targeted drug therapy — a fact that irks Lipska, who seeks precision. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

But the simple precision of the hand-drawn characters and of the watercolor world they inhabit provide visual coherence and establish an atmosphere of fascination as well as dread. Review: ‘Birdboy,’ a Disturbing Animated Feature from Spain 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The art is in the bold act itself and the physical precision it requires, as well as in the grace of their fearlessness. Elizabeth Streb’s Choreography, With Action Heroes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Marvel said in an interview that she does not see Mr. Birney as a people pleaser but rather as an actor who prizes collegiality and technical precision. Reed Birney, Back on Broadway in ‘Picnic’ 2013-01-06T04:47:18Z

Acoustically the space works wonderfully too, the vaulted chamber delivering with precision Shaw's every rasp, whisper and nuance. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review 2013-01-13T00:05:32Z

Originally produced by Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center in 2013, this adventurous take on a popular if problematic show combines the fluid precision of a professional troupe with the gleeful insouciance of an amateur theatrical company. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Live performance takes precedence over digital precision and editing. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z

The portrait has anatomical precision — no accident, Mr. Fausel said, because it was meant to be a “very direct” representation of the dog widely regarded as one of the greatest in show dog history. A Museum of Man’s Best Friend, From Fossils to Virtual Reality 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Labadie, who conducts without a baton, is a live wire on stage, and his forceful gestures generated playing of extraordinary rhythmic precision and wide dynamic range. Review: Baroque music, superbly played and sung, at Benaroya 2011-05-05T16:06:05Z

Though Holiday’s music, like all music, defies description, it doesn’t defy analysis, and Szwed, joining musicological precision to historical insight, traces the course of Holiday’s career through recordings. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Her finely tuned physique met each obstacle with precision and grace.  Jessica Ennis: Better than Michael Phelps? 2012-08-04T12:35:00Z

But the appeal of watching someone like Tatum is the precision of his movement: the flow of his shoulder rolls, the nod of careless ease. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

He planted himself in one spot and delivered solidly written jokes with precision. Critic?s Notebook: Eddie Brill and the Comics on David Letterman?s Show 2012-01-11T23:09:20Z

By the end, they are speaking with enormous precision and passion, an intellectual rigour miles superior to the work that landed them in trouble in the first place. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer – review 2013-06-13T11:02:19Z

Striving for absolute precision seemed not the driving concern. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

That’s atypical, but the artist’s balance of precision and spontaneity is characteristic of these deft, diverse pictures. In the galleries: Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose

All great writing is infected with silence, but it is very rare indeed to observe a master wielding that vacuum blankness of the unsaid with such elegant precision. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

We learn that Mendoza changed pugilism from a graceless slugfest into a “scientific” sport in which fist-pounding became secondary to agility and precision. | 'The Punishing Blow': Randy Cohen?s History Lesson at Clurman Theater 2010-08-22T22:57:00Z

By the new millennium, McGregor was working with the Royal Ballet, enjoying "the extremity of line, the conformity, the detail, the precision" of the classically trained dancers, and expanding his movement vocabulary accordingly. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z

The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra played with organic unpredictability yet skilled precision, and brought animalistic intensity to the Orff. Review: Two Operas Conjure Apocalypses Personal and Cosmic 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

The San Francisco dancers articulated every bit, small and large, with unhurried precision. Three ballet companies prove the brilliance of one legendary choreographer in 'Celebrate Forsythe' 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

The playing of the ensemble in Mr. Salonen’s crackling “Catch and Release” lacked precision, though the character of the music came through. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Vocal harmonies abound, burnished to modern studio precision. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z

Two, to be exact, and as a bonus, you get to practice your surgeonlike precision while trying to avoid sloshing onto the stove top. This doll-size pan is the one kitchen item I can’t do without 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

The eponymous leader of the Arkestra was a self-proclaimed celestial being who was one of the most visionary jazz musicians of the 20th century, championing individualism and expression over precision and perfection. Marshall Allen is 96 years old and still leading one of the most visionary jazz groups of all time 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

In any setting, the LSO's sound remains distinctive: bright, incisive and making its impact through precision more than mere loudness. Prom 52: LSO/Gergiev/Kavakos ? review 2011-08-24T10:05:08Z

Also, the "Soul Train" mind, which is less about endurance and more about precision and kind showing out in this small window of time. From "Soul Train" to Don Shirley, new book celebrates the history of Black performance in America 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Simon can remember with astounding precision buses and trains he took during his time at Cambridge; it's everything else that's vanished. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z

The slaughter is seen through his eyes with numbed precision. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z

There was precision and polish in his style, but not enough indication of the formal tensions stirring beneath the music’s surface. Review: John Patitucci Takes His Electric Bass to the Iridium 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Carvalho, a Portuguese choreographer, is equally interested in precision, but not so much in steps. Review: And Now Four Dances, Completely Different 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

She writes with precision, conviction, respect and thoughtfulness about pain as well as the disparate, and at times unjust, experiences that people face when navigating the American health care system. Three Memoirs About the Messiness of Life and Self-Definition 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Though primarily drawn to instruments and voice, Babbitt also cultivated an interest in electronic sound synthesis, in part because it enabled his complex music to be realised with greater precision. Milton Babbitt obituary 2011-01-30T18:29:19Z

The practice of “ruination” demonstrates the incredible precision with which Lovecraft approached description. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z

I think the best professionals can do both because then you've got that discipline and precision from pastry, with that improv of savory. Sohla El-Waylly wants to make you a culinary "expert in your own home" 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

There is precision, and then there is brittleness. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

What they do share is precision of craft and vision. In the galleries: Art that’s coolly conceived, rigorously made 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

There’s no better place to admire the precision of Mies’s grids than from within the post office, with its Eames Tandem Sling seating, custom stainless mail tables and bookmatched black walnut paneling. Looking at Where Chicago Works 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Ramada Inn” proves that Young need not change his ways in order to write an arresting song with precision and weight. Neil Young and Crazy Horse Take a Psychedelic Pill Ride to Another Universe 2012-11-02T16:12:58Z

From there, the experience varied: in the more devotional solo movements, Sasha Cooke used her beautifully rounded mezzo-soprano tone to superb effect, and Susanna Phillips sang the soprano solos with clarity, power and precision. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-16T23:46:53Z

The Beethoven performance, though not a model of precision, was elegant and insightful. Review: Anna Netrebko Saves the Day for the Met Orchestra 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Others, and some rather vocal cinematographers, worry that the instant version sacrifices precision and vision on the altar of convenience. Movie Review: ‘Side by Side’ With Keanu Reeves Charts Filmmaking Advances 2012-08-30T22:01:06Z

For all its precision, the prop team also made adjustments. A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

The story is crafted with the precision of a thriller, with revelations that sent me reeling. A Survivor of Sexual Assault Speaks Out 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Not a line is out of place in these drawings, as they depict contemporary reality with uncanny precision. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Carrasco's male partners, performing with her Sunday at New York City Center's Flamenco Festival 2012, did the job with passion and precision. Men in skirts? Entertaining flamenco at NY fest 2012-03-06T02:31:05Z

Those films examined the moral struggles of military personnel as they conduct missions with clinical precision while far removed from danger. Review: In ‘Drone,’ Confronting Sins and a Vengeful Visitor 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Moving from place to place, they worked with military-style precision, spending less than 30 minutes on each setup. The Bachelorette Party Comes for Scottsdale 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

Okuno dishes out the heebie-jeebies with ruthless precision — watching is like being on a roller-coaster incline and seeing the tracks ahead splinter. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

At first glance, the still life, which recalls the work of the American painter Wayne Thiebaud, impresses with its skill and precision and evokes nostalgia for sugary childhood treats. Multilayered Paintings That Pay Tribute to Hip-Hop Dances 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

Long known for its precision watches, delicious chocolates and soaring mountains, Switzerland also produces an array of white and red wines, although few are exported to the United States. In Transit: Swiss Wine Center Offers Tastes and More 2010-10-13T19:00:00Z

If his mother’s art reflects aching precision and control, Koerner’s pieces both embrace these traits and deliberately elude them. What a Japanese-American Artist Inherited from the Atomic Bomb 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

This is complicated emotional territory navigated with succinctness and precision, making what isn’t said as haunting as the letters themselves. A Marriage Upended, a Life Destroyed 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Displaying that jigsaw-puzzle precision will be a program at the Dec. 21 concert titled “Christmas With the King’s Singers.” Artists contemplate the isolation of the Internet era through photographs 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Many shots are geometrically formal compositions whose precision distances you from what little action there is. Review: In ‘Tu Dors Nicole,’ the Daughter Loafs While the Parents Are Away 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It lacked the precision for which the 17th-century Dutch artist is famous, it said. Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Show to Include Recently Disputed Work 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Dirk Luijmes put the wheezy keyboard instrument through its paces in the three-movement piece, huffing through Bachian finger exercises and somber lines while surrounded by a dizzy clamor enacted with breathtaking economy and precision. Music Review: Louis Andriessen, Composing Under the Radar 2010-04-19T22:18:00Z

The change was most apparent in “Strict Love,” set to a recording of a radio broadcast of hit songs, as the dancers captured its highly formal, robotic precision. Review: Kyle Abraham, Walking on Air 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The chorus sang its anguished prayers with passion and precision. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

With balletic precision she backs away and reclines down on a nearby piece of furniture – laying with him, but not, chaste and yet reaching up to heaven with one, two, three fingers. "The New Pope" is still sexy and it knows it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

The slick precision of the production is extremely impressive. Aquilo – New Band Up North #24 2013-04-29T16:00:01Z

Within the precision, what is starting to emerge, delicately, is the biggest surprise of all: individuality. Times Critics’ Last-Chance Dance Picks 2013-12-26T21:33:00Z

She developed her own processes to bring a precision to her work, using unconventional tools like a compass, an X-acto knife and a drafting triangle. | The New Ceramicists 2014-04-07T19:31:23Z

On Tuesday she played with her customary technical precision. Music Review: A Penchant for Bruch (Since She Was Only 5) 2010-10-21T20:18:00Z

James Powell has directed the quick scenes with the precision of a traffic cop. Theater review: ‘Dirty Dancing — the Classic Story on Stage’ at National Theatre

During the last 18 months, Deaton has grown the group into a strong, confident ensemble capable of executing complex harmonies with precision. Finding their true voices in the Trans Chorus 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Moses and Mr. Alter have obviously logged many hours noting with precision the loony aesthetics of these competition shows. Theater Review: ‘Nobody Loves You’ Spoofs Reality TV at Second Stage Theater 2013-07-19T02:00:14Z

During his only solo, he worked with dragonfly precision, darting around in three-dimensional space, not only quick but also light. Review: John Scofield, Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana Debut as an All-Star Trio 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the three Zammitt works on view exhibit the precision and regularity we associate with computer art but are actually handmade. Computer-generated art that meditates on authorship and creativity 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

The finest of the “Lost Notebooks” lyrics offer the economy and precision that characterized Williams’s work. Music: Bob Dylan Assembles ?The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams? 2011-09-23T19:16:45Z

While the mother sticks to storytelling, the daughters alternate between mime-like motion and more athletic action, lunging with the precision of fencers, leaping with wonderful lightness. Review: Finding the Heat in ‘Sacred Earth’ 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

I was mesmerized by the remarkable precision, care and artistry displayed by more than 600 model makers in molding this tiny, but expansive, 3-D universe. From undercover to underwater: Four new Times Square attractions offer a variety of immersive experiences 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

"And he never missed. I got fascinated with the precision of how that worked." Watts made its mark on Frank Gehry, now the architect is returning the favor 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

But Peck is just as much the keeper of the flame of the precision postmodernists like William H. Gass, another Midwesterner who had a way with metaphor and a burning fury against politesse. Review | Even before Twitter, Dale Peck was stirring the pot. He’s at it again with a new book. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

“The story is crafted with the precision of a thriller, with revelations that sent me reeling.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

It was an intimate move for a chef whose hallmarks are precision, decorum and control. Thomas Keller, an Exacting Chef at a Crossroads 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

But his affect and slightly stilted precision suggested he had spent most of his career behind a computer screen, not at embassy receptions or in dark alleys. What Brian Williams Should Have Asked Snowden 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mathis, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, writes with uncommon narrative authority in “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” conjuring the lives of the Shepherd family with extraordinary psychological precision. Books of The Times: ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,’ by Ayana Mathis 2012-12-05T20:19:24Z

There’s a precision in your descriptions of both the house and the land that surrounds it. This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Trained by her father during her teenage years, she began copying works in the Louvre, drawing and painting them with photographic precision. Rich, Famous and Then Forgotten: The Art of Rosa Bonheur 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

More important: Knowing why “gubernatorial” conceals its “softer, silkier, cousin, ‘govern,’” means that you, fretful thesaurus user, will deploy these and other words with more lively precision from now on. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Au Naturel” depicts, with brazen economy — or carefree precision — a man and a woman in bed. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Behind Cunningham’s pioneering compositional methods and gnomic pronouncements lies a craftsman whose precision, rigor, and imagination could take your breath away. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Likewise, his report on a romantic encounter in disabled loo is funny, but because Coogan is delivering a fine script with precision, rather than because it involves Alan. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – first look review 2013-07-24T14:26:31Z

Start slowly until you gain enough precision to complete the routine without any stumbles. Urban Athlete: Training for Western Peaks in Eastern Terrains 2011-09-29T21:46:08Z

Instead, he spent a year working underground in the Purbeck clay mines, went on to do an apprenticeship in precision engineering and spent a time working for the Atomic Energy Authority. Ian Constantinides 2013-05-28T16:45:12Z

Mr. Scott conjures up entire worlds and sensibilities with visual precision, adding detail even when going for sweep. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

Both live or die on precision, not only of instrumental rhythm and articulation, but also of the purity of sound among the vocalists. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Because she looked into her heart and wrote about what she found there with unflinching precision. My hero: Anne Lister by Emma Donoghue 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

But this kind of sitcom is a precision machine: Every joke must be polished, every excess moment shaved for peak aerodynamism. ‘Girls5Eva,’ ‘Rutherford Falls’ and the Nostalgia Trap 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

On advice from a Harvard food scientist named Guy Crosby, Geary separated the yolks from the whites, poured them into beakers rigged with precision thermometers and heated them in a pot of water. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

I doubt that any two people have exactly the same definition, and for Atwood, as Mead writes, precision is paramount. Yes, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Feminist 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Everyone dances with sharp, clean-cut slashes of leg and arm in geometrically perfect lines, gesturing with manic precision. Review: A Dystopian ‘Swan Lake’ Bridges Ballet and Modern Dance 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It turns out there’s a high level of precision required for llama trekking. ‘Llama therapy’ in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The young choir sang this haunting, richly textured, mesmerising requiem with a flair and precision way beyond their years under the assured direction of Andrew Cleary in a most remarkable act of remembrance. Adriana Lecouvreur; Tansy Davies ? review 2010-11-21T00:09:00Z

Her former profession combines a dancer’s skill and precision with burlesque pageantry. What "GLOW" season 3 reveals about the working woman's gamble 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

This is civilized human behavior captured with a clinical precision and accuracy. ‘Unrelated’ Explores the Manners of Well-Off Britons 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

“In a neighbouring field a gleaming, smokeless machine was mowing grass at an astonishing rate, apparently quite unattended, moving up and down the broad rows and turning at the ends with a quaint military precision.” Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Unlike other rhythm games, which require precision to hit the notes or follow patterns, Fantasia aims for broad and sweeping gestures. Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Not many series puncture the veil of emotional separation between viewer and screen with such unexpected precision. Love will tear us apart: Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” is brilliant but not for the emotionally tender 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Her voice, if not a precision instrument, is an expressive one. Marlene Dietrich’s extraordinary rise from obscurity to stardom 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

But Wiz Khalifa isn’t selling precision, he’s selling texture and charisma. New Music: Albums From Wiz Khalifa, Melanie Fiona and Lost in the Trees 2012-03-19T22:16:52Z

Yet he also concludes that in the long run, in the years that followed, the idealistic Hansell was right to believe that an air campaign based on precision strikes was possible. Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

It contains Graham’s ideas, if not her brilliance — the formal groupings, the percussive rhythms, the sculptural precision. Review | Martha Graham dancers are marvelous, but the message is mixed in Kennedy Center program 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

In its luminously percussive sound world, topped off by the gemlike precision of Synergy Vocals' interventions, its endless harmonic perspectives seem to spin off into an infinite distance. Prom 36: Ensemble Modern/Reich ? review 2011-08-11T16:56:11Z

The company, which originally grew out of a more formal stand-alone restaurant called Panda Inn in Pasadena, Calif., comes across as a model of military precision and entrepreneurial gusto. Panda Express Takes a Second Run at New York 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The dancers, separated, move in jerky, stop-action, birdlike poses — they need better precision — while squealing and singing along to Mr. Kiley’s song that lists the spectators’ names. Dance Review: Faye Driscoll Draws In the Audience at Danspace 2014-03-10T20:40:05Z

Mr. Andsnes brought his customary precision and sparkle to the gamboling outer movements and played with tender lyricism in the central Andantino. Music Review: Soloists Take or Share the Spotlight as Needed 2010-12-05T22:13:00Z

The increased scrutiny of the campaign, though, required an off-the-cuff rambler to sometimes add more precision to the usual stream-of-consciousness. The perilous high-wire act of writing speeches for Donald Trump 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The horses gamboled with rhythmic precision in a way I’ve never seen animals move. The Southern Charms of Spain and Portugal 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Seo set the tone right away with her supple precision, a combination of effortless technical command and musical shading. Review | A ‘Giselle’ that whirls with unusual lyricism 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

In technique, too, their work is inspired by the precision characteristic of 1900s jewelry. Special Report: Jewelry: Art Nouveau Jewelry Gets a Rebirth in Tunis 2010-05-20T16:00:00Z

This is a recurring issue, the result, I believe, of a burrito line that relies on intuition and speed over precision and measured portions. Buredo’s sushi burritos are over the top, in a very good way 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

But if her focus was on precision and directness, she sacrificed nothing in energy. Music Review: A Classical Guitarist Making Herself Heard 2011-05-15T21:26:50Z

Nicholas Carter, who also made his Met debut conducting “Hamlet,” here led “Grimes” with drive, precision and a painterliness that lends the work the cohesive shape of a tone poem. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Admittedly the juxtaposition of state-of-the-art technology with precision dancing creates a surreal combo. ‘Christmas Spectacular’ Review: Where Rockettes and Drones Dazzle 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“On Chesil Beach” is a subtle film, with some pointed commentary about class, gender and social conformity, and it is acted and directed with striking precision. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Faeh’s long-range view is beautiful: the glory of the sunset, the precision of distant monuments, the surety of the horizon. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

In the “Motivation” video, shot in Los Angeles, she holds nothing back, finding recklessness inside of confident precision. Normani: ‘Dance Was My First Passion’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Objects, he suggests, offer false promises of stability and security, just as writing offers a false promise of precision. Tino Seghal's Turbine Hall commission: 'Attention is what I work with' 2012-07-16T18:01:00Z

Director Bong Joon-ho took a premise with Gallic existentialist precision – a 1,001-car train organised hierarchically from poor to rich that endlessly circumnavigates a frozen Earth – and amped it up with South Korean humour. Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Make no mistake: This was a brilliant performance, strikingly well played, full of incidental detail, packed with rhythmic precision and exquisitely balanced. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

One of Jaques-Wajeman’s great strengths lies in the precision of her work with actors, and here, she brings individual color out of each. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

The interviews are filmed with an artful precision that seems, at first, at odds with the willingness the participants show in plumbing uncomfortable subject matter with candor. Yance Ford’s Powerful Cinematic Memoir, “Strong Island” 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

In few other vehicles do Daniel Ulbricht’s terrific elevation and precision of timing emerge with such seriousness. Dance Review: At Lincoln Center, the Eternal Radical, Balanchine 2010-05-03T22:08:00Z

But for a man so measured, and with such precision apparent throughout his film-making, the reaction seems perhaps faux-naif. 'I don't think any of us are normal people' 2012-05-18T23:02:00Z

"Whether cutting straight lines for short noodles or adding a fluted edge to your filled pasta, these hand-held cutter wheels allow you to cut your pasta with confidence and precision." Tools of the trade: 14 chef-approved essentials for making the best pizza and pasta at home 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Its psychological precision elevates it to something more than a genre piece. Review: ‘Two Step’ Scuffles Around With Petty Criminals 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

For her, movement works best when it’s snappy, with an emphasis placed on crisp, rhythmic precision. Dance Review: Start, Then Start Again on a Newly Made Stage 2010-12-12T22:42:00Z

Although I could not see his fingers in action, I felt their daintiness, the way he willed them toward a kind of precision mine do not possess the ability to perform. When we all shaved our heads 2012-10-18T00:00:00Z

The paintings in the D.C. artist’s show at Studio 1469 depict domestic interiors with various degrees of precision. Review | In the galleries: ‘Poor art’ is often minimalist, but rich in its impact 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

We’ll see about that; no cultural work can be evaluated with that kind of precision right away. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

By looking in detail at when and how these were adopted into the sciences, Mr Wootton claims to be able to describe the advent of science itself with remarkable precision. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The color and fragrance of his writing could easily turn sickly if they didn’t yield up the world with such precision, if they weren’t deployed in the service of greater meaning. In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Thirdly, I want to know why this situation doesn't seem to bother anyone in the great republic of letters, least of all that guardian of literary precision and exactitude, the TLS. Owning manuscripts is one thing: owning the contents is quite another 2010-07-23T14:19:00Z

“He gives it clarity, precision and understanding, which is to shed light on it without blinding its mysteries.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Not that Mr. Benjamin’s own pieces suffered: They never seem to, such is their jeweled precision. Review: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Careens Across the Centuries at Aldeburgh 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

You had these really great Harvard Lampoon writers who were suddenly unshackled to write setups and punch lines and deliver them with scientific precision, because the characters were being drawn for them. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z

From the invention to the precision, the sensibility feels a close cousin to that of filmmaker Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel." 'Paddington' brings irresistible bear to life 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Landscapes or interior scenes done with photographic precision were as hotly pursued as paintings on the edge of abstraction. Auctions: London Auctions Highlight Insatiable Appetite for Contemporary Art 2011-02-18T17:00:06Z

ZOFO’s feisty performances surge with athletic precision, always mindful of how much joy there is in the music. CD reviews: Diana Damrau, ‘Fiamma del Belcanto’; ‘ZOFO Plays Terry Riley’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Dialogue, action, drama; Hemingway does them all with precision and power to produce a novel that lives long in the memory. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

I knew Bernardine for more than 25 years, and the purity of her thought and the precision of her phrase-making, whether in conversation or in writing, were matchless. Bernardine Bishop obituary 2013-07-05T14:10:45Z

Robert Hastie, Sheffield Theaters’ artistic leader and the director for “Paper,” said, “The precision tuning is more complicated than anything I’ve ever done.” 3 Theaters, 3 Plays, One Cast, All at Once 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

He said the mechanism improved precision 30 percent. Today's Challenge: Improving the Escapement 2012-11-23T13:35:50Z

The picture is characteristic of Caporael’s art, which deftly combines precision and spontaneity, observation and intuition. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

When “Money and Power” can boil down its arguments that clearly, it has welcome moments of toughness and precision. Books Of The Times: Diving in Search Of the ?Great Vampire Squid? 2011-04-11T20:59:16Z

My favorite scenes featuring men making omelets, however, are actually the ones that really emphasize how an omelet exists at this unique intersection of softness and precision. From "Columbo" to "Only Murders," a pop culture survey of men making omelets 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

Getting a Muppet film right takes enormous precision of tone: it needs to be sentimental without being cloying, irreverent without being mean-spirited, aware of pop culture without relying on it as a crutch. Will Muppets 2 leave us feeling green? 2013-01-24T17:08:30Z

There is no shame, Mr. Johnson said, in using a machine whose premeasured precision guarantees perfect rice with the push of a button and frees up a burner on the stove. Fluffy. Tasty. Tricky. 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Dodgson, who thrived on precision, took to the medium enthusiastically and kept at it for thirty years, producing almost three thousand pictures and becoming one of the most accomplished amateur photographers of his day. Lewis Carroll’s Portraiture 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

We find here all the current buzzwords, from “machine learning” to “the Internet of Things” to “precision medicine.” Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

At the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, there are workshops this weekend in "precision yoga," "psychoenergetic science" and "engaging your shadow." In Rhinebeck with Chelsea: Rocky Horror, cows 2010-07-30T11:31:00Z

This was the trio in proper gear, expressing the right precision looseness and a trademark sense of suspended gravity. Music Review: Keith Jarrett Opens CareFusion Festival at Carnegie 2010-06-20T21:35:00Z

He is inexperienced, unqualified, and records the slow death of the elephant with horrifying precision. Greg Baxter's top 10 memento mori 2010-07-21T11:15:00Z

With honesty, precision and humour, she conveys all the boredom and exhilaration of weight loss, along with its tendency to threaten the people around you. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-11T07:00:24Z

“Women Talking” reawakens that idea and applies it, with precision and passion, to our own time and circumstances. ‘Women Talking’ Review: The Power of Speech 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison writes about psychological violence with an engineer's precision and a poet's expansiveness. "Home:" Toni Morrison's novel of a Southern homecoming 2012-06-20T21:42:07Z

I have three sons who can pinpoint with laserlike precision the gaping hole in my heart. Modern Love: Watching Them Watching Me 2012-01-19T21:45:52Z

I like that kind of precision and detail and find it very helpful in combination with the language of theater. A backstage, meditative adventure with 'The Encounter's' Simon McBurney 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

He speaks with precision and emphasis—a lawyer making an argument. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

In this memoir, she approaches the mysteries in her own story with the same astute but elliptical precision she applies to her fictional characters. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The ensemble, conducted by Ted Hearne, played the entire program with admirable energy and precision. Music Review: Green Light for Experimentalism: Tweaking Conventions and Bending Rules 2010-09-21T21:26:00Z

These people have been rendered at a granular level with precision and resonance. The Weird, Violent, Uplifting Paintings of Mark Greenwold 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

The talented Jonasson backs up two months to portray — with the precision of Harold Pinter — two complex marriages whose outcomes are not at all ambiguous, this being a crime novel. Review | Summer escapes: Five new thrillers and mystery novels offer welcome distraction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Like a good drink, a good cup of tea requires precision. What’s better than a tall glass of iced tea? One with booze stirred in. 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

“For example, there is a big illusion with Harry’s character, and the technical precision of where his spine had to be was causing issues,” Mr. Hoggett said. Harry Potter Doesn’t Dance. But He Sure Can Move. 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

This is clear right down to the fact that his showgirl flamingos were more remarkable as showpieces than as a cohesive ensemble; precision was not their strength. ‘Alice (in Wonderland)’ a pleasant retreat of fleeting charms 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

There is just such precision and finesse to Michelangelo’s brush strokes. She’s one of the top conservators in the country, but she likes to be anonymous 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Their precision is astonishing: In one, the artist’s expression is concentrated but slightly suspicious, as if his own attention unnerved him. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Strauss responded to the times and his critics by retreating further into his work, refining his own distinctive blend of Neo-Classical precision and lyrical expansion. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

Mr. Carlyle, the show’s chief choreographer as well as its director, pushes his dancers to increasingly frenzied extremes without ever sacrificing grace and precision. Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z

On 2012's "Banga," from her album of the same name, she pierced darkness with precision: "On the lonely night / On a golden road / Night is a mongrel / Believe or explode." Patti Smith rekindles some Roxy magic 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

I hope she’ll talk about the border between humor and sorrow, and the art of precision. By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

From that experience came “Sutra,” which combines Cherkaoui’s liquid physical style with the precision and attack of 17 Shaolin monks, who are joined onstage by 21 large wooden boxes by the artist Antony Gormley. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

While induction stoves may have far less lizard-brain appeal than gas, the latest models gain in unmatched power, precision and responsiveness. The Case for Induction Cooking 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

And then there are the shoes, which will be lined up on the floor with military precision. Thom Browne Brings a Designer’s Eye to Cooper Hewitt Show 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

To my delight, I found that the doctor was eloquent; he wrote with precision and conviction. Grappling With the Language of Love 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

There are pieces that feel prickly with dissonance, but by and large Mr. Jarrett reaches for soulfulness, even at the expense of precision. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

Instead, their mechanical precision reinforces the vocal hooks, with synthesizers filling in the cracks. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z

But precision, for her, is only one priority. A New School of Pastry Chefs Got Its Start in Architecture 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Since the whole aim of Sean Foley's production is to transform the movie into a slapstick farce, this lack of precision matters. The Ladykillers – review 2013-07-10T18:40:00Z

I said: “I’d like to help. But are you looking for someone to dig holes in the ground, or someone to put plants in holes with precision? Because I’m more of a precision man.” A Working Vacation on an Umbrian Farm 2014-05-09T19:04:24Z

As written and played, Pete is rendered with cool precision and a warm acceptance of imperfection. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z

Virtually every pop songwriter employs them today, but in a comedy song arguing for traditional grammar, they dull the precision of the wit. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

All her strength is in her awkwardness—she doesn’t need precision. Review: There's Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

But they have other things in common, too: discipline, precision, movement, timing. Spare Times for Children for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Guiraudie’s camera never moves beyond the lake and records the passage of time with fastidious precision. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z

The precision of the young man's hand and eye as he balances the cards is an image of what human beings can achieve, when reason rules us.• Tom Gidley, Howard Hodgkin and Bridget Riley – the week in art 2012-06-01T15:31:33Z

She notices the flinty gray of the sky, marking it with precision. In 'The Iceberg,' Marion Coutts recounts the death of her husband and achieves something extraordinary 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Denis, who was born in Antwerp, lived in Paris and died in Naples, could be a painter of cool precision. Art Review: ‘The Path of Nature,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-01-24T22:22:49Z

Effortlessly combining abstraction and representation, expressivity and precision, mystery and fact, these images are as important as anything she did. Three Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

David Hyde Pierce's Niles is a piece of precision engineering – physical and verbal comedy played to equal perfection and hitting their marks every time. Frasier 2010-08-10T07:30:00Z

"In reading the manuscripts, it quickly becomes clear that this delicate precision is missing," Sutherland said. Academic: Jane Austen had helping hand from editor 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z

Half a century later the descriptive precision is not shocking but absorbing. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z

“You have to side-eye and have that sense of togetherness to get the extreme precision.” What the Rockettes and ‘The Hard Nut’ teach us about the meaning of life 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

It’s the 85th year of the Rockettes, and they are simply magnificent: regal in their precision, radiant in their costumes, exuberant in their high kicks. Theater Review: Radio City Music Hall ‘Christmas Spectacular’ 2012-11-22T21:09:43Z

And though characterized by a precision of expression, the book is not what you would call lucid. Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

“Derry” reveled in its specificity, a comic precision that led to a sense of universality. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Much of the musical strength of the evening comes from the orchestra, which plays with tremendous precision and power. Goerke stars in Lyric's blood-soaked 'Elektra' 2012-10-07T14:41:09Z

But played with relish and precision by members of the Philharmonic and some guests, the works felt vital and thorny, full of character. Review: A New York Philharmonic Contact! Menu, With Esa-Pekka Salonen as Chef 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

And here Mr. Payne, whose day job is in social work, captures with clinical precision the defenses and despair of the chronically under-nurtured. Review: In ‘The Revolving Cycles,’ What Happened to Terrell? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

And a New York Times Magazine investigation in November — “The Uncounted” — revealed that the vaunted precision of U.S.-led airstrikes is both overestimated and underexplained. Perspective | Middle East civilian deaths have soared under Trump. And the media mostly shrug. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

The novel delights not with surprise, but by pursuing its course of action with precision and purpose. A Deadly Storm, a Witch Hunt and a Village Without Men 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The plot builds with such precision and momentum that it’s readable, over and over. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

A relationship is obvious between Liang's fluid, gestural, painterly style and the concise, focused precision of calligraphy — handwriting with ink and brush. Chinese paintings at LACMA captivate with their delicacy 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

Eileen is a compelling character — intelligent, vulnerable, hard-working, compassionate, tough — and her story, as rendered with exquisite precision by Thomas, both exhilarates and breaks our hearts. ‘We Are Not Ourselves’ is a rendering of the effect of Alzheimer’s on one family

One suspects that this precision of language was also what Auden was responding to when he read the book. William Boyd: rereading The Making of the English Landscape by WG Hoskins 2013-05-11T07:31:01Z

“I like the precision that it takes for a filmmaker to hold the audience in its grip.” Little Bursts of Fright: The Horror Anthology Is Having a Heyday 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Dressed in gaudy sportswear, Ms. Valk portrays Jane with a winking, slightly arch gentility, enunciating her lines with the dainty precision of an elocution teacher. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z

I’ve seldom seen the bipolar nature of genius captured with such precision and seeming spontaneity. Review: ‘Scenes From an Execution’ Features Jan Maxwell as a Difficult Artist 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

That precision of thought, in a business of compromises, is the virtue of couture, and it’s what Ms. Chiuri and Mr. Piccioli are closer to acquiring. Fashion Review: Spring Couture Collections in Paris — Fashion Review 2013-01-23T22:42:16Z

It may not be the freshest metaphor, but Mr. Wagner’s low-key creepiness and Mr. Cronenberg’s spooky precision breathe new life into a few other tired ideas as well. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

David Sedaris is a singularly talented humorist who lands acerbic zingers with the calculating precision of a kamikaze pilot. David Sedaris discusses prison pen pals, pandemic sensitivities and that apology he’s never going to give 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the aphorism is made of equal parts wit and judgment, its success depending on its making a sufficiently daring detour in thought, while at the same time maintaining formal integrity, poise, and precision. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

But in a way, the players' precision only added to the sense that what we were experiencing was a museum piece unchanged from its original moment. Looking forward, looking back at Sunset Strip Music Festival 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

She displays a deep respect for his obsessive attention to the details of his craft, which is not surprising, given the careful agility and precision of her own prose. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Macy’s Stars of Dance: This week’s sequence emphasized “precision choreography,” with dancers in mint-green pants marched in tight formations to “We Came to Smash” The choreography was clever, and hopefully will.i.am caught their audition tape. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Will.i.Am and Olly Murs Perform 2013-04-24T09:45:52Z

Nor does she need much of a framework beyond the flexible precision of her band, or the earthy majesty of her voice, a contralto as rich and supple as vintage leather. Music Review: Cassandra Wilson at the Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-04T20:01:36Z

McGee marveled at the speed and precision of her comic timing. The Secret Is Out on This ‘Bridgerton’ Star 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

What drives this is the choir, 14 big-voiced performers who harmonize with dynamism and precision. With zeal, Theater Alliance brings back its Hayes-winning ‘Black Nativity’ 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Then, with surgical precision, he detaches a broad swath of peel from an orange and squeezes it, ever so gently, causing its volatile oils to spray a mist over the surface of the drink. Hollywood and Booze: An Enduring Marriage 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The figures’ buttery flesh and midaction positioning make these genre scenes uncannily lifelike, and Valentin’s religious pictures, too, relinquish sacred precision for the realities of the flesh. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The external real world of San Francisco past and present is delineated with great precision, but in a mode that is at the opposite extreme from documentary. Is "Vertigo" just the fever dream of a dying man? 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

And, with the alert Ms. Malkki there to keep the orchestra right with her, Ms. Skride tore through the breathless finale with impetuous energy and impressive precision. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, a carousel of projected slides, handmade from papers and gels, introduces an abstraction of commonplace materials in miniature, underscoring the precision of the larger arrangement. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z

His project is childish fun with adult language and grown-up costumes, and he executes it with energy and precision. Movie Review: ‘World’s End’ Continues ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ 2013-08-22T21:06:38Z

At their best, the record's 10 tracks sound predestined, 33 minutes of tight, eloquent arguments that explore ideals of structural precision as valued by post-punk groups including Wire, Bikini Kill, Minutemen and the Pixies. Sleater-Kinney continues the conversation in 'No Cities to Love' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

For someone who refuses to speak, Patti is sure articulate: She delivers her valediction in the mannered cadence of a Victorian murderer, taunting Garvey with cruel precision. 'The Leftovers' Recap: The Show Can Feel Like 'The Twilight Zone,' With Pretensions 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Carlyle’s period choreography, though often charming, lacks the grandeur and precision of Bennett’s. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z

Only Nuri's feelings for his vanished father are probed with the precision promised by the novel's title. 'Anatomy of a Disappearance': After a father vanishes, sorrow, fear and anger 2011-08-24T20:35:06Z

Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Churchill lays bare the frenetic zeitgeist with surgical precision, but she allows mystery and poetry to hold sway. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Both men are rhythmically precise, but Mr. Glover can also be physically reckless, thrillingly so, with no loss of precision. Dance Review: Savion Glover’s New Show at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-19T20:55:59Z

He took over the orchestra in 1970 and built it into an ensemble of impeccable precision, known especially for its refined string sections. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

There was improvisation and precision to the choreography. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" director on sensuality and "a woman who takes ownership of her body" 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

The sparkling dancers in all their precision kick-line glory, the Art Deco splendor of Radio City Music Hall — even the teeming throngs on the sidewalk outside are part of the tradition. The Broadway Shows to See Now 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Gradually increasing in number, they find themselves in a different world, existing somewhere between the precision of unison and a dreamier state of drifting through space. Times Critics’ Last-Chance Dance Picks 2013-12-26T21:33:00Z

These days we encounter “problematic” exclusively as an adjective: an offhand judgment of moral disapproval, from a speaker who can’t be bothered by precision. With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Upstage in plain view, Todd Reynolds conducted Newspeak, Mr. Little’s instrumental ensemble, in a performance that aptly balanced precision, nuance and impact. Music Review: ‘Soldier Songs’ at Pace University 2013-01-14T22:39:57Z

Yet even now, neither Ms. Freedman nor Mr. Weissman can identify with precision the collector whom Ms. Rosales has said she represents. Federal Inquiry Into Possible Forging of Modernist Art 2011-12-03T03:33:26Z

At a time when the press is regularly attacked as “fake news” or the vehicle for partisan bias, precision matters more than ever. Perspective | Documentaries aren’t journalism, and there’s nothing wrong with that 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Moreover, this unsparing treatment seems perfectly apt considering that Roth portrayed himself or his counterselves with even more unsparing, unflattering precision. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

“Test,” set in San Francisco in 1985, captures with extraordinary precision and sensitivity the moment when an H.I.V. test became available, and the city’s gay men faced the daunting prospect of finding out their status. ‘Test,’ Set in the Year H.I.V. Screening Arrived 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

My lawyer was kind and sometimes playful in her conversation but billed hourly and with precision. Modern Love: In Bitter Moments, Reaching for the Sweet 2010-09-03T19:50:00Z

This American brother and sister, revered for their precision and joie de vivre, are elite athletes. French Olympic Ice Dancers Make Skating as Ethereal as Ballet 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

No. The "betrayal" Pinter explores has a far more complex geometry than the standard love triangle, and director Nick Bagnall exposes its multiple facets with the precision of a diamond-cutter. Betrayal – review 2012-05-26T23:05:37Z

“Emotions in the men in my family run deep,” Majors told Soloski — who described him as “an actor of precision and intensity.” The Breakout Stars of 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Driven by his own passion, his own empathy, his own sense of responsibility, Ophüls approaches his subject with a focussed precision that stays close to the subject at hand. Two Prescient Films About the Memory of the Holocaust 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Hers was a virtuosity of shrewdness and precision. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop: A Different Kind of Literary Tango 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

As the latest polls show, Trump is digging his own grave with the laser-focused precision of an expert undertaker. We need you, Seth Meyers: Don’t ban Donald Trump from your show—take him down 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

It’s also totally functional — a working timepiece of incredible precision. | Tick, Tick, Tick 2011-01-28T20:10:58Z

In the long downward runs that Anna sings in the ensemble that ends Act 1, and again in the closing scene, Meade articulated each note with rare precision. Bolena's crown is a good fit for Angela Meade 2011-10-23T17:46:08Z

There are no dance steps, but everything, including speech and sound, is choreographed with extreme precision. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Corrigan is something of a comic genius, wielding his flabby frame and doughy face with remarkable grace and precision. Review: ‘Results’ Tracks Exertions in Matters of the Cardio 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

With gestural precision and a modulated delivery that breathes life into each word, Redgrave dominates the movie even in her character’s absence by filling it with a complicated sense of loss. ‘The Aspern Papers’ Review: A Dead Poet’s Society, Once Removed 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

But it’s typically been leavened with a crispness and precision that gives their finest buildings a sense of lightness and optimism, even uplift. Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Lindsay-Abaire’s script is admirable in its precision and symmetry; there’s not a comic setup that isn’t balanced by a logically consistent payoff. Review: ‘Ripcord,’ a Comic Tale of Adversaries 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

The exquisite precision of Ozu’s shooting style is certainly evident in “I Was Born, but....” | 'I Was Born, but...': Yasujiro Ozu?s Silent Tale of New Kids on the Block 2010-06-24T23:03:00Z

The compulsively watchable Ms. Mirren brings out the humor and the pathos in this contradiction, though with slightly less precision than she did in London. Review: ‘The Audience,’ With Helen Mirren, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Enduring” offers 10 pictures of children, rendered with exceptional detail and precision. Galleries: ‘Alive and Present, ‘Enduring’

Over the years, I’ve often heard him speak about established, neglected and emerging science-fiction writers, always with precision and measured elegance. How great science fiction works 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Her sets feature unflinching techno arranged with an impossible-to-resist blend of precision and creativity, captivating audiences from the legendary electronic music festival Tomorrowland to the Great Wall of China, where she performed last week. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

While “The Fall of Princes” patrols territory marked by Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney and Michael Lewis, Goolrick writes with an immediacy and precision that make this world feel as if it is all his own. ‘The Fall of Princes’ review: the rise and fall of a Master of the Universe 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Almodóvar’s sense of cinema design — the décor simulates a luxe apartment and lays it bare as a soundstage illusion — is acutely keyed to Swinton’s performance here, which projects mercurial emotion with Swiss watch precision. ‘The Human Voice’ Review: Almodóvar Meets Cocteau Meets Swinton 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

They took like, whatever, Coltrane, and combined that with punk and the precision of classical or jazz players. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

But while interested in precision and uniformity, “Corps” seems more invested in the effort to achieve them than in perfection as an end in itself. Review: In ‘Corps,’ Running Aspirational Dance Drills 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Warby delivers her material with a fine physical precision; her timing is near perfect. Ros Warby: Monumental ? review 2010-10-24T21:01:00Z

You want someone well trained in this methodical precision work. What to do if all your computer files go poof 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

His pieces are largely instrumental, and each part is performed with precision and vigor. Embrace the Christmas Miracle That Is Mannheim Steamroller 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

"So you move the same way that these SEALs move, with precision and with a goal in mind." The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: The Light and Dark of 'Zero Dark Thirty' 2013-01-09T18:12:56Z

The drowned world is described with such scientific precision and clarity that it becomes vividly real to the reader. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

Porterfield’s sense of composition and movement, of light and color, of the contrapuntal precision of terse dialogue, has an exalted yet serene precision. What to Stream: Five Directors’ Outstanding First Features 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

They are the result of political campaigns run with extreme precision ending up with beautiful people congratulating themselves on being good. The Secret Actress at the Oscars: Meryl Streep helped me dry my sweaty armpits 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The similarity is in the precision of numbers, mostly dollar figures. This Week in Fiction: Rivka Galchen Discusses Her Story “How Can I Help?” 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Virginia artist Dongpei He, who is a native of China, paints peonies with a precision worthy of scientific illustration, but places the pink blossoms in loosely rendered environs. Review | In the galleries: Biennial survey celebrates Mid-Atlantic artists of many mediums 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

When it needs to, the academy can move with measured precision. Kevin Hart and the Academy: 2018 Gets the Messy Oscars It Deserves 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The artists, based in L.A., make their elaborate digital collages with surgical precision and sophistication, but the visual impact of what results has the blunt force of a hammer. Simmons & Burke's newest at Kohn: Digital collages that dazzle and daunt 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

They rest on solemn white pedestals, made of cardboard and painted white, and are accompanied by a news release that describes with earnest precision the methods and materials used to make them. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

“In the midst of all the familiar precision, of laboratory values and X-rays, suddenly there were human concerns: grief and heartache, personal problems, economics, distrust, fears, and even anger.” Dr. Ronald Glasser, Bard of the Vietnam War Wounded, Dies at 83 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

He played with capacious force and serious precision, whether creating a hammocklike sway on Wayne Shorter’s “Dance Cadaverous,” or moving in a woozy gait underneath the hard-bop standard “Stablemates,” by Benny Golson. Live Jazz: 3 July Standouts, From Thumbscrew to Nabaté Isles 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Bake Off legend and series three finalist Brendan’s gentle manner masked a steely determination and spectacular precision. Bring back Val! In praise of Bake Off’s older bakers, this year’s missing ingredient 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

But its fiercest advocate, the rejected Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, knew how to make it seductive to legal minds, offering a simple theory that allowed judges to make decisions with apparent precision and rigor. A Look at Competition in Business Urges Us to Think Small 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

But this act of unassuming heroism — filmed with violent precision and impressive technical flair — might be something else. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z

The New York Times said, “Mr. Demme has captured both the look and the spirit of this live performance with a daring and precision that match the group’s own.” Theatrical run, iTunes release for Talking Heads' 'Stop Making Sense' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

"Norris pegs the moments when bigotry peeps through with toe-curling precision," says the FT's Sarah Hemming. What to say about ? Clybourne Park 2010-09-08T11:39:00Z

There is no chimerical spin to his throws, but he has precision aim and cruises through the first half of the game with a series of nines, a spare and a strike. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

But what gives the number its power and authority, and what makes it uniquely suited to the Rockettes, is its use of precision technique. Dance: Rockettes in a Rebooted ?Christmas Spectacular? 2011-11-05T05:23:40Z

This brooch was both a technical marvel in its precision computer pattern and a force of nature, making the lattice of diamonds and its central pearl into a camellia flower. Jewelry: Unzip the Bling 2011-01-31T14:40:04Z

Around this three orbit a motley, sometimes shifting group of friends, lovers and colleagues, who together form a small Brooklyn solar system that Mr. Cunningham charts with sympathy, humor and psychological precision. Books of The Times: ‘The Snow Queen,’ by Michael Cunningham 2014-04-27T21:00:17Z

Greater precision of thought and action is required. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

The latter were a specialty of Wtewael, highly prized by collectors including Rudolf II, and a medium that flattered the artist’s talent for detail and precision. For this Dutch master, a cigar is rarely just a cigar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Here things happen — like two racing cars pulling, with choreographed precision, an enormous safe through Rio de Janeiro without killing the entire populace — because the filmmakers make it so. | 'Fast Five': Vrooooom! Vrooooom! Flex ?Em if You Got ?Em 2011-04-28T18:24:33Z

The steps, not too difficult to master, are arranged with an overlapping complexity and interlocking parts that display precision, concentration, training. Review: The Kids (in New Hands) Are Still All Right 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

The mystery of her character’s behavior keeps acquiring new layers, and she brings to each new revelation an intensity and precision that transfixes. Theater Review: ‘The Other Place’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2013-01-11T03:00:14Z

They are painted with photorealist precision, spattered with daubs of pigment that suggest bullet holes. Kerry James Marshall’s Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The first movement was nostalgic and unhurried, the second hot-blooded, the famous Adagietto beautifully still – the care with which Fischer placed each tender phrase, and the precision with which the strings responded, was breathtaking. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T11:27:14Z

Hours of practice were evident, her precision undeniable. Queen Bey brings her road show — and a sense of joyful liberation — to Baltimore 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Her voice travels easily and widely; she can make a pop melody lilt, she can rap with casual precision, and she can brandish fury and sorrow. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

To build a self-contained art city in six days takes precision, said Mr. Postma, who likens TEFAF’s installation to a “military expedition.” A Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Speed is key to this equilibrium: His output is expressive and hale, with a breathy blur that nicely offsets the weblike precision of Mr. Mitchell’s lines. Review: On ‘Vista Accumulation,’ Matt Mitchell Plays Tension Like an Instrument 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

But is the nervy, aggressive, computer-age precision of the synthesizer on the CBS recording the best way to evoke Gandhi’s gradual organization of mass protests at the end of the second act? A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jarrett plays with imperious precision even when he’s reaching for the ecstatic, and Jan Garbarek exudes iridescent poise on tenor saxophone. Playlist: New Music by Rumer, Donald Vega, Keith Jarrett and Corb Lund 2012-08-10T13:59:29Z

"Just listen for the bass on this," he says, putting on their demo and pantomiming its McCartney-style walking bass line with exacting precision for a full five minutes. Tobias Jesso Jr. has new album, 'Goon,' and rising cred as songwriter 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The gesture seemed of a piece with the sharp, scalpel-like precision of her prose. The Mirror: My Personal Baggage 2011-01-28T20:15:31Z

“The less precision is quite often the better, because it’s soulful stuff,” says Plant. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss reunite to recapture magic 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

For centuries before Cézanne, the greatest European art was the art that most accurately pictured the world, with precision, illusionism, elegance, sprezzatura. The Cézanne We’ve Forgotten How to See 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

The factual precision of botanical illustration is seamlessly mixed with the fantasies of fairytales. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-01T23:06:18Z

The precision technique effectively renders the commonplace alien. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

A gallery that explores modern technology and winemaking features an animated projection based on data from so-called precision mapping of heat and moisture across a vineyard. Lots of Wine, but None to Drink 2010-12-03T05:39:00Z

“Akasha” means “space,” and the space she puts around rhythms clarifies them, just as her physical precision clarifies her shapes. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa’s ‘Akasha’ Finds Physical Precision 2013-06-27T22:18:30Z

Across her wide contralto range she could easily alternate between thick vibrato and crystal-clear precision. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sarah Vaughan 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

His production is menacing and to-the-point, deploying distorted drums with military precision. Turnstile Knows Hardcore’s Rules. That’s Why It Can Break Them. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Apparently autopsies are performed with far more precision and rigor on fictionalized television than they are in the real world, where some medical examiners aren’t even doctors. Television Review: Bumbling in the Morgue: Blind, Drunk or Merely Incompetent Coroners 2011-01-31T23:55:38Z

“The precision, the high kicks, the physical extremity and accuracy, the pep and unification. That expertise and accuracy and confidence is comforting to people.” Perspective | The Rockettes, still kicking after 85 years. Here’s why we love them. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Combs is a mogul, and like all moguls he has a team that tracks him with GPS precision. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Levine is a supreme Wagner conductor who taps into the dramatic depths and gravity of the music while eliciting playing of clarity and precision. Music Review: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Conducted by Semyon Bychkov 2012-10-15T22:03:59Z

Though it quotes the ballad in neither melody nor text, it follows the story’s contours with a painterly precision. Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z

The “Portrait” program shows that while her early interests — an adherence to line and precision, along with an expansive exploration of space — have persisted, one aspect has changed. A Choreographer Dancing With Ghosts, and the Future 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Labèque sisters favor rhythmic precision and quick, sharp action — a solid way to achieve clarity in the double piano repertory — and they use dynamics rather than color to define phrases. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

All of this is rendered — “drawn” isn’t the right word; some combination of “sculpted” and “orchestrated” is what’s needed — with graceful, kinetic precision. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Writing with emotional precision and a sure knowledge of politics, Mr. Remnick situates Mr. Obama’s career firmly within a historical context. Books of The Times: David Remnick?s ?Bridge? Adds Details on Obama?s Life 2010-04-05T22:06:00Z

Her voice is low and gently burred, her affect is a funky mix of playfulness and precision. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The judge suspects a drive-by, but we know the sniper is a sharpshooter whose expertise is described with impressive precision and heart-gripping suspense. Rape, Torture, Murder, Beheadings — All in a Day’s Work for Marilyn Stasio 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

It also embraces music from across the Americas, old and new, playing all of its diverse material with the same precision and fire it brings to a mambo workout. Music Review: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space - Review 2012-01-22T23:03:12Z

The reflections in a lake, the roseate ribbon of a sunset, the rainbow created as light passes through an irrigation mister — all are rendered with poetic precision. When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Carving smaller AVAs adds precision to our concept of terroir and helps smaller producers forge their own reputations for quality distinct from the mainstream. Why American wine labels aren’t as specific as they could be 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Lethem said short stories are similar to poems and essays in their precision; in a short stories, writers are trying to create something specific and unique, and each sentence matters more, he said. Festival of Books: Short stories differ from novels, but how exactly? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

His daughter would observe as he took them apart “with absolute precision and fathomless patience.” A Box of Secrets Led to the Story of Her Father’s Painful Wartime Past 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

Spangler writes fights and misunderstandings with heartbreaking precision, but she puts her characters’ hearts — and the readers’ — back together by the end. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

There was a critic who said Lypsinka performs with the precision of a Balanchine dancer. Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist’s Drag Persona 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Like few other writers, Mr. Herr captured chaos with intense precision and imagination. Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The book’s research involved travel to the towns in Pennsylvania and Connecticut where the movie was shot, and Léger describes those trips with an epigrammatic precision that reflects “Wanda” and Loden in their polished facets. Barbara Loden: “A Woman Telling Her Own Story Through That of Another Woman” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

For nearly four decades, hooks has written and published with clarity, novel insight and extraordinary precision about art, media, race, gender and class. In Praise of bell hooks 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Gossaert brought the same attention to precision when painting the broken tiles of the floor and the wild plants growing in holes where stones are missing. Art: At the National Gallery, Art That Made the Leap to Real Life 2011-04-29T11:57:27Z

But while descriptions of their precision and transparency sometimes make them seem cool, even chilly, this was poignant, humane music-making. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The choreography of the performers is an integral part of any percussion piece and the Third Coast members were a delight to watch, moving with a riveting blend of precision and fluidity. Review: Augusta Read Thomas’s Spiritual ‘Resounding Earth’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Wright, working in period mode again here films the musical numbers with the same precision as the fight scenes — one has Cyrano dueling with 10 men. "Cyrano" director on what Peter Dinklage brings to this enchanting retelling of a classic 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

These were sophisticated little man-munchkins, scooting across the floor on their bottoms with the precision of Rockettes, or picking their noses with pioneering delight. ‘Awaa’ is a gauzy take on the burdens of motherhood, told through dance

He has dash, sunniness, spontaneity, courtesy, speed, precision, sparkle, enthusiasm. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ann Temkin, the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, noted that because of that precision, “many of his biggest fans are actually architects.” Judd Foundation Is Renovating Its Marfa Buildings. The Project Isn’t Minimal. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

I would argue for bringing a touch more of this precision into home highballing. Highballs are casual drinks. But pay a little attention, and they can be sublime. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

It eventually opened in the spring of 1989, and its elegance and geometric precision eventually won over most of its critics. Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Works 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

I mean, you don’t walk into Mad Fox Brewing Co., expecting Frank Ruta-level precision in the kitchen, or the kind of creativity found in an Aaron Silverman restaurant. At these breweries, the food is so much more than an afterthought 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

This week, he and partner Karina were assigned an Argentine Tango -- a fluid, intense dance that demands precision, passion and a smoldering sensuality. "Dancing with the Stars": The Situation stinks 2010-10-12T12:30:00Z

What we said: "Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, 'Black Messiah' is as vital as it is sublime." Top 10 lists reveal harmony among Times pop music critics 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

And it's true that here in the gallery, on a mannequin, his peach asymmetric silk dress from 2010 is perfect from every angle, a feat of precision engineering. Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:31Z

Prof Charlie Swanton, a cancer geneticist at the Francis Crick Institute who led the work, described how circulating tumour DNA tracked the patient’s disease status with remarkable precision. DNA-based test can spot cancer recurrence a year before conventional scans 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

It’s sonically assaultive, a riot of full-sprint drumming — by Greg Fox, increasingly this band’s central nervous system — and guitar lines with the spasmodic precision of strobe lighting. Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

In Tennessee, Leslie Jamison reports with precision and acuity on a brutal endurance race inspired by a prison break made by Martin Luther King Jr.’s killer. The best of literary magazines in three new collections

Mr. Eleey has arranged the show with lapidary precision and enough space to create an implicitly contemplative environment. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z

Durga’s epic story is more fully illustrated in the show’s drawings, which detail the cast of characters with wonderful precision. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z

What the two series share are precision and control. In the galleries: The Old Masters, with a photographic twist, at Cross MacKenzie

But Ms. Smith speaking is, implicitly, Ms. Smith listening, paying scrupulous attention to the varied people she embodies with such precision. Review: Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Notes From the Field’ Delivers Voices of Despair and Hope 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Met Orchestra held its own in the sonic splendor department and outdid the Philharmonic in transparency and precision. Opera Review: Matthias Goerne Fills In as Lead at the Met 2014-03-07T22:34:23Z

I think she wields her anger like a scalpel, and I want to learn from her precision. On being the madwoman in the attic: What "Jane Eyre" taught me about women's anger 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

If texts are precision missiles, phone calls can feel like hot-air balloons drifting without a destination. Calling out of the blue: Why would you do this to someone you love? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. Satter cultivates an unstudied style of speech and hairdo, but she is an artist who values precision. Tina Satter Readies the Stage for ‘Ancient Lives’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

So when you are playing the piece live, does atmosphere matter more than precision in passages like this? A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Maybe those deep feelings contributed to the vibrant energy that started with the set: carnations in bright shades laid out with geometric precision down the center of the runway. Special Report: Fashion: Mary Katrantzou, as London?s Summer 2012 Shows End 2011-09-20T18:00:53Z

In his own novels and poems, Mr. Johnson fulfilled that task with extraordinary savagery and precision. Denis Johnson’s Poetic Visions of a Fallen World 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Compared to the exacting precision of the original, it feels loose and relaxed, the sound of a band hanging out in a studio with a bunch of famous buddies. A jazz retrieval, a Beatles translation & Cat Stevens redux | New recordings 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

To generate such forces and turn steps into precision punches, elite sprinting has become largely removed from the instinctive sports-day dash of our youth. How fast can we go? The science of sprinting 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Nostalgia alone doesn't make for a worthwhile show, and the Cars, for all their mechanical precision and unfeeling attitude, remain best enjoyed on headphones. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

At the same time, it does not require the kind of anxious awareness demanded by other dishes, ones less forgiving of sloppiness and more concerned with precision. When everything’s wrong, only baked pasta feels right 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

In a run-through of his landmark works, the band balanced freewheeling group improvisation against park-on-a-dime ensemble precision. Django Bates 50th Birthday 2010-10-06T20:59:00Z

The barbed lyrics and controlled anger of Vietnam protest classic Welterusten, Meneer de President skewered Lyndon B Johnson with a surgical precision equal to anything produced on the other side of the Atlantic. Sounds of the Netherlands – day one: a history of Dutch pop in 10 songs 2012-06-11T12:29:01Z

As chaos increases, so does the quartet’s, er, clockwork precision. The Comedic Genius of Sid Caesar: 7 Clips You Can Actually Watch on YouTube 2014-02-13T17:59:44Z

When Jada Jenai sings Nina Simone’s “The Human Touch,” softly descending to the floor as she belts out the last note, the memory of that duet, with its icy precision, comes back to the surface. Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” the latest novel from the best-selling, National Book Award-winning author James McBride, moves with the precision, magnitude and necessary messiness of some of Gego’s most inspired structures. James McBride’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery Inside a Great American Novel 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z

The precision of his writing gives it authority. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z

Animal-based systems will not be viable on Mars, but protein could be abundantly produced through cellular agriculture and precision fermentation. Could we feed a city on Mars? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Finally there was the Vicar himself, played with elegiac precision by Tom Hollander. Rev: preaching to the converted 2011-04-05T10:58:25Z

Think smartphones making us feel less alone while eating alone, and mobile ordering apps allowing us to tailor our meal delivery times and our restaurant orders with greater precision. I sent in my DNA to get a personalized diet plan. What I discovered disturbs me. 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Kawakami writes with unsettling precision about the body — its discomforts, its appetites, its smells and secretions. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

A lot of sensitive-guy earnestness surrounding a burst of female pop precision and dazzle — that was this year’s Global Citizen Festival on Saturday on the Great Lawn of Central Park. Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

So claimed Francis Bacon, who said a lot on the subject of painting, his own and others', and frequently with startling precision. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z

In any opera this would be a problem, but it is fatal for a work as dependent on precision and timing as “Don Giovanni.” Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z

The precision of the renderings contrasts looser gestures and the lush pileup of overlapping elements. Review | In the galleries: At American University Museum, a world of atmosphere 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Two tall women bring the precision and speed of the Balanchine training: Savannah Lowery is a New York City Ballet soloist on leave for the tour, and Kaitlyn Gilliland spent years with that company. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Most have never danced in public before, still less attempted precision choreography alongside a professional company. Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern 2010-08-24T20:29:00Z

At Schubas, there were no distractions and his vocal lines flowed with a finesse and precision that felt effortless. Concert review: Rhye at Schubas 2013-04-12T06:14:00Z

Together, the minds of Haysom and Soering comprise a complete knowledge of what really happened on the night of the murders—something that decades of investigation have failed to reveal with precision. A New Chapter in a Double-Murder Case 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Performed with ferocious precision, here is a play that takes a few streets and reveals a whole world. Dublin theatre festival 2012: The Boys of Foley Street; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Talk of the Town – review 2012-10-06T23:08:02Z

Their more rap-centric singles such as "Bulletproof" had drill-team precision in choreography and delivery, and the group made the strongest impression of all the U.S.-debuting acts. Girls Generation, CN Blue and BTS close out KCON 2014 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

With an emotional precision that captures and rewards attention throughout, Milo rescues Nannerl’s genius from the historical shadow of her brother’s. 'The Other Mozart'? Her name was Maria Anna, and she dazzlingly comes to life onstage 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

“Most important, he explains abstract concepts with empathy and precision.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

There are so many casual pleasures in Ms. Dove’s poetry that the precision and dexterity in her work — the darkness, too — can catch you unawares. Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Surprised by the depth of their friendship and their attraction, Penelope and Agatha begin to carefully build their connection, echoing the deliberate precision of bees constructing a hive, including the sweetness at the end. Best romance novels of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

I can tell you that the common ground is precision. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

The wheels turn with wobbly precision and the hand, holding a rock, thwacks the tormented saint's chest. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z

He can produce his gargled, glottal wail fairly quietly, and with precision. Music Review: Chris Cornell, Solo, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-23T23:03:46Z

Inclusive as the Vision Festival may be, a piece of such depth, complexity and precision needs more specialized attention. Review: The Vision Festival Gives Experimental Jazz a Big Hug 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The geobiologist Hope Jahren possesses the two attributes Nabokov deemed essential to the writer: “the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

"Because it makes us learn the precision and detail of the English choirs, and it makes the English learn the warmth and intensity that the Italian choir has." Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

“The clean precision in the lines and the high level of her work reveal the mastery she reached in printmaking.” The late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's mysterious world unfurls at the Fowler Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

He has built a career on percussive longevity, bashing away at his instrument for hours on end with fury and expert precision. Kid Millions? New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming 2010-06-22T21:32:00Z

I love the rush, I love the precision, I love how sharp it makes me. Pom Klementieff Is Hooked on Skydiving, Thanks to Tom Cruise 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z

Derbez is a charismatic performer whose expansive lyrical flair is girded with wary reserve and thoughtful precision. “Win It All” and the Mighty Gambles of Joe Swanberg’s Moviemaking 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

It will feature up to 150 fermentation tanks of varying sizes, to allow more precision in vinification and blending. How influential can one vintner be? Two famous wineries get to find out. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ikeda’s composition juxtaposed precision and imprecision: 440Hz is the current tuning standard for A, but that wasn’t always the case. A 100-Car Army of Sound in Los Angeles 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Then, at precisely 3 p.m., with theatrical precision, the door was thrown open and Swedes clomped in with their ski boots, tables filled up and the guitarist started. Waffles, Gentle Slopes and Cloudberries Everywhere: Skiing in Sälen, Sweden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

Oxygen, donning hats and gloves, fired off a snappy, stylish number with cascades of syncopated precision hits rippling through the group, and they left everyone gasping. What NBC’s ‘World of Dance’ gets right about dance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The blooms slightly bigger, the embroidery just so, the blooms perfectly blush-hued—fabricated with the precision of the original. Pierre Frey Remakes an 18th-Century Silk 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Jonah is all lines and precision; Tsvi moves like a languid tiger. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer and His Father, Tsvi, Dance at Gould Hall 2013-05-10T20:53:02Z

Carroll's book is a very good – and very accessible – guide to all the theoretical physics, precision engineering, data handling, probability-measuring and other marvels involved in an adventure that in all has cost Europe's taxpayers $9bn. Christmas gifts 2012: the best science books 2012-11-28T13:00:01Z

The Rockettes are a marvel of precision and athleticism; they are dazzling, glorious good fun. Trump and Celebrity Approval: You Can’t Always Get What You Want 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

The diagnostic precision and objectivity of scientific medicine promised one path to the truth, not multiple paths. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

We’d got to the house a bit late and Hockney was slightly panicked as the drive relied on precision timing, “You can’t be late because nature is doing the lighting,” he said. The day David Hockney took me out for a drive in the Hollywood Hills 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

For the traditional “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning,” Trucks switched to acoustic guitar, lowering his volume but not his precision. Tedeschi Trucks Band, Gary Clark Jr. rethink the blues at Greek 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

In the finale, after an emotive reading of the eerie Adagio, Orpheus demonstrated its conductorless ability to render complex scores with taut precision and feverish excitement. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff Joins Orpheus at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-31T21:19:15Z

National Geographic in 2019 is an odd blend of Hollywood, bombast, and the kind of tender observation and educational precision that distinguished the yellow-framed magazines we grew up with. “Hostile Planet”: Animals Are Struggling to Adapt, and National Geographic Is, Too 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

“It was done with military precision,” he added. Thieves Grab Nazi Memorabilia in Museum Heists, Puzzling Police 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

The Vita's motion-sensing proves perfect in the puzzle modes, tilting the world with remarkable precision for ultimate monkey manipulation, yet the same finesse is conspicuous by its absence from some of the bonus games. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz – review 2012-11-11T00:06:01Z

Lyrics may operate in a relatively small sphere – breaking up, getting back together, talking through the night – but these are solid gold indie pop songs ornamented with real precision and flair. Dog Is Dead: All Our Favourite Stories – review 2012-10-04T21:00:01Z

This kind of patience and precision will serve him well at the Bocuse, where fastidious technique is valued above all. Meet the Chef Representing Team U.S.A. at the Olympics of Cooking 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Given the photographic precision of the cutouts, the shift in size is like a sudden close-up taken from a telephoto lens. At Shoshana Wayne Gallery, a cast of thousands roams an indoor desert 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Our conversations together are all about ballet: technique, musicality, expression, precision. There is a real connection and interest we share.” New Leaders at Paris Opera Unveil an Ambitious Future 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Wainwright’s approach was different: she observed with precision and made her points quietly, removing her glasses whenever someone asked her a question. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Like great ballet virtuosos, its members offer rigor and precision, breathtaking challenges to gravity and physical limits, and a vision of human possibility. Slowly Altering Expectations 2010-12-17T14:43:26Z

And remember, meat isn’t the only food that requires heat precision. The 5 best thermometers for grilling season, according to experts 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

As for Charlap and Rosnes, the contrast between his swinging, bebop precision and her splayed, pulsing polytonality is a special treat. Earshot has Keith Jarrett, other hot headliners 2011-10-13T18:30:06Z

While Western militaries increasingly have focused on using precision weapons in recent years, towns in eastern Ukraine suffered imprecise artillery and mortar strikes, even in civilian areas. Russia, Ukraine and ‘Hybrid Conflicts’ 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

After that date, U.S. atomic tests on Pacific atolls threw elevated levels of carbon-14 in the atmosphere, mangling the precision of carbon dating dead plants and animals. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

He, in turn, said he admired her "amazing precision" and ability to perform "under very, very extreme conditions." 'Gravity' highlights personal adversity in deep space journey 2013-10-01T13:09:17Z

Both of them were masters of pared-down precision and elegant understatement. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Did the pyramid’s architectural precision and celestial alignment suggest more than a burial chamber? In Cairo, Alone Time With the Pharaohs 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

What Recacha shows us, with precision and the lightest of touches, is that for a child, thought, word and action are one, indivisible. The Place prize; Mayerling – review 2013-04-27T23:05:52Z

“I just really admired his craft of acting, the precision of his acting, as well as his real emotional depth and his real wit,” Mr. Lloyd said. Tom Hiddleston on ‘Betrayal’ and the Art of Self-Protection 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Muti knows this late Verdi masterpiece inside and out, and he brought out the splendor of the orchestral writing with a sweep, clarity and precision one seldom hears on a typical night at the opera. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z

He gets up and holds the brain up and looks quizzically at it, singing "Here," about the sections of the brain, and about confusion and precision. "David Byrne's American Utopia" is a rousing, vibrant spectacular that rivals "Stop Making Sense" 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

She described the improvisational practice as similarly disciplined, but instead privileging “rigorous presence over rehearsed precision.” A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

The design details in the film are also rendered with meticulous care and precision. "Flux Gourmet" is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Helped by Stephen Mears's choreography and Adam Garcia's snappy footwork, the most stirring parts of the evening are often danced, though the routines don't always advance the show or express the lyrics with precision. Birthday; Kiss Me Kate; Get Stuff Break Free – review 2012-06-30T23:05:59Z

Even with the Post-it notes offering guidance, the precision with which Mr. Antonio and Mr. Greenberg drew harmonic patterns from the dense web of strings was dazzling. Review: Yarn/Wire Plucks and Strikes, Rubs and Strums 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Landesman is no Cole Porter or Carolyn Leigh in the precision of her rhymes or the elegance of her language. Music Review: Traveling to the Stars, No Joy or Romance Needed 2011-03-08T21:29:40Z

With precision and strangeness, her dances celebrate the very thing she finds herself racked with: vulnerability. A Choreographer Who Mingles the Ordinary and the Odd 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

But it wasn’t only that: Even getting them onto the field was a striking act of choreographic timing and precision. What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show? They Complete the Picture. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Scarcely any other African novelist has succeeded in probing the female mind and displaying the female personality with such precision,” the Sierra Leonean scholar Eustace Palmer wrote in African Literature Today in 1983. Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian Novelist, Dies at 72 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

It's a project he initiated, executive produced and controlled with the precision he brings to his management of the Lakers offense. Kobe Bryant calls the shots on his Showtime documentary 'Muse' 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

You will not understand the gist of it without knowing “King Lear” inside and out, but it will give you a sense of Dan’s sensitivity, pragmatism and precision. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

These films also made Sirk’s name synonymous with melodrama, the genre that he raised to new heights of personal expression through a blend of thematic precision and stylistic invention. Movie of the Week: “Written on the Wind” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The piece was well served for its world premiere by the Sinfonietta who, thanks to the animating baton of Sian Edwards, executed the minute adjustments of tempo and timbre with precision and brilliance. Luke Bedford Portrait – review 2013-05-24T16:47:20Z

It is slippery and compelling, written with the vivid precision that marks Mr Carey’s best work. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

"Nothing," he explains, "is more fantastic, ultimately, than precision." In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z

That infinitely refined process is the aesthetic behind the Rockettes and their precision dancing. Perspective | The Rockettes, still kicking after 85 years. Here’s why we love them. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

For the company, which operates with military precision, getting to the right spot on time might be even more harrowing than jumping. Dance Review: Airborne Bodies and Balls 2011-07-15T23:23:35Z

When she was making the cocktail on the Fallon show, Cannavale was filming her on his phone and being driven insane by her precision and delicacy. Rose Byrne: ‘You understand why feminists are furious – we’re still talking about this?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

In each case these minutiae are rendered with such hyper-real precision that they might have come from the brush of a 16th-century Salvador Dali. Monsters and merry mayhem 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Goffard's story works because it achieved a firm balance between detail and precision. Viral podcast “Dirty John” goes Bravo: It’s true crime, “Real Housewives”-style 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

They are ordered with Latinate precision, ranked from the “Episcopal” to the “Queerinthian” and assessed according to an “Athenian Measure.” Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art: It Took Tools to Build a Revolution 2010-02-26T23:50:00Z

Surely also the model for Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmondley-Warner, he may not be familiar by name, but the voice is instantly evocative: the clipped precision, the jauntiness, the terrible puns. Mirror to the Soul: from Barbados to Basing Street 2013-04-19T06:00:12Z

His 1998 book, “Israel and the Bomb” was deservedly praised for exposing the history of Israel’s nuclear weapons program with clarity and precision. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z

Her sound was enormous, rich and unforced; her coloratura runs and passagework were dispatched with aplomb and precision. Music Review: Richard Tucker Foundation Gala, Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-07T23:04:32Z

It focused on the clarity and precision of her phrasing. Judy Collins Has a Time Machine 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

That event typically draws connoisseurs of the ensemble's precision, warmth and intensity, as well as those curious to see emerging young professionals. The iPalpiti festival: 20 years of peace through music 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

He brought the same dedication and precision to his less physically-demanding scenes. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

That precision is explored, celebrated and perhaps slightly trivialized in “The Green Fog,” a sort of fast-forward remake of “Vertigo” built from clips of movies and TV shows shot in the city. Review: ‘The Green Fog,’ a Salute to Hitchcock’s San Francisco 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Despite the impossible arrangement, both animals are realized with the precision of a natural history textbook. Review | In the galleries: Artists sport their chops with prints on the cutting edge 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, "Black Messiah" is as vital as it is sublime. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

On closer inspection, the precision and vigilance with which Swain's seemingly effortless collages have – quite literally – been pieced together becomes apparent. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

The precision doesn’t stop at the record’s edge. Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

Kingsley, poet as well as novelist and lifelong friend of the fastidious Philip Larkin, had a special reverence for poetry, its purity and precision. Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z

Neither is much else in this ever-shifting play, directed with exquisite precision by Lee Sunday Evans, and slyly designed every step of the way. Review: It’s the Audience That’s Captured by ‘Caught’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Her longtime friend and sometime lover Sarah, played with flawless precision by Weisz, doesn’t always modulate the rough with the smooth effectively, erring toward the former a tad too often. Why The Favourite should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Therefore NBC and Guthrie knew Sandmann’s answers were likely to be the result of ample coaching and delivered with mechanical precision, containing all the right verbiage to quell any questions about his actions . How the media centers whiteness: "Today," Nicholas Sandmann and "the others" 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

That kind of minimalist precision is all over the album. Sharon Van Etten brings brilliant wordplay to Neptune Theatre 2012-03-22T20:10:09Z

It clearly takes enormous focus and precision to play a character who has neither, and May gives it everything she has. The Best Theatre of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

This is itself a phrase from the writer Italo Calvino, who distinguished nimble precision from mere frivolity. Dance Review: ?Music of Elliott Carter Interpreted? at the Guggenheim 2011-10-04T21:24:12Z