This was smart on many levels, but mainly because of the exactness of the target.
"They are concerned with the exactness of what they are getting".
Mr. Hurlin's wonderfully realized sets fascinate with the exactness of their detail.
In reflecting on the exactness of her compulsories, Scott said: "I like everything to be neat and tidy and symmetrical.
But there's no denying the exactness of every gesture, stance and inflection in defining someone who has made a fine art of self-protection and passive aggression.
The most-striking feature of these writings, apart from the exactness of their descriptive passages, is their rhetorically conditioned polemical character.
The title poem of A Correct Compassion (1952) - an account of a heart operation - has been widely anthologised and much admired for the exactness of its observation and its language.
Where other poems relish the exactness of snow and its metaphorical uses, MacNeice connects with the mystery a snowfall brings: "World is suddener than we fancy it / World is crazier and more of it than we think".
When a writer states that "in time, my wife and I shifted from gin to vodka, which was less argumentative," the exactness of the epithet ought to give pause to the most traditional gin enthusiast.
Her work here is made especially memorable by the exactness of her tone in evoking small-town tensions, the often misdirected energies of youth and most especially the process of growing up and acquiring an adult sense of responsibility.
This is tied to the exactness of the mechanics of pollination, but it also means that orchids can no longer provide the only source of sustenance for the pollinator, and other flowers must be present in the biosphere to maintain visitors.
