In the past, talks — or, more accurately, talks about talks — have foundered over preconditions that each side has set: for the Taliban, that the Americans must first withdraw; for the Afghan government, that the Taliban must first disarm.
More accurately, she talked and he listened, adding an appropriate word here, asking the occasional question there.
Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Vetri have had to field a larger team of greener servers, some of whom struggled to talk accurately about the menu.
In The Hollow Men, language is dead and empty "quiet and meaningless / as wind in dry grass / or rat's feet"; here Sweeney tells the others that he cannot talk accurately of what is important – "well here again that don't apply / but I gotta use words when I talk to you".
The average AL Kennedy story – and given that All the Rage is the Scottish writer's fifth collection since 1990's Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, we can talk accurately of averages – drops us directly into a character's thoughts mid-flow, without the guide ropes of exposition to cling to.
A source previously told me that years ago, Facebook was interested in developing its own speech recognition software designed specifically to accurately transcribe how friends talk to each other.
The criticism has barely been affected by the revelation that she accurately recited the talking points the intelligence agencies prepared.
Or, more accurately, we're going to talk about how you can turn your android phone into a great simple, social device," Zuckerberg says.
The only other book that I've read recently that so accurately reproduces the way children talk is Eliza Minot's "The Brambles," but in Minot's book the subject matter — aging, death, and family secrets — is hardly as grim as in "Room".
We -- or, more accurately, they -- need to talk things through.
