"It's precisely like an ancient epicycle in the solar system," said Martin Nowak, a co-author of the paper with Edward O. Wilson and Corina Tarnita.
"Each succeeding story was precisely like the one he had left; it was always the same long, marble-paved corridor, with every door and window exactly duplicated," Sutphen writes.
The confrontation between analysts and impressionists is precisely like that, with the statistical analyst — the Jonah Hill character in "Moneyball," the movie — and Billy Beane on one side, and all those scouts and baseball pros on the other.
They had woken this morning from an experience that was precisely like a nightmare — Technicolor catastrophes, figments of imagination, suspicion, now totally erased in the light of an ordinary day.
It's precisely like a scene from an old-school porn film in which a plumber and a frustrated housewife trade clunky dialogue, but with better lighting and no onscreen sex.
It's precisely like designing and building a home to fall down in six months so that you, the seller, can collect the insurance.
But those comparisons, along with words like "dominating," are precisely what McMillan has tried to avoid.
Missions like these are precisely why SpaceX has worked to perfect their sea-based landings.
The volatility of the index, and swings like this, are precisely the reason that the Federal Reserve and many economists watch "core inflation" instead.
Giselle Allen and Benjamin Hulett were precisely sphinx-like as Quint and Jessel.
