The initial location of the vehicle on the road at the beginning of a test drive was precisely marked to ensure accuracy of the relative locations of the trajectory and road markers after their superposition.
These cathartic money shots serve no purpose plotwise, which is precisely what marks them as the philosophical earmark of the action film.
Yet, contingent truths are precisely the sorts of truths for which we legitimately seek explanations indeed, this is one of the marks of contingency (Hartshorne 1962, 74).
Her characters are precisely drawn.
Scares are precisely timed.
The ability to coax drama from such practicalities would be precisely the mark of the filmmaker's profound knowledge of their gravity, the step-by-step weight of each move to shed one skin and to take on another.
It was precisely this period that marked the beginning of the end for the post-Colonial Arab states, found upon a unique cocktail of pan-Arabist ideology, quasi-socialist economics, and absolutist autocracy.
"Watching the Numbers and Charting the Losses — of Species," by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Observer, Oct. 15), is precisely on the mark regarding the urgency and importance of today's plant and animal extinction crisis.
Yet he can't relinquish the humour and hilarity because it's precisely that vision that marks the two brothers out from the rest of the world, and binds them inextricably together, for as Barry Humphries reminds the author, the best jokes are often understood by only one other person.
In short, it's rare for the good to suddenly become great; for that matter, greatness is rare — but one of its marks is precisely such self-testing and self-surpassing audacity, and that's what Bruno Dumont displays in his gleefully original new film, "Slack Bay," which is playing tomorrow in "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema," at Film Society of Lincoln Center.
