But to sit with Mr. Kilner, 41, over bowls of oatmeal and bananas is to realize that Mr. Kilner plays Tom as thoroughly as he does precisely because he has perspective on him.
The author's decision to describe the process is a questionable one — a book's great unknown can leave the strongest impression on a reader — but he executes as precisely as the surgeons who perform the unwinding.
What we get is not exactly a snapshot of Cave as he is, nor precisely a day in the life of a rock star, but a guide to Cave's sense of his imaginary and creative self.
But as he well knows, precisely the same intellectual two-step was performed by George W. Bush's many critics, who simultaneously denounced him as a scheming, constitution-shredding warmonger and as a world-historical dunce.
Mr. Trump's aides have said he will give a speech on immigration next week in Arizona — an address originally set for this week but delayed as he grappled with precisely what he would say.
Even though the band is silent as he speaks, these precisely mimicked monologues, albeit without an audience's response, are often the most pleasingly musical parts of the show.
And he needed to be able to tell them apart as precisely as possible, to avoid recording two arrivals as one.In this case "as precisely as possible" meant within 100 attoseconds.
Still, it's quite affecting when Bond, having chased the just escaped (precisely as he'd planned) Silva through the London Tube to, naturally Westminster station, rescues M with the help of Eve and Mallory.
(Without feeling any need to explain just how that might be done, just as he has failed to explain precisely how he will end Iran's nuclear ambitions once and for all).
While he enjoyed Aguilera's vocal performance, which he described as " precisely, gracefully, forcefully ", he criticized the literal Spanish translation of the lyrics from English which he said made a "good laugh and a better yawn".
