Her writing is economical and precise – she describes someone as "a woman whose sorrows take extrovert and hedonistic forms" – which won't surprise readers of her under-rated novels.
A past winner of the Whitbread and the Guardian children's fiction prize, McKay plays to her strengths in this nourishing and tremendously entertaining novel: she uses a small canvas and observes closely; her voice is warm, wise and witty; her language is economical and precise.
The score was evocative, the text economical and precise, in stark contrast to Stephen Deazley's mundane mood-music for Dream Angus, McCall Smith's self-indulgent reworking (with Ben Twist) of his own story about a woman retrieving her errant husband via a shrink specialising in dreams about pigs.
With RC moment frames, a consideration of the redistribution of unbalanced loads in all directions leads to more economical and precise design.
The advent of the ChIP-seq technology now allows for a more economical and precise mapping of chromatin patterns throughout the human genome and therefore we next performed ChIP-seq experiments for H3K9me3, SETDB1, and KAP1 in K562 cells (see Supplementary Table S1 for a summary of the ChIP-seq samples analyzed in this study).
Their language is precise, economical and highly authoritative.
Gardening, photography, DIY, all have specialist terminology to enable precise, economical reference.
By the time Harry gets on the emigrant ship, Gale has established his character with precise, economical strokes.
Equally, further developments are needed to enable precise, economical and non-invasive measurement methods52,53,54,55, to achieve rapid, on-line, quantitative data.
An automated precise economical process chain for the manufacturing of a new all-ceramic knee implant design was developed.
