Phillips's best writing achieves an elaborate, gratifying precision, combining a naturally flamboyant style with neat, observational wit.
7 30 p.m. 3) DANCE, DANCE, DANCE Bali is brimming with fire dances, mask dances, trance dances, monster dances and puppet shows, all of which have been refined over the centuries to the point that eyeballs, fingertips and toes all move in elaborate choreographed precision.
Here are all the elements of Runyon's voice: the perpetual present tense, the world without conditional moods, the stilted, over-elaborate attempt at precision, and, above all, a way of life and a social class evoked purely through vernacular.
He added, "Artists like Madonna and Janet Jackson set new standards for showmanship, with concerts that included not only elaborate costumes and precision-timed pyrotechnics but also highly athletic dancing.
Following an elaborate schedule with clockwork precision, he visited neighborhood after neighborhood to view staged earthquake devastation.
Eringen (1999 , 2001 states, "experiments with micropolar constants require much precision and elaborate instrumentation, since we are faced with the measurement of microscopic-level quantities in high frequency, short-wavelength regions.
On the other hand, mathematical population geneticists like Ronald A. Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright could make use of the classical gene with equal rigor and precision to elaborate testable mathematical models describing the effects of evolutionary factors like selection and mutation on the genetic composition of populations (Provine 1971).
Limitations of using SBSP data for individual absolute risk predictions include the inability of the nested case-control study to estimate elaborate models with sufficient precision.
What appears to be frenzy and chaos - appropriate qualities in the play that epitomizes the Sturm und Drang cultural movement - would be impossible without the perfect discipline of these actors who work together with the precision of an elaborate clock.
Toys, wrapping paper and gift cards, for instance, are laid out in a logical sequence that has been revealed by elaborate customer research and designed with precision.
You could easily claim that the film confines its ridicule to the Tinderized — to those who are offered such elaborate assistance in the speed and the precision of their wooing that they are left with no excuse for being alone.
