I didn't exactly argue with him.
And that is where I would not exactly disagree with him, but where I would say that I am anxious.
He is so respectful, so free of condescension, so focused on the argument, that by the time the show is over, I'm not exactly angry with him.
It is a sign, perhaps, of the White House's desperate search for a way forward that Mr. Obama is hoping that American voters — who are deeply disgusted with Congress, but not exactly thrilled with him either, according to recent polls — will somehow rise en masse and make their representatives see the error of their ways.
Carson and Christie have been loyal surrogates to Trump but Cruz and Walker are not exactly friends with him, so it remains to be seen what their speeches will entail.
Everyone they knew agreed exactly with them.
If he did not long for Bacon, exactly, he carried with him a hollow in the form of shared history and, perhaps, a debt owed.
Nate Silver has Obama's chances of reëlection around a ninety-per-cent certainty; Sam Wang, of the "Princeton Consortium" — though exactly who consorts with him in Princeton is unclear, the idea of consorting, electorally, is too winning not to relish — has Romney's odds even longer than that.
New York had not exactly welcomed him with open arms, but it had not turned him away, either.
His very public exposure in an act of violence towards his then wife Nigella Lawson in 2013 did not exactly leave him with a reputation as one of the great feminists of our time.
