Those who professionally deal with testimonies - detectives, say, or criminal lawyers - must find extraordinary the exactitude of recollection in such works of fiction.
American farmers and food industry officials find this European exactitude on food practices bewildering, as captured in the comment of Ron Frye, the marketing manager for a Montana ranch, when talking with the Financial Times: "If it's good enough for us it ought to be good enough for them".
It would be hard to imagine the piece being better done or to find its emotional world explored with more remorseless exactitude.
You will find yourself on the A316.' The author of Guerrillas is a writer who can give even the stage directions of everyday life a kind of edgy exactitude.
Funny, isn't it, how the prime minister can apparently find money for his adventure in Mali, but still insist that places nearer home are all but crushed in the cause of fiscal exactitude?
In Frantz's "Over the Top," a delicately jazzy romp of sorts danced to Jelly Roll Morton tunes, Andrea Thompson managed to vamp with creative exactitude and personality, but even in this ostensibly fun piece, the corps looked too careful, as if it had never been allowed to find itself in the dancing.
"It could not be found unless you were lost," she explains, with the exactitude of language that's crucial to the psychological subtlety of her characters — and the delight she takes in them.
I want to use the word "distant" about the writer's sense of his world, to suggest not coldness, but exactitude, something of the "fine, cold" quality Anna finds in Eliot.
Exactitude, not plenitude, is the rule.
The beauty of exactitude.
