By contrast, baseball is a game of discrete events, each of which is a potential crisis, yet one which emerges precisely from precise circumstances you can't hit a grand slam if the bases aren't loaded.
By contrast, baseball is a game of discrete events, each of which is a potential crisis, yet one which emerges precisely from precise circumstances — you can't hit a grand slam if the bases aren't loaded.
Unfortunately, he isn't in modern Ethiopia anymore; he's slipping gratefully away from precise time and place.
Then came a test, but it was far from precise, and some still made that demand.
Low tire pressure increases fuel consumption, speeds up tire wear and can change a car's handling from precise to mushy.
Like a journalist, he reports on characters and their doings rather than creating them from precise circumstances and coiled histories.
But the science of correlating particular agricultural practices with quantities of greenhouse gases is as yet far from precise.
His guitar is joined by a powerful tenor voice that is capable of everything from precise subtle phrasing to a yodel reminiscent of a coyote's mournful howl.
Crime-scene photographs, for all their power to reveal, can also serve as a distraction, even a deterrent, from precise understanding of the events they depict.
But unlike the Impressionists, who derived their colours from precise observation of the visual world, these painters exaggerated and distorted natural colour to express mood.
They have mastered the whole range, from precise, one-ingredient panini without a stray droplet of sauce to overstuffed monsters with meats and cheeses and glorious streams of dressing.
