Instead, what we should be measuring (and, more importantly, developing) is far less measurable, an imprecise mix of character, resilience, curiosity and grit.
This is associated with the imprecise and overlapping character of the surrounding states and towns served by these hospitals.
More damagingly, he seems to have an imprecise handle on them; characters frequently double back and contradict themselves, and Taylor has a habit of uneasily forcing what feel like his own observations into their heads.
However, it should be stressed that the phrase "inheritance of acquired characters" is substantially imprecise in that Lamarck and his followers were very particular about adaptive (beneficial, useful) not just any acquired traits being inherited.
It is only the haphazard nature of the characters' journeying that is imprecise.
An obituary of the innovative comic-page illustrator Will Eisner yesterday included an imprecise comparison in some copies between his character the Spirit and others, including Batman.
One is the details provided about the missing arms as well as the dimensions (although bear in mind that these were given in imprecise measurements) and the other is the physical character of the stone, typical of many Roman sculptures.
If one asks it, for example, "How many blocks go on top of each other to make a steeple?" the phrase "go on top of each other" —which, despite its paradoxical character, makes sense to us is too imprecise to be understood by the machine.
If one asks it, for example, "How many blocks go on top of each other to make a steeple?" the phrase "go on top of each other" — which, despite its paradoxical character, makes sense to us — is too imprecise to be understood by the machine.
Fearing the reader might not see what this has to do with style or with character, he continues: "I'm being a touch imprecise...
