"It's precisely like an ancient epicycle in the solar system," said Martin Nowak, a co-author of the paper with Edward O. Wilson and Corina Tarnita.
Still, it is hard for even those closest to Mr. Obama to fathom what these days are precisely like, even for the unflappable — often inscrutable — senator from Illinois.
"Each succeeding story was precisely like the one he had left; it was always the same long, marble-paved corridor, with every door and window exactly duplicated," Sutphen writes.
They had woken this morning from an experience that was precisely like a nightmare — Technicolor catastrophes, figments of imagination, suspicion, now totally erased in the light of an ordinary day.
It's precisely like a scene from an old-school porn film in which a plumber and a frustrated housewife trade clunky dialogue, but with better lighting and no onscreen sex.
It's precisely like designing and building a home to fall down in six months so that you, the seller, can collect the insurance.
This is precisely why you like technology more than politics.
"That feeling is precisely what I like about it," Spring tells me, as she sips a tea next to us.
"That feeling is precisely what I like about it," Spring tells me, as she sips some tea next to us.
But it is precisely situations like this where he has disappointed in the past.
