Those lovely Motown precision moments, where singers move in perfect formation like windup toys or throwbacks to a Busby Berkeley musical, were often totally out of sync, with one diva raising an arm only as another lowered hers.
The movie's family relationships are addressed with low-key realism, and the animation has a lovely, gentle precision, with plenty of room for visual comedy but less of the noise and chaos that have become the hallmarks of 3-D animation.
Altea Nuñez, Aki Saito and Wim Vanlessen were particularly notable for the lovely expansiveness and precision of their dancing, heightened by the silky, legato performance of a seven-member chamber orchestra from the former Beethoven Academy, conducted by Koen Kessels.
Rectangles of marinated ahi tuna, lovely in their precision, are wrapped in a translucent sheet of daikon radish and finished off with a caramelized-lemon accent, while tomato gelee brings out the natural sweetness of a compressed cake of peekytoe crab meat.
Precision, a lovely surface, a reasonable level of difficulty, and an audible chuckle when illumination dawns.
"Listen to this lovely melody, and stop worrying about rhythmic precision and phrase structure," Ms. Perricci's music making seemed to be saying.
Pristine fillet of sole, served with a lovely beurre blanc, was deboned at tableside with swift, surgical precision.
And Ms. Davidson's delicate small instrument shone with precision in the coloratura of her BWV 19 aria and made a lovely thing out of the brief recitative near the work's end.
Thence to Nelson, Colne, Blackburn and Burnley, where the lovely countryside, cheap housing and excellent transport cry out for relocators to invest, especially in aeronautics and precision engineering whose short runs Chinese mass production cannot match.
