Between the 1920s and 1970s most British men would have passed through Burton's doors to purchase their first suit, imbibing as they did its military precision, moral rectitude and quiet taste that informed a reassuring sense of what was normal.
We believe a stronger comparison can be made between the myth and the moral dangers of employing precision guided munitions and drone technologies to target suspected terrorists.
In terms of budget, it fits somewhere between "The Beast" and "Waterworld," and with luck audiences will respond to the moral seriousness and formal precision Mr. Reynolds brought to the familiar tale.
Jacob Weisberg, writing in Slate, went even further, declaring that "The Wire" was the best American television series that had ever been broadcast: "No other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of great literature".
For Leonard has picked up the legacy Trilling and his contemporaries left -- their particular priesthood of high seriousness in American intellectualism -- and transformed it into something playful and excitable, and he's done it without sacrificing moral purpose or intellectual precision.
Precision was a moral imperative, words things to be used carefully.
This is a book that combines moral passion with steely forensic precision, enlivened with the odd flash of dry wit.
I think it was probably something to do with the certainty and the precision of his moral clarity.
That is the closest Butcher's Crossing comes to being sentimental, but even in its softer moments it doesn't overdo anything, and the moral criticism is in the precision of the language, the now-famous simple and elegant Williams prose.
Equally consequential, he imagined a very particular mission for the Museum that only he had the moral authority to envision and the precision of language to powerfully articulate.
