As she and the percussionists clapped the precise accents of a bulerias, Mr. Sánlucar slipped back into a supporting role.
In Bangkok bouillabaisse, kaffir lime, ginger and lemongrass apply precise accents to a hearty tomato bouillon and plenty of accurately cooked seafood.
By using precise accents and gestures that reveal far more than superficial attributes, Mr. Crabb evokes several memorable people in his life, including his stoical father, his comically supportive mother and a few friends who begin as stereotypes but don't end there.
His precise German accent lends every pronouncement an Old Testament thunder.
His speech is elegant, too: he has the kind of precise Southern accent that makes punctuation audible.
"Black and white keeps me very centred rather than in a grey area," she explains in a mellifluously precise southern accent.
In a meticulous, charming performance that will appeal most to those with an interest in New York history, Bree Benton, whose alter ego is Poor Baby Bree, speaks in a precise New York accent that doesn't exist anymore.
He carries himself in public with cool North German reserve, speaks precise, lightly accented English, and quotes Nietzsche and eighteenth-century violin treatises with equally intimidating fluency.
AFTER "Carnevale!" Mr. De Ritis will rest for a bit at his house in Pescara, "where I have my circus archive," he said in his precise, slightly accented English, one of three languages he ordinarily uses (Italian and French are the others).
Mr. Welch brings a surly energy and precise off-brand accent to his performance as the opportunistic Henry, whose success on the field inspires him to keep up the impersonation in order to bump off a few of his enemies.
