On Tuesday night the old songs were as precise and galvanizing as ever.
These days his playing is as precise and energetic as ever, but he has softened the edges somewhat.
Even if Martínez proved that he was as precise and powerful as ever, the Red Sox had enough question marks piled behind him in their rotation to fill a hospital admissions form.
Coetzee's prose is as precise and measured as ever, its rhythms teacherly (the Coetzeean rule of three sees a fair amount of action: "It seems to him a good question, a serious question, one that might trouble the best-schooled young nun". Twenty pages later: "A good answer, a serious answer, a philosophic answer").
But his poetic instincts held fast in tender moments, with trills as thrillingly precise as one might ever hope to hear.
On film, Nolte is the most physical, and physically precise, of actors - excepting, as ever, Mr Brando, his friend.
Ms. Williams is, as ever, heartbreakingly precise in every scene, but if Mr. Gosling's character is burdened with too little story, hers is saddled with too much.
Only in flight, as ever more precise information was gathered from the battlefield, would the pilots be told where to go.Even the Pentagon's biggest bombs have been used in unexpected ways.
As ever, the production is spacious and precise, with each different element – the marching-band beat, the acoustic strums, the echoey synths – all meticulously layered.
