Rather than planning precise emotions, she puts in a fair ton of research, and trusts to instinct: the process is a mystery to her, leaving her often bemused that it happens quite so fluidly.
Krys Lee, a Korean-American author and translator, said, "My mother also used it on me!" Lee finds that it's hard for Americans and Koreans to gauge each other's precise emotions, because Koreans tend to use "more abstract, dramatic, and sentimental language".
Khan has an ideal collaborator in Sophie Blackall, whose Chinese ink-and-watercolor drawings convey exquisite detail and precise emotion.
On the contrary, Bergman always knows how to integrate them into the psychology of his characters at the exact moment when he wants to express a precise emotion.
I mean, when a neighbour used to let her yippy, colitis-riddled mutt crap itself hollow across my garden and I would discover the evidence (slightly too late) whenever I cut the grass, then I would get this wave of precise emotion which I thought was something like infuriated disgust or sociopathic revulsion, but, apparently, I was wrong.
The royal wedding is just the opposite; it's a Bressonian event, which, in its patterned immobility and precise formality, lets emotion arise in hints and glimpses that gratify the free play of the viewer's imagination.
The second was a searing essay in The New Yorker, by Jeffrey Goldberg, on the plight of Kurds in northern Iraq — precise, distilled of emotion, but with a haunting resonance.
The encouraging thing about Sinatra is that while his legend touched on one set of values (virility, flash, a hint of gangsterism), his work was always characterized by the opposite: gravity, understatement, and a precise calibration of emotion.
Though the words were Snowden's, her voice, at once rich and precise, conveyed the emotion that she had felt upon receiving the correspondence of someone preparing to jump off a cliff.
Art, they believed, had, during the course of the 19th Century, lost the ability to distinguish precise and real emotion from its vague and self-satisfied substitute.
The precise definition of emotion is still under constant debate; the issue is further complicated by related concepts and terms such as affect, mood, attitude, sentiment, etc. (see Frijda (1986 , 1988 , 19942004) for more detailed discussion of the distinction among these concepts).
