If you press and hold on a word on screen it's highlighted as normal, but then dragging your fingers around selects words rather than individual characters (if you still need precise selections, drag either of the blue handles back).
When given an elementary school assignment to "write about something we had at home," he reeled off from memory the precise selections, composers, singers and dates of each band on an opera anthology ranging from 1909 to 1932.
Bowen counsels precise selection, following, in this respect, Edith Wharton, who also disliked novelists who used "irrelevant small-talk, in the hope of thus producing a greater air of reality".
All the aesthetic components come into play at that stage of design, including colours, lighting, and textures, although at the early design stages no precise selection of materials or objects is made.
Like Joyce, Flaubert can be drily comic, but humour is dependent on a precise selection of words, registers and double meanings, so I had to take an irony geiger count of every sentence – whose "right" translation lurked just around the corner.
All pursued their task with almost priestly devotion — not necessarily to Nixon, whose weaknesses they ruthlessly dissected, but to the rigors of their craft: the details of set design and camera placement, the careful remodeling of the candidate's awkward presence, the precise selection of ordinary citizens to participate in staged conversations broadcast in key states.
Finally, MAS technology provided precise selection and accelerated the breeding process.
The precise selection of the independent variable is not a minor issue.
The sequential forward selection, genetic and maximum relevance minimum redundancy algorithms are used for a precise selection of features.
But in reaction dynamics studies the wide (thermal) velocity distribution mostly renders difficult a precise selection of experimentally probed velocities.
A framework was developed for fast sample positioning, precise selection of ROIs, and sequential high-throughput scanning of a large numbers of brain VCCs.
