There's usually dramatic music, words like "precise" spoken in a sexy voice, and a level of contrast so high it belongs on the cover of an Atlanta trap mix.
There remained something almost pre-war about her looks, demeanour and that distinctive and precise voice, speaking in what was once dubbed "Tutinese".
"I believe we have children the same age," she smiled at James (who disappointingly failed to reply: "Yeah, I'm a bit tied up with work at this precise moment – speak to my nanny about playdates").
A more precise term when speaking of plants, however, is epiphytotic ("on plants"); for animals, the corresponding term is epizootic.
I found my way to Bennett, a courteous man with a soulful gaze and a precise way of speaking that reflects his long career in academia, first as a college English professor, then as a dean.
In meetings, Clinton often guides the discussion to an inference that the staff didn't see in advance; Gore marches through the agenda in precise, orderly fashion, speaking in the technical language of a public-policy graduate seminar.
The coats, first introduced, to great success, in Japan, are cut slim, filled with French down (90 percent gray goose down and 10 percent small feather, to be precise) and, relatively speaking, less expensive than Moncler.
A former head of the regulator Ofcom and, briefly, a No 10 adviser, Carter does not suffer those he considers fools gladly and his precise way of speaking gives this away.
It becomes apparent how Gary Smith, Elliott's father, lent a lot of his features to his son, along with a precise way of speaking that holds each word out an even beat.
Sperber and Wilson contend that this processing model accounts for standard Gricean implicatures, metaphors included, without requiring the listener to reconstruct the speaker's precise rationale for speaking as she did and without a rich and contentious set of conversational norms.
