That's a fair description of the job — long periods of waiting around punctuated by short, precise swings at a ball — but it doesn't begin to capture its social dimension.
Six-wicket croquet, which is to the nine-wicket backyard version as chess is to checkers, demands great mental acuity in addition to steely nerves and metronomically precise swings.
The set closed with "Back of Your Neck," which began with a precise rockabilly swing, bolstered by cooing harmonies from Mr. Petrek and Mr. Nygaard, balancing out Mr. Gatesmith's seething over a reckless woman: "I think you're mid-July/Smoky, wet and hot as a crack pipe/I want to love you but we just fight".
Magazine Rolling Stone rated the album 4 out of 5 stars, stating that Redding "delivers one of his most mature performances, smoky and at times almost langorous" in "Try a Little Tenderness", and the second single is "hard and precise but swinging".
Since the accident, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration and others have looked closely at previous incidents in which Airbus A-300-600's, the precise model involved, swung from side to side because of rudder movements by the pilots.
Built like a linebacker, recruited by college basketball teams as a guard, Rolen has a compact swing, a precise pregame routine, and a grass-roots horse sense about the way to play.
The song's deranged synth chords and sloppy jazz-break drums evoke the early-eighties blend of rap and punk that the Beastie Boys perfected, but the Garden aspires to something less defined — shakier than rap's precise loops and more swinging and dynamic than punk's hammering movements.
A Stokes corner was nodded back into his path and he swung a precise cross towards the far post where the towering Van Dijk was waiting to head in his seventh goal of the season.
She has a fluid swing and a precise ball toss, which is crucial to her consistency.
After the Bryans won the first set, Paes's aggressive net presence — precise volleys and potent overheads — swung the match.
