Because he already had responded to questions relating to the sex scandal that has cost him his marriage and much else, Woods could have been expected to answer precisely as he did.
But to sit with Mr. Kilner, 41, over bowls of oatmeal and bananas is to realize that Mr. Kilner plays Tom as thoroughly as he does precisely because he has perspective on him.
(One exception came on "Happy Theme Song," a loosely swinging original: she began her solo precisely as she does on "Mood Changes").
Reinach believed that negative states of affairs obtain precisely as do positive states of affairs; otherwise, he did not see how we could defend objective knowledge of the most basic laws of ontology and logic (specifically, the principle of contradiction and the law of the excluded middle).
His performance is mesmerizing precisely because he doesn't play Carlos as a monster; the more human he is, the closer we are to him, which is a shocking sensation.
As one of Eisenhower's aides, he will do substantially what he did in civil life, which is deal with the exiled European governments on behalf of the U.S. The problem of the man who does, as a soldier, precisely what he did as a civilian is a confusing one, and we might just as well tip Lt. Col. Biddle off to the angles.
"Once again I submit the obvious," Mr. Vollmann writes with regrettable accuracy: "Poor people are no more and no less human than I; accordingly, they deserve to be judged and understood precisely as do I myself".
Blow describes throughout the book his struggle with identifying as bisexual precisely because he didn't experience exactly what he thought he should be experiencing.
Oswald returned to the United States in 1962, disillusioned with the Soviet Union but confirmed in his conception of himself as an antihero precisely because he did not fit in.
Dr Mahathir seems to have chosen Mr Badawi as his deputy precisely because he did not command a loyal following within UMNO, and therefore was no threat to Dr Mahathir's leadership.
