"All right, it's agreed: we call the Mayor, explain to him that the mysterious whatsit adrift in the collective nostril evokes, or four hundred years ago was most precisely evoked by, Thomas Campion, Elizabethan doctor as well as poet; so will Bloomberg therefore please lay the hell off Leno and Letterman, who were, on that particular day, probably nowhere near Manhattan......
And in so precisely evoking the prickly intimacy of a loosely knit group of friends and lovers, the movie is a triumphant return to form for Mr. Frears, whose last film, the turgid modern western "The Hi-Lo Country," found him way out of his element.
Hence, there are (as yet) no cases of "precisely targeted" evoked genetic variation, to create specific new gene alleles, in response to environmental hazards.
Precisely because it evokes such ideas, the paperboard guitar, along with a later sheet-metal version of it, also in the show, was one of the most influential sculptures of the 20th century.
Atmosphere is precisely what Garbo evokes, of course, and Constantinople, somehow or other, gave it to her: from all accounts, she was still an aspiring ingénue when she went there -- and a goddess when she left.
It could have been merely elegant, arch, a film that evoked precisely the emotional blankness that it set out to satirise.
At times it almost seems that Mr. Baldwin's Dysart is meant to be a winking homage to Burton, so precisely does he evoke that Welsh-born star at his most plummy and deliciously if deplorably mannered.
They needn't know precisely what Mr. Williams is evoking to understand how funny he is.
Most critics' praise went to Robin Williams' performance as Genie, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times declaring that children "needn't know precisely what Mr. Williams is evoking to understand how funny he is".
