The confrontation between analysts and impressionists is precisely like that, with the statistical analyst — the Jonah Hill character in "Moneyball," the movie — and Billy Beane on one side, and all those scouts and baseball pros on the other.
And when a Christie's official suggested carrying a carton or two to the Pierre recently, for Mr. Hefner to dig through like Dad in the basement -- or more precisely, like Daddy-o, with a reporter present to record the event, of course -- he readily agreed.
If I were about to retire, I could do precisely what I liked with the money.
"It seems plain that the Internet is serving, for many, as a breeding group for extremism, precisely because like-minded people are deliberating with greater ease and frequency with one another," Sunstein writes.
Their Freedom Pass, in a meaningful sense, provided 'freedom' to use the city in ways precisely like those of other citizens, with all the benefits and drawbacks anyone would encounter.
Beyond the treeless peaks and shrub dotted ranchland, the island shoreline, caked white with salt, looks precisely like the coral strands of a Pacific island, a resemblance made more startling by the blue waters of the shallow lake ex tending off towards distant Carrington and Bird Islands on the western horizon.
He eats quickly and thoroughly, and with a determined relish, precisely like a man who no longer has to care that he might look heavy on "Larry King Live".
The cove with its "four puffs of cypress" must have looked precisely like this in the 1930's.
But the top didn't know what to do with these 501(c)4s, in part because it feared a situation precisely like this one.
"It's precisely like an ancient epicycle in the solar system," said Martin Nowak, a co-author of the paper with Edward O. Wilson and Corina Tarnita.
It also sounds precisely like what I do for clients.
