"Well, the — I think Senator Clinton speaks accurately about him," Mr. Obama said.
On Monday, Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said Mr. Biden was "speaking accurately".
It is very rare to hear a novelist speak accurately about writing a novel because it is extremely difficult to explain.
Rather than physical fear, it was the sense of impotence, which seemed to deepen with each week, of being unable to speak accurately of the very recent past when being leftwing in America, and for that matter in Europe, was to be alive to the dilemmas of the day.
Yet such a defeat would also require Americans and their elected representatives to understand and speak accurately in public about the true dimensions of terrorism — to describe the violence in its real proportions, and to recognize the Oak Creek shooting's links to right-wing and racist terrorism that is every bit as potent at home these days as Al Qaeda and its followers are, if not more so.
Speak accurately, but don't ramble on.
"Heart of a Soldier" speaks more accurately to our moment, but "Turandot" is the one that still moves us, with its expert symbiosis of character and music.
They would not admit the possibility of real defeat; they did not know that they were beaten; or, to speak more accurately, they knew that though they seemed to be beaten they were not: they felt that they had in them latent elements of conclusive vigour which, in the end, they should bring out, though they were awkward and slow in so doing.
