Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Vetri have had to field a larger team of greener servers, some of whom struggled to talk accurately about the menu.
The average AL Kennedy story – and given that All the Rage is the Scottish writer's fifth collection since 1990's Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, we can talk accurately of averages – drops us directly into a character's thoughts mid-flow, without the guide ropes of exposition to cling to.
In The Hollow Men, language is dead and empty "quiet and meaningless / as wind in dry grass / or rat's feet"; here Sweeney tells the others that he cannot talk accurately of what is important – "well here again that don't apply / but I gotta use words when I talk to you".
In the past, talks — or, more accurately, talks about talks — have foundered over preconditions that each side has set: for the Taliban, that the Americans must first withdraw; for the Afghan government, that the Taliban must first disarm.
At a crime fiction panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday, writers Daniel Pyne ("Fifty Mice"), Naomi Hirahara ("Grave on Grand Avenue"), Attica Locke ("Pleasantville") and Cha ("Follow Her Home") talked about accurately describing places portrayed in their novels, whether it's Los Angeles or Houston.
At the design stage, questions can be raised about the sampling frame and sampling scheme (did the people we talked to accurately represent the broader target population?), the questionnaire (were questions well posed or potentially leading?), and the survey preparation (was a pilot study conducted, and how well were interview teams prepared?).
In other words, you can't accurately talk about global climate change or national energy policy or national transportation policy without talking about the rising costs of health care or national security.
So let's try to set the record straight, figure out what really happened, and talk honestly and accurately about what the current bill would do and won't do.
My next piece will focus on MOOC drop-out statistics in more detail, but for now if MOOC critics want to continue using numbers to bolster their case, they would be on sturdier ground if they simply challenged claims of 100,000+ genuine course enrollments vs. continuing to dwell on high drop-out rates that we are now in a position to talk about more accurately.
Knowing of Hitchens's legendary appetite for conversation, I had fantasized about talking (or, more accurately, listening) late into the night, but the party had broken up around midnight, with Hitchens, coffee mug in hand, wandering off into the fug.
I probably encapsulated the "shit" they were talking about pretty accurately.
