Word: exacting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that De Chirico survives as a painter within a specifically modernist framework, whose standards were generated in the 30 years before 1914 in Paris. That was "the city par excellence of art and the intellect," as De Chirico wrote, where "any man worthy of the name of artist must exact the recognition of his merit." Paris took young De Chirico, as it took young Chagall, and turned him from a naive provincial fabulist into a major painter. His "metaphysical" constructions, such as The Jewish Angel, 1916, certainly influenced Max Ernst. Just as certainly, they came out of the cubist sculpture...
Some U.S. scientists, too, argue that the case is not yet conclusive. Employing a peculiarly exact figure that recalled the illusory body counts of the Viet Nam War, the State Department study alleged that at least 6,504 had been killed by chemical attacks in Laos. Asked how that precise number could be confirmed with out autopsies, a spokesman for the department answered that the figure was meant merely to show the number of deaths that it had corroborated by outside evidence...
Ruisdael's most popular paintings, however, have always tended to be the ones of "natural vision": the vast pearly expanses of flat Dutch land, richly differentiated in light and shadow; and the woodland scenes. Without straining for effect, he hit the exact note over and over again. Even a self-conscious device, like the ocher scar on the old oak that anchors the radiating composition of Hilly Landscape with a Great Oak Tree and a Grain Field, circa 1654, is perfectly assimilated to the other elements of the painting. Such a canvas is pure Ruisdael: the precise...
...your story on new techniques for determining scientific evidence [March 1], you failed to mention weather reconstruction as one of the newest forensic sciences. My firm has provided juries with convincing evidence that wind blew a car into a lane of oncoming traffic, or that at the exact time a plaintiff claimed a road was under water, there had not been enough rain to cause a flood. Forecasting is always subject to variable factors; hindcasting treads a more certain course...
...romantic couple's incompatibility appears to be more his fault than hers. Mouis is a fine, precise dancer with exquisite balance and an engaging flair for comedic flirtation. Her Kitri-Dulcinea is a model of girlish exuberance and mischief, quick in her pirouettes and unquiveringly exact in her arabesques...