Word: precisionism
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The late Havelock Ellis's seven-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex is one of the notable examples of clinical candor in modern writing. When he came to write his autobiography, clinically candid Havelock Ellis tried to outdo himself. Said he, "To do what I have done here...
Perhaps because they have no precision bombsight to compare with the new U. S. sight, which makes U. S. aviators boast they can drop a bomb in a barrel from 18,000 feet, Germans have emphasized dive bombing which is accurate, but vulnerable to anti-aircraft machine gunning.
There was a good deal of passing in yesterday's scrimmage, particularly in the last twenty minutes, as Harlow sought to polish the jagged edges off his aerial attack. The experience in handling a wet ball will come in handy, since the Harlow system, based on precision and deception rather...
As a relief from four consecutive days of scrimmage, the Varsity football team yesterday ran through an easy drill with live tackling practice the only contact work. Precision and finesse were the afternoon by-words, as the A and B teams alternated offensively against a dummy defense.
Kenneth Clark does not press profoundly into the conflicts of da Vinci's character. But he is often suggestive, as when he says that Leonardo's restless versatility, which in later life kept him busy experimenting with grandiose and unpractical engineering projects when he should have been painting, was "a...