exactitude

How To Use exactitude In A Sentence

• Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being. A Modern Utopia
• (Even Jerry Brown won't call a spade a spade, referring instead to Meg Whitman's "intentional, terminological inexactitude.") Phil Trounstine: The Death of Truth: eMeg and the Politics of Lying
• It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
• For this reason objective measurement is not possible and the exactitude of the natural sciences can not be duplicated.
• The descriptions of sunbirds, the loving delineation of the topography of his fictional districts and the unconscious exactitude about the names of trees and plants are a hangover from Davidar's early training as a botanist.
• The sailor at the first glance saw that some of the chords encircling it had been cut with a knife, or other sharp instrument, -- not severed with any degree of exactitude, but "haggled," as if the act had been hurriedly performed. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
• Les mots du coeur trouvent leur marque en dépit de leur inexactitude" ... hum, would this be a correct translation? Le mot juste - French Word-A-Day
• At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing, eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery.
• For ten minutes, the bass methodically pounds the opening motive into the ground with rigor and exactitude.
• This is, no doubt, a very material method of expressing the great mystery of the reflection of the higher Manas in the lower, but since only those who have passed the portals of initiation can fully comprehend this, we must content ourselves with the nearest approximation to exactitude which is possible to us; and as a matter of fact, a very fairly accurate idea of what actually takes place will be obtained by adopting the hypothesis that the mânasic principle sends down a portion of itself into the lower world of physical life at each incarnation, and expects to be able to withdraw it again at the end of the life, enriched by all its varied experiences. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena