How To Use Exactitude In A Sentence
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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
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(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
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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
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For this reason objective measurement is not possible and the exactitude of the natural sciences can not be duplicated.
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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.
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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
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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
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At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing, eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery.
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For ten minutes, the bass methodically pounds the opening motive into the ground with rigor and exactitude.
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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
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So aleatoric poetry could be described with historical exactitude as a rigmarole.
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They are so full of what has been politely described as "terminological in exactitude.
Fascism
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Using Canon's panoramic Atlantic AF grouping - which features 9 individualist sensors, including a bicentric interbreed identify saucer with a broad exactitude device for f / 2.8 or faster lenses - makes capturing split-second state sequences possible.
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As it happens, this passage was quoted in its entirety by the reviewer in Columbia Spectator, who added that to verify the "exactitude" of the description one needed only to listen to a Toscanini performance.
Critic
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A calculation sample showed the exactitude and efficiency of the method.
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His intelligence and exactitude were always in evidence but without detracting from the poems' liveliness and immediacy.
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When lunch is served on the premises with chronographic exactitude, the thirty-five minutes allowed for the meal give an appreciable margin for music and play.
Your United States Impressions of a first visit
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Discipline is, therefore, not a fact but a path, a path in following which the child grasps the abstract conception of goodness with an exactitude which is fairly scientific.
The Montessori Method
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On ne peut pas encore juger du degre d'exactitude avec laquelle elle a ete faite, parce que le citoyen Baudin n'a envoye qu'une partie de la carte qu'il en a dressee, et que cette carte meme n'est qu'une premiere esquisse.
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
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The high-keyed chromatic juxtapositions of Picasso's Homme à la pipe of November 7, 1968, bring to mind (if not with paint - chip exactitude, then closely enough) the clangorous combination of poison green, bismuth pink, and icy aquamarine in Pontormo's Deposition of circa 1528 in the Capponi Chapel in Florence.
The Late Show
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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The White House now agrees, though it presumably would prefer “inexactitude” to “lie”.
Immigration
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All of them perform as if "exactitude" were their mantra.
ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News
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So, thank goodness for the modest, the didactic, the people who secretly revel in pedantry and exactitude.
How To Change The World « Tales from the Reading Room
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In her new classes, Kim excelled, bringing a steely exactitude to every task from turning vegetables to taking out the trash.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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The theme, that of the courtezan in love, was a favourite one with the classical school, and much of the ancient style and tone pervades it; yet its atmosphere is a modern one, the expression of its sentiment is modern too, and the accessories are supplied with an eye to material and moral exactitude.
Balzac
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X-ray spectroscopy can perhaps best be defined by the statement that the exactitude with which wavelengths can now be measured by his methods is a thousand times greater than that attained by
Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 - Presentation Speech
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It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.'
On Dictionaries
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That would be, in my opinion, a kind of inexactitude worse than that to which we are exposed in admitting the details supplied by the texts.
The Life of Jesus
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The lighthouse beam swept across the sea with the same boring exactitude of all beacons.
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The exactitude and measure of structural engineering has been indispensable for the development of my work.
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… It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.
Making Sense of Market Forecasts
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So, if you take a figure of approximately Rs 52,000 crore, one third of this would certainly be absorbed by the upstream companies, the government would certainly absorb 50% or more, the kind of inexactitude is really about the balance
Moneycontrol Top Headlines
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* But without word-for-word exactitude; hence the absence of inverted commas.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Apparently to this end, the local and temporal co-ordinates of the narrative are established with a demonstrative exactitude.
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A considered shear deformation affect, exactitude multi - segment bar stiffness matrix was deduced by structural mechanics principle.
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Before arriving, she had worked at the French Laundry, a restaurant that she loved and that had left her with the same dedication to exactitude for which Thomas Keller is known for.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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It's a work of exactitude in literature not rivalled outside Tristram Shandy.
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari:
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a man of great exactitude
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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
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France Musicale"] (as you propose) to do me this service with the scrupulous exactitude which is requisite, for which I shall take the opportunity of expressing to him personally my sincere thanks?
Letters
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So aleatoric poetry could be described with historical exactitude as a rigmarole.
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It is very true that Hawthorne had no pretension to pourtray actualities and to cultivate that literal exactitude which is now the fashion.
Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
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Many of the building blocks weigh 50 tons or more yet are so precisely sculpted and fitted together with such exactitude that the mortarless joints will not permit the insertion of even a thin knife blade.
Olga Bonfiglio: Travelogue: 100th Anniversary Of Machu Picchu Discovery
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So Callahan wrote an AP wire story that included a choice little graf with both quotes, and the obvious, er, terminological inexactitude.
Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure
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Most recipe-writers like myself call for unsalted butter because it's easier to gauge how much salt will be used in the recipe and everyone seems to be on an exactitude kick when baking.
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Kalmuck cap; the flesh part was of a heavenly pink, the cap, the moustache, the eyebrows were of a bluish gray; to see this with its childish exactitude of design and colour, and hugeness of scale — it covered at least 25 degrees — held me spellbound.
Vailima Letters