He was exceedingly precise, to the point, as I learned years later from an academic's Freedom of Information request, that military analysts had concluded after publication of the first of what would become five freelance articles on My Lai, that I clearly had access to the most secret of Army files.

Though the artist occasionally indulges in modest impasto, he is on the whole sparing with pigment and is exceedingly precise in his drawing - his trees are as delicate as Dwight Tryon's.

Because of his exceedingly precise fire direction, three small bursts silenced the enemy.

He had been exceedingly precise in manner and in his questioning.

But Mr. Hadley, the bespectacled, gray-haired, exceedingly precise Washington lawyer who is President Bush's national security adviser, is in the market for someone who does - with the hope of saving Iraq.

Gravimetric analysis, if methods are followed carefully, provides for exceedingly precise analysis.

The warlike gestures - angular, intricate and exceedingly precise - come from kathak, an ancient North Indian dance form, and evoke Shiva, the Hindu god of creation and destruction (and, not incidentally, dance).