Jillette believes that their partnership succeeds precisely because they give each other a great deal of space off-stage.

Apple's new service, called the iTunes Music Store (www.applemusic.com), succeeds precisely because it avoids those pitfalls.

"Newark" is Miss Brown's most successful integration of music, decor and dancing and it succeeds precisely because its overall result is an abstract theatrical production.

But the latest Rambert pieces succeed precisely in the way formal elements and patterns are used to express content.

Furthermore, at least a few blacks succeed precisely by making whites feel decidedly uncomfortable, even while entertaining them.

Dr. Ienaga succeeded precisely because he did not care whether he was alienated from the Japanese mainstream.

But "Satyagraha" succeeded precisely because Mr. Glass's mesmeric Minimalist idiom in its concentrated form ideally served the abstracted drama.

For the festival organizers, the film succeeds precisely because it does not present a sanitized or distorted view of Africa.

Sometimes restaurants succeed precisely because they do not try too hard.

These are the leaders who are succeeding precisely by retaining the loyalties of their people even in the midst of cuts in price and payroll.