At P.S. 1 his work alternates between the surgically precise and the roughly thrown-together.

Barney Cheng is surgically precise as the translator for the angry Chinese cinematographer.

Everything looked brilliantly calculated and surgically precise.

But while that demand seems surgically precise, what it actually means is unclear.

The surgically precise relationship between word and image, so crucial in the artist's earlier work, has been lost.

The cinematography is surgically precise, the editing crisp, the music moody and unobtrusive.

He tracked the flashing muzzle from left to right in a surgically precise twelve-round burst.

A vasectomy is described in detail "so charming and surgically precise, it could serve, in a pinch, as a how-to-manual."

Photos of the time show the damage: surgically precise, devastating in effect.

The twelve-foot, braided leather lash sizzled across the radius of the wheel, the man's aim surgically precise.