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precise as in: a precise personality
She has the kind of precise personality that never has a cluttered desk or an out-of-fashion item in her closet.
She has the kind of precise personality that never has a cluttered desk or an out-of-fashion item in her closet.
She is precise in her thinking, appearance, and movements.
In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark— chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.
George Orwell -- 1984
Her bearing is perhaps most like the noble bearing of the women of the Hereros of Southwest Africa—rather as if she imagines that as she walks she still bears a basket or a vessel upon her head. Her speech, on the other hand, is as careless as her carriage is precise—she is inclined to slur everything—
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
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(MAMA repeats the phrase with precision and cool emotion) In my mother’s house there is still God.
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
Enunciating precisely but soundlessly: "There’s a white man at the door!"
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
BENEATHA: (Angrily, precisely as in the first scene of the play) What have you got to do with who I marry!