not strictly speaking

They do not — strictly speaking — talk.

Yet while this atmospheric tale of a Senegalese immigrant working in New York as a nanny for the daughter of a well-to-do White couple may be horror-adjacent — there are nightmares, rendered as lifelike visions — it is not, strictly speaking, a spooky movie.

The analysis of Trump’s likely motive in allegedly keeping the documents is not, strictly speaking, an element of determining whether he or anyone around him committed a crime or should be charged with one.

But this past weekend, the kingdom hosted a government-sponsored “horror weekend” — not strictly speaking a Halloween festival, but certainly conveniently timed.

This being Saudi Arabia, where strategic ambiguity reigns as social changes sweep across the country, the government-sponsored event was not, strictly speaking, a Halloween festival.