| 单词 | described |
| 例句 | The structure of mass incarceration is described in some detail in chapter 2, with a focus on the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It so happened that a cloak exactly like the one Xenophilius had just described was in the room with them at that very moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The Greek historian Herodotus described it as a stack of eight stepped towers, with gates of solid brass and 120 lions in brightly colored, glazed tiles leading to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z “You’re kidding me. You just described my whole diet, especially when I was a kid. Poor girl.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They had formed their own community—my com-munity now, too — ” Kira remembered what Matt had described, a place where broken people lived. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He beamed and asked a million questions as I described every detail of the tryouts to him in the car. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I described how we searched for Deborah’s body on the morning after the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And the anguish that filled me cannot be described. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Therefore, most of the city’s eighty physicians did not believe that the illness described by Rush was indeed yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Katherine listened intently as her brother-in-law described the work, her thumb cradling her chin, her index finger extended along her cheek, the signal that she was listening carefully. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For the system to succeed—that is, for it to achieve the political goals described in chapter 1—black people must be labeled criminals before they are formally subject to control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The passage described the great prophet Mormon, a fact I’d found confusing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Once El Patron would have roared with laughter when Tam Lin described how his enemies in the U.S. and Aztlan governments had been disgraced or met with strange accidents. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The way the doctor would tell it, when he described the fight to anyone who’d listen, was that Hassan was a lazy mechanic who didn’t want to work on his lunchtime. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z As her daughter later described her, Emma was pretty, with gray eyes, a clear complexion, a nice high forehead, a firm chin, a straight nose, and beautiful long, thick brown hair. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The Acropolis is heavily defended, just as I described. Any approach aboveground would be impossible.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The book was, true enough, what might be described as a 'sentimental romance' - one of a number kept in the library, and also in several of the guest bedrooms, for the entertainment of lady visitors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “I was kind of an oops,” was the way he described his entrance into the world. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he even read them different endings or described different places where the same scenes were shot to see which they preferred. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In fact, the Virginia Resolutions described the Alien and Sedition Acts as “alarming infractions” of the Constitution that violated the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z How could a mere mouse take the sword from this adder that Dunwing had described? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z These papers, in fact—along with the others Mrs. Heine has described, the ones her husband and his ‘buyer’ held—were entered, as you may recall, as state’s evidence in this trial. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The pamphlet described him as a “card-carrying member of the ACLU,” which it said was the equivalent of being “against everything moral, ethical, righteous, holy, Christian, Godly and patriotic.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Gray described a place of old stone walls where the earth smelled faintly of tar and hemp, bordered by a river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He imagines himself in the farmhouse she’s described to him, waking up to eggs frying in a skillet, walking with her through snowy, abandoned fields. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Cange, with a population of about thirty thousand, might be described as the most impoverished, famished, and disease-ridden place in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A fellow actor described his eyes as being “like living jewels.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You are hereby directed to refrain from engaging in any of the activities described above. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Luke Hunter he described was, like, a million shades away from any self-portrait I might have painted. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z One episode in these wars was the conquest and mass killing of Moriori tribes by Maori tribes, as described in Chapter 2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A newspaper account described typical Levittown home buyers as “young persons of moderate financial circumstances who had small children and might expect others.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Later they walked down the road to a place the Internet described as an expat bar. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Nobody told me that, when they described her, how velvety her eyelashes are. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It is my hope that the harsh reality described in this report is now clear enough that we can begin talking about solutions. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The song described the home that they had lost forever: the orchards, the cool lakes, the warm forests, the green fields. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Gene regulation—the turning on and off of genes by proteins—described the mechanism by which combinatorial complexity could be generated from the one hard copy of genetic information in a cell. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Chronically ill, having recently lost two young children, his wife was described as “stupid, sulking, lonely, melancholy.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was described to me by my mom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I explained that it was Edmund, my childhood tormentor, and described his menacing ways. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I always hated that word, but I knew it was how people described Auggie. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Then he changed to modern speech and described some of Father’s actual victories. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She said she would read them aloud and we would try to guess who was being described. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z "We've had other entries in other years that described businesses," said Jack Petrocini, president of the local chapter of the Rotary Club. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z But there was something so familiar about the way Blue described the feeling. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He described an enemy plane downed by a Harrier, cartwheeling right over his head till it crashed into the sea. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The old man described what food outside the fence looked, smelled, and tasted like. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I described Daisy Nation, my grandmother, as “renowned for her beauty.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But despite his aversion to money and conspicuous consumption, Chris’s political leanings could not be described as liberal. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “I described every stage for you. I saw everything. It’s clean.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles described the baby as “backward in walking and talking, but intelligent and observant.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I described May Castellan, and the weird moment when her eyes had started to glow and she talked about her son’s fate. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z On three occasions I hear what can only be described as "aggressive laughter." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Booth’s achievement is described in the Richmond papers as “the most deplorable calamity, which has ever befallen the people of the United States.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Mom sat back, although I saw her wince when I described tossing the drill into the creek. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z What broke loose is popularly and succinctly described as hell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then still another speaker followed and described the tasks of the Communist party of the South Side. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z White Americans have contented themselves with gestures that are now described as “tokenism.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “It’s best described as a ‘pilots airplane,’ ” said an American military official in a front-page article in the Washington Post. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Professor Steinberg was in his seventies but I would not have described him as an old man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At least, the words “Lady Eleanor” were spoken often, but the person they described—dutiful parent, loyal citizen, steadfast spouse—sounded more like the high chancellor than like my mother. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Chapter 2 described the first step in some detail, including the legal rules that grant police the discretion and authority to stop, interrogate, and search anyone, anywhere, provided they get “consent” from the targeted individual. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The best place to put a word like finally—that is, an adverb, a word that characterizes a verb—is directly before the action being described: in this case, go or gone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When she described him—kind eyes, brown hair, a glow like a TV in a dark room, white robes—Ellie gasped and said, “Oh my God, you saw Jesus.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I described his ungartered stockings, his unlaced doublet, and his pale visage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The story described the Coca-Cola truck driver who, distracted by the computer he used to get his delivery orders, killed a seven-year-old in the backseat of an oncoming truck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Still unaware of what caused the noise, Wilson and Penzias phoned Dicke at Princeton and described their problem to him in the hope that he might suggest a solution. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead, Bobby launched an aggressive series of moves, waging a board battle that was later described as both a “slugfest” and a “sparkling attack and counter-attack.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Instead, what had my entire town full of hope and big ideas was what one scientist described on the news as an extremely rare group of albino woodpeckers by the name of pileated. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z After Walter described the location of the store, we were able to track him down. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He also described how a Nazi saboteur should act while in America, so he would blend in and not draw attention to himself and the mission. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The barge in front of them had two crossed spars above the door, just as Dimarion had described when they’d struck up the alliance between the Crux and the Current. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He, too, had died of what authorities described as some strange poison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But the chief part of the ceremony which took place in the precincts of the temple has never been described. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Du Bois described as “the public and psychological wage” paid to white workers, who depended on their status and privileges as whites to compensate for low pay and harsh working conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The site, described as a system for matching people who want to establish contact with their “next-of-kin by birth,” seemed reputable and aboveboard—nonprofit, no fee required. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The word “planet” originally described “wanderers” that were known only as moving lights in the sky. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Ralph described a customer who apologized to his chicken before eating it; she laughed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At Linton’s request, Dr. Strayer described the driving simulator he used to test how well people drove. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Tho, fifty-nine, had gray hair and manners Kissinger later described as “impeccable.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But Roy had been begotten in the marriage bed, the bed that Paul described as holy, and it was to him the Kingdom had been promised. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z This chant, also called plainchant or plainsong, has by default often been described as ‘Gregorian’ chant, after Gregory the Great, who was Pope at the end of the sixth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Wilfred turned out to be just as Tom had described him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She described how their team of Greeks and Romans had come together, and how Hercules had thrown a temper tantrum when he found out Hera was behind it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Reading Malthus and thinking about the natural world, Charles realized that nature was not happy and peaceful, as Paley had described in his natural theology books. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The political deal Jefferson described would never go down in Virginia, where assumption was regarded as a “fatal poison” and the Potomac location “of but little importance” in comparison. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In terms of pure sound, Josquin could not be described as a radical. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That book, which has been described as the most influential work in the history of science after Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, presents a number of arguments which have become famous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His feet tapped show tunes at breakfast, and during dinner he often pointed at the mountain, his eyes shining, and described where he would lay the pipes to bring water down to the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His favorite poems were those that described the countryside, poems about being out early when the morning light is thin and pale, and about hearing the birds’ songs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z One girl described how she slept on gurneys in hospital emergency rooms at night while attending college during the day. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Often when a European has described the Americans with hostility and scorn he has turned to me and said, “Of course, I don’t mean you. I am speaking of those others.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He described scenes of devastation—forests turned to deserts by American chemicals, villages burning, children wounded by American bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Even Satan was described in his most intimate perversions in the Galician accents of this priest whose mission in this world was to rouse the conscience of his indolent Creole flock. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Nailer described the beach and his father, the way things ran on the wrecks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In another entry he described a visit from his latest wife, Georgiana Yoke. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jackie was no sycophant or whipping boy, as he’s been described by other writers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In various court documents, judges described Cofield as a “con artist,” “no more than a gadfly and an exploiter of the court system,” and “the most litigious inmate in the system.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z If I was tall, my narrow build would be described as “willowy” instead of “childish,” and he might not see me as a little sister he needs to protect. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Her Creole had improved substantially, allowing her to take accurate notes as they described their various pains and miseries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “It...it wasn’t good. She didn’t seem like herself. Maybe it’s the Greek/Roman schizophrenia that Nemesis described. I’m not sure. She said some hurtful things. She said I had failed her.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Eyewitnesses described the killings of dozens of people—state troopers, innocent bystanders, anyone who stood in the invaders’ way. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z After introductions, the Keeper described briefly all that had happened and why they were gathered again. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The phrase ‘in model’ is extremely rare, but a single sheet published in 1651 is described in its title as a summary of Christian doctrine ‘in model’: it is a wall-chart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Underground, on the subways, conditions could only be described as chaotic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was difficult to picture them because, with his limited vocabulary, he described everyone as “very good.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This natural control, plus quarantine measures and local spraying, achieved what the Department in 1955 described as “outstanding restriction of distribution and damage.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Daisy looked at Tom frowning and an indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby's face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Nigro had described this phenomenon at the Academy, and he was absolutely right: Somehow you just knew. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The children’s eyes grew round when she told them about the escape from Nimh, and even rounder when she described her own capture and escape from the birdcage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z As Doug described it to me, “It feels like somebody’s driven a nail between my eyes.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Then he would come close to actual weeping when he described to the class the death of Manolete which he had studied exhaustively while in Spain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes people of Asian background get offended when their culture is described this way, because they think that the stereotype is being used as a form of disparagement. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He described it several times in print, in Latin and in French, but never in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The structure, as Watson described it, “was too pretty not to be true.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A cold feeling...Annabeth and Leo had both described a cold feeling.... The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He prompted nothing; he betrayed by no comment that I should consider the courses described in these narratives. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes is never described as wearing a deerstalker hat, which is what he is always wearing in pictures and cartoons. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jason had described Camp Jupiter to her in great detail. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As they walked along, Santa described to Mrs. Reilly the many sadnesses and tribulations that had comprised old lady Lopez’s dismal existence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a time-traveler, he has seen his own death many times, has described it to a tape recorder. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He described all of that to Guitar as though the dream emphasized his point about the dangers of seriousness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly all of the traps and monsters described in the module could kill me easily. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The more I described my brother, my parents, our makeshift community before Dad left with the Council, the more I remembered, like the way my uncle jigged to heavy metal. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As the documents confirmed, he went to see the attorney Comstock, whom Webb described as one of the few decent white attorneys at the time. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The day after he had the dream he went to church with a hangover on his breath and Jesus in his heart, as he later described it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And down below, on the planet’s bleak gray surface, there were exactly 1,024 copies of Megadon, the domed city described in the liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The term hate crime was coined in response to what was described at the time as an “epidemic” of neo-Nazi and skinhead violence, although in retrospect it’s unclear whether any such epidemic existed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “It lighted every peak, crevasse, and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Their only respect was for what they would have described as “good Christian colored women.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The majority of entries described inmates snoring, lying on their sides, and turning over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were not individuals inclined to soft-pedal their views about national politics and national security or, in Neylan’s case, about Robert Oppenheimer, whom Neylan described as “a man so conceited he just shoved God over.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The scene as described was a macabre picture — something that might have been created by a surrealist brush. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This proved that McMillian’s truck had had no modifications or special features and therefore could not have been the truck described by Myers and Hooks at the trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Every evening Meggie asked her to tell more stories, and then they sat together while Teresa wrote and Meggie read the words and sometimes even tried to paint pictures of what her mother described. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My grandfather had described it a hundred times, but in his stories the house was always a bright, happy place—big and rambling, yes, but full of light and laughter. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Racial hygiene,” as Ploetz described it, was the genetic cleansing of the race, just as personal hygiene was the physical cleaning of the self. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It looked even cooler than Dad had described it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “Man is often lost in a technological, physiological, astrological lack of logical existence that can best be described as a whole lot of nothing lightly dashed with an obvious hint of Scotch,” Hal says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In books hatred is often described as hot, but at Capricorn's festivities Meggie discovered it was cold—an ice-cold hand that stops the heart and presses it like a clenched fist against the ribs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Lanky, with a loping gait, and dressed in what some Europeans thought was Western or Texan clothing, he was described as being “laconic as the hero of an old cowboy movie.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Besides, Gold was starting to realize that the Soviet Union was hardly the workers’ paradise Tom Black had described. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Each man described the mute as he wished him to be. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When I described Lucy’s symptoms—the same as before, but infinitely more marked—he looked very grave, but said nothing. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z One evening, the men, who were joined by Jan Timman from Holland, the number three-ranked chess player in the world, went off to what Broodhaers described as a “raunchy” nightclub in downtown Brussels. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were skeptical at first, but after I described the unique nature of the quest, and what I believed the payoff for solving it might be, they finally agreed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He described the visit as a “courtesy call,” and I was told to be ready to leave at 5:30 A.M. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To reinforce the point, Dr. Strayer described the concept of “inattention blindness,” in which lack of attention can cause someone to not see what’s going on around them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Leader leaned forward and listened intently as Matty described what he had seen, what he suspected, and what he knew. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z In all the fairy tales she had read, the fairies were described as unnaturally beautiful, and now Ash knew what that meant. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one generation removed from a slave ship, living in a country best described as an African penal colony, and he was a free man, with every benefit of education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Then Fuchs handed over what Gold described as “a considerable packet of information.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He recited the virtues of Arm and described the fantastic cleverness of all three. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His body was bruised and broken as if he had endured all the tortures in La Fortaleza he had ever described to me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Women began forming Ya-Ya Sisterhood groups of their own, in imitation of the group described in the book, and bringing Wells pictures of their group for her to sign. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Time and time again Europeans described the People of the First Light as strikingly healthy specimens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The valves were already known, but Fabricius investigated them thoroughly and described them in detail, first in public demonstrations in 1579 and later in an accurately illustrated book published in 1603. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Anthony described Stanton’s physical decline in a letter to a friend, writing that it was a pity “that such mental powers must be hampered with such a clumsy body.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In fact, Reynie had struggled not to sound excited—even fond—when he described it to the girls. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Strictly speaking, Galileo knew Harriot existed, as he had read William Gilbert’s On the Magnet, in which Harriot is mentioned in passing, and described as ‘most scholarly’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He described himself as the Devil and contended that his physical shape had begun to alter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Historians have described the commandos as ordinary men who had an extraordinary job. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Nancy saw what she described as “horrendous gut lesions” in some of the animals, caused by sloughing of the intestinal lining. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I described the whole thing to Mom over dinner. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Even with the buffalo boy blocking most of her view, Minli could see his friend was beautiful, even more beautiful than he had described her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Sir Grummore came on a visit Sometimes King Pellinore could be described galloping over the purlieus after the Beast, or with the Beast after him if they happened to have got muddled up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We end up at the Office of Missing Persons to report what is now being described as the disappearance of Enrique Mirabal. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he described the machine’s capabilities for Karl Darrow, the lab’s eminent physicist and a writer of popular science articles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He also described the structure of feathers, the nature of a butterfly’s wing and the compound eye of the fly, among many observations of the living world. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z On the former score, Adams had the misfortune to become the first occupant of what he described as “the most insignificant office that ever the Invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He was often described as the greatest wizard of the age, but that wasn’t why Harry respected him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I listened as Bodega described how he would preach these points to Vera. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “The place you described in your dream! But Grover’s going to fall if we don’t catch him.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Ethan, who never said much, had a lot to say about the camera angles and background music and described the star's performance as subtle. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z On November 7, 1925, Bolton—whom a local reporter described as “one of the most beautiful girls ever reared in the city”—was found with a fatal bullet in her chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The response was already becoming hysterical—the shooters were being described as computer geeks who played violent games for many hours, were outcasts in their school, and had a site on the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He described it so vividly, a shiver passed through my body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Antisocial personality, though it described plenty of guys on R-and-W, seemed also to serve as a catchall for problem inmates who couldn’t otherwise be categorized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Zach’s mom sat halfway back in the auditorium with his dad, Tom Philippi, the “manly man,” as she described him. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I also described my future without the curse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But once when she was chatting with some stupid boy online, she described herself as the color of coffee with not enough milk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Of course, Booth was gone, but they searched his trunk and discovered an incredible and mysterious letter to Booth signed only “Sam” that described a large conspiracy against the Union government. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At Piccadilly Circus I discharged my cab, and walked westward; beyond the Junior Constitutional I came across the house described, and was satisfied that this was the next of the lairs arranged by Dracula. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Some who heard her speak described her as “birdlike” with a voice like a “silver flute.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z With disappointment I located myself in class photographs—my dark face undefined by the camera which had clearly described the white faces of classmates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With enemy forces advancing, the Joint Chiefs requested permission to broaden the mission from merely guarding the base to engaging in what was described as “limited offensive operations.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He described Neubauer as having "splinters on top of his brain" from his war wound. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t want to be described as sad. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z No matter how I tried, I just could not relate them to the villains described in the da-zi-bao. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was when I first began to perceive that “white man,” as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had taken a strong interest in Indian affairs in Oklahoma, and he was trusted by the Osage; a reporter described him as a “kind-hearted, white-haired man.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Maybe this was the stile Circe had described to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie remembered how Papa had described her that day he and Mama were talking about her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t have any pictures, but we have thoroughly described our darlings to each other. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another inmate housed with Joe wrote to us and described him as disabled, horribly mistreated, and wrongfully condemned to die in prison for a non-homicide crime at thirteen. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “That seems longer than the route John Henry described.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Shakespeare called the full stop a period in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he described nervous players “making periods in the midst of sentences”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z As the day wears on, I overhear case after case being described at the interrogation desk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He described all those tests, inkblots and all that stuff, and he said the kid is definitely a killer type. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The development is described in history books as regrettable but predictable, given the virulent racism that gripped the South and the political dynamics of the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Continuing, he described the cabin in which he claimed that the Answer 221 foursome had stayed the night: twin beds, an old Coca-Cola calendar, a radio that wouldn’t play unless the customer deposited a quarter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Several factors conspired to prevent Hooke building on the achievements described in Micrographia to the extent that he might have done. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z HUNTER’S EYE When I was alone, and could hear Angelo’s footsteps no more, I fell into that state of extreme alertness I described earlier. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I described our stay-away of 1961 as a last resort after the government showed no signs of taking any steps to either talk with us or meet our demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At sunset, with die air heavy and hot, Timothy described the sky to me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant threads crisscrossed in an intricate pattern of loops and knots that Kira had never seen before, that she could not have created, that she had never known or heard described. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was exactly as the book described it, down to the way everything came in even numbers: the hooks on the door, the chairs, the cabinets on the walls. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The “action” of a gene is described in mechanistic terms: genes encode chemical messages to build proteins that ultimately enable form and function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She described how she would roll up the side panels and everyone would practically faint at the cloud of wonderful smells. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She’d never liked monster class—reading Pliny the Elder and those other musty authors who described legendary monsters from the edges of the Roman Empire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He described to the psychiatrist how two demon COs were using secret symbols to communicate with space beings who landed on the roof of A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We each received a mug of what was described as coffee, but which was in fact ground-up maize, baked until it was black, and then brewed with hot water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grunt work,” Ethan called it when he described it to me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The playwright Tony Kushner has described the attraction of gay men to the theater, and their influence on it, in one word: fabulousness. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He described, in his halting way, a city of whitewashed houses and tile roofs, of vines spilling over walls, of busy marketplaces and beautiful gardens. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Puppet strings. Never heard it described like that before.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In bed, he made Laila listen as he described with a queer sort of exhilaration the hands he’d seen severed, the lashings, the hangings, the beheadings. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In a second report that I found in the bureau files, agents described Burt as a “murderer.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The first narrator described the Arables’ farm and told the audience about the baby pig who was moments from execution. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Almost any of the readers of this book, had they been in the right place at the right time, could have made the great discoveries described here. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The reason why we can be certain is that the arrivals took place in modern times and involved literate Europeans, who described in innumerable books what happened. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The trademark Adams style might be described as “enlightened perversity,” which actually sought out occasions to display, often in conspicuous fashion, his capacity for self-sacrifice. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Except for the mishap with Tin Man—or whatever the name was going to be—I saw no sign of the buffoon Abigail had described. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z But I knew the planet must have been coded by Halliday, because its design matched the world described in 2112’s liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The testing, the experiment, the surgery, and my subsequent mental development were described at length, and his talk was enlivened by quotations from my progress reports. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s like what Sausun described in the basement of Dad’s house, this feeling of wanting to grind the monster into the ground. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z So far in this section, I have mainly described the economic and political history of Andean Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Back in Cape Town after the expedition fell apart, February described his disappointment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z As I described the velvet wedding dress in full detail, and the satchels of dates and almonds the groom’s family passed out for each guest, it almost felt like I was gossiping with a friend. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Sounds like some kinda hippie,” his mother had said when Brenda, who had been in seventh grade last year, described Miss Edmunds to her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Ton-Ton described the city so thoroughly, he seemed to have a map spread out in his mind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It could also be described as a Cheerio with a long tail. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, she showed us a video in which a scientist described what he called “the most astounding fact,” which was that all living things are composed of the atoms of collapsed stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Today, dozens of legal organizations hand out awards in the fictional lawyer's name to celebrate the model of advocacy described in Lee's novel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I described every room in our house in detail, even the pattern on the spoons in the kitchen drawer. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “We’re all going to Frauenburg. Come with us and she can ride in the cart. The contractions and symptoms she described speak to early labor. She shouldn’t be walking for extended periods.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Again, that didn’t seem like much of a story to me, but Auntie laughed appreciatively as Uncle described missing the cans, and missing them, and missing them again. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Many described her as a modern-day Joan of Arc. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She rubbed the charcoal between her palms and as she did so she described the sort of husband for whom she longed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I described you, like maybe she was confused. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He described Oppie as arrogant, naive, and suspiciously hostile to a thermonuclear program that was manifestly in the nation’s best interests. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the state of Washington, for example, a review of juvenile sentencing reports found that prosecutors routinely described black and white youth differently. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I described the glittering casinos and the glamorous high rollers, the palm trees and the swimming pools, the hotels with ice-cold air-conditioning and the restaurants where hostesses with long white gloves fit flaming desserts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “He described this scene to me. I recognized it when the automaton drew the picture.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Pippin and Sam had remained flat in the grass, and had seen nothing; so Frodo described the rider and his strange behaviour. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It is the same idea we associate with the name of Copernicus, whom Galileo described as the “restorer and confirmer,” not the inventor, of the heliocentric hypothesis.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He described its skyscrapers and explained how each year the buildings grew taller and taller. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z However, you will see, as described below from the photographs... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He described Harriet as “a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. “Her success was wonderful. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He described ducking cafeteria chairs as he tried to fulfill his duty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He made no friends there, had no fun beyond talking and arguing, yet described the experience as the best time of his life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just when I thought all was lost, Velia and Delia burst through the barn doors wielding what could only be described as giant metal baseball bats. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Entranced again by Lawrence’s “thrilling” optimism, as he described it to Weaver, Fosdick came away from the meeting anxious that the Rad Lab might not need the foundation’s funds after all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And similar to that person Jack had described, she also couldn’t imagine ignoring The Gold-Bug puzzle now that she’d found it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No such creature was described or spoken of directly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The newspapers reported Seward’s carriage accident and described the serious injuries he had suffered, noting that he was recovering at home, bedridden. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that’s described in these books. Now . . .” “How does he manifest himself now?” asked the Savage. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The article also described several people who had got lost with satellite navigation devices. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Grant me a little peace. Isn’t it enough that I am harried all day long at work? I thought that I had adequately described to you the horrors which I must face daily.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors and my dad had described me to her, but she still hadn’t seen me with her own eyes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I thought the Lady was dozing, but her eyes snapped open when Madam described how British soldiers had looted the City Hall library. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When Courtney Speed described him to me a few years later, she said, “Charisma! Woo! I mean, cream of the smooth! Very well versed and knew something about everything.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He stood in front of the Bayside Press building in the same burgundy-and-silver-blue outfit James had described him wearing at the book carnival: top hat, suit, and walking stick all in Bayside Press colors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I described how the Lincoln Memorial was the biggest statue that I’d ever seen. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Larsen, whom Bobby described as “sulky and unhelpful,” kept discouraging him, telling him that he shouldn’t expect to place higher than the bottom rank of those competing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “It’s ever so much grander than you described it, Enoch. And oh, did you describe it! For seventy-five years: London, London, London! The greatest city on Earth!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Burger described him as being in a relentless "state of fear throughout our entire trip to the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Dad pulled a pint of whiskey out of a paper bag while Mom described their various adventures on the trip. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And how could even he love her if she were as repulsive as the song described? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, if it was either of the problems I described, then time was on our side, and things should get better. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Percy described the Roman fort on the ice, Hazel looked troubled. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He described the enchantments of chicken, pork, and beef in China, Hong Kong, Germany, England, and the former Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It looks just as Baba had described it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The highlight came when Berrange read Murray a passage that the professor unhesitatingly described as “communism straight from the shoulder.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He described the case and discussed what would be expected of me if I took part. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Tam Lin had shown him the same things, and Matt had almost done what Tom described. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She described different features of each plant and explained the best way to remember them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Yet the event keeps returning to me in my dreams exactly as I’ve described it, with all the same sights and smells occurring in sequence as I stretched my weight over the water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled it from the shelf, noting the dark gold lettering on its cover that Ekon had also described. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In her autobiography, Elizabeth described the discussions of abolition and women’s rights at Peterboro as “white hot.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He didn’t divulge what he knew, however, and upon receiving the message the sheriff set out in what the press described as a “fast automobile.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The woman was dressed like a Southern belle, just as Jason had described. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A party of tourists shuffled past the confessional while their guide described the mosaics above their heads in a muted voice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The unveiling in 1926 of a new opera by the last great Italian composer in the genre, Giacomo Puccini, could fairly be described as a media event on a global scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The series of equations we needed to work described the parameters of thrust coefficient, nozzle-throat area, combustion-chamber cross-sectional areas, and velocity of the gases predicted for any particular propellant. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Overall, 1 percent described themselves as upper class, 15 percent as upper middle class, 42 percent as middle, 35 percent as working, and 7 percent as lower. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When she described the policeman looming over her seat, she admitted that “I was very hurt... and I was crying... and the policeman said, ‘I will have to take you off.’ Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z In Paradise Regained, which describes the temptations of Christ in the wilderness, his words are described as “ambiguous and with double sense deluding. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Instead he described Russeau’s changing of Edwards’s grade as a “blatant” example of grade-fixing to make sure that a football team would be eligible for the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So far they had described an artichoke, a butterfly press, a sneaker, a ring of keys, a potted hibiscus, a carved Christmas angel, and a sandwich. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The New-York World Telegram described the reaction to the broadcast as an “epidemic of fear that has no parallel in our history.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Popish described having seen the baton of a CO who came face-to-face with a shank-wielding inmate; the baton had a large slice cut out of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “In fact,” he said, “the general plan of the furnace was not unlike that of a crematory for dead bodies, and with the provision already described there would be absolutely no odor from the furnace.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was pretty straightforward, like Ms. Keaton described, so I’m relieved. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The remaining papers had to be “grouped, described, labeled, indexed, and reverently dispatched to their sealed tombs in the government vaults.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was, at least as Jefferson described him, a beaten man. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Grandma’s whole house and yard and her whole Maple Hill were in those words, just the way Mother had described them ever since Marly could remember. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the difference between the two boys can best be described in this way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t even care what they saw—if movies were half as good as Penelope described, she was in for a treat. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I didn’t want any contact with the old grandma she had described, but I went. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the meritocracy John Casteen described when he greeted the parents of freshmen in a University of Virginia lecture hall in the late summer of 2004. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It is usually described as “cislunar space,” but that really wasn’t a good name for this strange region. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At Quebrada Jaguay, a dry streambed on the nation’s southern coast that was one of the two sites described in Science, they dug up wedge clams and chased schools of six-inch drumfish with nets. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Tired and hungry, Wild devoured a seal steak as he described their nine hours of searching the coastline. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He described the prison routine in every aspect, but he never told her of its stupidity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Arm described his glimpse inside the Mellower and how, after the dinner party, he had walked through General Matsika’s thoughts, opened a door and stepped into an actual memory. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In it he had described how happy he was to finally be leaving the hospital after undergoing his third and, hopefully, final surgery, but he also mentioned how it pained him to go back home. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Other prisoners, meanwhile, began to share information, allowing White to uncover what was described as a system of “gilded favoritism and millionaire immunity.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I see her the way she looked in Phnom Penh, not the way Ma described her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She described the port and its seafood and claimed it was even better than what we ate in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she described what she had found when she answered Lee’s call. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When I described as best I could what we had said about our careers, he smiled indulgently. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The following day we took a three-hour bus trip to Hammanskraal, a rural ghetto outside Pretoria, there to see what my mother described as the greatest diviner in the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Nauseated by the memory of his final moments, I explained my role in his death and described the fire at the fairgrounds. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “And you,” said Bod, who had had that night described to him over the years by many people, some of whom had even been there. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Behind the cloak that Einar had described she could see that he wore a tightly fitted dark suit with sharp creases in the trousers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He described what was happening, mentioned some of those who were present, and that the new heavyweight king was “in the next room, my bedroom here” taking a nap. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1975, near the time of Saigon’s final collapse, I received a long, disjointed letter in which Bowker described the problem of finding a meaningful use for his life after the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, any model that described the whole universe in detail would be much too complicated mathematically for us to be able to calculate exact predictions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It described how one man went to prison for armed robbery, but more than one person said they saw him somewhere else, not at the crime scene. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Berrange proceeded to read him two other statements, both of which Professor Murray described as communistic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cities like Philadelphia and Rochester were described as being victims of their own generosity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Morris’s website described his company as “a boutique law firm focusing on the comprehensive needs of high-net-worth individuals.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Late that night, the blind man listened with a concerned look on his face while Matty described Trade Mart. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z His eyes got misty as he described what it was like to break the sound barrier. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She described Percy as brave and heroic, which made him uncomfortable. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was precisely the boy Mrs. Shigemura had described for her so many years ago when she’d spoken of loye and marriage, and now she kissed him, hard, because of that. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It described the music as ‘fidgety, screaming and neurotic’, and as a ‘confused stream of sound’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There they found him, at Clara’s insistence, looking every bit like a dejected sheep, exactly as she had described him on her slate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled the menu to her and opened it, scanning the items with what could only be described as fear. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer returned to Los Alamos, feeling what he described to a friend as “a profound grief, and a profound perplexity about the course we should be following.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The more he described, the more certain he was that the room was close by. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then several eyewitnesses from the battle described the weird sound Grover had made, which drove the Titans army back underground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He described mines he was in on, and rigs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The loser of the watch, the person from whom it had been stolen by us, I later found, had described the repair that it needed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma was quite shocked, though Charles had known it was coming from the way his sister described the baby’s appearance and symptoms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The book described the phenomenon that dictated rocket-nozzle design, and Quentin and I talked about it until we were certain we understood it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Cloak was exactly what Xenophilius had described: A cloak that really and truly renders the wearer completely invisible, and endures eternally, giving constant and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spells are cast at it.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In stories about the Polenitsi, women warriors from the East, they were always described as being enormously tall and supernaturally strong. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Hatsue recalled that in the course of his testimony the sheriff had described finding a coffee cup—tipped on its side, the sheriff had explained—on the floor of Carl Heine’s cabin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A writer for Chicago magazine described Barack as “a tall, affable workaholic,” suggesting that he should someday run for office, an idea that he simply shrugged off. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Yet Hoover—that “slender bundle of high-charged electric wire,” as one reporter described him—was growing increasingly impatient. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Thirty-three years old, Riddick was one of those intense men who, despite being well under six feet tall, are invariably described as huge. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A chill raised goose bumps on Sheed’s arms, as the horror of what Mr. Flux described sank in. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Reconstruction is most typically described as stretching from 1863, when the North freed the slaves, to 1877, when it abandoned them and withdrew federal troops from the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was at work that day, but my mother described it to me later—Dad being carried out of the house by burly paramedics, trying to joke with them as they went. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It has happened also because, for reasons to be described later, destructive insects often undergo a “flareback,” or resurgence, after spraying, in numbers greater than before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The cases described, on the other hand, were predisposed to gross lapses in reality contact and extreme weakness in impulse control during periods of heightened tension and disorganization. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I recounted stories from our childhood and described our house, room by room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Massive Chinese agricultural, scientific, and industrial efforts are described in a book that Life magazine recently published. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She described how she stormed into Nazi headquarters and tried to bribe Gestapo agents to let her friends go after they were captured. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Unable to attract attention, they walked down the street to Joe King’s Blue Ribbon Bar, which, Robert described as “jumping, jammed, and crowded.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment, which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Later Governor Faubus came on television to give what one reporter described as a pleading speech. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is the real me the one that I described beforehand?” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As he described it, it had been two parts frustration to one part reward: He’d spend weeks planning a community meeting, only to have a dozen people show up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At noon on the following day, Wense Grabarek was sworn in as mayor of Durham, inheriting a city described by one newspaper as “a powder keg.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Even though he was the second-ranking member of the Adams administration, he was, as the Federalist leadership in the House described him, “the very life and soul of the opposition.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Each fresco appeared in the exact location described in the original D&D module. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When Ernest described his idea to him at a faculty dinner, he became uncommonly interested. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But she told them about the secret northern pass through the mountains, and the detour Hecate described that could take them to Epirus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was admired by his colleagues for what Kamen described as his “knack for ingenious experimentation,” though perhaps less so for his unabashed ambition in exploiting it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By then he’d already described the case in print several times. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z C. J. described the virus in vague terms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Laertes was now studying in France, and I pored over maps of Europe, marking the cities described in the letters he sometimes wrote to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He described having seen the truck ahead of his skid and go over a thousand-foot precipice; what was remarkable, he said, was the slowness with which it fell. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Nothing nearly as close as what Link just described. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Every art book Mrs. Richardson consulted described her in glowing terms: a self-taught genius, a feminist photographic pioneer, a dynamic and generous intellect. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Abigail described this decision as “a very painful thing” because “the President could not play his strongest card.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He had always been straightforward with me—more so than most of the others—but when he described the white mouse who had been given intelligence, he was as pompous and artificial as the others. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z What I saw could only be described as a field of pale gray fog. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Another memo, four years old, described the Family Reunion Program, probably soon after its inauguration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes walked Belknap through the building’s many corridors and described how the place would look as a hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She shook her head sadly when he described Nico’s imprisonment in the bronze jar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as “a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As described in chapter 1, during the late 1970s, jobs had suddenly disappeared from urban areas across America, and unemployment rates had skyrocketed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She described the house and the wonderful dinner. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A sound comes out of me that could only be described as a squeal of delight. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z However, as has been described in earlier chapters, the classical laws were superseded by quantum laws based on the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He described the interior as bare except for a small wood stove and a bed—a good place for a soul to think and heal. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The voice on the radio grew more urgent as the announcer described the ranks of Arkansas National Guardsmen who ringed Central High School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Did lives have laws, could he have described his with an equation? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote a memoir about her childhood called Period Piece, in which she described her grandmother Emma, her Darwin aunts and uncles, and Down House. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He described it in a book called The Harmonies of the World. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dean, who had helped organize the cover-up, described the Plumbers and the Ellsberg break-in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I hadn’t described the gnarled hands, or the enemas, or the pounds of liquefied tissue we’d scraped off his body. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The forty-nine-year-old Bobby Fischer was described by a reporter who was covering the match for The New York Times as “an overweight, balding, bearded figure, unmistakably middle-aged, whose expression sometimes seems strikingly vacant.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Pawnee Bill, the legendary Wild West showman and the onetime partner of Buffalo Bill, described Hale as a “high-class gentleman.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nothing like what I just described ever happened to him in the aptitude test simulation, I know. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She and Coach Hedge listened as Nico described his dreams, then his meeting with Hades at the Chapel of Bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Her letters described her secluded, melancholy life, and she referred to her husband with blind sympathy, as a fine, discreet, considerate man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She described the sneering fury in his face. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This is reminiscent of Schooler’s experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people’s ability to solve insight problems. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At night, in the quarter, she described these dreams or visions, as she called them, to the other slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He described how a woman had been cooking in his tent when the killers came. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the Qur’an, Gabriel is described as having six hundred wings, and is assumed to have accompanied Muhammad when he ascended to the heavens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Before he spoke, he was terribly nervous—but how he described those nerves gives an insight into how thoroughgoing was his theory of oratory: Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I shivered, imagining only too clearly what he described — the alley at night, the frightened girl, the dark man behind her. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Malan introduced the Group Areas Act — which he described as “the very essence of apartheid” — requiring separate urban areas for each racial group. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a righteous tone he described his client as an experienced boat captain, respected businessman, and “pillar of the community.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Also, Gold had what he described as “an almost puppy-like eagerness to please.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the State, may be justly likened to the hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In the next letter, Martin wrote that the money I sent got him back into school, and fed his entire family a dinner he described as a feast. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They sat at the wobbly table and Sam described the world above. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The man asked what our driver looked like, and my dad described him. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z De Magnete had a direct influence on Galileo, who was inspired by the book to carry out his own investigations of magnetism, and who described Gilbert as the founder of the experimental method of science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I described the entire incident to Martin, who responded in his very next letter, That's so rude! I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We’ll take the leading lady first, who, I believe, would prefer to be briefly described as a languid, sophisticated type. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The book continues to be the focal point of study and debate by scholars and was once described by Martin Luther King Jr. as the “historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He argued, not unsuccessfully, that the Earth was best described by that single doleful word. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fingers and strings made a careful conversation, as if their dance described the lines of an infatuation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kira’s head was already spinning with the effort to remember the names of the plants and the colors they would create, and only a small corner of the lavish garden had been described. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The roach’s Mamma was lying on her back as he had described. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was the place he had described, where suddenly, in this massed section of boulders, was a rift, a deep gap in the rocks, a place where she must jump to the next foothold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One geologist later described it as "probably the most significant paper in the earth sciences ever to be denied publication." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Then I grab a pillow and a handkerchief, throw on my robe and slippers and dash next door to Father, just the way Margot described in this birthday poem: The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Tristran had asked if any of them knew the little hairy man he had met upon his travels, and had described him as well as he could. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The network emphasized that four statements described the program as a drama—at the beginning, on either side of the station break, and at the end. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z So Matt described the brown-clad men and women who toiled endlessly over the fields and the gardeners who clipped the vast lawns of El Patron’s estate with scissors. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I would like to impress this on the magazine writer who described some body’s walls as “hanged with handsome black-and-white photographs.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain, who described himself as “a redneck,” was arguing for due process. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The man rose off his feet, described a small arc, and crashed through the packing case in among the frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Miles Umlatt described my father as “passionate about the environment” but also “volatile and impulsive.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In the last chapter, I described how archaeologists have spent the last century pushing back their estimates of when Indians were first present in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What Jefferson had described as “the reign of witches” even began to assume the shape of a political comedy in which the joke was on the Federalists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His tone had a victorious ring to it as he described what happened. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z But when he watched Guitar’s face as he described what could be had almost for the asking, he knew right away he hadn’t guessed wrong. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I described how in Brooklyn we didn’t have to wear uniforms to school, but on Fridays there was a class called assembly in a big auditorium, and all the kids had to wear white shirts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She described the flag her company flew, so that they could look for the ships and between the three of them be sure of spotting any likely candidates. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In elaboration, a single event is first described in a generic way and then in specific detail. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But by and large, I believe these generalizations to be accurate, and indeed, such 'idealistic' motivations as I have described have played a large part in my own career. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Or had described to her how to walk to The Fountain. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He described the wondrous feats of magic Lon could achieve if he joined them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z These circumspect words produced a scientific earthquake, for what Rutherford described was the first artificial splitting of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When it’s an activity being described, use well, the adverb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Moon Orchid still described aloud her nieces’ and nephews’ doings, but now in a monotone, and she no longer interrupted herself to ask questions. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Quentin grandly described it as an “irregular polyhedron,” but it was little more than a wooden shed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d never seen any photos of this room, but its layout and contents had been described in great detail by the movers hired to clear the place out after Halliday’s death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Even if I described it to you, I doubt whether you’d understand what it is.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Solar Federation was controlled by a group of “priests,” who are described in Part II of the song, titled “The Temples of Syrinx.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She described the vision reflected in her knife, where Bacchus offered her a silver goblet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z White described how, after being shot by Boxcar, he was found in the ditch and rushed to the hospital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the final paragraph, Mother described the birth of Emily’s second child, a daughter, who had been born a month before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Charles described her as very tall for her age, sturdy and strong. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the Aztecs had no illusions about the Spaniards, whom they described in these words: They seized upon the gold as if they were monkeys, their faces gleaming. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he pulled it out, it proved to be most of the photograph Lily had described in her letter. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Einstein had been fascinated by Bernstein’s People’s Book of Natural Science, a popularization of science that described on its very first page the astonishing speed of electricity through wires and light through space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His was the genuine feeling that Milkman had faked when Reverend Cooper described the hopelessness of “doing anything.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model, right back to the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z New Twelves were called to the stage individually and their attributes described. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The thing that attacked the human brain the way the man named Anton had described in the barracks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In previous chapters I have described general relativity, the partial theory of gravity, and the partial theories that govern the weak, the strong, and the electromagnetic forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The newspapers were full of interviews in which the city’s leading men described Root as the guiding force behind the fair, that without him the city could not hope to realize its dreams. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And similar to that person Jack had described, she also couldn’t imagine ignoring The Gold-Bug puzzle now that she’d found it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Luke gave an affirmative grunt, but he had already stopped listening—especially when Toby began dissecting the girl’s jacket further, her hair, which Toby described as “messy but in a hot way.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z While the family ate, Baba, Neel, and Rupa described the previous night’s events to a bewildered Ma. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z A crack shot and expert hunter, Rondon was once described as the “Daniel Boone of Brazil.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The properties of historical systems that complicate attempts at prediction can be described in several alternative ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He described his time with Lupa and her pack, learning their language of gestures and expressions, learning to survive and fight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Inside the Mark I, these sparks packed the power of lightning bolts, ripping through the drift tubes and leaving behind what Pief Panofsky described as “spectacular stalagmites and stalactites of copper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There’s only so much you can take being described as somebody you’re not. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z So I described how Bruno Jenkins had come in and how I had actually seen him with my own eyes being shrunk into a mouse. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Matthias had described the layout of the Ice Court in detail, but he’d said little about the way it actually looked. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He escaped because of what he described as a “totally miraculous chance.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And so following her directions, I drove through Pawhuska and headed west across the prairie, through the tall grasses, until I saw what she’d vividly described to me: scores of metallic towers invading the sky. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z By the time he was four years old, Flint could best be described as a “spoiled brat. ” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Therefore the shock she received can better be imagined than described, when he said in a perfectly tranquil tone, “Do you care to dance?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “The nature of names cannot be described, only experienced and understood.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And the devastation Henry Reid described ... she had a part in that as well. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I described Buck’s Peak, with its many junkyards, barns, corrals. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Not one has ever described it as little. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Most strikingly, in a chain reaction in 94, “energy would be released at an explosive rate which might be described as a ‘super bomb.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She described exactly what happened as if she had witnessed it.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, a reporter described how he’d still pace before a fire “like a leashed animal. He nervously rubbed his hands into the flames. His rather ruddy face was aglow with cold and excitement.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The correspondent sounded very excited as he described the Norwegian destroyer sinking. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She described feeling supported by Daley and knowing that she was being useful to the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Although the detailed sequence that I’ve just described applies to the Fertile Crescent, partly similar sequences also appeared elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad had described the apartment as a cozy but humble little place. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When he described how I looked, they both burst into tears. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Reggie’s many fans described him as a perfect spokesman because he is just a regular guy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I described my dreams, and the feeling I’d had on the beach, that momentary breath of evil that had seemed to stop the world, and made Ares back off from killing me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Chubs let out a noise that could only be described as a squawk and just about flew into the front passenger seat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When he described his finances, it became clear he was spending the money we’d secured for him more quickly than seemed prudent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was as Loki had described—a huge building, one huge hall, with a long room off to one side. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Friends described him as shy, smart, and always ready to help anyone who asked. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He described it as an eroded, hard mass about the size of a nickel. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z So she described it, sitting in her chamber among her maids—while her true lord was eating. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost none of the ones I described in detail are still at Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoyle, who died in 2001, was described in an obituary in Nature as a "cosmologist and controversialist" and both of those he most certainly was. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It described how you should look, your face and eyes and all, if your hormones were in good shape, and I didn't look that way at all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z We were a group of about thirty “mature” women—that’s how Padre de Jesus described us, bless his heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I squirmed, remembering how Angela had described us as being like puppies at the pound. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I described the demands I had made, and the progress that had been achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But his mother, whom Dasch described as a "battle axe," had always managed to somehow provide food, clothing, an education, and a home. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I described the aspen grove where she was buried and told him about the river nearby. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The story described the supposedly secret American bombing raids in Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He later described it as “a nuclear bit of e-mail,” given the chain of events it subsequently triggered. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z El Patron’s voice filled with wonder as he described the hacienda where he had attended fiestas so long ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When she got older, she described herself as a student of American history, attuned to the inevitable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One story described it as the inverse of the sky—a huge, hollow, upside-down dome of rock. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once, Ugwu wanted to ask them to stop, so he could explain what kwashiorkor was—perhaps he could read out to them how he described kwashiorkor on his writing sheet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Kepler’s third law described the time it takes for planets to complete an orbit: r3/t2 = k for time t, distance r; and a constant k. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew right away it would be about interesting things described in the most uninteresting way. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Later William Capp, an attorney with the Texas firm of Capp & Canty, said, “Anna had no property of her own, and such a change as described in her letter meant everything for her.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mom described the top floor briefly, but she didn’t take them up there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But he also described machines for pumping water, sawing wood and performing other industrial tasks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Poetic though they sound, and I appreciate that you’ve just described both tender ballads of love and socially prescient commentary, I still don’t believe this rings any bells.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn’t sure the document described anything real at all. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Richard’s gaze stayed on her face as she described Sasha’s ordeal—the charred skin, the painful skin grafts, the hours of daily bandaging. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And I have only described one situation, that of the lunar module taking off late. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes referred to as the “Wild Man from Birmingham,” Shuttlesworth has been described as an “unpolished, rabble-rousing Baptist preacher.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He’d only heard about it from Erastis, who described it in numinous terms, as if the Book were made out of light and magic instead of paper and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Cooney probably wouldn’t have used these concepts or described her goals in precisely this way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After Strong described at dinner one evening his experiences supervising the carpenters, plumbers, and electricians building his house, Lawrence drove him up the hill to the Rad Lab site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like the way her mother had described it when she went to see the place where her mother had drowned, off the dazzling coast of Hawaii. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her heart was indeed a fist, just as it was described in the texts. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In mid-July, District Attorney Corkhill gave the press Guiteau's confession, in which he described planning the shooting, buying the gun, and following the president around Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This of course described half the kids I knew. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep her family out of the projects and on what might be described as the upper rung of poverty, she had taken up with a man who worked handling baggage at O’Hare International Airport. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Watching the woman hold and tend her infant one afternoon, Claire confided in her and described the return of the memories. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That’s how the physicist Otto Frisch described the first instant of the explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The story described how Johnson had decided to expand American involvement in Vietnam while telling the public he sought “no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "Love and hate and a little bit of courage and lots of fear would all rush over me at once and grip my throat and tighten me up," Dasch described. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “And clean? Dress hair, press clothing—" “Make soap, wash dishes, barter—yes. You've just described every free-woman in the Scholars' Quarter." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A girl who knew Robert as a child in New York City described him as “very frail, very pink-cheeked, very shy, and very brilliant.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If Aristotle had described a current of information moving across generations, then Mendel had found its currency. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That theory, quantum mechanics, will be described next, before we turn to the efforts to combine the two partial theories into a single quantum theory of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And the office life the woman appeared to be leading was about as close as you could hope to the one Ruth had often described for herself. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after this, he thought up an idea for an escapement for a pendulum clock, which he described to his son Vincenzio, who actually built such a clock after Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as “so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Charlie asked me about the people in the pictures, and I described a little girl in a green dress named Evony. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Their behavior and their desperation is described in Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick’s book about how ordinary North Koreans endured the famine years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Copernicus had described a spherical universe with the sun at its centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Interpersonal skills were a big part of it, though nothing like the IPC skills the Academy had described to us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The organization’s leader was described as “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad” and a “Minister Malcolm X” was apparendy chief of staff. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Europe's defenders argue that the mass deaths cannot be described as genocide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A lively letter from a friend described William as “the epitome of the dapper and dangerous man.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Instead she described to Inspector Thomas Mathew how it was not just what Velutha had said that had made her come to the police, but the way he said it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Blake sat with Rodin on the bench and described his arrival in England and debriefing by MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And this touches me, somehow, even more than the presumptive lie about his assets: that this place he has described as so morbidly dysfunctional could amount to a real and compelling human community. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the length of the lunar day and night Kepler described “the great intemperateness of climate and the most violent alternation of extreme heat and cold on the Moon,” which is entirely correct. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Vitruvius described something like perspective painting, but the Renaissance invented a new combination of subjectivity and objectivity, the situated viewer and the vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We’ve got to lead as normal a life as possible,” she argued as we described to Grandma what had happened to us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By today’s standards I might have been described as hyperactive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes—not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness—people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comforts. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He described Celia’s apartment and his trips into the mountains with Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hecate expected her to defeat some super-powerful sorceress—the lady in the gold dress, whom Leo had described from his dream. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described—and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo’s imaginary crater. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Over the next half hour, Zafoona’s cheeks grew pale as she paced back and forth while Habib described what had happened. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Incidentally, another piece of tubing in the body, the Eustachian tube linking the middle ear to the pharynx, was also described around this time, by Bartolomeo Eustachio. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Now he was feeling something that could only be described as rage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He described how my mother was working overtime trying to care for Robbie, who was now in her seventies, widowed, and struggling with an array of health issues. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My work could charitably be described as sloppy, like Petey’s cocoon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In Sarajevo, Zlata described how soldiers used a “black crayon of war” to put an “S” on Serbs, a “C” on Croats, and an “M” on Muslims. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He was described three decades after his death as having had “so much taste and talent that his mind bordered on genius.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Hatun described his time laboring on the roads and bridges, and how some of the men had been hard-working while others were lazy. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z This worldwide migration has been studied and graphically described by the British ecologist Charles Elton in his recent book The Ecology of Invasions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Conservative Party described the resolutions as hostile to Afrikaner interests. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think I saw the boy you described running that way. He had a kite in his hand. A blue one.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The paper they eventually published described their confusion in neutral technical language, but still their disappointment leaked through. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Kind of a nerd,” is how one classmate described him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But Galileo described nature as inexorable and immutable, and it is very hard to understand how there can be exceptions of any sort to Descartes’ laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was exactly the paradise my grandfather had described. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The sheriff claims the breach in the defenses has been repaired, but with the horde that Gideon described on the way, I want to see for myself. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Nor have the seeds of H. alpinum have ever been described as toxic in any other published text. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z William Faulkner added his pilot’s know-how to the scenario, getting technical as he described exactly what Tania would have to do to make her plane turn and swoop and dive. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As he described it, his ink “would elude the generally known means of detection, and yet could be rendered visible by a suitable counterpart.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z During my lunch break, while waiting for Sarah to prepare the sandwiches for the newsmen, I wrote out a timeline of Yakov’s death and described how it fit into the overall chain of disappearances. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z What originally was planned to be an angry riptide, one English newspaper aptly described now as “the gentle flood.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I pray this person takes the right step and comes forward should such a situation described in the question exist. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In the study described above, for example, black participants showed an amount of “shooter bias” similar to that shown by whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was a lime green car, sort of medium sized, and with a kind of long snout, so had it been a person, Carla would have described it as having a long nose. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I fed a fireplace once with seventeen pages about a man who needed to be mutilated. I described the torture lovingly.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Someone once described the man behind the counter as having the face of a walnut. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Finally, as exhausted almost by the telling as she had been when she reached the top of the cliff that long-ago dawn, she described the terrible trade she had made. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Eighty-one species are described in the following pages, but I do not doubt that more will be discovered, necessitating another revised edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Was he really one of those men described in the oath? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Richard Feynman described his first reaction as “very considerable elation and excitement.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, he found the blatantly proslavery arguments “shamefully indecent” and described his colleagues from South Carolina and Georgia as “intemperate beyond all example and even all decorum.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His former employer described him as "a thoroughly wholesome, typically American boy" with a "modest demeanor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The “essential unity of science,” as he described it, means that “an advance of the horizon of knowledge in any direction uncovers territory of all the sciences.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was described as a dragonfly, a hedgehog, and a Tinkertoy. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Then she described the head itself, the open eyes, the graying skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At first alienists described this condition as “moral insanity” and those who exhibited the disorder as “moral imbeciles.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sarai had described Ruby and Sparrow and Feral to him already, and even the Ellens, because they all fit in the loveliness here, and the sweetness of this night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She described to us firsthand how she hid the Frank family from the Nazi soldiers and how she found Anne’s diary. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t agree with the radio announcers who described Little Rock as a nice, clean Southern town, a place where my people and whites got along peacefully. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Katrina had described his strong hands smoothing the wood and rounding its corners so that the coming baby would not be endangered by sharp edges. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the reservation’s capital then seemed a small, squalid place—a “muddy little trading post,” as one visitor described it—it was likely the biggest settlement Mollie had ever seen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You could not create such a world as you have just described. It is a dream. It is impossible.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z No cook-fires shone beyond the trees, and there was no trace of the electric lights Grandmother had described. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When I described their lack of success in getting Branwell to speak, there was a long silence on his end of the line. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Will followed the angel’s voice and soon found the spot he described. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z How anguished she would be when Ignatius described his tender pleasures. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, of course, at the same time, I was being spat on and defined and described and limited, and could have been polished off with no effort whatever. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The old man seemed to be trying to imagine the place, as if it were Paradise Terrestre, or a country described by Mandeville. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The article described him as a native of Upperville, Virginia, and a man who “loved the South as though it were a religion.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another day he appeared on the television program of Irv Kupcinet; he described attempts that had been made to kill him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Pointing to the map in Major Cooper’s arms, Wheeler described a more aggressive alternative: mine North Vietnamese harbors to block Soviet and Chinese ships bringing in military supplies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One scene remains to be described in this portion of my life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I attempted to convey to her what a genial employer Mr Farraday is; and I described the changes to the house itself, the alterations and the dust- sheetings, as well as the present staffing arrangements. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He invited Kang to the White House to discuss North Korea, and later described Aquariums as “one of the most influential books I read during my presidency.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When she described how the Gestapo captured Anne and would not allow Miep to say good-bye, it made all of us emotional. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z While his wife described these unhappy episodes, Dewey poured two cups of coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Kepler had described his snowflakes as like little stars; now, everywhere he turned his telescope he found them, thick enough to make a snowstorm. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the time they graduated, he had fallen for Shaker Heights as well, the way Elena described it: the first planned community, the most progressive community, the perfect place for young idealists. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One reporter who spotted Guiteau at police headquarters after the shooting described him as “a pale, emaciated, small man, with the appearance of an insane person.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Now he hopes she will not die—not yet, not until he gets to the house described and mapped out for him in clear, childish pictures by True Belle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This disturbing phenomenon of people cycling in and out of prison, trapped by their second-class status, has been described by Loïc Wacquant as a “closed circuit of perpetual marginality.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then he described getting on the bus and how there was a man on the bus wearing a skirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Or, as John Quincy Adams described the seamless character of the partnership, “it was a phenomenon, like the invisible and mysterious movements of the magnet in the physical world.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He's a good friend of Kerling's who described him as having "splinters on top of his brain" from his war wound. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Then the reporter described the final two suspects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Paul Lindau, an author and publisher, described it as “a gigantic peepshow of utter horror, but extraordinarily to the point.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And then he cried as he described his guilt, and pleaded with them not to “become like me.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When he described driving from Colby to Charlotte to Greenville and everywhere in between, she said, “It must be so fun to go to all those different places.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He had tried to hide his shock when Juno had appeared, but she looked exactly like his grandmother had described—right down to the goatskin cape. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As he described the session later, “quite strongly negative things on moral grounds were being said.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Still another speaker rose and described the domestic situation in the United States and linked it with the world scene. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d told her how Meg helped her father escape, and I’d described the first battle with IT, which is this giant, evil brain that wants to control everyone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z What Cool Papa would have described as “hard pretty.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I told them that exactly described their fellow Afro-American Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The tube had been busted, all right, but like JimmyTrotter described it, there was something beautiful about it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Well, I knew what he looked like. Mr. Ratchett described him to me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every night when I fell asleep I would see myself tied to the ground in the middle of a long, open space,” Johnson later described. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He graduated from this part of the course in 1591, second out of a class of fourteen, and moved on to his theological studies described by his tutors as an exceptional student. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He’d described the way dragons flew, with special appendages on their wings. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Miss Finch had described it like a series of stops and nots. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He studied literature and languages, with a concentration in Classics, and was described by fellow students as “a scholar.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She sat on a long wooden bench and couldn’t think of any word that described her anymore. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Hastily scooping it all into the cauldron he saw, to his surprise, that the potion immediately turned exactly the shade of lilac described by the textbook. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I sat sulking while she described her new pink leotard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer Ivan Turgenev described him as an intelligent, queer, and sickly creature. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Researchers have often described the Yanomamo as "fierce," aggressive sorts whose small villages are constantly at violent odds with one another. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The way that short man popped his knuckles and gave him a look that could only be described as scornful caused him to put up his guard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Helen haltingly described how big the boiler was, how intimidating. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Winthrop was the only person who ever described me as a doll. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was what Kurnakov described as a “neatly written report” outlining the basic scientific principles of the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Writer Ernest Seeman accurately portrayed the Durham of his youth when he described this neighborhood of “large houses and well-groomed lawns, where several of its richest and most righteous rajputs and masters of machinery lived.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “The blooper,” as Watson described it, “was too unbelievable to keep secret for more than a few minutes.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Fight, flight, or neurosis” was how William described the general symptoms to himself later on, struggling to make sense of them on paper. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Genes had been described as “particles of heredity,” but that description carried no information about what that “particle” was in a chemical or physical sense. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The basic principles involved had been described by Euclid and were well understood in the Middle Ages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was one of the bulletins Fletcher had described in his cottage, with one change. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Burnham described his vision of a fair larger and grander than the Paris exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A talented musician, he socialized with what he described as an “exciting group of leftist intellectuals and bon vivants” in San Francisco. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Morrison, whom Agent Burger described as an “unusually shrewd and reckless and self-confessed criminal,” dressed like a dance-hall hustler. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It described a war between books in a library, a war between the Ancients and the Moderns. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She described how the infant had begun to say her name. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He described all the ways the Library was suited for the blind—the routine, the unchanging furniture, the textured knobs and cupboards in the kitchen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Both were wearing what could only be described as hunting attire, head-to-toe camouflage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This gushing adoration cannot be dismissed merely as local boosterism; black newspapers across the South described the town in much the same terms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He described Haupt as a "drugstore cowboy," which was slang for a young man who hangs out on street corners or drugstores. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She described the Voice, and how Gaea had slowly taken over her mother’s mind. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He described the clinical signs of disease that he had seen at the monkey house, and by the end he felt that no one had noticed his nervousness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No one has ever described to me what happened when Shawn’s head struck that second time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Of Africans who had been stolen, torn from their homes and families, and described the miseries of their bondage and then their hair-raising escapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The trial itself has been described in detail many times, and we need not elaborate on it here. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Abigail described the decision to resume negotiations with France as “a master stroke of policy” because it averted a French war and removed the rationale for Hamilton’s army at one fell swoop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a frizzy globe — the newspaper the next day described it as a “gigantic hair ball.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She took me to Downings, Vaults, the Woods, Delving, Cricklet, Tenners, Candlebear The names she gave them, nonsensical at first, fit like a glove when I finally saw what they described. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The "report" mentioned in this decrypted message described a crucial step in building an atomic bomb. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She described the house where he lived, told them about the store where he sold shoes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The elephant opens her shovel-shaped mouth in what can only be described as a smile and starts to sway, keeping time with the movement of her trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Stephens described his realization that he could no longer take the punishment of reducing as “the biggest disappointment of my life.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Self-exposure was inevitable the moment she described a character’s weakness; the reader was bound to speculate that she was describing herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When she described sharing freshly squeezed sugarcane juice and spicy samosa plates with her girlfriends in vivid detail, I could almost taste them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He didn’t carry a bow or quiver, and he didn’t have the headlamp eyes Reyna had described from her dream. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He pronounced "incorrect" as though the term described the most heinous crime imaginable, and I stared at him open-mouthed, feeling a vague guilt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was much as Bunderson had described it to Reggie in August, but there was an important caveat to the plea in abeyance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He described the conditions there as “so severe that I could not even think of the possibility” of flight. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He also described the ground we would be covering. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z You would have seen the two of us engaging in what can only be described as an elaborate and precise dance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She treated me like an adult, asking for my thoughts, listening keenly as I described the various worries and administrative tangles students had brought in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Or to be described as “different” from the majority of your race? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As Matt considered the possibilities, he realized that no Illegal could have hauled a metal chest through the dry hills and canyons Celia had described. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the situation she's described is strange and unbelievable, and I keep feeling like she must be explaining it wrong. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Eventually I would checkmate the other guy,” he chuckled when he described the experience years later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mother often described herself as a pleaser: she said she couldn’t stop herself from speculating what people wanted her to be, and from contorting herself, compulsively, unwillingly, into whatever it was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In Noel’s blood, the cells had morphed, mysteriously, into shriveled, scythe-shaped crescents—“sickle cells,” as Irons later described them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He described as much as he knew about the organization of the Manhattan Project, saying he’d heard that the bomb design was happening at a secret site somewhere in New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was young and pretty—a “handsome blonde,” as he later described her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The old man enthusiastically described the wealth that filled the pyramids, for the use of the old kings in their afterlife. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In it, Paul described how two of three windows in her cell had been nailed shut. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We went into a bank and she stared up at the vaulted ceiling and described the octagonal patterns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He described it as ‘a supplement to Aristotle’s On the Heavens’ because he assumed it would be part of a programme of education still based on Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Jefferson spoke for many of the participants caught up in this intensely partisan and nearly scatological political culture when he described it as a fundamental loss of trust between former friends. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This is how the fall was described to me, but my mind sketches it differently—on a white page with evenly spaced lines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Others, though, argued that it was quite clear that general laws of the sort described by Descartes could never produce the perfect design that one could find in the paw of a dog. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From what she had heard described, they were endless work—feeding, rocking, bathing—and they cried too much. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He described how he’d shot her in the head, then carried her body in his arms down to the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He described recent events and gave credit to Union General Grant and his officers for the successful end to the war. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He described to her the green wheat fields of Herat, the orchards, the vines pregnant with plump grapes, the city’s crowded, vaulted bazaars. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Instead of freaking when I described the most gruesome of the Mosses’ punishments, she spoke calmly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z With it he discovered a universe in a drop of water: the microbes, which he described as “animalcules” and thought “cute.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As Adams described his encounter with the anonymous climber, and then sliding down the ice, my mouth went dry and the hairs on the back of my neck suddenly bristled. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the hot big bang model described above, there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Benjamin Ross was described as “twenty-eight years of age, chestnut color, medium size and shrewd.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath Cantor’s conflict with Kronecker was a vision of the infinite, a vision that can be described with a simple puzzle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Colonel Edmund Rice, chief of the exposition’s Columbian Guard, described what it was like to stand in a shaded wood at Gettysburg as Pickett launched his men across the intervening field. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was just as his friend had described it and the boy was very frightened. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “We’re talking failure to the square root,” was the way he bluntly described it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She described the camp and her years growing up there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Grandmother had described land mines, but they were far, far worse than Nhamo had imagined. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the township did boast some handsome buildings, it could fairly be described as a slum, living testimony to the neglect of the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the very first page it described a burial ceremony. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Using the wave/particle duality discussed in the last chapter, everything in the universe, including light and gravity, can be described in terms of particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At dinner my first night on the peak, Dad described the explosion as a tender mercy from the Lord. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He probably described it in detail, but by that point I was only half listening. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When he spoke, Clarkson brandished whips and handcuffs used on slaves; he published testimonials from sailors and ship doctors who described the atrocities and punishments on slave ships. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “A dynamo in low heels” was how one old friend described her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But that was before I knew what life was like outside the city, and it doesn’t seem as horrific as what Edith described in her message to us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She looked at the faces in the sea of pink-skinned people who stood around pointing at the captives and jabbering in their language as each of the slaves was described. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The book described a variation oFchess that seemed to be the forerunner of Fischer Random, with the exact same rules. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I described Mom’s vegetable garden and the Jesus statue in front of church. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As Mr Charles described it, all three passengers seemed to be overcome as one by the realization of what an imposing physical force my father was. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Natural laws are described with equations, and equations, in a sense, are simply tools where you plug in numbers and get another number out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Band organization is often described as “egalitarian”: there is no formalized social stratification into upper and lower classes, no formalized or hereditary leadership, and no formalized monopolies of information and decision making. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I stopped by a dried fruit stand, described Hassan to an old merchant loading his mule with crates of pine seeds and raisins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He described the approach and went on to explain how the rabbit hutch was to be found. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth Cady Stanton described her father as “a conservative’s conservative.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Instead, Mama described a whole library that Don Bernardo confessed he had hidden there. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Laws stripping people of their rights were inevitably described as laws restoring those rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Adams had written them much earlier and had described Jefferson as a duplicitous political partisan. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But if the universe is completely self-contained, with no singularities or boundaries, and completely described by a unified theory, that has profound implications for the role of God as Creator. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Fumulani’s songs often described the struggles of the poor, his lyrics straight from the warm red Malawian soil. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I was so anxious about what kind of kiss it would be—because my friends back home described so many types—and it turned out to be the beautiful kind. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Milkman fantasized too, but not for the stationary things Guitar described. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The article described the animal attacks in grisly detail and included a list of victims. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It feels like how Zahra has described hurricane days to him: stuck together, hoping the sandbags will hold. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z During the rest of the drive home, I described in detail my Cat Fantastic findings proving my theory, and then the printer making them sizzle up in smoke. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “No. Soft, but rough like a file over the fingertips. It was a sermon, you know. About hell-fire. He described the tortures of...well, you know. I once heard a sermon like that—almost.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The alternative histories hypothesis sounds rather like Richard Feynman’s way of expressing quantum theory as a sum over histories, which was described in Chapters 4 and 8. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These days it seemed ridiculous, as the life she described was becoming more and more of a fantasy—trips to the mall, family vacations, and Friday night football games. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Fellow composer Gustav Mahler described hearing this as the ‘greatest and most soul-wrenching experience of my life’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When Piper described their duel on the highway, Jason winced. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What’s more, there was the implication that the same sort of people described by White also caused the rioting in all parts of the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Music that is in a minor key is sometimes described as sounding more solemn, sad, mysterious, or ominous than music that is in a major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All day at school, when Liyana described the scene of Sitti’s bathroom smashing, the chips of ceramic and waterlogged rooms, her classmates shrugged. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The story described the concerns by the trucking industry that if texting were made illegal, it could hinder their efficiency of communications. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A newspaper reporter attending the conference described the news in a short article, which was picked up by papers across the country. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In those areas I’ve described, he told me to make the decisions myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Melodies are often described as being made up of phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z These can be gleaned only from the recollections of his associates, who uniformly described him as insistently supporting Neylan’s position. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The place was put together, given life, sustained into today’s version of its maturity and prepared for further elaboration and changes in its complexity, by what can only be described as a bunch of people. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One visitor described luncheons at Down as violent. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The caller had described our building precisely when making his threat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As described in chapter 4, many people labeled criminals describe an existential angst associated with their pariah status, an angst that casts a shadow over every aspect of their identity and social experience. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Mellower had—many times—described the exact way a stranger entered a village. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Mollie described for the jurors the final time that Anna visited her house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But Digges was not a conventional reader of Copernicus, for he understood that Copernicus really did intend to be taken literally when he described the Earth as moving and the sun as stationary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They described in detail the woman and her hut, so it was easy for Ma to pick it out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a New Zealand television interview following the expedition, Hall somberly described how he took their favorite climbing rope and lowered Ball’s body into the depths of the glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The taxi driver, while taking me to the Hotel Aletti, described the atrocities the French had committed, and personal measures that he had taken to get even. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried not to look at the wall images of Camp Half-Blood as he described the place in ruins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On the next page, he described life in his country. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It sounded exactly like the letter Ms. Hussey had described to her class. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z His eye lit up when he described the Cyclopes’ forges and the palace of Poseidon, but he also told us how tense things were. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She described what had happened at the fort—the voice of Gaea, the spiders in the garrison, the Mark burning them away. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z This type of phenomenon has been described in the psychological literature as pluralistic ignorance, in which people misjudge the norm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The teacher had described the ocean during the first two or three lessons, and that was what nearly everybody started with. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find expression not in rational symbols, but in metaphor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Steve Reich has been described as the single most influential composer of the late-twentieth century, bringing fresh ideas and impetus to both popular and classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There was a long story about how Marshall had saved the Professor from being unjustly accused and described the murderer so that the police were able to catch him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She described in detail her dream about the painting, confiding that no one but Calder knew about it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I described my visit to the trailer park. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The gladiators led it, and it was just as Marcus had described, only no words of his could have done justice to their dazzling splendor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z They described to each other the tumbling gem. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z They swore up and down that they’d visited the alley we described and couldn’t find him, though how you miss a giant kid living in a refrigerator box, I don’t know. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He also described the flight of birds and the swimming motion of fish in mathematical terms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Fuchs described some of the complex challenges of separating uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank also described the guy as a “creep.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z As the nineteenth century ran out, more and more of the continent was mapped and described by navigators from around the world—although Antarctica claimed many ships as payment. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Revenues from what the bureau described as “other personal services” increased 74 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He offered to enlighten me, and I gratefully accepted: he described how contraceptives work, and I asked him very boldly how boys could tell they were grown-up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z One of the descriptions she read was of a girl who sounded to me like some sad welfare case, in the sorry way her clothes and hair were described. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Oddly for someone who had been rubbing shoulders with physicists for nearly twenty years, Weaver mistakenly described the beam in his diary as comprising 5-million-volt “electrons”—particles that were not in the cyclotrons inventory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He’d once told it to his friend Willie-Jay; he had described to him the towering bird, the yellow “sort of parrot.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He described the eejit pens and the opium fields that surrounded them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I nodded, and he asked me what that place might resemble; and in my answer I described a paradise of dogs; upon which he inquired whether dogs have a soul, and this, too, I answered. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He watched a young woman run headfirst into the side of a car, trying to escape the sensation that Martin had described to him, and she lay still on the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The essay on optics described the workings of the eye and suggested ways to improve the telescope. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The astronomical system it described was far from being Ptolemy’s own idea, although he seems to have tweaked and developed the ideas of the Ancient Greeks. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Both conditions had been described in medical literature long before the cause was known. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was I who described their daily lives with airy ideas. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk into my very first vintage store, like the ones Janae described up near her college in Syracuse. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The consequences that these would have for black holes and the big bang will be described in later chapters. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was more evidence, and she described that, too. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer had played resolutely and won what might be described as a comfortable game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “A flattering offer,” as a member of the Cigrand family later described it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He longed to know what she looked like, because Lyra had never described her, and the face that went with this voice must be remarkable. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaders of these groups described the oppression they suffered by analogy to that suffered by blacks. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The best year and the worst year,” Grace’s mother described it, when she talked about it at all. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He described how everyone acted and how they were afraid to ride in a taxicab. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He in turn described the parade ground, the rifle range, the drills, the “bull,” the barracks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I imagine the experience of unease mixed with exhilaration often described in connection with this moment is very similar to what I felt in the Ford as the surroundings grew strange around me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z If Halliday had re-created the Tomb of Horrors just as it was described in the module, I was in big trouble. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Derby described the incredible artificial weather that Earthlings sometimes create for other Earthlings when they don’t want those other Earthlings to inhabit Earth any more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “They gave me a slave pass,” as he described it, “and I used it for mischief.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the Iliad a vineyard is described with youths and maidens singing, as they gather the fruit, “a sweet Linus song.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The brother-and-sister team created an impressive poster that described their entrepreneurial efforts as purveyors of lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Everything was enclosed behind high, white walls, in what the two researchers described in 2004 as a hive of “repetitive, modular cells organized in high-walled geometric blocks.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z True, those things happened, but not the way he described them, as though there were wardens with bad intentions lurking around every corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The private who brought it to him described plundering the villa they took it from; he called it “shopping.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I snuck down the alley to the shed window that Curzon described. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When it’s a condition or a passive state being described, use good, the adjective. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere she looked she could see gold, just as Atal had described it: sparkles of light, floating and drifting and sometimes moving in a current of purpose. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This was the life Imogen described herself as wanting, free of ambition and expectations, with nobody to please and nobody to disappoint. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I go to the side and knock on the door the street cleaner described. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Fuchs had described Gold’s appearance but didn’t know Gold’s real name. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t born cool like this,” Cool Papa said in a way that could only be described as cool. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Reese, for example, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals described a drug task force completely corrupted by its dependence on federal drug money. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the Continental Congress, John Adams had described him as a staunch advocate of independence who never uttered more than two or three sentences, even in committees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A journalist who had watched Smith for years described him thus: “He nods hello, shakes hands goodbye, and hasn’t said a hundred words in all.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As Rat described it, the compound was situated at the top of a flat-crested hill along the northern outskirts of Tra Bong. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Reverend Post survived somewhat longer, for he made no direct attempt to compliment the prisoner, but described sym-pathetically an encounter with him at Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “It might be our destination. This is not what Stan described.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Were such a person described to me, I'd say, "Oh, you mean the village idiot." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The colonel described a recent incident in which a group of Viet Cong fighters had disemboweled a village chief in front of the entire village. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She picked up on it when they had met, and now, here was Reggie, sounding a lot more like the person Kaylene had described. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But almost everything he described in that book had been done years before and kept hidden from public view until that happy encounter in Cambridge in 1684. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z One spectator at the exhibition that evening was Carmine Nigro, a short, bald man in his early forties; Bobby described him as “cheery.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t kick a sleeping dog,” he described as his philosophy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I described it, omitting the detail that my participation had been limited to removing the dirty plates from the refreshments table. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In my mind, I tried to replace the image of Marcus that I knew with the one he described. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z His speeches were once described as “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As for the director, he described Rutherford as “a large, rather florid man, with thinning fair hair and a large moustache, who reminded me forcibly of the keeper of the general store and post office.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I read more and see that he was described as "troubled" and suffering from "mental illness." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And when, once or twice, I did hit, always just some combination, as I’ve described, West Indian Archie paid me off from his own roll. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They, on their side, saw a man of serenity—the kind of sage that Kipling described in Kim. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Former mayor of Atlanta and U.S. ambassador Andrew Young once described Shuttlesworth as “fearless to the point of insanity.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He ran them through his fingers, foot after foot of them, described them as “normal” to the microphone, put them in a bucket on the floor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When he described visiting the Mani, his voice became even mellower than usual, and his eyes glistened. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora thought, the whites had begun stealing futures in earnest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was there when Matthew described it to Caleb in painstaking detail earlier: a black box with a silver keypad, marked with a strip of blue tape with a model number written on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z One of the other Vessels had described it to her at lunch a month before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Joseph had never heard himself described that way. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Sleep came, and with it came my dream-fate which drew me to the witches’ Black Mass. I saw all, and it was exactly as my uncle had described it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How did the same word that described two people in love become a word that described something so mean? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He described his own vision of the fair and Chicago’s resolve to make that vision real. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The theory was a good scientific theory, in the sense described in Chapter 1: it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Supposing that the mechanics of the process have been rightly described, what is the motive for this huge, accurately planned effort to freeze history at a particular moment of time? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Near the end of his speech, Shin described how he had crawled over Park’s smoldering body. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her students did not “read from the expected perspective,” as she described it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Next week the newspaper reported the man’s capture and described the nature of his punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He later wrote about his experiences and commissioned artists to depict the scenes he described. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z One might imagine that the legal rules described thus far would provide more than enough latitude for the police to engage in an all-out, no-holds-barred war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We looked at the moon and described the shapes we saw to each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer followed these terrifying events from his home in California, burning with what he described as “a continuing, smoldering fury” toward Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An opening statement read, “In early missionary journals Osages were often described as being ‘the happiest people in the world.’...They had a sense of freedom because they didn’t own anything and nothing owned them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was just as Dr. Relf had described it to him, but finer than he could ever have imagined. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Unlike others who have described their Catholic schooling, I do not remember the nuns or the priests to have been obsessed with sexual sins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So Masvita described the tractor and the bolts of cloth again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Precisely because they were rare, the mutants had acted like lamps in the darkness, allowing biologists to track “the action of a gene,” as Morgan had described it, across generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She had the afternoon paper with her, the one in which Billy described his friends from Tralfamadore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty-nine years old and described by friends as “a very good, efficient drudge,” the hard-drinking Spangler often sleeps in either the theater or a nearby stable. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Harvey actually measured the capacity of the heart, which he described as being like an inflated glove, and worked out how much blood it was pumping into the arteries each minute. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Apparently, it’s public record, and it substantiates what you described. He told me that we should look at it”—Gay paused meaningfully—“before too long.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z A piece of music, or one performer's part in that piece, may also be described as having a range, from the lowest to highest note written for the performer in that piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He was a longtime Afrikaner nationalist, and an outspoken supporter of the Nazi cause; he once described Hider as the “greatest man of his age.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The answers that this approach suggests for the origin and fate of the universe and its contents, such as astronauts, will be described in the next two chapters. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They found out the journal Nature would publish their paper that described how they could train the brain to improve and sustain attention using a video game. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They described themselves as "country tough" and presented themselves as fearless, relentless women who could not be intimidated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The Chief Elder told me, at the beginning, that the receiving of memory causes terrible pain. And you described for me that the failure of the last new Receiver released painful memories to the community. “ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Nothing in all my hooks about foreign places had described a scene like this before me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In heavily accented, hard to understand Castilian Spanish he described the necessity of eating portions of each of the foods on his chart every day. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As Barack described it to me, he'd been happy in Indonesia and got along well with his new stepfather, but his mother had concerns about the quality of his schooling. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Compton described these findings later as “on the whole hopeful.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They described a daily, even hourly, fear of gangs and violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As she described their special relationship and all the sacrifices she made during their two years in hiding, I sat there in awe. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Like it or not, even those who insisted that Bruno was wrong when he described an infinite universe were forced to imagine what it would be like if he were right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Traditionally, vocal music is more likely to be described as polyphony and instrumental music is more likely to be described as counterpoint. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The epoxide is popularly described as “an oxidation product” produced by weathering. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then he described how a branch had hurled down into the road in front of him; to avoid it he’d hit his brake pedal. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Several times when I described Phoebe’s world of lunatics and axe murderers, Gram said, “Just like Gloria, I swear to goodness. Just exactly like Gloria.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z At the time Mudgett described this encounter in his memoir, he was sitting in a prison cell hoping to engineer a swell of public sympathy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What Lincoln sees now can only be described as shocking. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Seriously, I can't argue with the fact that Oreos are extremely delicious, and the menu you described actually sounds amazing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z One chorus described the changing of seasons, from fall to winter, from winter to spring, and how water changes from water to steam to rain to snow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The Ulster Scots were not merely settlers; they can be more accurately described as settler-soldiers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Schopenhauer’s theories, like Wagner’s operas, could not be described as succinct, and they are consequently hard to summarise briefly, but the idea that caught Wagner’s imagination was that we humans are essentially irrational, emotional animals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Jackson then launched into a sermon on God's will, which he described as patently proslavery, based on several passages in the Bible and the pronouncements of every Christian minister in Georgia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But he had not heard it described that way before. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Built right on the waterfront, just as my dad described it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But as the silence mounted, he impulsively described another smart guy who didn’t get an offer at all. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He described their last meeting, at the lecture at MIT. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Everyone knew the classical models of latter-day seclusion represented by Cincinnatus and described by Cicero and Virgil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He described how Lorraine and Leanne made plans to go to Florida to visit Luke and me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Together they devised an elaborate life insurance fraud, which Mudgett described in his memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Johnny described it as only a silversmith could. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the same day, Bliss told reporters that “the wound looks better than at any time yet,” and the official bulletin described the president as "somewhat restless” and "tranquil.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z All the torments of the one class and the joys of the other are described at length. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly the book described the dangers of fire. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Hueper has described this epidemic as a serious warning that greatly increased attention must be given to controlling the number and variety of environmental carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The way that short man popped his knuckles and gave him a look that could only be described as scornful caused him to put up his guard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We went out about fifty feet along the reef, and then he said, “Now, we feesh” He described the hole to me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I look down at the Doorman, who’s eating his lasagna with what can only be described as the ultimate ecstasy. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z On the following Saturday, Auks II, III, and IV were ready, built exactly as he had described. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He described how he would ride the horse if given the chance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish that described me, but it doesn’t. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z All of this is described as “wilderness” in the tourist brochures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He described party allegiance as “the last degradation of a free and moral agent” and claimed that “if I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He was so solid in his ability, so sure of himself on the board, that Fischer once described him as playing “like a house.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Rita had a keen mind, yet those close to her thought that her judgment was impaired by what one person described as “a love that was truly blind.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Minerva lived in a little nothing house—or so Mate had described it to me—in that godforsaken town of Monte Cristi. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another favorite described how he inadvertently bedded down beside five hibernating bears in a Canadian cave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had been smart, if I had been honest with my survey, I would have described Hannah. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She described her life in New Orleans—everything except her boyfriend Sammy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His rambling remarks described the predicament of slave owners as truly tragic and not of their own making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He wore grey, although she could not have described his clothes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They described the roar of rocks sliding down hills and everyone running out of their houses reciting the Holy Quran, the screams as roofs crashed down and the howls of buffalo and goats. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Would it really be like the movies I’d seen, with beautiful people everywhere, or would it be a place full of hate and race riots like the Cuban newspapers described? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z He’d had no disciplinary violations and the staff at Chad had described him as motivated to participate in treatment programs and remorseful about his crime. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A recent centenary conference and festival devoted to him in modern Hungary simply described him, correctly, as 'European'. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In addition to Burkhart’s testimony, White had testified to Ramsey’s confession, and witnesses had described Hale’s fraudulent acquisition of the insurance policy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She described herself as just a citizen alarmed by the growing phenomenon of texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Anya struggled to find a word that aptly described him now. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He described him as a cross between a billy goat and a female heretic, an infernal beast whose breath scorched the air and whose look brought on the birth of monsters in newlywed women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He also read out papers submitted by Fellows who were not present, and described new inventions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z For a moment the set of his face could be described in just that fantastic way. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I mean, Dad didn’t much like it there but even the way he described it . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The punishment of Tantalus is described often, first in the Odyssey, from which I have taken it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z William never described in detail exactly how he was treated there. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I described the director coming in, blurting out his announcement. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Tallulah Bankhead once described herself as “pure as the driven slush.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But he hadn’t seen anything like the chaos she described. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Dr. King described in detail what might happen to those of us who joined the march—possible police violence against us, maybe physical injuries, and even the chance of imprisonment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And I described how I walked to school each morning, looking over my shoulder for fear I’d see a Talib following me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Now, when I reflect on my mother’s words, remembering the way they appeared as if by magic on the screen, one detail stands above the rest: that Mother described my father as bipolar. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I don't know what I expected when Michah first described it to me, but it's both exactly like I pictured and nothing like it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Marshall Laird, who has described this incident, compares chemical control to a treadmill; once we have set foot on it we are unable to stop for fear of the consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He described cover names, fragmentary messages, traces of the work of Soviet agents operating deep under cover in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z These appointments, somewhat misleadingly described as “the midnight judges,” had occurred after the presidential election, and therefore denied Jefferson the right to choose his own men. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The climate described from inside sterile urban studios was not the one I was encountering in the church halls and rec centers of Iowa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He didn’t recoil in disbelief when she described Pet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Matt described the bones, and to his surprise, the little boy recognized them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the speech might be described as “Spoken but not heard.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I described him for the doctor, his walking before me in the schoolyard, stamping the blacktop, announcing our presence with his swagger, his shout. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Witnesses described huge bonfires on which the bodies of the birds were burned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were both the same height, dressed in cheap-looking formal wear, but his dad’s eyes were focused on his mom, gazing at her with the exact same adoration that Jessica had described. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Father” Bill Daly, a peg-legged trainer described by one writer as “villainous,” reportedly carried a barrel stave with him at all times so he could beat his jockeys. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His right hand described the circle of the hills, the sloping fields and the mountains, and ended at his hat again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1905, Edward Elgar, a fervent admirer of German music, described the British music scene as ‘vulgar, mediocre, chaotic and insipid’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I described the weakness of the PAC, and argued that a postponement would be a setback for the struggle as a whole. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Della Porta was clearly intrigued, and if he did not actually perform a number of the experiments described by Garzoni which he claimed to have, it seems he did perform these particular experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I struggled to understand the horror he described, a murder spurred by jealousy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The storyteller vividly described the landscape of their pre-infant life: the hunting they did, the games they played, how they listened to our world ... A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Ralph felt as though he had a cardboard tube down his throat as he described how Grover had bought the land, built anyway, then sold it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She described a plan for treatment, pegging some hope to what the results could be, but I was too overwhelmed to note the details. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At the heart of it was Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In her autobiography, Elizabeth described Bayard as “a tall, fully developed man, remarkably fine looking, with cultivated literary taste and a profound knowledge of human nature.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z All I can think of are those colors the woman described. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z His cosmological theory described a flat earth suspended in air, with the other celestial objects lofted above, like leaves blown on a universal wind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The women’s hotel on a Minneapolis side street is just as Lillian described it, with a clean but sparsely furnished lobby and a bored clerk who barely looks up when he hands us our keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He described the time he had watched a young girl poking through the wreckage of her home, lifting the charred remains of her doll. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But in concocting the elixir the Fairy Queen described and giving it to the fairies, she would certainly be performing magic. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath and described Gum Baby’s break-in, the chase through the Bottle Tree forest, and finally our fight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If you think my memories of the day might be inaccurate more than twenty years later, here's the moment described in my diary: Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When he pulled his eyes away from Mr. Flux to Sheed, he didn’t feel better, all too aware that the fate TimeStar described for his cousin wasn’t so different. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I stood in the spot Naomi had described and watched the dark water of the Yazoo swirl under the bridge. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The painting is how she described it, but there's also more. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I described everything to them— the airfield, the airport, the plane, what it felt like to see clouds from the window of the plane. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Oliver made a face as he shrugged on his puffy blue jacket and laced up his gym sneakers, shoes his sisters described as “disgusting” and “foul.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Gallien described several pieces of equipment not mentioned in the newspaper account that matched gear found with the body. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe this hillside had ever been the gullied wreck Joel had described at dinner. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I described our apartments, la marketa, the Jewish people, the Italian girls, and the books I was reading. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I am nothing but dung now,” he described himself to his captors, and died a few weeks later. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Valentine, in the class ahead of me, had a figure that was usually described by boys watching her sashay by as “stacked like a brick privy.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She smiles down upon them, always the same benevolent smile, and is described as radiant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Baba had always described my mother to me in broad strokes, like, “She was a great woman.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She described the dinner, and Robbie’s wild look at the table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As a result, he developed a way of talking and writing about the problem that might be described as “enlightened obfuscation.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Do you know of the Jameson Raid, described as a “fiasco”? Marvellous punctuation story. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z My whole body would assume regular movements; my shoveling would be described by identical, even movements. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I considered the impossibilities he described, trying to take it in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the firemen sitting at the card table had just finished dealing a hand when that thunderous noise John Barry later described as a “roaring surf” filled the room. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As described in the pages that follow, there is a certain pattern to this cycle. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It did not convey much to me, until I reached a passage where it described small punctured wounds on their throats. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Bobby was using a form of chess notation that described the movement of the pieces to various squares. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “They just really excluded me from it,” was the way he described it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But all those 500 Bantu languages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Have I not described a pleasant site for a dwelling, when I speak of it as bosomed in hill and wood, and rising from the verge of a stream? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Sadness had walked the streets with him while his cousins had described the people who had been bombed as they shopped at a market. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z No adult, or child for that matter, had ever described him as beautiful. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The formation of the Roman state and the expansion of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander were described in detail by contemporary classical authors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although Salisbury described accurately the terrorism that had become a normal way of life for me, my family, and my community, the article outraged Birmingham’s city leaders. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Diversity-driven affirmative action, as described and implemented today, sends a different message. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Macklin described what a visitor might see if he stumbled upon Ocean Camp at midnight. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He described for Olmsted a vision of a dream city designed by America’s greatest architects and covering an expanse at least one-third larger than the Paris fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His father’s leased car, described to him by his mother on the telephone last night, is still parked in the visitors’ parking lot. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He paced up and down as he described his vision to the others. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Absolutely apoplectic,” was how she described Louis Marx’s reaction. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Those things that are presented to the eyes and depicted on panels or paper become fixed more firmly in the mind than those that are described in bare words. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Archduke Francis Ferdinand, described by an escort as being “half-boor, half-tightwad,” roamed the grounds incognito—but much preferred the vice districts of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He stood in front of the Bayside Press building in the same burgundy-and-silver-blue outfit James had described him wearing at the book carnival: top hat, suit, and walking stick all in Bayside Press colors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She described the season’s ongoing theme as “charitable crafts” because “it’s not just our own lives that get messy.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I’d never entered Coosa Liquors, but it was every bit as desolate as Alaska described. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He described how other kids on the bus had laughed even as Sasha’s clothes went up in flames. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When the broadcast—variously described as part kabuki, part commedia dell’arte—started in 1956 on WOR Radio, Bobby listened to almost every show when he was in New York. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This, however, would not release much more energy, so a crisis would occur, as was described in the chapter on black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcus was the second boy I kissed, and it was best described as frustrated mouth wrestling. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We described the accident to one another over and over. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “You’ve just described my perfect day,” he said, and he held out his hand, and she took it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z This peculiar blend is what Barthes was referring to when he described facts as linguistic yet claiming to be copies of the real. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I described how my initial doubts about the political process had slowly diminished week by week, replaced by something more encouraging and hopeful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Kepler described comets as darting through space “as the fishes in the sea,” but being dissipated by sunlight, as the cometary tail always points away from the sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No; I’ve been variously described, but nobody’s yet explained me away as a ghost.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Oh, I found out later his job was not the way he described it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice sounded just as Percy had described: an angry buzz in multiple tones, female but not human. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She described the torturous climb up the cliff at length, feeling the need to relive it inch by inch as Einar had told her he had, remembering each handhold, each precipice and narrow ledge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The man had a little lisp and he was describing pollination, which he described as nature’s way to reproduce. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A gruff, hard-drinking man who often carried a bone-handled six-shooter and, for good measure, a knife slipped into his leather boot, he was brasher than Tom—“rough and ready,” as a relative described him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Miles Umlatt described my father as “passionate about the environment” but also “volatile and impulsive.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Some called the meeting “The Hen Convention,” and those who had planned it were described as “divorced wives, childless women, and some old maids.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z One day I interviewed a community activist who described a particular job program as a throwback to the Progressive Era. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The sum of all contributions could be described by the series—½ + ¼ + ⅛ ...—all of which conveniently added to 1. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And after each scene she described, she would ask, “Remember?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He described it as well as he could. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All over North America are places that are described as “the first” settlement, building, or school. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The whole would be, as MacKaye ecstatically described it, “a retreat from profit”—a notion that others saw as “smacking of Bolshevism,” in the words of one biographer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Remember when I described the differences between Oklahoma toilets and the ones in Iran and how obviously better they are because squatting is good for flow and washing is good for hygiene? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He described her as "luminous" and said that he could tell she was a star from the moment they met. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Everyone who knew him, from Mr. Brown to his classmates, described him as fiercely opinionated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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