A few of my stories are good, my descriptions of the Secret Annex are humorous, much of my diary is vivid and alive, but...it remains to be seen whether I really have talent. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had found the missing link in Harvey’s description of blood circulation, a link which Harvey himself had guessed must be there, but could not detect with the instruments at his disposal. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

If a man who had never seen him could recognize him from the description, then the whole dream of freedom was hopeless. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost didn’t pay attention to the description until I read: blooms through winter, even in the snow. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Realizing that no one in America had thought to write a formal description of the lumbering beast, Cuvier did so, and thus became its official discoverer. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The game program provided you with a simple written description of your surroundings, then asked what you wanted to do next. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He shook his head in irritation at his own description. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By each name is a capsule description of what Yolanda might remember of that relative: the one with the kidney bean swimming pool, the fat one, the one who was an ambassador. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long time, I relax into a description of setting. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pitezel’s almost hallucinatory description must have tantalized Holmes, for he wrote to Cigrand and offered her a job as his personal secretary, at twice the salary she was making in Keeley. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There, between graphs of “Disease Specific Infant Mortality” and a description of “the homozygous state of Garrodian inborn errors,” was the photograph of Henrietta with her hands on her hips. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A fragment of memory returned—recollection of myself as a youngster reading Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit, her description of the Negro boy stopping along a lonely path to urinate. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning bloomed bright like, hmm, Stella tried to think of a description her teacher would like. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I click on the page and see that they used the description I’d drafted back when I was still organizing this, and I’m not sure if that makes me feel better or worse. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And, beyond that, recalling Father Quinel’s description of towns and cities, I was too timid to press on. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ffer description was accurate, so far as my knowledge extends, but the emphasis was one of disparagement. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was pretty much the best description of my gardening efforts ever. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now it was all over, and he had literally nothing to do, no Party work of any description, until tomorrow morning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But another part is that few people believed Carvajal’s description of the Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Me and my friend Lloyd Newman just did a description of our life for a week, and we want to give you kids in America a message: Don’t look at ghetto kids as different. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A more thorough description of this idea, and its impact on natural sciences and philosophy, might be found in Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He even gave them a detailed description of the spy behind the code name. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

None of the teenage magazine descriptions of girls moping, one tear on each cheek like pearl earrings, applies to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clover, the Angora doe—a strong, active rabbit—was clearly excited by Hazel’s description and asked several questions about the warren and the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Minnie looked tired but otherwise appeared as I had imagined—patient and strong—based on Walter's descriptions and my own guesses from our phone conversations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had never seen my father, though I had often tried to picture him from Mother’s and Grandmothers descriptions of him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I felt all breath and light leaving me,” he said, in a subsequent description of his sensations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there was Mrs. Sharpe’s house, but neither remembered seeing anything that might fit that description in the living room or kitchen. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the vivid descriptions in the popular books by Lowell and his fervor in public lectures convinced millions of people for years to come that Mars was home to intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

This week in language arts we talked about description. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the 1880s, still unaware of Mendel’s work, de Vries edged toward a more quantitative description of his plant experiments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first looting he had seen since the storm, and these men were the first who fit the description of those Kathy had warned him about. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By the time I got to a description of the orange device, he had heard quite enough. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

So of course Twig gave him the same description she’d given me, word for word. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

However, what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important: classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know right away why Kaori’s description sounded so familiar. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For that is really the best description of what was happening. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the corners was a description written in Chinese, and since I couldn’t read the characters, I could only see what the picture meant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As always, however, nothing was quite as straightforward as such a breezy description makes it sound. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As Bigwig stared back at her, he suddenly recalled Holly’s description of the great yellow hrududu that had torn open the earth above the destroyed warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the drawer did not lock, she was careful to disguise her descriptions of Sister Drummond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The italicized language in the description of the referenced exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Our fate is to become one, and yet many—This is not prophecy, but description. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t yet have the drafting skills to make an architectural drawing, but instead submitted simple sketches and pastel drawings, along with a written description. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Gosh! Now, there’s a tall order,” said the clerk in response to Nye’s request for a description of the elder Smith. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from Claire’s description, the crowds on her street seem to have been reasonably calm and peaceful. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the five terms correlated with a higher sale price are physical descriptions of the house itself: granite, Corian, and maple. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were also descriptions of polite students who volunteered to sit beside us or offered to lend back homework assignments or flashed a warm smile just when we needed it most. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had entailed an involved, though somewhat inaccurate description of sex. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says this incredulously, like there's something strange about domestic ambitions, but the description only makes me ache for Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As far as Jefferson’s description of Virginia’s allegedly egalitarian conditions were concerned, “No Romance would be more amusing.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like reading that—the description of a waterlogged dead body. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wish I could explain to you how fascinating and stimulating are the lectures that we receive here at Miss Preston's, but I’m afraid my descriptions will never do them justice... Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Send me a description of that hole you want me to cut. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The description dumpy and overweight should be pinned on the dog, not the vet. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They lay there listening, at first with doubt but then with tenor to the description the twins breathed at them between bouts of extreme silence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I did everything I could to fit the description: prayed to God to change the color of my skin; used that Sol-Glo, hoping it would make a difference. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But April and Melanie were a little bit disgusted with the way the reporter talked about Marshall’s description. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

No prose paraphrase can give any idea of Pindar, except, perhaps, something of his singular power for vivid and minutely detailed description. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bad year for ice” was the terse description Shackleton heard over and over. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Brother Jack's private description of wealthy members who, he said, sought political salvation by contributing financially to the Brotherhood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’d be no way for me to maintain even a semblance of self-respect around him after he’d read my many pages-long descriptions of how it felt to be with him—to even be near him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Electric blue in colour, up to eight inches in height and very mischievous, the pixie delights in tricks and practical jokes of all descriptions. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a clipped military voice was reading out, with a sort of brutal relish, a description of the armaments of the new Floating Fortress which had just been anchored between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This festivities chapter is mostly detailed descriptions of guess what? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He gets invited on news shows and profiled in magazines, and he has been the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Errol Morris, all because of a brain that appears to defy description. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They might all have hoped to rise by Harriet’s acquaintance: and besides, what was the value of Harriet’s description?—So easily pleased—so little discerning;—what signified her praise? Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

A “loud, unnatural noise,” in Dr. Leale’s description, barks up from Lincoln’s lungs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Department of Health and Human Services launched an investigation and concluded that the study’s consent forms “failed to provide an adequate description” of the different levels of lead abatement in the homes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Across the room, my father grimaces at the description of the food. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gave vague and general descriptions of the two men. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was suddenly thick with birds of all sizes and descriptions. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There followed a description of this year’s turnip crop that would have put a Tasmanian devil to sleep. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a description would be more helpful than a lecture on fairy genealogy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the walk dissecting sentence structures and most of Spanish on a minute description of Mike’s facial expressions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Waiters offered drinks of every description and brought water pipes for those who wished to smoke. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a short, dumpy man, and his wife fitted roughly the same description. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This, and your description, will do for now.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Lori liked most about Ken and Bob’s description was that the city attracted people who were different. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She launched into a detailed description of her doggie bath concept, which sounded more like doggie torture, while Audrey and I snacked on cheese. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Dressed in clothing of every description, all wearing red scarves at their necks. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But usually when I'm finding black market objects for people, I begin with a physical description. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sam smiled grimly at this description of himself. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She said the man had sounded middle-aged and Southern, but she couldn't give any more of a description. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All her stories were subject to breaking down at descriptions of food. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A description: She had her mother's grey eyes and heart-shaped face, her father's curling chestnut hair. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There is no need to give a long description of the tourney. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the statistical description of a gas explains Charles’ law. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"The description,” gloated Mrs. Bruce, "fits her like a glove.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would give them a chance to get inside and look around and hopefully spot either Ashley or, based on my description, Candy. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She rented a small house, bought a cookstove for it and delighted the girls with descriptions of life with the wonderful Golden Gray. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But during the breaks for recreation periods and the midday meal, the other new Twelves were abuzz with descriptions of their first day of training. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Payne’s” height and rugged build clearly match the description of Secretary Seward’s attacker. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

From the description recorded by Gervase, it is possible to pinpoint the sector of the Moon to which the observations refer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jonas Apple grew tired of the books and the waiting, and he asked for a description, every detail Finn could remember, Finn couldn’t remember anything about the man. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Other tempo markings are verbal descriptions which are more relative and subjective. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid had written about them in her letters, and Moon Orchid tried to match them up with the descriptions. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shuddered at the description of the tailor Petrovich’s big toe, “with its deformed nail as thick and hard as the shell of a tortoise.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The interceptors came up with descriptions of the fists and styles of the operators they were following. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“He was born grown up” was her pet description of her willful and self-reliant elder son. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But seeing pictures and descriptions of completed recipes wasn’t helping me think of new ones. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There are too many things wrong with this description for me to actually process it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t exactly telling the truth, but she wasn’t entirely lying, either, for she did not believe that wrong was an accurate description of her feelings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poems of the period were either descriptions of objects, plants, weather conditions, geographical features or emotional states, or they followed a narrative. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I spent the next few months studying the module and memorizing all of its maps and room descriptions, in anticipation of the day I would finally figure out where it was located. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The description that she starts with is her conscious ideal: what she believes she wants when she sits down and thinks about it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

From Eilonwy’s description, and from the massive shadow above, he feared the girl was right. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

In my mind, the teachers who fit that description were the football coaches with the burr haircuts and quick tempers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The dates and places were correct; his description of his boyhood as a typical country idyll was most certainly a fabrication. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But maybe I can go further back, to a less complicated time when cute was an accurate description of my grandfather and Mabel was simply my best friend. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She reads out the descriptions, snorting with stifled laughter: “ ‘Delightfully trimmed in dainty lace, with extra support for the mature figure.’ Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had been writing down everything and had already filled several pages with descriptions and drawings. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Norma was fascinated by my description of the memory, as if it awakened sleeping images. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man paused, seeming to search his mind for the right words of description. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

By his own description he was “very local” and took great pride in never having ventured too far from Monroeville. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the death threats were repeated every day, along with new and colorful descriptions of what would happen if the cream puffs didn’t appear. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what the convent looked like, but he made up a description to entertain the little boy.“Its a castle on a hill,” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wagon was surrounded by dogs of every possible size and description. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visitors also have to be at least eighteen years old with a valid state-issued ID or be accompanied by someone fitting that description. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I did not see the bodies, but in the coming days I read the paralyzing and chilling descriptions in the newspaper. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a good description of him, little lady. I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have not read it myself, but the description on the book seemed very good. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Moorehead’s description of it was enough to last her a lifetime. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hoped at least she'd say something about the poem's descriptions of dusk and moonlight and darkness. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

So far, it ran to minute descriptions of the lush furnishings of Sherry’s house, rhapsodies over Sherry’s exquisite clothes, and course-by-course accounts of fabulous meals consumed by the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His description didn’t match anything we have on file for Day—but the truth is, we know little about what he looks like, except that he’s young, like the kid at the hospital tonight. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly’s lips against mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My family’s letters while I was in prison had included a description of the Muslim home routine, but to truly appreciate it, one had to be a part of the routine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a boy matching the description given out by the dispatcher: approximately five feet tall, ninety pounds, sandy brown hair. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I inspected the descriptions of the animals at the zoo. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Strabo’s terse description of “a public walk and a place furnished with seats, and a large hall” can be interpreted to suggest some sort of ambulatory with alcoves to the side, containing the scrolls. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Second, Jefferson suggested that Adams’s description of aristocratic power was appropriate for Europe, where feudal privileges, family titles, and more limited economic opportunities created conditions that sustained class distinctions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was evident from that description that he wouldn’t be likely to violate southern tradition for my people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Silk Room: a description is in order. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There is no more description of this time in Aziz’s life, because no one ever talked about it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The face is blurry, not that seeing it would help me anyway, this girl I've only met in description. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It fails that test, so it is not a good description of the Universe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But his exhortations toward national unity were less descriptions than anticipations, less reminders of the way we were than predictions of what we could become. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

All the frightful descriptions we had heard about each other, all the violent expressions of hate and hostility that had seeped into us from our surroundings, came now to the surface to guide our actions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hangover tending isn’t part of his job description, but he’s a mother hen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, the description fits State. And Guitar been takin him places. Hidin him, I believe.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was looking for our description. I was wrong to use the road in the first place.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All of the people were required to listen each year, but sometimes mothers protectively covered the ears of their smallest tykes during the description of the Ruin. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No job description meant no job requirements, and this gave me the freedom to choose my agenda. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It takes me a second to register the fact that no one is agreeing with my description. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They would be weighed, measured, at the railroad station or at the dock, and this information would be compared with the descriptions of all other known runaways. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She quoted Frost; she misquoted Stevens; she paraphrased Rilke's description of love. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Terrance continued to advertise for her capture, filling the classifieds in far-off states with her description and details of her crime. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The rules of the game included one piece of paper and a description of a peanut inside and out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He flipped through the pages and saw the detailed descriptions I had of almost every woman I’d ever competed against over the years. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It seems my family has taken to your description of said wondrous outhouse,” Grandpa Firewood said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The interrogation proceeded through a description of the man's appearance, and then the dreaded question came. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Frankie’s blunt words shocked me almost as much as his description of the sweatshops. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were a thousand kids in Texas who fit that description. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, of course, they would have to pass through the marshes themselves, and Strider’s description of them was not encouraging. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the kitchen also contained things that weren’t mentioned in the game’s text description of this room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Books vary widely on their inclusion of cultural information, but some type of description adds tremendously to the value of the book and to the understanding required to evaluate and learn the material. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And the man’s description caused them to include me among their suspects. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He proved his worth as a spy almost immediately, with detailed descriptions of Russia's latest missile systems, the location of missile batteries in Eastern Europe, and technical details about missile launching pads and fuel supplies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But biophysicists were intent on restoring a rigidly mechanistic description to biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, however, my main concern was her description of the crystalline X-ray diffraction pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s cleaner this way. Simpler. No confusing descriptions. No names. No worrying about disguises. Follow the needle, find our man, and have done with it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have guessed Jack Kerouac would be this young, and from her dad’s descriptions she hadn’t pictured him as someone who wore argyle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Price says that well over half of Americans know a Maven, or someone close to the Maven’s description. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman softened his description of Circe, saying simply that she was alive, and taking care of the dogs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Elizebeth later explained, the Atlantic coast alone, “with its coves and inlets, its chopped waterline, with its many secluded spots where boats might secretly dock and unload, created a problem which defied description.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My brother called yesterday and said something similar happened at the hardware store and gave me a description of the same guy. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mammachi wrote to him regularly, with detailed descriptions of her sordid squabbles with her husband and her worries about Ammu’s future. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes reminded me of a description of a gigantic Egyptian eye that was found in one of the pyramids I read about in a book on black magic. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ikner's description of the scene contradicted the assertion that Myers had made at trial about seeing Morrison near the front counter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He might like my descriptions of what I’ve seen on Sagan, but he’s known nothing but this ship for ninety percent of his life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She mirrored his fears with descriptions of contingency arrangements at the hospital—more beds, special courses, emergency drills. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Once when I was in fourth grade, our teacher had made us write descriptions of each other. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

It included a description, photos, and a hangman’s noose. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beneath a fuzzy Xeroxed photo of what appeared to be a chicken was a description of a missing African grey parrot that had flown out of the store when a customer opened the door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And that description of Prince Humperdinck’s Zoo of Death?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Who will make the journey?” asked Tock, who had been listening very carefully to the Humbug’s description. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I’m thinking, the whole day, yesterday and today, I didn’t see one guy that fit the description at the mosque. None of the white guys there have such prominent foreheads.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Eventually, we get down a description of Murphy, and Levi figures out how to upload the pictures. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that was written on the paper might be a threat, a summons, an order to commit suicide, a trap of some description. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had seen Bunny in the post office, in the first week of school, talking rather officiously to a girl of this description. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two gangsters had overheard his description and kicked him mercilessly. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The other thing that made me doubtful about all this had to do with the actual description given by Chrissie and Rodney: their picture of a woman working in a nice glass-fronted office. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morgan had visualized genes as “beads on a string,” but even Morgan had no idea what his description meant in material form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

This will, according to the accompanying description above it, immobilize the entire enemy team for five full seconds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I read the description and the first sentence or two. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

That is a perfect description of sugar Hell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Later the cop made his report at the station house and gave a description of the unconscious man. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the translation of Ptolemy’s Geography there is a record of a terrestrial globe being made in 1443 ‘according to Ptolemy’s description’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He gives a charming picture of Atalanta among the hunters which I have put into my account, but often, as in the description of the boar, he is so exaggerated, he verges on the ridiculous. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after comparing descriptions of the symptoms, they began to disagree on the nature and cause of the illness as well as what to do about it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And then I add, “Maybe it’s your sketchy character descriptions making my artwork sketchy.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This description of physiology—as the exquisite matching of form and function, down to the molecular level—dates back to Aristotle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I worked in three hospitals in the duration—Alder Hey and the Royal East Sussex as well as St. Thomas’s—and I merged them in my description to concentrate all my experiences into one place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had laughed loudly when he read Benton’s description of him as “looking much smarter than he actually is.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In this Vision there is a description of a castle made out of different kinds of food. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In some ways the best description of it would be to say that it looked like a photographer’s negative, for he was seeing one ray beyond the spectrum which is visible to human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clerk said, “That’s not a legal description. It’s barely even a proper address.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed carts and wagons of every size and description—full ones on their way into the city, empty ones coming back. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here are some exceptions to the “before or after” rule for hyphens in two-word descriptions: • If self or quasi is one of the words, always use a hyphen. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no mention in its rosy descriptions of sick lungs or blacklisting or men with wives at Concord. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The books composed of page after page of ink drawings of plants with descriptions of their medical uses. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He recited charges placed against Theo at the time of his arrest, along with the physical descriptions and information available about him. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They inserted “Harvard-educated” in their description of me, but generally left it at that. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The first question to ask yourself is whether the description comes before or after the noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell her about the threesome outside his house yesterday, and how much he liked her description. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inside one I found a picture and a description. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“A description which applies to no one on the train,” said Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider Gaspar de Carvajal, author of the first written description of the Amazon, an account reviled for its inaccuracies and self- serving descriptions almost since the day it was released. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you notice the description? It’s of me, too. She may wear her hair differently and dress differently—she may even have bought a wig. But when you see her you’ll know what I mean.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The descriptions have to be vague, because articulation, besides depending on the instrument, also depends on the style of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Full description of every article, garment, weapon, letter, ring, or trinket is to be sent to Lugbúrz at once, and to Lugbúrz only. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In his own dwelling, there were the necessary reference volumes that each household contained: a dictionary, and the thick community volume which contained descriptions of every office, factory, building, and committee. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

His black eyes meet mine, and his description of himself and his kindred fades from my mind like a dream upon waking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know what I missed about home, insisting on descriptions of anything he wasn’t familiar with. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This accurate description somehow got mistranslated as ‘tube’, but modern medicine seems to be stuck with the inaccurate version of the term.’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the cops said he fit the description of another kid on a bike. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some are large and decorated with flourishes and long descriptions of their contents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She pulled the black book back to her, leafed past the terrifying portrait of the dead thing, and drew the candle closer to read the descriptions of various monsters. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And if I lived in Dickensian England, I would have been thrown into Bedlam, which is more than just a description of madness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His watery eyes drank in the description of the bell, as if he could really hear the deep tolling and the voices keening in the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The other man didn't match the eyewitness descriptions of the person seen leaving the cleaners, and he didn't have our caller's history of stalking, violence against women, and preoccupation with the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

However, this description does not apply to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she, having never been to South Africa, was excited to hear my detailed descriptions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. de Klerk, I said, echoing Mrs. Thatcher’s famous description of Mr. Gorbachev, was a man we could do business with. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The major factor behind these shifts becomes obvious as soon as one compares the modern Fertile Crescent with ancient descriptions of it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only moments ago, he had been looking at the Giant Do-Nut menu, captivated by the glossy pictures of food and the dazzling descriptions that accompanied the pictures. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Do the notes offer a description of the culture, values, customs, historical, geographic, and economic issues that may add to an understanding of the music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The second subsection reviews three issues: the problem of focusing on a description of professional activity rather than an exposition of subject matter, the overuse of apologetic language, and the disadvantages of excessive hedging. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The images are so familiar no description is necessary here. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She glares at me and throws me a few pages of new character descriptions. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A fuller description of all the names and contributors lies outside the purview of this book. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sitting in his car, he quickly finished the paper, which included vital details on plutonium bomb design, as well as a technical description of the uranium bomb used at Hiroshima. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone laughed, and I joined in, not quite certain if the laugh was against me or not, wondering secretly what it was she had expected, and what had been Maxim’s description. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But he still yearned for a more tangible description of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She shook hands very firmly, looking me straight in the eyes, and then she turned to Maxim, “Quite different from what I expected. Doesn’t answer to your description at all.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She would borrow freely from the poems she’d heard, stringing words together like laundry on a line, connecting ideas and descriptions she couldn’t have planned. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With my help, and the help of these brave knights”—that description surprised Fabian and his comrades, I can tell you—“Jacob’s magic can overcome the dragon.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dickey, who was himself a Georgian and knew the area well, swore that his book was a faithful description. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He never flogged me, thank goodness, but I was given a vivid description of one of these ceremonies by my best friend at Repton, whose name was Michael. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the curvature of space-time becomes large, quantum gravitational effects will become important and the classical theory will cease to be a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other versions were much more elaborate, full of descriptions and scraps of dialogue. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have his picture, description, measurements and fingerprints in the event we have cause to apprehend him,” he informed headquarters. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She has us close our eyes while she rereads the description of the hot dog slathered in toppings and wrapped up with crunchy french fries. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He read the book’s description: “Billy wants to be a great quarterback like his hero, Johnny Unitas, but his coach is worried he’ll get hurt.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Among these was an absolute ban on “flying in airplanes of any description,” except with Groves’s explicit consent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

What you will find here is a short list of the most common articulations: their names, what they look like when notated, and a vague description of how they sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dinner was a dizzying blur of names and faces, many of them half-remembered from photographs and my grandfather’s long-ago descriptions. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

However, archaeological excavations, and scrutiny of descriptions left by the very first European explorers on our coasts, now suggest an initial number of around 20 million Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have a better description than 'a woman’?” “She was in silhouette with the sun behind her, but she had nice hair. You know, long, a little wavy. Pretty, like yours.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Freemen informed on their African brothers and sisters, comparing the descriptions of runaways in the gazettes with the furtive creatures slinking around the colored churches, saloons, and meeting houses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He launches into a lively description of Okeus, the vengeful god, who requires sacrifices of tobacco, copper, beads, and sometimes animal blood, and sends punishment if he is not made happy. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

From Ben’s descriptions I knew what it would look like: featureless, grey, and square as a block. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each episode had a little title and a description translated into vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dijksterhuis drew up a description of four hypothetical cars and gave the performance of each of them in four different categories. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel believed in monsters, but some of the descriptions were so wild, she had thought they must be just ridiculous rumors. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had read descriptions of it in the literature. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there’s a significant point to be noted in Cicero’s description. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She smiled at Elinor's descriptions, stroking the bindings before she put the books in the bag. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Each step of the description would be reliving it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I especially admired his description of Daniel in the lions’ den. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A sports column caught his eye, and squinting, he could read the neatly printed description of a noon- recess touch football game. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

By October, KGB officers in Moscow were able to produce a complete report on plutonium bomb design, containing detailed descriptions of each component of the weapon and specific materials needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But inspired or not, I take a deep breath, and read her character descriptions. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The description of Danaë in the wooden chest was the most famous passage of a famous poem by Simonides of Ceos, a great lyric poet who lived in the sixth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Big as a house” was hardly an adequate description to track him down. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I gave a detailed description of the squatting punishments, and another child explained how Mrs. Moss forced her to squat for hours at a time. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But if you remember my description of how Mount Suribachi was taken, you will realize that this flag was not the first one. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My charming friends were devastated by my description of my future. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was no coherent overall description of things to explain what was going on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He wants a family, and there won’t be one. He was a—” Frowning, he searched for the right description. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, reading a graphic description of combat wounds suffered by American soldiers, Gravel began to cry. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I hate imprecise descriptions like lots, few, and hardly any. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m working up with the foregoing to a physical description of myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She could find descriptions of phenomena in ancient writings—the Green Phoenix stories, “The Seven Strange Tales of the Golden Bottle,” “What Confucius Did Not Talk About.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if they weren't there, the container might still hold a clue that could help us find Nergal, something the police might have overlooked because investigating ancient monsters wasn't part of their job description. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He would be giving them a description, asking them to help find her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And that’s a problem because when it comes to faces, we are an awful lot better at visual recognition than we are at verbal description. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There were no numerals around the face, but descriptions of where each family member might be. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Buckingham Palace is big—so big that it almost defies description. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Gracious me, this packet is thick; I’ve got less than ten minutes to prepare all the scenes and I’ve barely made it past the character descriptions. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But more recently a lucky accident uncovered the fact that Friedmann’s assumption is in fact a remarkably accurate description of our universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first book on Philadelphia’s plague, and while Currie did not call it yellow fever, his description of the fever’s symptoms is detailed and accurate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t have to go to much trouble to deduce it myself,” said the far-sighted civilian, “based on your friend’s description.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So Heisenberg moved on to an even more advanced description of S-matrix theory. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he undoubtedly thought this description cast a wide and inclusive net that pulled in residents from all the regions or sections of the United States, it did not include all inhabitants. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hugo thought about his father’s description of the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Zalmay walked up and down the aisles, checking out different games, reading the descriptions and the reviews. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I did this slowly and carefully, because I was pretty sure it contained a detailed description of everything I was about to face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A basic description of the Scientific Revolution is to say that it represented a successful rebellion by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers, and of both against the authority of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Others seem to have performed the experiment entirely independently, on the basis only of written descriptions—Henry Power, for example. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Could there be more descriptions of offices and factories and committees? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Top of page one hundred and twelve. The description of the shield of Achilles.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ashima writes back with careful descriptions of her son, reporting the circumstances of his first smile, the day he first rolls over, his first squeal of delight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have given a good description of the agent,” I said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this matched the module description exactly, with one huge difference. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

An illustrated version of Lucretia's image appeared in the press with descriptions of her as a "self-sacrificing wife" and admirable mother and friend. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Certainly his woman, no woman, fitted that description. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he recognized the object pointed at him from books and Dad’s descriptions. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a description in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! Mr. Lovegood, you need to get rid of it straightaway, don’t you know it can explode at the slightest touch?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

First, colonial descriptions of Native Americans are among the few glimpses we have of Indians whose lives were not shaped by the presence of Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of the hardest things to figure out with hyphens is how to use them in two-word descriptions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Anna’s case, the doctors had not reported any indications of this, and from all the descriptions of the crime scene there had been no trail of blood from the car down to the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We just sent someone to the infirmary who matches that description. Maybe that was your man?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the game’s simple two-sentence room descriptions were able to conjure up vivid images in my mind’s eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We moved through the streets in silence, listening to the newsman’s descriptions of the crowds gathering at Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He so filled every instant of my life, that now my feeling of desolation passes all description.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered, from his reading, descriptions of besieged medieval castles, and armies of men with bows sending so many arrows that the sky seemed thick with them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

This is all quite fascinating, but over the next six pages the paragraphs jump around between descriptions of the Cossacks’ way of war and still more exegesis of Clausewitz. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He said he’s pretty sure what’s going on from my description, hut he wants to meet with you first. He’ll be back next week, and your father and I will drive you down.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The people couldn’t help but listen, mesmerized by his terrifying descriptions of those dark days. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Fog, cloud cover, blizzard conditions, rain, and foul weather of every description often hid the sun and stars from Worsley’s sight. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As far as person went, she answered point for point, both to my picture and Mrs. Fairfax’s description. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If you were a bit more conscientious about doing the laundry, the description of that sheet would be somewhat different.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai listened coldly to a description of his swimming prizes and the badges he won in the Scouts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tomb’s layout and contents continued to match the module description exactly, down to the last detail. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I know I didn’t see any boy like that this morning, but something about the description feels familiar. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Here is the advertisement. From the description, no one could possibly mistake you.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

While intended as a libelous description, Adams’s choice of words was literally correct. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Marlene launches into a description of the simulations, and I let her voice, and Caleb’s voice, wash over me as I finish my sandwich. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

According to the artifact’s item description, it could create a spherical shield around itself, with a circumference of up to half a kilometer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We closed our eyes when listening to the descriptions of the twelve delicious dishes representing the twelve apostles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Strabo offers the best surviving description of the city in its heyday. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Politics on occasion crept into the dialogue, much like an exotic plant growing amid descriptions of vetch as the ideal rotation crop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The italicized language in the description of the referenced text exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of the most vivid descriptions of the Great Molasses Flood would be written by the Boston Post. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Every time something like this happens, I go to accounting for every person I know who also fits the description, who it could’ve been. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt’s notebook became filled with detailed descriptions of the physical characteristics and habits of the wildlife he observed. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The police summon William Bell, the young black servant who had given the description to the station. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered how she’d nearly wept with envy at Dympna’s description of having to spend the night in the back of a Fox Moth and nearly freezing to death. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Their description hardly matches. I fear they might be rather startled.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finding the Colonel’s French to be of a severely limited description, Poirot conducted his interrogation in English. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the molecular description of the gene clarified the mechanism of the transmission of heredity, it only deepened the puzzle that had preoccupied Thomas Morgan in the 1920s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It is simply a matter of which is the more useful description. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance brightened at once and launched into an animated description of the house: the history, the architecture, the furnishings. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He transformed Yakov’s death into cheap, pulpy entertainment with his lurid descriptions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But while this description of the mechanism of heredity solved Mendel’s question—how does like beget like?—it failed to solve Darwin's converse riddle: How does like beget unlike? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The field of ethnomusicology is well positioned to contribute toward multicultural and diversity education, and, after a brief description of ethnomusicology, its tenets will be applied towards an examination of them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, I wrote, The descriptions of the dinners really describe greed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day, leafing through Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy, I found, in his description of the scholarship boy, myself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Do you know of anyone connected with the Armstrong case who answers to that description—small, dark, womanish voice?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I decided to do a description of the garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It was probably in the descriptions Gaea provided. You know, for the bounty, Percy Jackson.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was an impossibly complex and gruesome plan, likely beyond the powers of anyone to execute, but his description is noteworthy for what it revealed, without his intention, about his astigmatic soul. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’ll give you a brief description of the various subjects we touched on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Apparently there had been a bank robbery in the area, and Bobby fit the description of the robber. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the extraordinary thing was that people began to look like their descriptions—-for a few minutes, at least. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So I feigned interest in flowery descriptions of thwarted romance and complicated sacrifice all the way back to the main road, where Lula turned off to her house while Travis strenuously waved goodbye. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Even from your scant description, I know that I could not bear the routine and humdrum of the life that you are forced to lead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when we were reading yet another description of a character with skin the color of caramel or chocolate, Elle pointed out that people aren’t edible. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He takes the pages inscribed with her handwriting, descriptions of striped tents and star-speckled skies, and folds them into birds, letting them fly around the empty flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, leave me alone with your descriptions,” grumbled Powell. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I flip the book over and start to read the description on the back. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the quarter had any magical properties, they weren’t revealed in its item description, which was completely empty. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No one here has seen it yet, but we’ve heard it’s an album of all our photographs with a description of how the movement got started. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were working for the Man in an unequal, sometimes unjust society—I doubt that many would quibble with that description. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I particularly enjoyed your description of me as an obsolete dingbat.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A detached description of his physical features would have made him sound like an ugly, misshapen oaf: pockmarked face, decayed teeth, oversized eye sockets, massive nose, heavy in the hips, gargantuan hands and feet. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

All of it he finds beautiful beyond description, and yet at the same time it depresses him that none of it is new to Moushumi, that she has seen it all hundreds of times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I studied the map of the tomb and the descriptions of its many rooms. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I realize this isn’t a very clear description of our seating arrangements, but it doesn’t matter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sleep’s abode with its charming details shows Ovid’s power of description. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the parking lot, when Shawn had shown me this hold, I’d moved only a little, responding more to his description than to any physical necessity. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but——” She stopped suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

This, Mr. Byerley, is a court order authorizing me to search these premises for the presence of illegal...uh...mechanical men or robots of any description.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

For some reason my irreverent description of Auntie Braxton’s house triggered Call. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cari rounded out the description with an impression of their teacher, who sounded formal but kind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are tons of photographs and descriptions of places. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He was a strong and gifted athlete, charming, smart, and immensely good-looking–"handsome almost to a fault," in the description of William H. Cropper, "an Adonis" in the words of another admirer. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Based on the witnesses’ descriptions of size and the shape of the dorsal fin, area experts were trying to identify the type of shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

After I had exhibited my new weapon at school, a description of it spread among the boys. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne sang with false joy, “What a perfect description of me. Yes. That’s how a dictionary would define me.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I add, “I think we’ll still have to put the description underneath, so the category’s clear, but I think that’s a good title.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I thought that with this description I could find the house, so, having paid my friend for his information, I started off for Piccadilly. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was literally overwhelmed when, in reading the works of Russian revolutionists, I came across descriptions of the “holiday energies of the masses,” “the locomotives of history,” “the conditions prerequisite for revolution,” and so Forth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he'd ask me for a more detailed description and was relieved when he crossed the room and removed Beth from her case. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This caused him to mistrust all purely rational descriptions of human behavior as incompatible with the more passionate stirrings he felt within his own personality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I do not think words can do justice to a description of the foulness and filthiness of this bedding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Asta’s son. That’s not a name. It’s a description. Were you never,” he said, “christened with a name of your own?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The description of the expedition was published, and devoured by the young Champollion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A member of the Central Committee of the Communist party rose and gave a description of the world situation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment we entered, a spotlight took turns highlighting each piece of equipment on the racks of the curved walls, while a narrator’s voice gave a detailed description. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yeah, they most likely linked us to the tied-up store worker, got our descriptions, and maybe they even knew we were from the Lighthouse, but it’s not like we’d hurt anybody really. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The woman behind him, a tiny old lady who, to me, fit the description of the perfect grandmother—small, wrinkly, glasses, and feisty as hell—slapped him on the back of the head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

People passing by our village say they have seen someone fitting Pa’s description. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I nearly died, since that particular page contained a rather unflattering description of her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

That comparison was also a pretty good description of his personality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had read descriptions of scenes like this in books and it all seemed like a game to me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I read carefully through the descriptions, looking for anything that sounded familiar, let alone plausible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of the five African groups, representatives of many populations of blacks and whites are familiar to Americans and Europeans and need no physical description. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that many people on the continent only knew about the ANC from the PAC’s description of us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have guessed Jack Kerouac would be this young, and from her dad’s descriptions she hadn’t pictured him as someone who wore argyle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Horace took a piece of paper from his pocket and read a detailed description of Cathy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as he found a way he’d call the cops and give our description and they’d be out looking for us for real. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

According to the auction description, the tablet was a flat circle of polished black stone, and it had one very simple power. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I definitely fit the description of the ugly duckling in makeover movies, except that those girls were actually gorgeous actresses disguised by poorly framed glasses. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After the fifth door closed in my face, it dawned on me that come tomorrow, I might finally find out whether Frankie’s description of the textile mills had been true. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this mathematical description has no intuitive meaning; it is all but impossible to visualize what these wave functions are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The guards below were moving along the rows of shackled captives, trying to match them to the driver’s paperwork by name or description. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When a description strays too far, the sentence becomes awkward and hard to read. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turned to the second chapter, the one about Prince Humperdinck and the little kind of tantalizing description of the Zoo of Death. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A sound without cognate and so without description. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was all magnificent beyond description; what they could see of it in the dim light of the lamps. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The most he could tell me was that a description of the a-helix would soon be published. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He was not at all like the descriptions I grew up hearing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The italicized language in the description of the referenced email exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, artistic creation is too subtle and intimate an experience to permit an exact step-by-step description. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usual description of the duel’s location—the plains of Weehawken—is misleading. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The collection of maps provides a complete description of the surface. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby is better at this than I am—she launches into a really detailed description of everyone’s costumes, while my mom brings over this epic plate of snacks from the counter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On the ballot in November 1867, the men in Kansas faced two referendums, one that deleted the word “white” from the description of voters and a second that deleted the word “male.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But soon after her description of the incident, the interview ended. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Did the alert give a description or include our pictures? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From the rooftops I could already tell that there were about a dozen bars that matched the location and his description—here on the ground, I count out nine of them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Listening to quiet, miserable voices is in his job description. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For understandable reasons, Claire did not spend much time observing the burning buildings around her, so her description of what happened is limited. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

While aboard the train, Burnham wrote a letter to Olmsted that contained a less-than-candid description of the meeting with the architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“At the beginning of the description of the Count’s wife—her Christian name, to be exact. But I confess that I still do not see the point.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realizes that everyone else has a name — like Oscar, or Snuffy — but he has only a description. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police in that nearby town had surely circulated our general descriptions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the routine of checking the reports, McShane came across the description. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no instructions, and the item description field was blank. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That’s a fair description of what happens to these quirky folks. Review | It’s been 18 years since Elizabeth McCracken’s last novel. ‘Bowlaway’ was worth the wait. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

For a period of time, she was, according to the description of one friend, like something from "a zombie movie". Susannah Cahalan: 'What I remember most vividly are the fear and anger' 2013-01-13T00:05:41Z

I found that the descriptions of the snowy landscape were particularly good, but the descriptions of Rome aren't bad either. Operation Code-Breaker by Ilkka Remes - review 2013-05-22T08:00:00Z

There are also descriptions of lightness and darkness – some seen through the lens of khat – that contribute verbally to this monochromatic scheme. "Faya Dayi" presents a luminous yet hazy day in the life of Ethiopia colored by khat 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

Here, for instance, is a throwaway description of two Italian servant girls, who slept on twin beds in a little attic cubby: The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

He explained that the breathless second movement was like a combination of Bulgarian folk dance and bebop, a succinct, perceptive description. Review: Chamber Music Society Performs Ligeti’s Trio 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The subhead on the flyleaf explains it as “a book of 200 embroidery stitches, old and new, with descriptions, diagrams and samplers.” | Follow the Grid 2010-11-23T14:38:00Z

"This will become the most collectible beer can in American history," the description of the product further promised. Trump's mugshot and "Dumb Donald": How beer labels are doubling as political discourse 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Instead of writing a technical, qualitative description of the opera he simply wrote what he thought of the singers, very similar to Instagram.” When opera singers were media stars (and when Instagram wasn't a thing) 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

You have some wonderful descriptions of music — that the music of the Delta region is "as heavy as the air." "Levon didn't write songs. I gave him credit": Robbie Robertson on The Band's disputes and new film 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

It represents artists, designers, artisans, D.I.Y. improvisers and people engaged in various combinations of those already fuzzy job descriptions, toiling in ways that blur aesthetics, sociology and philosophy. Art Review: Visual Culture Out of Africa 2010-12-02T23:49:00Z

Although camp is difficult to define, it probably doesn't need much description. LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Her table was the first of this description that I remember to have seen.” Doughnuts in New York City from Carpe Donut NYC to Pies 'N' Thighs 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

The artists’ countries of origin are not mentioned in the descriptions next to their work, as if encouraging the viewer to see the art in a continental rather than national context. Pan-African exhibition seeks to herald continent's art scene 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It may be short on description, but this still remains one of the most potent end-of-the-world stories, somehow ingrained in my childhood. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z

But if his finessing gifts of physical description are those of a rarefied aesthete, the cumulative effect is foursquare and convincing. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

The trademark description suggests an interactive site "providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards" and "online facilities for real-time interaction with other computer users concerning topics of general interest." JK Rowling to reveal secret of 'Pottermore' 2011-06-22T17:32:12Z

That was never in the job description, but it is too much of who I am. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The descriptions of Ivan and Ida’s psychological battles are among the most satisfying passages in the book. Review: ‘Lightless,’ About the Bratty Machine on a Spaceflight 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The description of Damien Davis’s “Little Penny Collector,” a huge, seemingly abstract wooden jigsaw puzzle, does not tell all. Grown-Up Art at a Children’s Museum. But It’s Still Playtime. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Arlo Parks wrote her own job description into the closing song on “Collapsed in Sunbeams,” her debut album. Arlo Parks Offers Solace Without Illusions on Her Debut Album 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The clothing is a public “second skin” — an outward sign of an inward life, which is a pretty good description of most works of art. 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s an apt description of this Philadelphia-based songwriter and guitarist’s vibe, amiable and hypnotic, the songs alone seemingly capable of producing a contact high. Kurt Vile turns out ‘fried or sizzled out’ rock tunes 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

He contacts her through Facebook and then visits her house, where they have a bizarre, stilted interaction that defies description. TV's best new taboo-busting comedy 2010-06-26T23:01:00Z

Thrilling description captures the movement and sounds as well as the shapes of the landscape. Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2013-03-11T13:41:42Z

Aldean said the album's title track "Night Train" was a perfect description of his career right now. After the party, Jason Aldean rides "Night Train" for success 2012-10-19T21:18:08Z

Mr. Santangelo, the lawyer, said that he had urged Christie’s to alter any descriptions that were “potentially misleading the public” about Shen, including its claim that the dinosaur was “54 percent represented by bone density.” Christie’s Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for ‘Further Study’ 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

At first glance, Be My Eyes is a chance for anyone to help the blind or visually disabled people, but perhaps a better description for this experience is charitable reciprocation. I tried Be My Eyes, the popular app that pairs blind people with helpers 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

This is also a fair description of much of “Figuring.” Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Responding police saw a man in the area matching a description provided by the alarm company and stopped to talk with him. Police: Man uses Bobcat to break into store, steal deodorant 2012-05-11T12:48:00Z

The inside pages feature cute daisy pictures along with descriptions of gas grills followed by “See, it’s not that complicated, is it?” Style Invitational Week 1338: Picture this 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

Beautiful illustrations showcase the descriptions, which are supplemented by additional details at the end of the book. NW Books: Arab-Indian hactivism, genies, what more? 2013-04-09T15:01:05Z

A product from a British shoe company listed on Amazon appeared to use the N-word in its product color description, a tweet showed. Amazon removes shoe with racial slur in product description 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

When Miriam marries an Irish folk singer, this book leaps into an eagle-eyed description of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z

Even the description in the paragraph above was nothing more than window dressing. Frankenstein's Army trailer: a treat for you reanimated killer Nazi fans 2013-07-16T16:55:48Z

The statement is made as clinically as any other job description. The new normal: why television has chosen to humanize sex workers 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

As the lot description cautions, “Don’t forget your swimsuit!” Don’t Miss Your Chance to Have a Hot Tub Party with a Star Architect 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Lustig's description is a more specialised one, recalling the tradition of "behaviourism" in psychology. Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z

Roffey excels equally at the hands-on descriptions of yachting, the intricacies of island navigation, the beauty and terror of the sea, and the inner life of her rudderless protagonist. Archipelago by Monique Roffey - review 2012-07-27T21:54:00Z

Some of the best scenes in the novel are its descriptions of failures, deprivations and frustrations. Review | In Michael Crummey’s ‘The Innocents,’ two orphans in a remote corner of the world learn to survive 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

When I finally did go to , I watched it with one hand blocking part of the screen, as my braver companion, Mary Corliss, whispered descriptions of the uggy stuff I’d just missed. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z

But the element that distinguishes "Shop" is content: The CBG editors have written introductions to, and descriptions of, hundreds of comics, and the guide contains an eye-popping 130,000 books. Comics: 'Christmas Classics' festive, but not schmaltzy 2010-12-21T21:51:27Z

That thumbnail description backs us into the show’s main themes. ‘Physical’ Review: Feeling the Sick Burn 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, now 76 and by his own description laid low by cancer, said he kept the tapes at his downtown loft with a vague notion of someday using them for his memoirs. Howard Smith’s Interviews From the ’60s to Be Released 2012-11-18T23:00:19Z

I am reminded suddenly of King Lear’s description of his daughter Cordelia: “Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.” Terrified of public speaking? Start with what you really want to say 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

The decor inside is unassuming, but don’t let that put you off – “honest” is a better description, for this is a real Paris bistro bar and there is nothing contrived about its appearance. Favourite Paris bistros: readers’ travel tips 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

It's not the most flattering description of your own film. Ben Stiller and Chris Rock: 'We don't order dolphin soup any more' 2012-10-11T14:29:00Z

Universal called the descriptions “offensive” and said it regrets and apologizes for being associated in any way. Universal distances itself from ‘Compton’ casting 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

And then I look at some of your descriptions and I realise I only had a bunch of nebulous thoughts. Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?' 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

The real outrage lies in the no-bid contract’s job description: assessing “how Seattle neighborhoods have become more sustainable in the past 20 years.” College costs too high? Sort through your drawers 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Ruskin's descriptions of the art he admired urged imitation, but not of a literal sort. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Hundreds of plants are indexed along with descriptions, photographs, recipes. T Magazine: The Forager Handbook 2011-03-14T13:35:44Z

To see how much more legible it is than Chekhov’s fiction, compare their respective descriptions of the yards of buildings. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Regardless of whether you interpret that description as comforting or saccharine, it is not necessarily a style you would associate with a show about a Weimar-era vocal group split apart by the rise of Nazism. Review: In ‘Harmony,’ a Band’s Success Collides With History 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

The late Farley’s sad description of his style was often “fatty falls down.” Aidy Bryant doesn’t think ‘fat’ is a bad word. Her show ‘Shrill’ proves it. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Where the book is undeniably explicit is in its descriptions of boys' thoughts and impressions of sex. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z

Mr. Chabon’s writing is elegant and vivid, as are his descriptions of Pittsburgh. What to Read Before You Head to Pittsburgh 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

In this context of ignorance it seems worthwhile to look into the case of Ben Jonson's "studying chair", a piece of early literary furniture of which there is a brief and almost contemporary description. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z

Rachel Delphia, a decorative-arts curator at the Carnegie, said in a recent phone interview that she was particularly fond of a custodial staff member’s description of the piece: “It looks like a steampunk jellyfish.” Antiques: Historical Hair Locks Selling at Auctions 2012-12-13T22:46:41Z

Paige’s treatment of Arnold is appalling, but her descriptions of the suffering she and Max endured and her eager, even giddy embrace of Max’s transformation softens our censure. Review: ‘Hir’ Sorts Through a Family in Transition 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

That is a description that might, with some modification, apply to several other Film Comment selections. Critic’s Notebook: Film Comment Selects Festival Offers 22 Intriguing Picks 2014-02-13T22:30:25Z

Glenconner’s descriptions of these difficult times are evidence of the grit that underlies her genteel affect. The Sometimes Amusing, Sometimes Appalling Life of a Lady-in-Waiting 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Zimmerman, a historian of education at the University of Pennsylvania who previewed an early draft of the PEN report, called it “the single best description and analysis of these laws.” Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

“Reflection of Evil” doggedly defies conventional plot description. On Netflix, a Genuine Nail-Biter, and on Amazon, a Genuine Eccentric 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Unabashedly ludicrous; worth reading for the apartment description alone. In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Under his name, a description was added reading “ugly sweater.” Chick-fil-A customer identified as 'Ugly Sweater' by cashier, take-out ticket shows: 'I wasn't offended' 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Items like receipts, correspondence with the hotel or merchant, or website screen grabs that detail the experience promised, as well as written descriptions and photos, are helpful in conducting the review.” How to Pivot From a Dud of a Destination 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Among my favorite passages in “No Stopping Us Now” are descriptions of spinsters. Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

According to the product descriptions, the linens are "finished with clean edges" and are all made of 100% cotton. Chip and Joanna Gaines are launching a bed linens collection 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Some of the descriptions still apply to the place today – houses "where hang at open doors the net and cork", marshland with "samphire banks and saltwort", tarry boats and rounded flints. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z

It’s just a visual description of exactly what happens. A Killing Spree Ignored for Decades 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

The songs that address aging are defiant in their descriptions, and specific enough to seem inextricably tied with her own life. REVIEW: Tori Amos Creates Her Own Mythology on Unrepentant Geraldines 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The question was about her makeup style, but her answer was a pretty good description of Ms. Crowley herself: direct, driven and just a little competitive. The Power Couple of the New York Tech Scene 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

There are brief, boilerplate descriptions of most societies, plus a few essays and lesson plans written by anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. The Unfinished Work of Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Nor does she shy away from the gossipy comments members sometimes made about one another, such as Lange’s description of Adams as loudmouthed and unattractive. Review: ‘Group f.64,’ by Mary Street Alinder celebrates photography’s revolutionaries 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

But both singers, now in their mid-20s, began working with the festival — and with Mr. Blier, a vocal coach at Juilliard — soon after arriving in New York, when the description “beginners” was more applicable. Music Review: They?re Young, Even if They Aren?t Beginners 2010-10-20T21:28:00Z

Then, on Sunday evening, the FBI announced it had found human remains in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest consistent with descriptions of Petito. How “Only Murders” foreshadowed the Gabby Petito media circus and citizen sleuthing 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

It’s compulsively readable, too, with descriptions of feats of physical daring to stop your heart. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Even his cult hit “Superstar,” which used Barbie dolls to tell the story of Karen Carpenter’s losing battle with anorexia, fits that description. Television: ?Mildred Pierce?: A Mother?s House of Love and Hurt 2011-03-20T02:30:05Z

But “solid core” usually shows up in product descriptions only for the composite sinks, especially when they are made with acrylic or other plastic resins and are not mostly stone. How to remove a stain from a composite sink 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

And I think it's a very apt description and we find a lot of people kind of feel similarly. Show runners examine the ever-changing television landscape 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Nina liked the radical use of “a” endings in the Norwegian and the descriptions of nature. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Which means that even here, where the images are often predictable, every description has a supernatural glow. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z

And his description of the dumps he fought in early in his career is comically vivid. Theater Review: ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater 2012-08-03T02:00:00Z

Dart said in both those cases, the families' descriptions did not suggest young men who would have willingly disappeared. Dozens come forward to help ID Gacy victims 2011-10-18T12:42:00Z

So . . . studios can write out a description track but not open captions? What's so hard about making movies accessible? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

That might be an apt description of the men of “Ballers,” a show so macho and glitzy that it makes me laugh. Rob Corddry and the Healing Power of Laughter 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Take, for instance, this description of Juliet eating her lunch outside in the chill London spring: Review | Kate Atkinson’s new spy novel toys with our expectations 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Perhaps “Agon” and the Violin Concerto fit that description. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z

But the execution doesn’t live up to the description. Television Review: ‘Owner’s Manual,’ a Reality Show, Makes Its Debut on AMC 2013-08-14T23:04:16Z

Marc loves science fiction, and candidly, “loves” seems rather too mild a description. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Those mysterious fluctuations of air will forever resist description — so instead, we tend to chat about who made the music, whom they made it for, whom it’s being marketed to and how. Perspective | Burna Boy is an ‘African Giant’ with a sound that defies geography 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The hourlong interview also includes graphic descriptions of Daniels’ 2006 sexual encounter with Trump — details she said supports the veracity of her claims. Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, once foes, talk Trump 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Interspersed throughout are brief descriptions of Ettore’s photographs, which become a material plot point that draws him and Hirut together decades later, while also working as a canny literalization of the Homeric metaphor. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

That description was revised in the program book to account for the fact that two, perhaps three, of the four works had nothing at all to do with locations. Music Review: Red Light New Music Plays Christopher Cerrone - Review 2011-10-08T00:56:13Z

The general audience at Versailles is touristic and some visitors might have difficulty in identifying each piece from the written descriptions. Style: At Versailles, Rock 'N' Rococo 2011-07-11T13:01:16Z

Accessibility is important; audio description is an ingredient at select performances at Danspace Project where dreaming of an audience — and taking care of it — is no longer just a dream but a reality. Making Dance Out of Survival Skills and Reckoning With Grief 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Moustakis fuses piercing description with blunt dialogue to explore the perpetuation of a family's snarled-up legacies of self-sufficiency, betrayal, psychological damage, physical abuse and loyalty through three generations. Alaska books: Bearing down on hope, survival 2011-12-01T00:43:04Z

“An artist of sound and light and electricity. And a maverick. Definitely a maverick. That would be a pretty good description.” The man who tried to contact aliens from his grandma's living room 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

Here is Morris, in one of his typically well-tuned descriptions, relaying the sight of this gender-bending charismatic galloping across the world of George Washington: How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Consider the hardly clandestine, popular imagery of the Black Other lurking in the monster’s description: his staggering frame, destructive strength, and the ever-present threat of sexual deviance. ‘The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster’ Review: Death Transforms Her 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

That’s not a bad description of this stylish narrator, too, who keeps the story sliding along so quickly that you’ll barely notice his sleight of hand. Review | In ‘Here We Are,’ Booker Prize winner Graham Swift casts a spell 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Barrie’s novel was published in 1911, and it’s interesting to follow the transformation of that myth, which is less a realistic description of childhood than a picture of how awful the adults are. “Why grow up?” is a political question: Our cult of youth is no accident — and it has dire consequences 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The exhibition explains how the 1860 delegates’ descriptions of American wonders like railroads and steamships set off a wave of immigration. Antiques: Happy Sales: Christie?s Auctions Roy Rogers Items 2010-07-08T21:30:00Z

This recipe is the perfect description of what McGarry does: reinventing classic desserts and taking them to soaring new heights. How to make a delicious cheesecake without hours of work or a springform pan, revealed 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

The description gained wider acceptance in 1926, when the writer and artist Jean Cocteau used it as the title for a collection of essays on Classicism. Big Rethinking: Classicism in the U.K. After World War I 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

They will post a name, a few digits of a phone number, an email address or a physical description, along with the details of their experience with the client. A BDSM blacklist 2012-06-03T01:00:00Z

“Everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers,” he said as a description. John Oliver on cryptocurrency: 'You’re not investing, you’re gambling' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

But then we stumbled upon florid descriptions of the BAM in old Soviet Life propaganda magazines and were intrigued. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z

Following are descriptions of the two pilot programs: T.S.A. Testing 2 Technologies to Speed Airport Screening 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Female office workers were generally asked for fetch coffee, run errands, and write letters for their male bosses — all responsibilities that would fall outside their job descriptions if they even had one. New doc "9to5" spotlights the women who rose up against sexism and harassment at work in the 1970s 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

The swoon-worthy descriptions of his verdant surroundings helped me see my own with new eyes. How I found solace in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory during the pandemic 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

"Not necessarily just the music but contributions by many people who were involved that give a good description of the time and period of how life was then." The Clash is back, at least with a box set 2013-09-20T16:55:50Z

The lists are the same, except for the fuller descriptions on the English version. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Others were closer to the polished product of a review, combining physical description with stabs at interpretation. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Even the description of oneself as being 'authentic' is unbelievably arrogant – and, in the case of so-called 'period' performance, misguided. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

In the video’s description, the group wrote, “Both tunes’ divergent traits presented challenges. Watch Adele's 'Hello' Mixed With Mozart in 'Chello' Mashup 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Few, if any, of the 34 clients for whom Mr. Robinson is currently designing houses, fit that description, he said. Curtains Up for the One Percent 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

The committee summarized the job description with five bullet points: musicianship, leadership, vision, motivation and evangelism. San Francisco Symphony Lands a Disrupter: Esa-Pekka Salonen 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

That isn’t a half-bad description of the structure of the work, which begins with jittery, muscular activity and the sounds of factories and cars — the stuff of the earlier city symphonies. Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The aforementioned astronaut, astrophysicist, Marine Corp veteran and Olympic cyclist hardly fit that description. Mansplaining: how not to talk to female Nasa astronauts 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The A&E program, in contrast, treated us to the sight of JonBenet’s bruised, discolored neck while we heard this description: Trying to Make JonBenet Ramsey Must-See TV, Again 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The description was consistent, I told them, with my own experience. Stuff white people like: Yoga, tacos and pretending the white supremacy that fuels cultural appropriation doesn’t exist 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Curatorial teams from many museums are offering to interview donors about their materials and experiences, and encourage donors to include detailed descriptions and back stories when submitting objects and records for consideration. This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

The other end is seen and heard in Ellie’s unceasing line of goofy banter, as when she teases Joel’s poetic description of proper rifle-handling by asking, “You gonna shoot this thing or get it pregnant?” ‘The Last of Us,’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Ties That Bind 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

The description following “soufflé,” for instance, includes “Need oven!” which is another way of luring guests back for one once the restaurant acquires the right equipment. Review | From start to finish, A Rake’s Progress tastes like a keeper 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Baxter characterizes Camp Victory in Iraq as a place with “a stupefying lack of drama,” which proves to be an apt description of his novel’s plot as well. Books of The Times: ‘The Apartment,’ a Debut Novel by Greg Baxter 2013-12-10T22:30:31Z

She was a woman in full, and by her own description, she was profoundly regular. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

This adds to those short descriptions found in film listings – "contains strong language" for instance – and reads like the film notes of your most precise and sex-obsessed friend. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z

It is a description of the plot of Ravel's opera. Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment 2012-07-27T21:49:01Z

The description on the auction says "No Rev-A, Round SOQ," which is likely confusing to people unfamiliar with video game history. Rare 'Zelda' Nintendo game selling for over $100,000 at auction 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Here's a reproduction, with some description courtesy of SAM: "The Visitation," ca. Holy acquisitions! SAM's new paintings 2011-12-22T20:04:56Z

It's a bit annoying to be honest because it's so accurate a description that it sort of renders anything else we say them about sort of pointless. All We Are – Utmost Good: New music 2013-05-06T07:00:13Z

I wouldn’t spoil the details of his tall tale if I could; it runs on a free-associative logic that description doesn’t do justice, yet it makes perfect emotional sense. ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Gives Us the Jerks We Deserve 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

The singer bursts into laughter at his own description. 'David Lynch, the Musical'? Not quite, but close, in 'Artaud in the Black Lodge' 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

What we get instead is a tepid description of a woman passing through a series of events. Author of ‘The Paris Wife’ reimagines the world of aviator Beryl Markham 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

This isn't quite the standard cinematic template for the superhero genre, although one could be forgiven for thinking that given the plot description. Tom Hardy singlehandedly saves “Venom” from the trash pile of bad standalone superhero movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

A disembodied voice read out a description of each look - old-school haute couture style - as the models alighted from the scaffolding and ambled around the showroom. Men in skirts, shiny silks at Paris menswear shows 2011-06-24T00:33:10Z

Chairish also edits your photos and descriptions to help your furniture sell. Selling your used furniture? These companies can make it easier. 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

The original description was spotted by Adrienne Keene, a writer who posted it last month on Native Appropriations, a site dedicated to fighting Native American stereotypes. Netflix Changes 'Pocahontas' Description After Complaints It's Sexist 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The documents contain the first proper and detailed description of what is now one of the most popular exhibits in the V & A – Tipu's Tiger. Tipu Sultan papers reveal wealth of spoils after India siege 2012-07-09T15:59:17Z

“We never came up with a better title. Basically, it was always called ‘The Daily Show’ because it was a description of what we were doing,” said Smithberg. Look back in laughter: ‘The Daily Show’ celebrates at 25 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

“This central blurriness in the midst of hypercharged description, furthered by a non-chronological structure, is both fascinating and confounding. It is also, I think, exactly the tantalizingly elusive effect Tallent intends.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Fidler said it appeared she was charged because she was the only Asian member of the so called "Bling Ring" and matched a vague description of one of the Lohan burglars. Judge tosses charge in alleged celebrity burglary 2010-11-19T23:14:00Z

Don’t accept guidance from anyone who fits the description of “office mother hen.” Carolyn Hax: Disapproving of wife’s alcohol addiction, but unwilling to walk away

His début review for the Herald Tribune dismisses Sibelius’s Second Symphony as “vulgar, self-indulgent, and provincial beyond all description.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

And the fabrics resisted an easy thumbnail description. On the Runway Blog: In London, Burberry Hints at a Sports-Couture Theme 2011-09-19T21:24:54Z

The job description sounds like an experiment that psychology researchers administer to naive students. The Woman in the Fifth: L'amour and la mort in Paris 2012-06-14T17:45:32Z

Many of the works demonstrate a similar logic, reducing or transforming the description into a completely abstract representation. Last Chance: ‘Raw/Cooked: Ulrike Müller’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-06T22:21:20Z

The painting fit the size and description of one listed in Kahnweiler’s records titled “Tableau Obscène.” Inside Art: The Met Will Show a Picasso He Disowned 2010-04-08T20:29:00Z

Is it really so difficult to accept that one failing of an artwork—if Greenwald’s description is in fact correct—does not disqualify it for being praised for its triumphs? The Zero Dark Thirty Argument: Why Deceptive Art Can Be Great 2012-12-11T16:10:11Z

The museum subsequently revised the description linked in the listing, which now says that it seeks to “welcome and embrace a more diverse audience” while maintaining the museum’s “traditional core art audience.” Charles Venable Resigns as Head of Indianapolis Museum of Art 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Probably an apt description, based on this item by Michael Upchurch, which will run in the Sunday paper. Marquee of the day / Broadway Performance Hall 2011-09-28T19:27:06Z

Taking a cue from a July Wall Street Journal article, the term “silent” is underlined in the report’s drive-by description of Synetic’s approach, as if that explains everything. Most foul: Senator singles out Synetic’s ‘silent’ Shakespeare 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Scofield said that the agency immediately notified police, cooperated in the investigation and helped provide the description that police used to create a composite sketch of the woman they believe is the infant's mother. Cops continue search for mom of slain baby 2011-11-06T15:38:00Z

Her resentment of the much younger women in the infertility specialist’s waiting room, all of them visibly pregnant, is bitter and amusing, as is her description of the endless tests of her personal “pipery.” Pregnant at 40 and other adventures 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

When I finally did see , I watched it with one hand blocking part of the screen, as my braver companion, Mary Corliss, whispered descriptions of the uggy stuff I’d just missed. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z

And then you get to a description of the collection itself: beautiful, wearable and perfect for anyone’s holiday sojourns. Fashion’s Full Disclosure — or Not 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

“The description is exact and graceful, as Matar’s prose tends to be. … What he sees in art connects naturally with his own preoccupations.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Photographer’s description: “This Canada goose hatched its young very near a bald eagle nest. During an eagle flyover, the goslings darted to the parent and stayed hidden under its wings. Finally one gosling emerged.” Reader’s Lens | Under my wing 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The script reads like a mash-up of creation myths, poetic descriptions of all things star dust-related and penetrating thoughts about the mystery of the universe and our place in it. Stars reading about our stars: Sterling K. Brown, Darren Criss and others to perform 'In the Cosmos' 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Photographer’s description: “Backpacking near Mount Baker, woke up to a beautiful sunrise. The rays of sunlight just starting to wake up the land. Used my phone, Google Pixel.” Reader’s Lens | A golden sunrise wakes up the mountains 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The label carries its own baggage, however; like "crime", or "fantasy", sticking "historical" before "fiction" might, for some snobbish and deluded readers, require an "only" to complete the description. Old stories for young readers 2011-02-24T10:32:26Z

He gets rapturous reviews that don’t mean to condescend but almost always call him a Southern or Appalachian writer, and Mr. Rash has said he can hear the silent, dismissive “just” in those descriptions. 'Something Rich and Strange,' a Ron Rash Anthology 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr Cooper’s description of Bartok’s folk-music collecting is fascinating, but other parts of the book fall a little short. A sonata in two movements 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Job description and your rung on the ladder might also be in play: chief financial officer versus a lowlier, more creative and therefore more gray-tolerant position like assistant talent agent, for example. Gray hair's in fashion, but what about at work? 2012-04-02T15:53:18Z

“Don’t be misled by a marketeer’s purposely obtuse description into believing that your sofa is a reconstituted field of organic soybeans. It’s not.” Misleading furniture labels: How to tell whether you have the real deal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It was a description of a lingua franca, but with a difference. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

But the sweeping list of charges the Trump administration filed against Assange yesterday reads in part like a Washington reporter’s basic job description: count after count of “obtaining” and “disclosing” classified information. Julian Assange’s charges are ‘dangerous’ to press freedom, advocates say 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Robinson often rooted his descriptions of Martian landscapes in his observations of the Sierra’s ethereal peaks, valleys and basins, sometimes repurposing notes from his hiking journals directly into his novels. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

But the developers of the core game also acknowledge their soft-pedaling of the issue in a small joke, a parenthetical footnote to a description of a plantation in Kingston, Jamaica. Critic’s Notebook: Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks 2014-01-27T22:50:06Z

One book is still contested—the most banal of the lot—precisely because it contains descriptions of sex that parents feel are unsuitable for tenth graders. What Kind of Town Bans Books? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

I'm not sure that Robinson's descriptions of Mars can be beaten. Nasa seeks haikus for Mars 2013-05-03T12:51:38Z

It has wonderful descriptions of its famous neighborhood market, where you can find products from all over the world. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

The book's strongest parts are its descriptions of the European — and particularly British — struggles over the city after 1850. 'Jerusalem': An unholy history of a holy city 2011-12-22T00:52:03Z

However, on Friday afternoon, the network released titles and descriptions for the season's first three episodes, fueling speculation over what's to come in Westeros now that winter has finally arrived. New Game of Thrones Episode Descriptions Tease Explosive Season 7 Start 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

“Curating” is an apt description of what Luhrmann has done for “The Get Down,” which begins streaming its first six episodes on Friday, with another six expected to drop next year. How Baz Luhrmann captured the essence of hip-hop in Netflix’s ‘The Get Down’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Each chapter is devoted to an encounter with one of the fantastical inhabitants of Yong’an, an industrial city, flanked with a description of the beasts written in the lapidary language of the “Classic.” Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mr Birmingham’s descriptions of the fight between these moral crusaders and the people defending Joyce’s work are thrilling. Dirty words 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Earlier, there was much discussion on CNN about how the smoke could initially appear grey, including a description of chemicals used in the burning of ballots. A slowly unfolding mystery for media 2013-03-13T22:05:12Z

The famous, possibly apocryphal, description of Fred Astaire’s first screen test sprung unbidden to my mind as I watched Ryan Gosling in the new film La La Land. Can Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s La La Land help us handle the Trump era? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

For one thing, that title serves as a pretty good description of Wilson, the co-founder, principal songwriter and all-around musical genius behind the Beach Boys. “Love & Mercy”: Brian Wilson’s life as a gorgeous, tragic fable of pop genius 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

France Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Mart Le Blanc   This most perfectly balanced of novels, scandalous for its time, is packed with wonderfully detailed descriptions. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Gradually the idealism dissipates, and descriptions about the ups and downs of actual relationships take over. Music Review: The Kisses, the Bites, the Humor of Rodgers and Hart 2010-09-19T21:58:00Z

That mission statement also amounts to a description of Travers’s life. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Hearing these descriptions read aloud is among the game’s distinct joys. Down to the Sea Again, Impersonating Writers 2011-07-01T16:12:05Z

"An Iliad" is entirely successful as a paean to the art of the storyteller, he who bears witness and shares wisdom via his voice, body, powers of description and compassion. Theater review: 'An Iliad' proves an ancient tale can still be meaningfully and well-told 2010-04-15T20:08:00Z

That's from the publisher's official description of this children's book, which also features characters named "Senator Weary" and "Al Snore." 10 bizarre children's books that somehow actually exist 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Swiftly dropped from the repertory, it survives only in fading memory and written descriptions. Martha Graham Dance in a Maze and on a Voyage 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Favorite moment: The episode titled "Full Boyle" wormed its way into the lexicon as a description of a love-struck person ruining a relationship by moving too fast. An Andy Samberg roll call on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' cast 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

For example, after the season five premiere, which took place at the Tower of London, a detailed description of the first episode was posted to Reddit within hours. Spoiler alert! How TV and film are trying to protect their blockbusters 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

But while descriptions of their precision and transparency sometimes make them seem cool, even chilly, this was poignant, humane music-making. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

At the outset, though, her description of the buses in Lagos was unpromising: they were crowded, slow, dirty, and uncomfortable. You can't teach creative writing. Can you? 2012-07-05T15:21:47Z

Second, during the scene of her talk with the police, her description matches up exactly with the flashback of the assault. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

It’s not just the puerile description, but the fact that there is no sign anywhere in his homes or offices that books even exist. Fountainhead of bad ideas: Ayn Rand’s fanboys take the reins of power 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

When I checked the property description, there was no mention of the air-conditioning fee. Perspective | Vacation rentals are charging extra for what? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

One of the descriptions of those arrested - police declined to name them - also fitted the description of, but two sources said he was currently in the United States. Murdoch exec Brooks among six arrested in hacking probe 2012-03-13T10:38:00Z

His description of the underground economy in the Louisiana prison system is riveting, but his explanation for why the authorities tolerate it is infuriating. Down and Out and Ripe for an Economist to Study 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

But if you click down the list of films and read the descriptions, you’ll find the exclusive content. Film: An On-Demand Option for Johnnie To Films 2010-08-03T22:29:00Z

“Our main concern is to get rid of the insulting descriptions online,” she said. Rijksmuseum Removing Racially Charged Terms From Artworks' Titles and Descriptions 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

It falls to developers at places like Apple, Google, and Microsoft to render the universal code into specific visual expressions, so for now all we have are the Unicode descriptions of the new characters. New Emoji, No Hot Dog 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

“We are going to see a more complex description of humanity with more female directors,” she said. Hollywood must drop fixation wih beauty, says Night Manager director 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

The descriptions of this initial phase of the Afghanistan war are both amusing and hair-raising. Many masters, many lives 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

If he had political points to make, and he increasingly did, he still gift-wrapped them with elegant, complicated plots and dead-on descriptions; he could paint a whole character in a single sentence. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

It's a wall-of-sound monument — ethereal vocals, transcendent lyrics, steel guitar and violin from the 'Doggies' big bros the Maldives — layers over layers for five full minutes of climax, and it's moving beyond description. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z

His evocative descriptions of the baking sand-dunes, and the Argus's flight through them, are intimations of a deeper vein of connectivity that unfolds during his summer's quest. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and?Admirals by Patrick Barkham ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z

I am probably a bit of a control freak when it comes to my books, and I like being able to check the sales stats, tweak the description, edit the manuscript quickly. Mark Edwards on self-publishing 2013-06-25T15:01:33Z

One of them is a museum of some description, clad in shiny metal; but what really dominates the view is the apartment blocks. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

This is an imaginative story full of vivid description. The Phenomenals: a Tangle of Traitors by F.E Higgins - review 2013-05-10T08:00:00Z

All the sisters, all their clever books, all their 20-quid words and descriptions of moors, all there, making me feel guilty for reading a magazine. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z

A general description from the Normal Hall dedication program in 1910 contained clues about its design and a few of the names emblazoned on the stained-glass panels. ISU project to restore dome last seen in 1973 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

In their report, the child’s physicians acknowledged their indebtedness “to the late Agatha Christie for excellent and perceptive clinical descriptions, and to Nurse Maitland for keeping us up to date with the literature.” Agatha Christie and the Golden Age of Poisons 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

“The Mother of Us All,” which had its premiere in 1947 a few blocks away at Columbia University, is, to borrow Tony Kushner’s description of his “Angels in America,” a fantasia on national themes. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z

In a chapter called “K.S.M.: What Happens When the Stranger Is a Terrorist?,” he knows that his descriptions of waterboarding might be distracting. Who’s Lying to Us and Who’s Telling the Truth? Malcolm Gladwell Has Some Ideas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Once again, the descriptions of his health issues are graphic and groan-inducing: Birbiglia’s body is his greatest foe and keeps coming up with new ways to betray him. ‘The Old Man & the Pool’ Review: Wading Into Mike Birbiglia’s Comfort Zone 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Perez packs a multitude of feelings into that priceless description of a foreign land, from buoyant hope to a fearful awareness of the dangers lying in ambush everywhere. Review: ‘Raw Bacon’ Finds Fearful Poetry in an Iraq War Vet’s Mind 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

There's a critic's quote on the DVD box that actually says "'Beowulf' meets Predator," and you couldn't really ask for a more fitting description of this low-budget but very cool little movie. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Thor' 2011-05-05T16:58:34Z

A law school classmate of his, in response to Hill’s descriptions of Thomas’s behavior, said, “That’s him talking,” confirming Thomas’s tendency toward “profane, scatological and graphic” speech around his friends. Amid Weinstein Accusations, 3 Books on Workplace Sexual Harassment 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

“I think I am writing absolute, strict, exact descriptions of how the world is, whatever that world might happen to be,” he said. In “Moonglow,” Michael Chabon Builds a Scale Model of the Broken World 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Schickel’s argument, “pretentious” functions, like “boring” elsewhere, as an accusation that it is almost impossible to refute, since it is a subjective hunch masquerading as a description. Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z

The book’s sometimes technical descriptions of the kinds of “meatball surgery” his characters perform in the field give it an air of authenticity. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

But really we’re talking about “Tammy” the movie, about which all of the above descriptions are also true. Review: McCarthy’s ‘Tammy’ misses the funny bone 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

These are difficult, inventive stories that, at their best, occupy a range of frequencies and otherworldly places with — to borrow Allen’s brilliant three-word description of Jimi Hendrix’s way with music — a “fierce itching dazzle.” Black Experience, Past and Present, Made Haunting and Surreal 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

The combination suggested a jet setter with some classic modern baggage and an American accent — which is not a bad description of this newly arrived fair. Art Review: Pavilion of Art and Design at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2011-11-10T23:44:24Z

In the early pages of her new book, “My Life on the Road,” Ms. Steinem, now 81, claims another unlikely job description. Review: ‘My Life on the Road,’ Gloria Steinem’s Journey as a Traveling Feminist 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

By your own description, if I read you correctly, you live in fear. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: And on Father’s Day, you can give him a World’s Best Cad mug 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Whatever your sister-in-law’s past misdemeanours it strains credibility that your current strife is rooted in this poor woman’s regrettable decision, which even in your description can’t be considered much more than miserable misfortune. My nephew is disabled and it’s his mother’s fault | Mariella Frostrup 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

It would be spoiled by description, but I’ll just say it affirms the power of language, fired by a child’s imagination, to turn any old room into an exotic playground. Theater Review: ‘The Jungle Book’ Opens at the Goodman Theater 2013-08-06T20:35:47Z

His ambitions for this book are diffuse and far flung, to the point where providing a thumbnail description of “The Information” is impossible. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z

Perhaps accompanying is too tame a description of Mr. Tharaud’s role here. Music Review | Jean-Guihen Queyras: Muscular Renditions of Bach, Schubert and Debussy 2010-03-08T22:19:00Z

Russell’s descriptions suggest Loren’s well-broadcast passion for food was less about the food and more a way of solidifying her image as passionate. Frozen in Time: Sophia Loren, London, June 1960 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

There is in fact very little visual description of the characters in the books: The Solara brothers are “handsome.” ‘My Brilliant Friend’: A Fairy Tale of Youth Gives Way to Messy Adolescence 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Subsequent descriptions of England as a “tottering state” and “reeling world” have never sounded more apt. Review: A Richard III Who Steps Straight Out of the Land of Id 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

So, too, an indelible description of the ghetto, “a rusty red chamber of hell,” is drafted by a white American reporter. ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ cuts a swath across Jamaican history

For much of the last decade, Marquis Hill fit the description of a prized local phenomenon. Marquis Hill Blacktet Plays at TriBeCa Performing Arts Center 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Even devoted fans are not likely to remember Warbeck, whose name appears in peripheral comments or descriptions only a few times in the seven-book series. J.K. Rowling writes a story featuring minor “Harry Potter” character, the “Singing Sorceress” 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

His descriptions of the vices and foibles of the producers, choreographers and directors who shaped these productions would not seem out of place in a page-turning Hollywood tell-all. ‘Razzle Dazzle’ review: Michael Riedel pulls back the curtain on for Broadway 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

It was as a young and, by her own description, “green” opera student at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado that the soprano Renée Fleming honed her art over several summers. Renée Fleming to Lead Opera at Aspen 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

What they won’t find there is any description of her outfits, which remain a source of considerable interest among fashion followers. Front Row: Michelle Obama and Peng Liyuan Show Their Distinctive Fashion Flair 2014-03-26T21:55:26Z

The words “corporation” and “factory” loom large in Rick’s description of his prison operations, with a marketplace mind-set driving many of the most unforgivable actions. Review | Schenkkan’s ‘Wall’ imagines Trump consequences. Disaster! 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

People I spoke with kept correcting themselves, catching the past tense in their descriptions of Steve’s guiding and much-admired hand in the show. When SpongeBob SquarePants Was Just a Sketch on a Beach in Baja 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The women I’m thinking of would hate that description, not just because they’d think of “sturdy” as an offensive euphemism, but because they don’t like taking compliments. Why Christine Baskets Was One of TV’s Greatest Characters 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Peace uses short, often incomplete sentences, eschews pronouns and quotation marks, and deliberately repeats phrases and descriptions to excessive length, recalling early modernist works by Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Review of ‘Red or Dead’: Liverpool’s Bill Shankly, the Odysseus of Anfield

In his story, he offers moving descriptions of what it’s like to experience gender dysphoria, and details the happiness and self-acceptance he now feels. 9 New Books Coming in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

With all due respect to her, my mum is quite like the description. Olivia Williams 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

Her description of, say, a late-life surgical procedure that Adams endured — the ghastly “degloving” of her face to remove a tumor from her nasal cavity — would pass muster in a neurosurgeon’s how-to guide. The Decorous Surfaces and Fraught Subtexts of Alice Adams’s Life and Work 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

We are accustomed to hearing it about a king, of course, but the tension it embodies is the perfect description of the church in our time. Faith must fight capitalism: Forget theological purity — the church needs a revolutionary spirit 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

And while hardly easy listening, it’s not as foreign or strange as descriptions of it might suggest. Jenny Hval’s lyrics will grab your attention at Kremwerk 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

There’s a great deal going on in Clark’s description/analysis — and I urge everyone to read his post in its entirety. The moral deceit of pro-lifers: How Donald Trump accidentally revealed the true hypocrisy of the war on women 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

I don’t think that’s actually a fair description of the world we live in. You Are Watching Big Brother: The Disturbing Spy Games of Person of Interest 2011-10-27T15:32:58Z

In every report, there was speculation that the prospect of divorce “drove” Lance to murder, and little mention or description of Claire or Charlotte. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

A lot of this 720-page book is devoted to torrentially long and powerful descriptions, and without question, they pack a lot of power. Review: ‘A Little Life,’ Hanya Yanagihara’s Traumatic Tale of Male Friendship 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Light and Stone, her novel about a young woman living in Umbria, is full of poetically precise descriptions of architecture and art. Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z

That’s a pretty good description, I think, of what happens in transcendent theatrical performance as well as in religious celebration. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

I am hurt by his descriptions of her “bionic body.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to make amends to an ex who says ‘Never contact me again’? 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

Ferocious might be too tame a description for a character who, unable to deal with the survivor guilt she feels over her brother’s death, weaponizes her cleverness. Denise Gough: From feral brilliance in 'People, Places & Things' to a Broadway debut in 'Angels in America' 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The same description applies to oysters with béarnaise; the oysters don’t surrender their flavor to a sauce. Review | When the going gets tough, these French restaurants offer a dose of civility 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

The most rewarding parts of the book are Painter’s images and her descriptions of how and why she created them. Review | An aspiring artist finds out it’s never too late to start over 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

However, the product description on the lingerie website describes the legging as being "sheer" and being a fit for a "cozy night in." Rihanna's lingerie leggings makes social media debate butt-baring designs: 'Big NO' 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

The descriptions of her hallucinations are hypnotically poetic. Review | ‘Mexican Gothic’ is a creepy, intoxicating mystery that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

A description of "The Final Dossier" on Amazon says the new book “bridges the two series, and takes you deeper into the mysteries raised by the new series.” A new 'Twin Peaks' book is coming this fall 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Yet even more nightmarish are the descriptions of everyday life in a society where numbing poverty is ubiquitous. Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

But after the Met changed the description of Aivazovsky from “Russian” to “Ukrainian” on its website, some critics pounced, pointing out that he was in fact Armenian. Museums Rename Artworks and Artists as Ukrainian, Not Russian 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

She also remembers her family’s descriptions of Miller, who died in 1922, as industrious and cheerful, with formal manners and a knack for squandering inheritances. Antiques: Female Astronauts? Memorabilia for Sale at Auctions 2012-04-12T22:27:40Z

Thus he extols Marseille in language that seems to echo and amplify Dickens’s famous description of the city at the opening of “Little Dorrit”: Review | Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Some aspects of the event’s description, like “cosmic rapping” and “a dance team of ethereal drag angels,” might not make any sense until you’re there. River to River Festival Heads for a Grand Finale 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

So, all of this becomes almost like a description of the times we live in. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Alvin Kernan, whose description of the adversarial literature of the last two centuries I quoted at the outset, believed that artists in bourgeois industrialized societies no longer had any business dabbling in social criticism. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Beneath the “America” in question—dark blue in tight cursive loops—are the words “E Pluribus Unum” in gleaming capitals, looking more like a command than a description. Budweiser and the Selling of America 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

In your book you have a devastating description of summer camp with your church: Kids saying they hated you, and just the pain of being a kid who’s an outsider and excluded. Comedian Margaret Cho: ‘I don’t want to be beholden to expectations anymore’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

It almost defies description: It is mineral and intense, drawing you in with the first sip. 5 wines just right for the weekend 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

It wouldn't: there are some fine gags here, like his description of Question Time as representing "the full range of millionaire opinion". Robert Newman – review 2013-05-23T17:21:02Z

The one element that's unique to this novel is the description of the deceit wrought upon the locals by mine owners in Kimberley who lied about a smallpox outbreak. Review: `Fever Tree' is sweet, simple story 2013-04-10T12:52:09Z

It was important to stock up on character descriptions now, to permit a focus on plot later. Admit One: Technology Extends Theater’s Thrills to Blind Patrons 2014-02-06T22:13:40Z

My neighborhood of Columbia Heights in Washington, D.C., fit this description for the 13 years in which I lived there. ArtsBeat: Black and White: Charles Murray and Baratunde Thurston Quiz Each Other 2012-02-10T18:58:42Z

The reality within the surrealism of such descriptions is what makes them stick to your memory. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Dyer is to essays what Anthony Bourdain is to food, and in "Another Great Day at Sea" his descriptions do not disappoint. Geoff Dyer is out of his depth in 'Another Great Day at Sea' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Though the part was small, Mondello said she received from Malick a detailed description of her character, including background of her relationship with her husband and children. Malick's 'To The Wonder' premiers in Venice 2012-09-02T15:42:08Z

But Obama’s vivid description of her and her husband’s working class backgrounds didn’t emphasize the external limitations imposed on their parents’ success. The Evolution of Michelle Obama, Convention Speaker 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

No documentation of the choreography was known to exist, only written descriptions, the red distressed unitard and skullcap designed by Rauschenberg, and the musical score by Christian Wolff. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Like pretty much everything in this fine book, the description is accurate. Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Dialogue and description is a relatively minor part of the creative process in the performance arts of television and film. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z

Malone’s job description at Da Force is simple: “Hold the line.” After 'The Cartel,' Don Winslow's cop novel 'The Force' is sneakily subversive 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

It is an unelected, unpaid role with no standard job description, leaving every new occupant to define the role for herself. Jill Biden is getting right to work — on both her jobs 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Asked about the changes to Dahl’s novels, which included the removal of descriptions of characters as “fat,” Spielberg said, “Nobody should ever attempt to take the chocolate out of ‘Willy Wonka.’ Spielberg, Who Regrets Cutting ‘E.T.’ Guns, Says Don’t Revise Old Works 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

His audiences “applauded again and again his wonderful descriptions,” a California newspaper reported in 1902. Antiques: George Hubbard Pepper Retrospective in New Orleans 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z

Let’s hold off on confessions of hideousness until we’ve examined those burning bubbles in your chest — which, by the way, is a pretty good description of the physical sensation of envy. I’m Jealous of My Friend’s Success. Would Telling Her Help? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

In among the dross there are revelations, there are magnificent descriptions, there is writing of remarkable force and power. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z

"Before we started, I was prompted by descriptions of Russians going into Grozny and Americans going into Fallujah." Coriolanus in Berlin 2011-01-19T20:20:07Z

The context is often the only way Myles’s work is read — irreverent, restless, “without manners” — all descriptions that dismiss the conditions of the queer or trans body. From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

And the thing is, all of these descriptions are true. This Novel Opens With a Suicide and a Suitcase of Cash. Then Things Get Really Interesting. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Fame didn’t used to be a job description. Why You Should Get Your Kids to Act Like Their Own Publicists 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

And as I was writing the description, it hit me that there was this really lovely but disturbing irony. Author Scott Cheshire on his debut 'High as the Horses' Bridles' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The summer of 2014 brings “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” a lean, propulsive action-adventure thriller with a raging forest fire as its backdrop and with much more finesse than that description might suggest. ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead,’ a Michael Koryta Novel 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The documents do not name many of the individuals involved other than Cohen, but their identities are clear from the descriptions and what is publicly known of the events in question. Trump campaign, tabloid publisher hatched plan to bury damaging stories, Cohen prosecutors allege 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

I don’t think there’s a universal answer, in part because quickie descriptions often don’t offer enough information for risk-assessment. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to keep a brother-in-law at arm’s length 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

That description of course fits "Pitch Perfect 2," which garnered a huge DVD and streaming audience after its initial modest theatrical run. Should comedy hits start refraining from sequels? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

What a perfect description of the beautiful country that gave us one of the finest literary talents of the 20th century. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

The author uses very little over the top description, not many similes or metaphors and keeps it simple. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - review 2013-06-15T14:00:00Z

“One-time set-up fee” for “internet printer and fax line” was the description for paying off the family’s cable bill. Perspective | Why was Duncan Hunter’s wife better than him at creatively explaining that $250,000 in allegedly misused money? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Too many of the catalog’s project descriptions have the promotional tone of advertisements, just as too many of the designs in this global survey seem conceived to fit comfortably in upper-middle-class first-world homes. Art Review: Thinking Green ? Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z

At the same time, she shows little interest in atmospheric description and makes no serious effort to fathom the psychology of her suspects. Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Perhaps a more accurate description is that he treats us, other writers, as completely empty space. Tolstoy thought Chekhov 'worse than Shakespeare' 2011-07-11T14:28:32Z

More interesting than Franken’s political points is his description of the value of humor as a force for bringing people together. Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them. 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

A: I read the description from Expedia’s site the same way you do: If you forgo cleaning services during your stay, the Cassa Hotel will knock 10 percent off your bill. Hey, Expedia, I skipped housekeeping, so where’s my discount? 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Here are brief descriptions of the ones I am adding. Frugal Traveler Blog: Deals, Advice and the Best Raksmorgas in Stockholm 2011-09-13T17:52:37Z

I move around a little bit playing my guitar, but you'd probably get done by trade descriptions if you described it as dancing. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

It plays even more ironically in the wake of the recent firing of the New York Times' first female editor, Jill Abramson, and the descriptions of her management style as, well, shrewish. Angelina Jolie is wickedly good in the not-quite-classic 'Maleficent' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

There’s a really good chance that someone else will send the Empress the same anagram you did, so the ink would go to the funnier description. Style Invitational Week 1388: Turning around a business 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

According to the plot description, he has to “become a version of some of his most iconic and beloved characters in order to extricate himself from an increasingly dangerous situation”. Nicolas Cage gets role of a lifetime... as Nicolas Cage 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

It is a description of what happened on Sept. 9, 2014, at the Apple event in Cupertino, where the Apple watch was unveiled. Is Apple Saying Goodbye to Fashion? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was an inspired description, especially when they refuse to open. Luther, Chris Ryan's Strike Back and Jamie Does? Venice 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

That’s a lovely description of a gruesome scene, and she airs it out in weightless falsetto. Review | How do we know if Lorde is keeping it real? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Plath was little-known before her death but gained a cult following through the novel "The Bell Jar," whose descriptions of a suicidal young woman foreshadowed her own death at age 30. Poem by Ted Hughes tells of Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-07T18:32:00Z

I picked it up once following my thru-hike, but I found I was too close to the material; I quibbled over every description, guffawed over every misstep. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Robertson, a Scot who’s written six previous poetry collections, is known for his exquisite descriptions of the natural world and dramatic, violent retellings of Greek myths. Review | Poetry need not be a call to action, but ‘The Long Take’ is 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

They contain Hannah’s descriptions of 13 traumatic events that led to her decision to kill herself, each addressed to the schoolmate or adult who caused that particular trauma. Review: ‘13 Reasons Why’ She Killed Herself, Drawn Out on Netflix 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Reassembled descriptions of the process often end up sounding like prescriptions. Tracy Kidder and his editor on writing 2013-01-14T18:58:08Z

“Crisp” is a common description of white wines with lively acidity, yet someone invariably will ask, “How can a liquid be crisp?” Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Trump’s description of the agreement is so flamboyantly deceptive it would be equally accurate to say compliance with the Paris agreement would likely require all ducks to wear jean shorts,” said Oliver. John Oliver Calls Out Trump for Pulling Out of Paris Accord 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Few consumers would find such a description to be particularly attractive. For a Sweet 2020, Look to the Bitter in Wine 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Most everything he played, including “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” and “Jennifer Juniper,” fit that description, except for “Season of the Witch.” At the Neptune, Donovan took fans on a magical musical tour 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Worse, the term is used so often and in such blanket fashion against Latinos that it ends up implying a description of all people of Hispanic heritage, regardless of their immigration status. There are no “illegal immigrants” 2013-04-05T00:00:00Z

But at least two things about the description are disturbing. “Ocean’s Eight” tests the limits of the gender-flip reboot formula 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

It may be an error in your description of the situation, but your letter suggests that this recent discussion was the first of its kind. I want to leave my partner of 15 years. Am I being selfish? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

It's definitely a great book to tackle, full of brilliant description and one that you'll want to read again and again! Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling - review 2011-08-23T14:00:00Z

"He was asked by his niece to write a description of the dogs his family had," Wilson said. Books: "Redirect," and "Willpower" offers clues on rewriting life story 2011-11-07T15:17:03Z

The whole history created by the author is really absorbing and the detailed descriptions of the amulets, different types of magic and Russian folklore made the book seem even more fulfilled. The White Cat by Holly Black 2013-02-08T15:00:00Z

Like the Humane Society, Match.com allowed me to skim its site free, look at photos and read short descriptions of each entry. Modern Love: When Dating Takes More Than the Click of a Mouse 2012-10-04T22:29:41Z

“We also felt that such fruit stickers should carry a message to the place where they are bought rather than just be a label and description of origin.” Scene in/ Seen in ...: In Spain, Bifurcation at the Biennale 2010-10-22T12:30:00Z

This is a pretty good description of Hermès’s aesthetic: keep it simple but be sure to add something. T Magazine: Waste Not, Want It 2011-09-29T22:07:11Z

But Janssens’ description of the Ebola outbreak was even more alarming, and he warned that the governments affected had not recognized the gravity of the situation. Doctors Without Borders: Ebola ‘out of control’ in W. Africa 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

It was as apt a description as any for what came next. New book traces the Staples family's soulful journey and unique sound 2014-01-18T06:00:00Z

You might also come up with a brilliantly clever description of an existing phrase. Style Invitational Week 1238: D-E-F Comedy Jam 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

I compose descriptions for wheels of Gouda that will be printed out and laminated, then hung on tiny hooks behind the cheese counter in various grocery stores. When I wanted to find my people, I found them in the "food women" living all across the globe 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

Police quickly received a description of the gunman's getaway vehicle and pursued it on the Eisenhower Expressway, authorities said. 1 killed, 1 critically wounded in separate city shootings 2012-05-03T10:36:00Z

In the second-floor lodgings where Edith Wilson was born, we heard an audio description of her childhood in the first lady’s own words. The western Virginia town that raised a forward-thinking first lady 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

The book takes its title from Louis Menand’s New Yorker description of Richard Burton at 54. Books of The Times: ‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter 2012-06-07T19:21:16Z

The award, in its 22nd year, highlights "crude, badly written or perfunctory use of sexual description" in modern novels. Booker winner makes bad sex shortlist 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

“I made sure to read carefully through the description of the options before I did something that seemed like a big deal,” said Christina Mazzalupo, 44, an artist in Brooklyn. Noted: Facebook Customizes Gender With 50 Different Choices 2014-04-04T22:40:18Z

Butler’s descriptions of the legitimately terrifying creatures require a reader to reach their imaginative limits. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Soon after we entered the museum, my younger daughter read a short description of the artist’s treatment of native women in French Polynesia and said she’d seen enough. If the author of ‘Woman in the Window’ is a serial liar, can we still love his book? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

The police officer who first took details from Andrews after the murder only later realised her description of the supposed killer was based on him. Afternoon Play ? Rage On the Road | Radio review 2010-03-24T06:45:00Z

Unfortunately, the author’s approach favors breadth over depth, so only one picture is included for each project, and descriptions are cursory. So small, they’re unreal 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

She also devotes several pages to elaborate descriptions of their custom-built estates — a diversion that seems odd until you remember that Bolick was formerly executive editor of the home-décor magazine Domino. In 'Spinster,' Kate Bolick explores making a life of her own 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

In his descriptions of the men and women he paints, he cites their struggles with grievous war wounds, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and the myriad difficulties of reintegrating into civilian life. George W. Bush’s best-selling book of paintings shows curiosity and compassion 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

The White House disagreed with The Washington Post’s description, so the paper had to issue a correction noting a change of a prepositional phrase in a sentence. WATCH: Seth Meyers mocks President Trump for contradicting his own White House on the story of James Comey’s firing 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

There is fretfulness in even his most lyrical descriptions, and it is remarkable how this paradox is mirrored in the atonality-spiked lushness of the music. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Some of Tingle’s descriptions of Tromp’s seductive powers seem politically pointed. The Political Erotica of 2016 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Katchor offers multiple descriptions of this cuisine, and prints delectable old menu cards. An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

She made him ill with her odors, he writes, in return for his unflattering descriptions of her. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Catch the candy not the virus,” the product description reads. Smash a Coronavirus Piñata. You’ll Feel Better. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

McCarey moves in for a medium close-up of Lucy as she watches Bark’s train pull away, and the range of emotion that crosses her face, during this extended, wordless take, defies written description. DVDs: In the Depression, a Couple Undone 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z

These aesthetic signifiers of bohemia have become so aligned with Coachella that retailers now use Coachella in product descriptions to stoke buying impulses. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The poem moves from a description of some of the painting’s details — “The crowd must surely part before these six or seven drummer boys” — to a meditation on war. ?Making American Taste? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-10-16T20:57:17Z

This may all sound a bit precious, but even when nothing happens — a description that applies to the first half of the book — Duchovny’s tone makes the ride a pleasure. David Duchovny’s hilarious new novel hits a home run 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Together, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers present an unusually candid description of mental illness and its role in an artist’s life. The Beach Boy and the Boss: Darkness on the Edges of Two Memoirs 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Each personality description gets a little convoluted, but suffice it to say that this is at least an interesting way to approach losing weight. And a Thinner New Year: Five New Books About Food and Diets 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Job descriptions reflect the work culture of the company posting them and the greater culture too. The unapologetic introvert: I had to leave the U.S. to stop pretending to be an extrovert 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Feel free to use it in a funny sentence, especially since several other people might coin the same word you did, and the funniest description is going to get the ink. Quip on the draw: The Style Invitational’s winning cartoon captions 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

It's mere description and, at the end of the night, the imagined world is not without a few notes of hope and human connection. MCA's 'Terminus' takes us to death and back again 2011-03-03T18:57:49Z

He jovially endorses Howard’s description of an older woman they call “the Rodent” as “a cloth you might use to polish silver with.” From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert said that for him the music suggests not a walking tour but a slide show with vivid images that abruptly shift: an apt description. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z

Another example was his description of himself as "a footnote to jazz history", usually in reference to his time with Davis. Mike Zwerin obituary 2010-04-18T18:07:00Z

His reliability has been challenged before — over quotes, descriptions and general accounts he’s provided in his many newspaper and magazine columns and in several books. Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

But the description that captures the English railway experience for me best is Ford Madox Ford's in his first successful book, The Soul of London, an evocation of the city, published in 1905. Paul Theroux on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club 2013-05-30T13:01:01Z

After the menu’s descriptions of, say, goat in caramelized onion sauce and salmon tikka masala are printed words of encouragement: “Must try!” London Curry House, a trip without leaving Northern Virginia

One I knew I was missing was an audio description of the performance. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

"It was the most spectacular object which was therefore lost and is only known through descriptions such as these." Tipu Sultan papers reveal wealth of spoils after India siege 2012-07-09T15:59:17Z

Retaliation Rated R. Violence, descriptions of abuse and their legacies. ‘Retaliation’ Review: To Suffer Silently or Take Revenge? 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Greenfield’s descriptions of a Robert Kennedy presidency reverberate with echoes of Barack Obama’s presidency and issues and debates abroad in the country today. Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z

The covers would be all type, and each one would have a description of an imaginary book jacket on it, each one written by a different author. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

From your description, your mother and your sister are locked into an unhealthy relationship. Perspective | Ask Amy: Son’s whirlwind womanizing has father worried 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Still, the company’s Web site, in its description of the show, promises to “restore dancing to its rightful place in Greek drama.” The Week Ahead: July 24 ? 30 2011-07-22T18:07:05Z

The Artcurial description characterizes it as “one of the most famous and emblematic images of the French 18th century.” Louvre Bids to Keep a Chardin Bought by U.S. Museum in France 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

Though he was infamous for being overly emotional, a gusher of enthusiasm, Bernstein in rehearsal was precise, exacting and impressively specific with his descriptions of the music. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

His description – "I blink at this new world, which of course is the same world as yesterday, only somehow mislaid by me overnight" – is a good example of Garland's slightly naive, yet determinedly precise style. The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland – review 2013-04-06T09:01:01Z

As we’ve already been tipped off by the story’s title, that’s not a bad description of the tale we are actually reading. Four perfectly drawn short mysteries by the late, great P.D. James 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“I fit a lot of very boring brackets in my personal description,” said Cumberbatch, 45, who is married with children. Benedict Cumberbatch and the Monsters Among Us 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Whether or not that is an accurate description, Jolie’s dress is certainly not the “very trad” that early rumours suggested. Angelina Jolie's wedding dress designed by Atelier Versace – and her children 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

Beyond those descriptions it would be a struggle to find adjectives to describe any of them. Hollywood Me; Quick Cuts – TV review 2013-06-20T05:59:01Z

“Social media,” like any media system, is really just a fancy description for a lot of people connected and communicating. Don't Blame Social Media for Ferguson's Troubles 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Her description of the victim/murderer, and the subsequent police artist sketch, tells Liv about her first zombie offspring. 'iZombie' recap: 'Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Webb and members of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission pledged to return to the CFA as early as next month to present a detailed description of the design’s statues, quotations, pathways and tree selection. Revised Gehry design of Eisenhower Memorial get okay from fine arts panel

The paragraphs seem to be a reasonably fair description of what was inflicted upon much of the South Vietnamese peasantry by the United States. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Note: The following contains many spoilers for “The Witch,” including a description of the film’s ending. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

It is an issue he tackles in the show as others question his use of a black hype man – who is also his real-life collaborator GaTa – and his description of some beats as “too urban”. Lil Dicky on Dave: 'Everything the show says about my penis is true' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

What holds your attention is the question of whether that description fits Kenny as well. Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in ‘Gold’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Will H&M restrict sales only to women who meet Salander's description: very young, very pale, very very thin? A "Dragon Tattoo" fashion line -- but why? 2011-10-27T00:38:45Z

Here are some snippets from an extended description of their passage through a titanic thunderstorm: ‘A God in Ruins,’ by Kate Atkinson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

As Landauer writes in her description of the vents, the boars first ate a pizza from a man’s backpack and then spotted a bright yellow bag, which the mom scooped up and ran away with. Nude man seen chasing down wild boar after it stole his laptop while he was sunbathing 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Will they see themselves in her descriptions of her clients? The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The first ethical principle that the Buddha taught in his description of living mindfully is “not Killing.” Abusing the Buddha: How the U.S. Army and Google co-opt mindfulness 2014-03-17T06:59:00Z

A description of black holes as waltzing through space naturally leads to shots of a ballroom full of swirling dancers. Your next box set: Through the Wormhole 2011-07-14T18:59:01Z

Characters who were mouthpieces for attitudes start to seem like people, more complicated than a thumbnail description can accommodate. 'Mozart in the Jungle' on Amazon gets good after woeful pilot 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

That chapter opens with a vivid description of eating live earthworms, which you describe as “a good argument for cremation.” ‘Being a Beast’: He Lived (and Ate) With Badgers and Foxes 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

For want of a better description, it made you want to win the game. Music Review: Nuanced Comfort Music That Channels Kate Smith 2011-02-18T22:55:13Z

The descriptions of her life were precise, dramatic and enthralling. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z

When you have a public service job, the way it generally works is that you do what the job duties require of you — the job doesn’t conform to your ideal description of it. Your “sincerely held religious beliefs” don’t matter: County clerks must uphold the law and issue same-sex marriage licenses 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

He is making a thriller that "defies description" with Gore Verbinski in March. Steve Carell coping with post-dramatic test of 'Foxcatcher' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

All of AMC's shows fit that description, especially "Mad Men" and "Rubicon," which are more attentive to composition than all but a handful of big-budget Hollywood movies. The extraordinary rise of AMC 2010-11-23T17:55:00Z

Armed with such second-hand information and whatever can be gleaned from public records Mr. Gross often seems to be ticking off descriptions of places he hasn’t seen. Books of The Times: ?Unreal Estate,? by Michael Gross - Review 2011-11-30T22:40:44Z

But their exchange goes from prickly to something warmer and at times winning — which is an apt description of this interracial, interfaith, bigotry-teasing comedy, directed by Kenya Barris and written by Hill and Barris. ‘You People’ Review: Guess Who’s Going to Roscoe’s 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Each chapter is linked to the next and the description is just fantastic. Blood Red Road by Moira Young - review 2012-02-10T09:00:00Z

If anyone deserves the description “monotonous” and “chilling”, it is these hyper-entitled, narrow minds and their view of everyone who does not look or behave as they do. Go, Greta. Autism is my superpower too | Jack Monroe 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Sister wives” would be a better description, it not for the existence of “Big Love” and that TLC unscripted series about polygamy. “Playing House” gets serious — and keeps us laughing 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

It came in her dizzyingly passionate description of how she loves Heathcliff, and is a pivotal moment in the plot which lurches us into the next phase of exquisite misery. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z

Just reading the tour descriptions is its own form of escape. Around the world in 30 days: A sampling of private jet tours of the globe 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

He hired an independent fact checker and sent sections of the book to his sources in advance of publication, allowing them to vet their quotations and his descriptions of their research. A Fraud? Jonah Lehrer Says His Remorse Is Real 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

In fact, the dried kind are dull green and inspire no agreed-upon description. Bay leaf: Should it stay or should it go?

While I was drinking one of the three Languedoc reds that we have been examining in Wine School over the last month, a one-word description kept running through my mind. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

No description of who she is or why he finds her heroic, just my wife. Perspective | The ‘Wife Guys’ of the 2020 presidential race 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

The plot — here updated more or less to the time the opera was written, 1725 — defies quick description. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns in ?Rodelinda? Opera - Review 2011-11-15T22:51:34Z

It's inspired casting, not least because we are so unaccustomed to seeing Rudd be "unlikable," as they say - a description he takes issue with, it so happens. T Magazine: Leap of Faith 2012-11-27T14:00:16Z

Discerning the correlation between a composer’s description of a new piece and its actual sound is not always easy. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra Offers Premieres at Zankel Hall 2014-02-21T22:20:50Z

“They said, ‘You don’t fit the description of what we’re looking for. Hollywood Image-Makers Work Their Magic on U.F.C. Brawlers 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

The description on the Ticketmaster website for "Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth Defeat Is Not an Option" show reads merely; ""Will there be surprises? No script. All riff. Sheen tour details trickle out 2011-03-19T00:00:28Z

As such, she incorporates transcripts and scene descriptions into her book, even giving it the same title her mother was using for the film. New Memoirs Try to Get the Balance Right 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Often, there was the feeling that what the reviewer had seen defied description. The Mythic Performances That Are Keeping Me Company 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

In the book, she grounds sex in sensation and the context of a character’s emotional life, rather than description. ‘Normal People’ Takes Sex Seriously 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The very description of the plot shines with the film’s ingenuity and emotional intensity. “Viktoria”: A Great Film About Women, by a Woman 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Borrowing from Baudelaire’s description of the flâneur as a “kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness,” Beaumont calls the distracted walker “a smartphone endowed with consciousness.” Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Each of the 100 phrases has a number, a name, a clear description, a history, pictures and videos documenting its existence. Twyla Tharp on the Road: Why We Go Out 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

“You are dancing-walking. It’s like not a dancer who is a man. It’s just a man who is a dancer. That’s kind of my description. But it’s something of that.” Lessons From Baryshnikov on Robbins (Less Is More) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

It's a neat description of the novelist's task, too – to scrutinise those things that "shallow habits" overlook. Point Omega by Don DeLillo | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

A charcoal, “Study for ‘The Poor Fisherman,’” has an uncharacteristic graphic freedom, while a rendering of a man’s arm is a tour de force of fastidious description and shading, and equally out of character. A French Painter, Fallen From Fame, Gains Historical Weight 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Of Miracles and Men,” Sunday’s installment of ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary series, is a much deeper, more thoughtful film than a pocket description might lead you to believe. ‘30 for 30’ Re-examines the Miracle on Ice 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Submit by June 19 to seattletimes.com/ submit-photos, and include “On the Water” in the photo description. Reader’s Lens | Palouse Falls with Milky Way 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

But the function of that throwaway domestic description, I think, is to deliver Actaeon solidly into the back-garden of the 21st century. Poem of the week: Actaeon by George Szirtes 2013-07-22T11:16:36Z

“What was pretty weird about his description of his box is that he wanted it to be a protoype for a startup,” she said. Sexless in Silicon Valley: why nobody's getting laid in America's tech hub 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

But if we keep encouraging Colbert to deviate from his job description, then at some point CBS will have to revisit the task of replacing Letterman. We’ll pick a president, but the search continues for a perfect late-night host 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

The victims’ descriptions of their ordeals — both the assaults and the contemptuous resistance they faced when they reported their grievances — make the film a hard watch. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Documentary Feature 2013-02-20T17:04:55Z

What stood out most were the descriptions of “tranquil tedium,” a seemingly endless trudge through the “cubic” vastness of deep woods. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

The website's description is only two paragraphs long: Find someone. Social networking platform "Reality" relaunches 2011-03-31T20:32:00Z

The resulting dialogue rises and falls in an almost poetic cadence, and it is littered with creative swearing and descriptions of deeply strange culinary concoctions. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Such descriptions of the abstract process of musical composition are beautifully balanced with more down-to-earth and amusing details of life on tour, especially of the other musicians Anna encounters. 'Wonderland' vividly captures a rocker's comeback struggle 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I like that description, because I think that totally makes a lot of sense. Mike Mills on R.E.M's "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" at 25: A record "infused by being on the road" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

My description thus far makes this sound like a clash-of-civilizations novel, or a techno nail-biter, something out of Neal Stephenson or Stephen King, but it doesn’t read that way: It’s more nubbly. In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

The descriptions were abundant and precise, sometimes ecstatic—images that the inmates assembled from language long before they were made visual. Photo Requests from Solitary Confinement 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

It somehow segues into a description of the role of Roman Catholicism in Mr. Birbiglia’s childhood as “this weird three-way with God” and his mom. Review: Mike Birbiglia Is a Very Nervous Dad in ‘The New One’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

We reporters often try to establish a sense of place by using heavy-handed description, and by draping details onto some newsy narrative. New & Noteworthy 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

In the exhibition catalog, Mr. Moten speaks of “Trigger” as an example of “a poetics of the mess,” a fair description, in good ways and not. When to Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Of course, an enjoyable but slightly uneven patchwork could be an apt description of life itself, not just a precis of Christopher Buckley’s civilized, light entertainment. Review | The timely message in Christopher Buckley’s historical novel 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Perry’s description of it as “parlor” literature is so apt. In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Levin disputed Ms. James’s description of the city’s record, ticking off capital projects like renovation of the Apollo Theater in Harlem and 80 Arts, a building for arts organizations in the BAM Cultural District. Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater 2011-06-24T23:34:25Z

Throughout his life, this “tall clumsy, well-meaning puppy who couldn’t enter a room without tripping over the carpet” — Matthew’s description of his father — resisted all attempts to curb his personal and political freedom. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Indeed, he also shares the great naturalist's good-natured curiosity, so there's real fun and fascination to these descriptions of a new world. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z

When it comes to Sir’s description of Jake, otherwise known as the Cannibal King, he sings: Freaks on Broadway 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

The Washington Post offers a worrisome description of this moment: The GOP’s gross Adam Sandler primary: Donald Trump, penis jokes and the pathetic state of conservatism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Editor in chief of Catapult and former editor of the Toast, Chung has literary chops to spare and they’re on full display in descriptions of her need, pain and bravery. The 10 books to read in October 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Given that description, I needed some prodding from my editor to watch the movie, and that's my job. The Interrupters: Heroes in an Urban War Zone 2011-08-05T19:55:00Z

The first quarter of the book is set in Burma, set up by Connelly's lush and lovely descriptions of the "Golden Land." 'Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story': an intimate witness to rebellion in Burma 2010-06-02T22:41:00Z

Good plot line, great descriptions, loveable and very realistic characters, intriguing dialogue and, of course, an amazing story. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater - review 2013-01-05T09:00:00Z

The actors were conciliatory toward each other about what occurred during a marital separation, but Will Smith couldn’t resist revising his wife’s description. 2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Photos, prints and descriptions exist of many more paintings that have yet to be tracked down. A ‘Moral Imperative’ to Recover a Lost Art Legacy 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

They are, just as the name and description suggest, headbands with hair attached, to show the world that your bald baby is, despite all appearances, a girl. Motherlode Blog: Bothered by Your Bald Baby Girl? Enter ‘Baby Bangs’ 2013-07-16T21:15:50Z

The Team's website boasts of being described as "Gertrude Stein meets MTV", a description that rather suits Mission Drift, which spans centuries as it follows Dutch immigrants Joris and Catalina to the Nevada desert. The Team: a theatre company who specialise in bursting American bubbles 2013-06-04T18:30:02Z

Crosswords crop up a few times in this show, and it's hard not to mention them in a description of it. Comedy Gold: Milton Jones's Lion Whisperer 2013-01-24T15:10:33Z

A decade ago, most websites run by designers and manufacturers were essentially digital pamphlets comprising images, descriptions and specifications of products you could buy somewhere else. Clicks to Bricks: Online Retailers Find the Lure of a Store 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

No jewelry was uncovered matching the description given by the woman, Geragos said. Chris Brown's lawyer says police found no gun at pop star's home 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

A petite brunette with “gray-green eyes” she was, in her own description, “not beautiful, but very attractive, features full of character and strength, yet truly feminine.” The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

There’s little in your description that suggests to me that he’s in for the long haul. My boyfriend cheated on me but I want to move in | Mariella Frostrup 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

There is at least one model who is shown wearing the legging outside, but the product description does not indicate it as a suitable garment for workouts or everyday wear. Rihanna's lingerie leggings makes social media debate butt-baring designs: 'Big NO' 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Though she doesn’t call this river of causation history, it’s a more apt description of the flow of time through “The Corner That Held Them” than what the chronicles convey. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Burning Man is, as both a mass phenomenon and an individualized experience, literally beyond description, and I wouldn’t presume to speak for or about the entire community, if you can call it that. What Grover Norquist Got Wrong About Burning Man 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The beginning is about 12 pages of character descriptions. A play with practically no talking? In Bess Wohl's 'Small Mouth Sounds,' silence is sweet 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

The description might seem suspect, given that the city’s springtime bacchanal is most often associated with youthful debauchery, public nudity and Bourbon Street indiscretions. Heads Up: In New Orleans, Early Mardi Gras Parades Are Family Fare 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z

Dickens’ 1843 novella contains no descriptions of vengeful postmortem golden showers. There’s no comfort and joy in FX’s excruciating “Christmas Carol” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

R for language throughout including some descriptions of violence. Capsule reviews: `Knight and Day' and others 2010-06-24T20:48:00Z

It's a half-decent heavy rock album buried under layers of production and gratuitous faffing, which is an entirely apposite description of this show. Guns N' Roses - review 2010-10-14T20:30:00Z

It's hard to resist a dish with a description like this: ingredients "walk into an oven together, and morph into a warm winter salad that virtually dresses itself." Our 24 best vegan Thanksgiving sides for meatless magic 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

He writes thumbnail descriptions that rival Elmore Leonard’s. In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Just as distinctive were his capsule descriptions, like this one from “Djibouti,” about Somali pirates: “They on the sauce gettin millions for their ransom notes.” An Appraisal: Elmore Leonard: A Man of Few, Yet Perfect, Words 2013-08-21T21:31:56Z

Read reviews and the fine print of any item description. Replacing pieces of flatware or china can be a challenge. Here’s how to track them down. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Her letters to me at boarding school were writerly ones,” he said, “full of description and simile, so I guess something of that rubbed off on me.” Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

But before she can sign off with her painful descriptions of the “terrible sense of failure” that overwhelmed her when she lost her job, each serving of magazine folklore is worth savoring. Ruth Reichl Dishes on the Last Days of Gourmet Magazine 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Homeowners post descriptions of their homes and pets, as well as the dates they need a sitter, anywhere from a weekend to several months. A Primer in House Sitting 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Alexander F. Yuan/AP American academic Sue Fondrie's disturbing description of thoughts like mutilated sparrows has been declared the worst sentence of the year. Bulwer-Lytton prize for bad writing goes to brutally mangled metaphor 2011-07-27T09:56:04Z

There were descriptions, from Michael Brown Sr., among others, about how distorted and “disrespectful” they thought the accounts in the media were of the victim’s life and death. A Chorus Remembers Michael Brown in ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

For particularly major releases, they also provide special subtitled screenings for the hard of hearing, and audio description on all films where available. Cine-files: Saffron Screen, Saffron Walden 2012-11-06T16:50:00Z

Referred to in Tipton-Martin's book, "the Jemima Code" focuses on the descriptions of and codes surrounding Black women who lived and worked in the plantation South, especially the caricature of Aunt Jemima. Behind the Aunt Jemima rebrand is a story of Antebellum romanticization — and concerns about erasure 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

Unlike other designers whose collections fit into a gimmicky slogan, the Belgian critical darling's designs are complex and subtle and defy easy descriptions. Gaultier reveals the hidden, feminine side of 007 2011-01-20T23:25:16Z

Across the board, everyone I spoke to agreed that the description should be short. Happy swiping: This is how to make Tinder work for you 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Pure fealty is not anything close to an adequate job description for the White House press secretary. Perspective | Stephanie Grisham is not the worst-ever White House press secretary. Here’s why. 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course—some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. 7 ways to shut down a climate change denier 2013-12-18T13:00:00Z

The three things next to the pig in the first picture didn't get descriptions. The 20 Most Delicious Things at Mercado Little Spain 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

The months between June and September are commonly referred to as wedding season, and my summer calendar matched the description. How I Survived Wedding Season in My First Year of Sobriety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Lobby Hero,” a moving drama colored in shades of gray, is not formally daring, but in its tone and genre it defies easy description. Critic?s Notebook: Reconsidering ?Lobby Hero? by Kenneth Lonergan 2011-11-06T22:45:44Z

I think in this case the description speaks as much of an association with the name as it does an indelible characteristic of Fleurie. Flowery, Yes. But the Wines of Fleurie Offer More. 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

There are so many lovely moments in the book, beautiful passages of writing that speak to Beverly-Whittemore’s empathy and lyrical powers of description. She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

On the day Harrison met Yula he “smelled like horses, like cheap cologne, like mint,” a wonderful description that helps clarify why Yula falls for him despite recognizing that he’s an ex-con. Books of The Times: ‘Y’ by Marjorie Celona 2013-01-09T19:43:08Z

“How do you describe a black and white Franz Kline? Or any abstract picture, how do you describe it and to what depth of description does one need to put?” Galleries From A to Z Sued Over Websites the Blind Can’t Use 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

An apoplectic Mr. Jordan called the festival, but as he did emails started to pour in; people found his description funny. ArtsBeat: Film Festival Etiquette for the Email Age 2012-02-28T22:50:47Z

A male character often does not even get a description of his looks; the first sentence usually describes his occupation, which is then followed by his key personality traits or his function in the plot. Hollywood’s hidden sexism: How casting notices keep beauty standards alive 2014-01-25T00:00:00Z

I especially enjoyed the long plodding scholarly descriptions of the discovery and exploration of the planet Solaris. My Five Things: Cartoonist and Illustrator Seth 2011-10-26T17:54:28Z

“These descriptions are historically significant because these accounts are not found in other sources,” Mr. Sandhaus said. Books: Memoir (or Is It?) of Sex and Opium 2011-03-30T12:00:05Z

The description of the 1880 Republican convention in Tuesday night’s “American Experience” on PBS sure sounds like a possible future for both major parties as they choose their 2016 presidential candidates. Review: ‘American Experience’ Traces President Garfield’s Assassination 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The book standardized the color descriptions of scientific specimens in a pivotal era of discovery. Sometimes a garden’s color scheme is best left to the plants 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

A Hobart witness told police that she talked with May about her children and said there were four people accompanying her including a girl matching Gruba's description. Cops: Missing Aurora woman tracked to Ind. 2012-02-17T15:24:00Z

Of course, that description applies not only to the dynamic between actor and audience, but also any relationship that tests reality: a marriage in trouble, say, or estranged siblings. Theater Review: ‘rogerandtom’ by Julien Schwab, at Here Arts Center 2013-07-22T20:31:35Z

Taking inspiration from Pound’s “Cantos,” Delany poses the essays as “periploi”: contemporary versions of classical and medieval descriptions of coastlines, used as aids to early navigators. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The story “Nightmare,” for instance, was rejected by editors because of a low demand for descriptions of mental hospitals and also because, well, it’s not a good story. A Late — and Maybe Last — Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost’ Stories 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Belief in werewolves developed alongside a cultural fear of witches or the belief in othering people accused of heinous acts, so descriptions and mythology involving people changing into or controlling wolves were diverse pre-Wolf Man. Universal's 'The Wolf Man' Was The Iron Man Of His Day 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Along with the plot, there’s no stinting on description. Black Death and the Black Arts: A Deadly Fictional Duo 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Though Holiday’s music, like all music, defies description, it doesn’t defy analysis, and Szwed, joining musicological precision to historical insight, traces the course of Holiday’s career through recordings. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

In a follow-up article posted by The New Republic, he pointed to what he called “serious discrepancies” between her two accounts, including her descriptions of her mental state. Alice Goffman’s Heralded Book on Crime Disputed 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Colleen distills her modus operandi of getting famous as "researching and making a connection," a surprisingly studious description of online interactions. An edgy take on Internet fame vs. Hollywood fame: "Surveys" by Natasha Stagg 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Besides the handful of readers who had no idea the book was a script and were outraged not to get a new Potter novel, many missed the description and detail of Rowling’s prose. The Magic Is Gone but Harry Potter Will Never Die 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

While Kash raps in English, most of the song is sung in Kashmiri, which the video’s description says is “an attempt to save this dying language.” Watch India's First 'Sufi Rap' Video 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

And the museum recently increased its “Picture This” tours, which offer verbal descriptions, from once to twice a month, says Lorena Baines, the museum’s manager of accessibility programs. At some museums, blind visitors can touch the art 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Broken-windows theory always worked better as an idea than as a description of the real world. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Or easily to grasp this description of clock evolution: “The earliest type of escapement was the verge,” we read. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z

The description to one ghost-droning video read: “I wasn’t able to get any footage of scaring people that night but i will in the near future.” Ghost drones: the spookiest trend in unmanned aerial vehicles 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

The descriptions of the bush and animals are delightful. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

Some are initially given a short biography and physical description, but none is fully realized. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

For my mother, I can skip the ecumenical subtleties and go right to the shorthand description “bungalow colony for goyim,” a phrase inexplicably overlooked by Rudyard Kipling when he visited the place in 1889. An Edification Vacation 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time he was unreliable, paranoid and violent; by his own description a bankrupt, a cheat, a thief and a liar. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

After a few minutes he came back, thanked the crowd and gave a brief description of what happened, then did a few steps of his famous "duck walk" before calling it a night. Chuck Berry returns home after health scare 2011-01-03T16:23:08Z

We pick what we actually liked, not what we only admired, although ideally our favorites fit both descriptions. Michiko Kakutani, Janet Maslin and Dwight Garner’s Favorites 2012-12-17T16:36:01Z

Phrasings and descriptions do occasionally ring false, mostly in places where the author seems to underestimate Todd’s powers of expression, but overall the narration is consistent and authentic. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

While that show generated controversy because Mr. Daisey exaggerated and fabricated some descriptions about the laborers, his new work, “All the Faces of the Moon,” involves tall tales of a benign sort. ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ Is Monologues on New York 2013-08-15T02:00:01Z

“It sounded like an obvious description of what I was: a mix of genders,” the artist said. Me, Myself and Mx. 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

With Robson and Safechuck’s words and descriptions still rattling around in my head, I can easily envision a world with 95 percent less “Smooth Criminal” in it. Review | A devastating and credible ‘Leaving Neverland’ will turn you off Michael Jackson for good 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

According to the description, it would create an ecosystem where people could find, buy, read, review and discuss books. TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too. 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

But when I look at the description of what it is about, I really have no interest. Need a New Crime Drama? Visit This Colorful Nail Salon 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

The Amazon description of the book hints that Black's take on Trump might be less than charitable. 'A Child's First Book of Trump': a Donald Trump primer by Michael Ian Black 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The entire job description requires a salvation testimony, a creation belief statement and a confirmation of your agreement with the AiG Statement of Faith. Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter, no non-creationists need apply 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Well, OK, there's no mention of that rigged presidential election, but otherwise that's a pretty accurate description, wouldn't you say? DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't 2010-07-24T15:01:00Z

Clearly, Beethoven had a more hopeless affliction – possibly nerve damage and certainly roaring tinnitus – but his reported descriptions of distortion and frequency loss now sound horribly familiar to me. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

De Vries is widely regarded as a comic writer, a description that fits his early work especially well. The off-kilter universe of novelist Peter De Vries, back in print 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Assuming you’re of a middle-class income bracket, these character descriptions may sound exploitative, depressing or rife with slapstick. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

On NPR’s “On Point,” news analyst Jack Beatty used as a metaphor a description of privacy from Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas: “Privacy exists as a penumbra based upon an emanation.” Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z

As I see it, the critic’s job description does not include compiling lists of greats in order of greatness. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

The focus is on the psychology of wartime existence, descriptions of sights, sounds and feelings, girded by the vérité footage rather than driven by it. 'Korengal' looks at the psychological effects after the battle 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Such descriptions are common in “Sight,” a novel in which Greengrass shares few memories or anecdotes or even observations about her characters. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Executives’ job descriptions are changing under their feet, requiring skills in handling not only a global health crisis but also issues of racial equity. Could There Be a More Difficult Time to Become an Arts Leader? 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

From a colleague’s eyes, the description is only slightly different. Akiko Fukai Curates History at the Kyoto Costume Institute 2012-02-22T18:06:57Z

“This one goes out to all the teachers, bus drivers, administrators, and support staff who teach and love our children,” they wrote in the video’s description. Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Each heteronym was given a biography, psychology, politics, religion, even physical description, and the main characters were interconnected. Fernando Pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net 2010-12-04T10:00:00Z

That’s not a flowery description of her shade of yellow–each nail is actually decorated with a drawing of a pineapple the size of a housefly. Bright Lights, Broad City 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The character descriptions are so incredibly spot on. It’s an It Girl! The Birth of ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

I was terribly disappointed, however, by the author’s rather snide description of Cocoa Beach and its environs. Letters: 3, 2, 1... 2010-05-28T07:43:00Z

“Challenging” would be a polite description of the scores, even though they received committed performances by Mr. Serkin, a champion of Mr. Wuorinen’s music. Music Review: Peter Serkin Brings Musical Abstraction to 92nd Street Y 2014-05-12T21:40:29Z

There is an unlikely sweetness of tone in her descriptions of all the rage and revenge. The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z

Season 7, episode 13, “The Milk and Honey Route” Misleading description: “Henry arranges a family reunion” Translation: Henry goes to get Sally at boarding school after her mom is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. “Henry arranges a family reunion” and 10 other hilariously misleading “Mad Men” episode descriptions, translated 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

The descriptions are quite enough to sicken any normal person. Outraged British public forces American billionaire Stan Kroenke to drop plans for bloodsport channel 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

A. I don’t hear any anger in that description. | Mark Flood: Mark Flood, Houston Artist, at Luxembourg & Dayan 2012-07-06T16:00:00Z

The 96-page novelty book, which was originally published under the name Danielle Brown, promised very short descriptions of men the author considered unsuitable romantic partners — a book of red flags, if you will. Does ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Writer Have a Secret? 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

This hardly seems an apt comparison given Malcolm X’s description of a 1962 airplane crash, killing more than a hundred well-to-do white residents of Atlanta, as “a very beautiful thing,” proof that God answers prayers. Books of The Times: Stripping Away Myth and Finding Multiple Masks 2011-04-07T13:56:45Z

Most of Mr. Beevor’s vivid descriptions of the fighting in the Bulge, however, show that this belief was quite grievously mistaken. Review: In ‘Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge,’ Antony Beevor Is on Familiar Ground 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Mr Hough’s flip description of his own music is “tonal with a twist”, but there is nothing flip about his analysis of the revolution ushered in by Schoenberg. He’s the piano man 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Selfish,” to be published by Rizzoli’s Universe imprint, will feature “many never-before-seen personal images,” according to the book’s description, and appears to not be a parody. Kim Kardashian Is Publishing A 352-Page Book of Her Own Selfies 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

Heritage’s auction-lot description has long stated that “we know of only one other surviving copy, which is held at the Library of Congress.” Antiques: Robert Megna?s Medical Device Collection Goes to Auction 2011-08-25T22:28:50Z

But he relaxes beautifully into Vince’s big later aria, a description of a cross-country drive in the rain and one of the most performed and parodied monologues of contemporary theater. Review: In Shepard’s ‘Buried Child,’ a Father and Family Dissolve Into Darkness 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

A little obvious in places, but always redeemed by Brooker's verbals, which soar to inspired heights in an extended description of his own face. Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me 2011-02-01T00:05:01Z

If Mr. Hammer’s biography builds to a sustained aria, this occurs during his description of Merrill’s longtime obsession with his homemade Ouija board, upon which he communed with spirits, including those of famous dead poets. Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

There is also a description of Tipu's throne itself which was not sent back to London because it was made from gold. Tipu Sultan papers reveal wealth of spoils after India siege 2012-07-09T15:59:17Z

The work includes live vocals, electronic music and “computer-based voice processing,” according to a description by the composers. The Musical ‘The Demo’ at Stanford Recreates the Dawn of the Digital Age 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Even as I hyperventilate about this novel, I’m wary of the tendency to romanticize criminals, to treat their descriptions of degradation as unconscious art, to feel aroused by the vicarious thrill of illegality. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

The description of his childhood can make painful reading, but the book’s discussion of the role of race in classical music — Mr. Green is African-American — is timely. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

But the majority of the bags from MOHAI's collection have no description. A clutch show: 'The Purse & the Person' at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry 2010-12-16T20:53:04Z

As part of their three-month residency at the Museum of Arts and Design, the two asked the public at large to tweet them a description of an item of clothing @jfandson. | JF & Son at the Museum of Arts and Design 2012-11-13T14:00:35Z

A description of the book on the publisher's website describes it as “kitschy” and promises that it will help readers perform a “supremely good workout.” Move over, Schwarzenegger: New book uses Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a workout inspiration 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

His book is tattooed with descriptions of gold teeth, velour tracksuits, fake breasts and a women with a mullet so long she could sit on it. Books of The Times: ?Gypsy Boy,? a Memoir by Mikey Walsh 2012-02-16T15:29:02Z

Reading the book, Kline felt that "my homework was done for me" and reveled in the rich description and detail of the character. Interview: Kevin Kline connects to the spirit of 'The Extra Man' 2010-08-05T20:49:00Z

In a statement, Mr. Brownstein wrote: “The government’s description of the comics on his computer could easily describe a variety of comics that possess artistic and literary merit.” In Comic Book Industry, Needy Have Heroes of Their Own 2012-11-09T03:40:12Z

Asher’s fine descriptions — of feet on the track, of an uphill run, of pushing beyond one’s initial limits — are a call to get off the couch and onto the road. Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

"What a long strange trip it's been," from the 1970 Grateful Dead hit "Truckin'," has become a widely used description of life's serendipities. Grateful Dead songwriter hits the road for rare tour 2013-09-16T10:05:02Z

“Kaija’s music is very interesting,” he says, “because the structural elements are so frequently buried inside this beautiful gauzy surface that is indeterminate, that keeps morphing in ways that defy immediate description.” Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

In many cases, the written descriptions are more intriguing than the pictures. ‘Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage’ Reflects on Past Greats 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

By contrast, editorial writers and columnists are not only allowed to have an opinion, it’s in their job description. Perspective | How do you use an anonymous source? The mysteries of journalism everyone should know. 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Marlowe advises reading descriptions carefully and looking for key words that indicate higher quality. More people are shopping for furniture online during the pandemic. Here’s what to look for. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

But it was classily done and contains some dazzling scenes – above all, a sequence in which the toil and clang of Wagner's Nibelheim illustrate Engels's descriptions of industrial Manchester. Die Walk?re/The Madness of an Extraordinary Plan - review 2011-07-17T15:28:14Z

Wilder's technical descriptions, from bobsleds and railroads to growing a giant milk-fed pumpkin or constructing a whatnot, can be hard to follow. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z

Pinot “without the makeup” is a good description. We deserve ‘nouveau’ wine in 2020 — a vintage meant to be fun and drunk right away 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Surely a simple description of "the event" — he hit his fiancée so hard in the face that she lost consciousness — should be enough. Ray Rice video shows where we draw line on violence 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The same description could apply to “Submarine” and “The Art of Getting By,” restricting ourselves only to films currently playing in theaters. | 'Terri': Another Teenage Misfit Trying to Like Himself 2011-06-30T22:04:07Z

When the witnesses switch subjects to recall the horrors of ghettos and concentration camps, toward the end of the film, the style of their descriptions becomes more fragmented. Music Review: In ‘Life Is Strange,’ Recollections of the Holocaust 2014-01-24T00:39:57Z

Amazon removed a shoe from its site that allegedly contained a racial slur in its description. Amazon removes shoe with racial slur in product description 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Still, the words she uses to describe a city she loves that she doesn’t exactly live in — eclectic, inclusive, dignified — could also be a description of Brandi Carlile herself. Brandi Carlile, with a new album and Seattle concerts on the way, is reaching new heights 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Some wanted to re-create the initial surprise of the destruction — not an easy feat when any description of a clear fall day was enough to make readers brace for impact. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

But few books deserve that description more than this one. ‘Here,' Richard McGuire’s New Graphic Novel 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

“The French Intifada” begins with a vivid description of a melee at a major railway station within Paris. Book Review Podcast: 'The French Intifada' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

How to enter: Submit a drawing and description of your design to www.helicopter2050.com by October 15. Four great contests for kids 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

But tracks such as “Pusha Man” suggest that description is far too limiting. Album review: Chance the Rapper, 'Acid Rap' 2013-05-10T18:44:00Z

Apparently things often went further than just “getting lucky,” as the graphic descriptions in the story show, though Fowley had long denied any sexual contact with the members of the band. The explosive Runaways rape story: Will Joan Jett speak up for her bandmates now? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

In Week 1341 the Empress asked for new portmanteau words, in which two words are mashed together, along with a description of the result. Style Invitational Week 1345: The confaketionary — food fictoids 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The experts were chosen for their beer knowledge and skillful taste buds; the readers were selected from a pool of applicants who sent brief biographies and descriptions of their favorite beers to the Food section. Meet the panelists who will decide the winner of Beer Madness 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

However, the posters purposefully lack descriptions of what the lost ring looks like. Canadian trick-or-treater finds wedding ring at bottom of candy haul 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

The quality of the works is inconsistent, and even some of the stronger ones are saddled with vague, shallow descriptions. From Nudes to the Nervous System, Studies of the Human Body 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

He called the memoir “self-serving,” which is a polite description of the play’s fundamental flaw. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

I started writing a description of the ceiling because I was trying to figure what it was within that dream that came up in my subconscious. Author Scott Cheshire on his debut 'High as the Horses' Bridles' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The story “takes on a new and decidedly dark twist” in the upcoming book, publisher Little, Brown and Company said in a description on its website. 'Twilight' prequel book coming, written from vampire Edward's perspective 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

The religiously efficient Hemingway didn’t bother wasting his terse lyricism on descriptions of drinks, usually just listing the kinds and quantities instead. | 'The Sun Also Rises (The Select)': For Whom the Glass Is Always Half-Empty 2010-09-16T22:25:00Z

And then, possibly even more importantly, there were the physical descriptions. Reading group: The Spire's many meanings 2013-04-15T10:34:02Z

Tehan’s preparation for “All the Way” began weeks before the May 1 matinee, one of more than 50 annual performances with description services provided by the Ear. ‘He’s picking his nose’: How volunteers help the blind ‘see’ a theater performance 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

True to its description, the experience was akin to drinking a pumpkin pie, complete with crust. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Last year — when he was 18 — we had great fun reading “The Splendid and the Vile,” Erik Larson’s rip-roaring description of Churchill’s first year as prime minister, a year that coincided with the Blitz. The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Bowen has built an impressive mythology to buttress her fairy tale, and it’s a pleasure to discover this world through Simi’s eyes, even if the plot does at times get bogged down in description. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

So, after my personal performance of Dreamscape, I settle for a glass of water and a description of what I'm missing. Edinburgh festival from dusk till dawn 2010-08-11T20:31:00Z

His was not a lengthy quandary, and we all brought our own assumptions into the simple description of his problem. Motherlode Blog: Talking to a Child Who Is Overweight, but Unaware 2012-05-04T00:11:21Z

It is devoutly rational, even scientific: it contains descriptions of the world’s peoples that may seem wildly fanciful, but are based on the authoritative sources of Ricci’s time. 2010-01-20T05:23:00Z

The song descriptions emulate his incisive humor — “Pork Chop Speaks to Hungry Man, Offering Respite and Carnal Satisfaction,” reads one. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

These descriptions are inevitably one-sided and limiting, but in the case of Schumann, they reveal our failings – of imagination, empathy and courage. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z

In Ms. Santoro’s new piece, “Relative Collider,” she creates intriguing effects with small, precise gestures, working on “the physics of attention, the collision of watching,” according to a description on the Chocolate Factory’s website. Dance Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Senate, where elected officials will decide the country's future by probing what happened in their distant past — at an alcohol-fueled suburban house party, the descriptions of which has awakened memories for a generation. ‘I remember thinking, ugh, this is bad’: Scenes from teenage party life in the ’80s 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

If the very description of White’s jagged juxtapositions is agitating, their effect in the film is all the more energizing. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Please share a photo and a brief description of where you got the attire and why you chose it. Wedding Album: Was Your Pet a Member of Your Wedding Party? 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

O'Connor brings such flair to her descriptions, such queasy colour, that it's hard not to think that it's the ugliness that fascinates her, as much as any theological theory. Reading group: strange bodies in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood 2012-12-19T11:36:00Z

“The dream of Hollywood is to make one film,” Godard says, “and it’s television that makes it, but which is distributed everywhere” — which is as good a description of our NetflixDisneyMarvel world as I’ve read. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

Only Luke Barnes's Dog – about a young man's experience in the wake of a tragic event – really tries to grapple with the complexity of place; and even this can't resist some unnecessary cityscape description. A Wondrous Place – review 2013-06-08T23:05:21Z

Now, the job description for being a multi-hyphenate includes “credible knowledge of current geopolitical events and willingness to write an op-ed.” Thank Ariana Grande for breaking the media blackout on the Amazon wildfires 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

For example, one woman who said she was adopted claimed Prince was her father because "based upon the general description of the lifestyle of her biological parents, her fascination with the Decedent and physical similarities." Court order sharply narrows Prince's potential heirs 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Tempest’s description, early in the book, of love at first sight—“She explodes out of herself like a fireball, blinding”—needs either a rewrite or a horn section. Kate Tempest’s Transformations 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

To his point, he quotes Colin McGinn’s description of the process: “a mass of organic pulp on the brink of descent into the bilious hell of the stomach.” ‘Sorry!’ a guide through the thicket of English manners 2013-12-24T21:28:22Z

Yet many descriptions of Rizzi include variations on the apologetic phrase “but in a good way.” A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

And she also managed to rewrite Miss America’s job description by refusing to model swimsuits during her reign. ‘Looking for Miss America’ Tells the History of the Legendary Pageant 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

That is a sobering description of American mainstream movies in the age of global media conglomerates. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Multiple people who know Schwarzenegger declined to talk about her journey as they offered the bare minimum descriptions — "very sweet," "a hard worker," "a pleasure" — and added they wanted to respect her privacy. Katherine Schwarzenegger was born in the spotlight. She’s choosing to stay there. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Mottola felt it was important to lay out the story as he saw it after "harsh" and "untrue" descriptions Carey has given in interviews over the years. Tommy Mottola apologizes to Mariah in 'Hitmaker' 2013-01-31T15:53:15Z

If you want to see just how creative playing with gender can be — and to view more program descriptions — tickets and the full schedule are on the Abrons website. ‘Just Like a Woman,’ a Broad Look at Gender and Identity 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Bath products with enticing smells and descriptions like “bamboo lemongrass” and “yuzu bergamot” were from an aromatherapy line provided by Lather. A Polished Victorian Standout in a Sea of Island Inns 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

The reality that they don’t have a second seating means diners get to do more than hear a quick food description. Review | Discovering big things in a quaint package at a new Virginia dining destination 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Cruise's Los Angeles lawyer Fields said the National Enquirer's disparaging descriptions, concerning his treatment of Holmes and his daughter, were a "scurrilous attack" on his client. Cruise lawyer threatens to sue 2012-07-13T09:59:19Z

Usually people think about Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan or somebody recent like Craig Finn, who have these cascades of descriptions and evocations. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

"Critical Film Studies" aside, that's an accurate  description of "Community" -- in its second season, anyway. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z

Authorities didn't have a description of the gunman and hadn't made any arrests had been made as Area North detectives continue their investigation. Man fatally shot in in Humboldt Park neighborhood 2012-04-19T12:19:00Z

From a lustful description of a stepson to a screeching tirade against “geriatric” mothers, it’s perfectly delivered gold that’s hilarious all the way through. The 50 best podcasts of 2018 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

Yes, it is problematic when unhealthy people embrace celibacy as a hiding place, but not all priests fit this description. A Protestant liberal defends clerical celibacy 2013-03-10T12:00:00Z

The description accompanying the edit promises that the female characters and their parts in the plot have been removed. Star Wars actors mock fan who recut film to remove women 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Their descriptions, it turned out, uniformly reflected weariness with government corruption, Vladi­mir Putin’s long tenure, effectively 15 years, and a lack of personal opportunity they perceived amid the country’s financial struggles. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

That shorthand description would seem to qualify the Millers as terrorists. In the news media, are Muslims the only ‘terrorists’?

Yet it is a true description of conditions in the Finger Lakes, where alcohol levels only occasionally rise above 13 percent, compared with the 14 percent to 15 percent seen regularly in California. Cabernet Franc and the Finger Lakes: Made for Each Other 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Based on our requests we were sent three “casting options,” which included descriptions and headshots of the ManServants. What Having A ManServant Is Like 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

That description fits with Formula One driver Jackie Stewart’s memory of the man’s gift for raising people’s spirits. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z

Though Celine and Jesse are not married, “Before Midnight” fits this description almost exactly, which is to say that it is exquisitely attuned to the fragile, imperfect nature of their bond. Movie Review: ‘Before Midnight,’ With Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke 2013-05-23T16:15:43Z

While this passage is about Noe’s grandfather’s oral storytelling practices, it also serves as an apt description of “This Is Happiness.” Once Upon a Time in Ireland 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The judges' descriptions of his dish — "looked like a still life" and a "scene from a Renaissance painting" are so evocative. "Top Chef: World All Stars" aims to "deceive the eye" — but the runaway top contender is 100% clear 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

But it otherwise conforms to the description provided in the text: a scene “shady and solemn, but not gloomy.” Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

He is not the first White House observer to note that Trump is impulsive, childlike, narcissistic beyond description, intellectually shallow, and a habitual liar. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

And the white shrimp season was even worse, leading to descriptions of “worst in memory” and “nonexistent.” Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z

To explain how, I turn to the description of autism spectrum disorders provided by the National Institute of Mental Health: I have autism and I’m not “Rain Man” — and I’m not abnormal, either 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

They were grounded in description, not dogma—but prescriptions they were nonetheless. Prevailing winds 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

As in all those examples, it helps if the description somehow relates to the original movie. Style Invitational Week 1323: Selected shortened subjects 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

He sticks close to the details of the story and lifts dialogue and description directly from the novel’s pages. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z

The course description of five days in Arizona for kids age 9 to 12, including the rafting and the canyon, sold Ben, us and his parents. Road Scholar’s trips for kids and their grandparents provide a rare bonding experience 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

In 1968, The Times Literary Supplement in London hailed “Pax Britannica” as “a tour de force, offering a vast amount of information and description, with a style full of sensuality.” Jan Morris, Celebrated Writer of Place and History, Is Dead at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

“It’s about these two guys,” Davis says, laughing at the simplicity of the description. Sondheim’s ‘Road Show’ on the rebound at Signature 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Not that such descriptions do justice to the extraordinary images sampled in Molly Bernstein’s illuminating documentary. Review: ‘An Art That Nature Makes,’ an Illuminating Look at Rosamond Purcell 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

While this genesis story gets a lot of press in Forster circles, for me what is more striking is Forster's description of as belonging "to an England where it was still possible to get lost". Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z

Then starting in the Reagan years, we see a different description of America: Only invest in those at the top, and let trickle-down economics take care of everyone else. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Seen from above in a model, the tumbling abstract disc forms recall the explorer Wilfred Thesiger’s description of the “apparently haphazard confusion” of the desert dunes. Architecture Review: Celebrating the Delicate Beauty of the Desert Landscape 2010-03-22T22:46:00Z

But Oz claims to not be in the pockets of the lobbyists; instead his “flowery” descriptions of dubious products is all just to “engage viewers.” Must-see morning clip: Dr. Oz is part of the nutritional supplements problem 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Politan: There's a job description at Court TV called trial tracker. Court TV is back in session and preparing for Weinstein 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

It includes a history of player pianos, a description of the size of the SS France ocean liner and a section on what constitutes a patentable invention. 'Hedy's Folly': Screen siren had more than looks 2011-12-22T00:52:05Z

A group of “portraits” offers similarly color-coded descriptions of local personalities. Art in Review: BIRGIR ANDRESSON AND POUL GERNES: ?Bolt Out of the Blue? 2011-07-14T22:25:18Z

Those words are also the perfect description of this singer’s own prodigious, exciting talent. Music Review: Virginia Woolf?s Words, a Singer?s Voice 2011-05-03T22:04:56Z

And on a Thursday morning in September, in the black-box studio at Dance Place in Brookland, the dancers who were warming up did generally fit that description. A choreographer works to bring dance to the disabled 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Nor can it compete with Lee's effortlessly mesmerising storytelling; Wong instead creates a delicate tracery of description, flashback and vignette that require a sizeable investment in concentration from the viewer. The Grandmaster - review 2013-02-08T00:59:36Z

All enter the novel festooned in cliches, as in this description of the hostile housekeeper, Mrs. Duffy: Review | John Banville’s new novel begins, like a game of Clue, with a body in the library 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, Johnson’s author’s note may be the most fascinating chapter of all: a description of the true stories that inspired the novel. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

McIntyre made the remarks which contained "explicit descriptions of sexual violence", following a challenge set by Big Brother. Big Brother rapped over comments 2012-11-19T17:00:29Z

Mrs Brown's Boys – which the quick-on-the-uptake among you will have recognised from the above description – is the biggest sitcom phenomenon in yonks. Mrs Brown's Boys: how the 'worst comedy ever made' became a smash hit 2013-01-29T16:57:30Z

That last description, soon accompanied by a sympathetic hug, would soften or harden any man, even a guy who, at fortysomething, still loves his wife. Nobody Walks: Sex, Love, Bugs and (Kind of) Lena Dunham 2012-10-18T12:00:54Z

He is in his own description, an “abysmal journalist at worst, slightly above mediocre at best.” “This is not what a rapist looks like”: How this student’s defensive rant misses the point about sexual consent 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

He’s right in his description, but wrong in his conclusion. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

With its lavish banquets, helicopter escapes and sweeping descriptions of Singapore’s lush coast, Kevin Kwan’s novel “Crazy Rich Asians” practically begs to be turned into a film. ‘This Story Transcends Race’: Kevin Kwan on the Appeal of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Take Texas out of that clause and you get a fine description of what powers a lot of feminists, which makes you yearn for a movie with more dialectical engagement with feminism. ‘Raise Hell’ Review: For Molly Ivins, Writing Was Fighting 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

But the full scope of their jobs is so wide that it almost defies description. Seattle-area film producers head to Sundance 2012-01-12T19:47:25Z

In the 1970s and 1980s the meaning of the term shifted to the way we use it now: a description of female fertility. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

One of the reasons The Walk took so long to happen was that there’s no simple description of the movie to hang your advertising hat on. ‘If you hate heights, you won’t be comfortable watching’: Robert Zemeckis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on high-wire drama The Walk 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

A film director, on the other hand, is by job description a control freak. The Philip Glass effect on film: Transforming 'Dracula' and 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

That being said, slumber-ready upholstered furnishings of every size and description—daybeds, méridiennes, sofas—are scattered all over the place, creating a multiplicity of locations to catch 40 winks. Pedro Espírito Santo's Romantic Home In Lisbon 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Below is a full list of the selections announced Thursday, with descriptions provided by the festival: The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z

“Sensuous” seems more accurate a description than “poetic,” and especially evocative of a theme running through Jones’s work: that most things are felt before they are understood. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

They also feel like Mr. Ellis’s satire of writers who fill their pages with descriptions of trees and birds and insects. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

According to The Telegraph, the most notable changes will be made to the physical descriptions of characters that could now be deemed offensive. Roald Dahl’s "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" rewritten to include gender neutral Oompa Loompas 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

There are no Persian inscriptions relating to the event at all; this is a description of events as seen from a Babylonian perspective, and describes Cyrus as having been guided by the Babylonian deity Marduk. Babylonian relic to visit US with historic message of tolerance 2012-11-27T19:03:48Z

Correction: A previous version of this article was published with the incorrect description and seller list for the BloodRoot Pinot Noir 2019. Upgrade your patio sipping with this charming $12 pinot grigio 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

According to the video’s description, she thought she was being trolled. Woman smacks boyfriend on the head during Disneyland proposal, says she thought he was 'trolling' 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z

Semple’s descriptions — no surprise to her fans — are loopy, deeply and darkly funny, and brave. Maria Semple is back with another loopy, darkly comic novel 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Beatles fans — and Lennon aficionados in particular — will revel in John's descriptions of the musician's approach to the recording process, which Bergen skillfully redeployed in his courtroom strategy. Inside the untold story of John Lennon's legal war with a Mafia-connected label owner 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

The job overview, or description, allows even more leeway. Noted: Job Titles Retailored to Fit 2013-08-30T20:46:01Z

We're given a vivid description, details and foibles, before the town is populated with a cast of characters to rival any soap opera. Rereading Stephen King: week two – Salem's Lot 2012-06-11T10:58:12Z

Brilliant description of the mediocrity and frustration rife in the small town bourgeoisie of the era. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

A fragmented, incantatory immersion in clinical depression, filled with descriptions of psychotropic drugs, sets of numbers, angry rants and stark wordplay, the script specifies neither characters nor precise plot, nor even the number of performers. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

This confusing description is how "Love Island" contestant Jake Cornish talked about his bedtime exploits with fellow contestant Liberty Poole last week. Love Island and the coded language of sex 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Players, for example, don't get to view evidence for the case, only hear descriptions of it. Head games in 'Her Story' will make you feel almost like a true detective 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

A longtime resident of Port Royal, Ky., he writes about the environment and the lifestyle of farmers with a naturalist’s curiosity and a poet’s gift for description. Review: Rural Kentucky With Poet-Farmer Wendell Berry in ‘Look & See’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

But a plot description doesn’t do justice to this rapturously received, semi-autobiographical movie, shot in widescreen black-and-white that demands to be seen on the big screen. Holiday Movies 2018: All Creatures Great and Small 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Tuesday torture report — which included descriptions of detainees undergoing extreme sleep deprivation and rectally infused meals — found that 26 of the 119 individuals held by the CIA throughout the program were wrongfully detained. Jon Stewart: Senate Torture Report Is a 'Deluge of Depravity' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Rare is the description of Dusty Springfield that fails to mention her almost painterly use of mascara. Dusty Springfield's sublime masquerade through the American south 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

One of the descriptions we hear over and over again was "master manipulator." "Start by Believing" author: How "money and medals" enabled serial child molester Larry Nassar 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Handily, that might also serve as an accurate description of these days we’re living in. Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” will keep you up at night 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Early descriptions have promised a very Game of Thrones-sounding mix of "political skulduggery, spectacular battles and sexual intrigue". Game of Thrones success has cable firms rushing to catch up 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

But it’s as perfect a description of theater as any you’ll come across. Dance Review: John Jasperse Company Performs at the Joyce 2010-06-18T22:13:00Z

Here’s the description of his most recent novel, “Laws of Wrath,” which has garnered praise from James Patterson: The 9 weirdest novels by B-list celebrities 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Here again, Starr's description of the legal, medical and even philosophical questions around Vacher's responsibility are strikingly current, as is Lacassagne's reconstruction of Vacher's mental state from the manner in which he killed. 'The Killer of Little Shepherds': A 19th-century chase for a serial killer 2010-10-22T23:18:00Z

Having grown up in a small capital city located on the Great Plains of North America, I recognize something in Murnane’s descriptions of expansive grasslands, unobstructed sky. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

The lyric is also an apt description of the Los Angeles beat scene’s open-minded, anything-goes aesthetic. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

A description of a journey from Oklahoma to California and back suggests “The Grapes of Wrath” in reverse. Review: Stacy Sullivan, Guided by History and Weather, at the Metropolitan Room 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

When “Patriot” debuted on Amazon Prime a year ago, it was one of those bizarre wonders that defied simple description owing to its emphasis on eccentricity. A spy like us: Amazon’s “Patriot” is the screw-up’s answer to TV’s super-agents 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

That is a fair if incomplete description of Mr. Kushner, one of the most linguistically luxuriant dramatists of our time. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z

There was his unfortunate description of Barack Obama as “Your President,” a startling enough remark to be called out by “Good Morning America,” not exactly a bastion of political cynicism. The First Debate of the Twitter Election 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

You include a terrifying letter from Jack the Ripper; your description of its contents, in contrast, is tremendously understated. Letters of Note's Shaun Usher discusses the power of the written word 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

"Most of the writing in the South Polar Times is scientific descriptions of expeditions and experiments, but hidden among these is a small number of particularly fascinating short stories," said White. Science Museum publishes climate change novel 2013-04-26T11:44:31Z

Try this description, then: Imagine an eccentric, highly polished David Chang restaurant that the world hasn’t heard about yet. The David Chang Restaurant Almost Nobody’s Heard Of 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Yet while Coho­das provides vivid descriptions of Simone’s behavior, she offers very little by way of explanation. Nina Simone, Diva Out of Carolina 2010-02-26T16:31:00Z

What sticks with me about this description is not Shade’s—or Nabokov’s—impressive artistry but all of the slippage and combination, which provokes, in my head, a vague uneasiness. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Beer geeks might be excited when they read that Ballast Point’s Dorado is “dry-hopped with Crystal and Mt. Hood hops,” but for the average patron, that description might be as inscrutable as Latin. With 600 bottles of beer on the wall, how can a staff keep up? Taste, talk and learn. 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mormons are "persecutors of the most terrible description", writes Conan Doyle in his novel. School bans 'anti-Mormon' Sherlock Holmes book 2011-08-16T14:33:54Z

The song set the scene for an elaborate description of Ms. Mazzie’s childhood home with its stereo console and turntable stacked with LPs. Music Review: Marin Mazzie’s Cabaret Show at 54 Below 2012-09-06T21:48:53Z

“Ham-handed” is a generous description of what followed: a series of managerial convulsions that left nearly everyone unsatisfied and publicly exposed deep divides within the Times newsroom over race and the treatment of Black employees. A star reporter’s resignation, a racial slur and a newsroom divided: Inside the fallout at the New York Times 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Jemaine Clement He seems bemused by descriptions of the film as a romantic comedy. Flight of the Conchords the musical is coming, says Jemaine Clements 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

I'm so engrossed by Clark's description of flying buttresses – a supporting architectural structure that allowed early cathedrals to become taller and more grandiose – that I almost forget to snigger at the word "buttress". One man vs Civilisation 2011-02-05T00:03:00Z

You can’t necessarily blame a specific movie for being about the travails of a white guy, but surely the fact that something like 90 percent of all releases fit that description is a problem. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

For example, the description of the group Queer Urbanism Memes and Other Things for Lonely and Forgotten Teens insists that it is not affiliated with Numtot. Can Society Scale? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Is there a better description of fine writing? Zbinden's Progress by Christoph Simon – review 2012-08-17T21:55:06Z

Generally, in the type of filmmaking I do, I’m interested in actions rather than descriptions. Laura Poitras on Heroic Acts, Not Heroes 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

And yet, it was never lost on me that, in a sense, all Murphy’s doing in this bit is offering a literal description of the sex men can have with each other. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

“The descriptions of violence and gourmet cuisine are so visceral that I felt alternatingly hungry and sick to my stomach,” Amy Silverberg writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

The description of the trial itself is priceless. ‘Little Demon in the City of Light’: a hypnotic murder 2014-03-26T19:48:46Z

I am however surprised that there is no description of anything eaten at this mercado. Francine Prose’s Oaxaca: An Immersion Course in Mexico’s Delights 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Ms. McCusker included a lengthy description of her year living and working in Israel. The Aftermath of War, Seen Through Photographers’ Eyes 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

The coaches rolled out their usual descriptions for Williams: “unique,” “true artist.” 'The Voice' recap: The Top 5 top themselves -- twice 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

“You can always tell you’ve figured out exactly what they’re doing when they get offended by your description of what they might be doing,” he said. John Oliver denounces Trump's 'racist' family separations ahead of midterms 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

There’s Harry’s description of his brother, William, knocking him to the floor during a fight, and Harry’s admission that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan. The Rollout of Prince Harry’s Book Is Chaotic. Sales Are Still Surging. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

That description, just so you know, is in no way typical of the usual language of “Toast,” which is set in 1975. Review: ‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

And it is true that normally store windows don’t figure into Mr. Ferretti’s job description. Dante Ferretti Goes From Cinecitta to Madison Avenue 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

The official patent description calls the Dreamachine a “procedure and apparatus for the production of artistic visual sensations.” Art Review: At New Museum, Brion Gysin?s First Retrospective 2010-07-29T21:21:00Z

But when news of the show’s reboot broke, publicity descriptions declaring the update a “feminist” take rankled the original talent. The Witches of ‘Charmed’ Are Out to Slay Demons. And the Patriarchy. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

This admission of relief, so simply phrased, is refreshing and acute in its description of relationships that go on longer than they should. Rating Breakup Anthems: How Does Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used to Know? Stack Up? 2012-05-15T10:00:50Z

Such descriptions speak evocatively of what it means to be gay in different epochs. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z

One of the most frustrating aspects of renting a vacation home online — perhaps second only to a rental not remotely resembling its photos or description — is what is missing. There Are No Towels? The Renter’s Lament 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Instead, as one description of the new fund stated, “Our audience members and supporters become commissioners themselves, actively shaping a world where emerging composers can flourish.” How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

It is Peer's descriptions of the systematic torture by India of its Kashmiri citizens that reflect most badly on the world's largest democracy. Curfewed Night 2010-06-19T23:10:00Z

The book hums with striking descriptions of an unforgiving landscape. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

It included the usual photos and updates, but also a glowing description of an elegant retirement party for the wife earlier in the year. Thanks for the Piece of Plastic? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

We described our band as punk-skiffle, a description we made up, because it fitted what we did: you played whatever instrument you were given or had found in a skip. 'Your ego has to be left at the door': the secret life of the understudy 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Give a detailed description of the car and provide the license plate number. Perspective | Ask Amy: Reader wonders how to stop friend from driving drunk 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Because every live performance is slightly different, playing a single audio track wouldn’t work: before long, the action would outrun or lag the description on the tape. Admit One: Technology Extends Theater’s Thrills to Blind Patrons 2014-02-06T22:13:40Z

He had these writing styles reverberating in his inner ear when he wrote the “business” of the script—the descriptions of action, scene, and character; everything but the dialogue. The Many Voices of Boots Riley 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

There are no flashbacks or elaborate descriptions of the atrocities committed. Review | More than 100 women were raped by their neighbors for years — but no one would believe them. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

These descriptions of Horrid Henry's classmates might help inspire you. See YOUR character written into a Horrid Henry book and drawn by Tony Ross! 2012-05-23T10:46:34Z

It is an interesting question, meanwhile, why the word "baby" in menu descriptions does not disgust us. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z

Netflix subsequently changed the description to read: “A young American Indian girl tries to follow her heart and protect her tribe when settlers arrive and threaten the land she loves.” Netflix Changes 'Pocahontas' Description After Complaints It's Sexist 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Renaissance artists later painted reconstructions of his work based on these descriptions, such as Botticelli's The Calumny of Apelles. Open thread: which lost works of art would you most like to see? 2012-07-01T18:01:01Z

That description could easily apply to the Fellini Museum, which opened in the Italian coast city of Rimini — the director’s birthplace — earlier this month: a multimedia project that draws visitors into Fellini’s idiosyncratic cinematic universe. A Fellini Museum, as Lavish as His Movies 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

It’s minimalism — there’s almost no dialogue, it’s all about descriptions of emotions. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Driving in a Noir L.A. 2011-05-22T18:41:11Z

In a restaurant, he said, it is the menu that people enjoy consuming – not the dishes, but their description. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z

Sometimes, Martin sends Bliss a description of an image, with a caption he has in mind, and they workshop it a bit over email. They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Atlas, who can’t quite break free from his subject, ends his book with a description of his own life that inadvertently recalls the sad end of Schwartz. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

This is the official description from the presenter, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the orchestra’s esteemed founding conductor, Ivan Fischer, who also directed this highly anticipated event. Music Review: ‘Figaro,’ From Budapest Orchestra, Has Silly Touches 2013-08-12T22:01:58Z

There are many images you will wish you could forget, and descriptions of sexual mores and practices that call into question basic human values. Review | Faith Jones’s memoir of living in cult — and leaving it — is a powerful tale of resilience 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

In course of time, on various grounds, one description might prove to be more satisfactory than others. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

The book, published last week by Pantheon, mixes memoiristic meditations on the lexicographic life along with a detailed description of the brain-twisting work of writing dictionaries. A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The job description posted in May says the museum seeks a “tested executive” but it does not specifically require candidates to have experience as a museum director. The National Gallery’s next leader will have a chance to reshape the museum. If the museum allows it. 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

The pregame spot was generic as it sounds from the description. Super Bowl movie ads: Grading 'Tomorrowland,' 'Furious 7' and more 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

The melodies were also inspired by Percival’s descriptions of her daughters. What does a mother’s love sound like? Seattle Symphony’s Lullaby Project finds out. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

The job description requires giving up negotiating power. Field Notes: What’s New in Bridesmaid Dresses 2013-06-07T20:18:23Z

He records subdued, idiosyncratic electronic music that eludes easy description. The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fullington wore his considerable erudition lightly, sharing the thrill of discovery when the notation matched a description in memoirs. Dance Review: ‘Petipa Exotique,’ Part of Works & Process at the Guggenheim 2014-02-24T22:43:59Z

There are no props—no extraneous descriptions, no smells, no explanations—nothing of what Mr Sharma calls “sticky”. Flights of fantasy 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

There are also lyrical themes not common to current popular music: detailed description of manual work, and a celebration of the life and community that surrounds it. Readers recommend songs about manual labour: The results 2010-07-22T22:04:00Z

But the staff’s attempts to escape were quashed, and the audience was given a blow-by-blow description of the rebels’ demise. Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes) 2010-08-27T22:59:00Z

Her general description of him is affectionate and largely uncritical – rather as one might expect from a young girl who adored her father. Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z

We reported last week that, across the country, theaters are posting increasingly specific descriptions of content that might unsettle or offend patrons. To Warn or Not to Warn? Theater Fans Respond 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

My other beef is that the descriptions of bike-racing, where Reed strives for transcendence, are filled with false notes that will jar true cycling fans among his readers. A Novel Chases Its Narrator on the Tour de France 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

That is a perfectly accurate description of what lies within. Books of The Times: Sondheim?s Rhymes and Reasons 2010-10-21T17:45:00Z

Nor is there a clear description of Mr. Madoff’s various financial entities or their regulatory status. Books Of The Times: Post-Mortem on Madoff?s Fraud While Scandal Is Still Quivering 2011-04-25T21:59:38Z

Bowie’s description of the music may have advertised its inauthenticity, but that only enhanced his consistent outsider stance. How the 1970s Launched David Bowie's Career 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

“Fire Sermon” offers an unflinching description of that kind of pain. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Charlie Brooker described the songs that populate Black Mirror’s most humane and heartbreaking episode as that rotten egg of descriptions: “guilty pleasures”. The best TV soundtracks of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

This is not a description of an actor’s nightmare, but of a very real, entirely improvised play, called “Stolen House,” that takes place on borrowed stage sets. No Script, No Roles: It’s No Problem for the Actors of ‘Stolen House’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

To talk about minerality in the tasting description of a wine is to potentially add sensory and commercial value to it.” What in Earth makes a wine taste ‘minerally’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

It isn’t uncommon for Pinterest to meet publishers at their office to walk them through how to create more detailed pins, known as rich pins, which offer longer descriptions and links to other web pages. Pinterest Makes Media Push Targeting Evergreen Content 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

At the end of her description of the alleged encounter, she wrote that "the Donna Karan coatdress still hangs on the back of my closet door, unworn and unlaundered since that evening." Woman requests DNA sample of Trump over rape accusation 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Photographer’s description: “I’m learning to use my tripod with my Canon Rebel, and armed with my new depth-of-field app, I headed to Golden Gardens to practice. These bare trees were the perfect spot.” Reader’s Lens | Golden Gardens grove 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

There was certainly no lack of M’Diarmids around Loch Earn, including an Angus M’Diarmid, who was twenty-four years old in 1815—which fits that description of a “fine athletic young man.” An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

It is through his vivid description of small moments that Mr Hajari transforms an overwhelming event into an intimate experience. A searing split 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

We couldn’t imagine a more accurate description of Mr. K. That research helped us to answer a key question: What was it that made Mr. K so effective? Book Excerpt: Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations 2013-10-01T16:54:05Z

The horrifying description of Edmonds’s corpse and how Waters has exacted revenge on Edmonds is a set piece worthy of a slasher film. Neely Tucker’s ‘Only the Hunted Run’ starts with a bang and never lets up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Neither seems true here and, since I’m going off your description, you apparently agree. Carolyn Hax: Ex marks the spot of difficulties in a budding romance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Meloy uses lots of description and sometimes obscure or old-fashioned terms. 'Wildwood Chronicles' conjures a Portland fantasy 2014-03-26T13:22:10Z

Creative, provocative, extreme — all words that could be applied to Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s musicianship, and still the description would not quite capture her talent. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Sometimes it's this person doesn't have that kind of education or this description is flat. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Rather, it reminds its audience, with a conspiratorial wink, that description might spoil the fun for future audiences.  Spoiler alert! 'Borrowed Time' magic show will leave you astonished 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

His description of Washington Heights may be true, but it tells only a part of the story: In this film, the streets are paved with dance. ‘In the Heights,’ Where the Streets Explode With Dance 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

I got a laugh reading Ishmael’s description of the Nantucket captains: “They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.” On the trail of ‘Moby-Dick’ in three New England towns 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The photographs were stunning and the descriptions of the whisky started me off on a "whisky tour" that continues to this day. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

The most persuasive and memorable parts of “C,” it turns out, are not coded, intertextual ones, but simple, straightforward passages of description. Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z

My notes contained descriptions like tannic, nutty, citrus rind and spices such as cloves and nutmeg. Perspective |  It might be trendy again, but orange wine is nothing new — and nothing to scoff at 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

“Extremely sincere ratatouille” is a not-bad description of many of this book’s sentences. ‘To the New Owners,’ About a Summer Place (Too) Well Loved 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

They are the first beers I have had in my life with a positive flavor profile: I taste the fig and dried cranberry the menu description promises. Even beer skeptics can enjoy Oregon’s craft-brewery mecca 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

I actually opened the pitch document for “Killing Eve” with Steinbeck’s description of his monstrous beauty. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Chekhov often contributed to a literary journal called “Oskolki” — the title translates to “Splinters,” which is a fair description of his contributions: jagged, piercing pieces, some little more than intricate jokes. A ‘Full Deck’ of Chekhov, With the Translators as the Wild Cards 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Ellmann’s commitment to compilation and description suggests a resistance to hierarchies. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

A 10-track downloadable audio recording released last fall, the guide features detailed descriptions of the sights, sounds and surfaces encountered on an ascending walk through the museum. The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

While these stories don’t always achieve the psychological depth of Groff’s novels, there’s serious pleasure to be had in her precise descriptions of landscape. Review | New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama’s favorite novel in 2015 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

There is a comic harshness to the book’s physical descriptions. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Its descriptions of George’s heroism sound credible, too. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Byers’s description of the hailstorm that destroys Clyde’s chance for college, for instance, is lyrical and exact, and quietly more upsetting than the more spectacular disasters that happen to other characters. Books of The Times: Michael Byers?s Novel ?Percival?s Planet? 2010-08-22T23:51:00Z

Their family is poor — Pa runs a rag shop — yet the descriptions of food and fashion are mouthwatering. Why Are There So Many Holocaust Books for Kids? 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

But in this description, the former movie actor turned politician is intensely human, and capable of empathy, or at least shame. How Ronald Reagan Triumphed 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Put “Beach” in a band name, and the word “sunny” will inevitably appear in descriptions of the music. ArtsBeat: With a Name Like Beach Fossils, Can Sunny Be Far Behind? 2010-10-22T21:01:00Z

But the description of it was so compelling and unusual that it drew me in. Was it all just a dream? Tales from heavenly Vair Spa in Puglia 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

“Shiksa” without taboo is toothless; she’s now nothing more than a grab bag of descriptions — a stereotype. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

Because volunteers typically sign up well in advance of a show’s run, they have only a brief description to go on when mapping out their matinee and evening schedules. Nice Work if You Can Get It: Being a Volunteer Usher on Broadway 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

In fact, the phrase has been the most famous description of jazz ever since New Yorker writer Whitney Balliett first used it in 1959. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

And they are such fine creations that they can’t be reduced to thumbnail descriptions. Books of The Times: ?Truth Like the Sun,? by Jim Lynch 2012-04-08T22:00:45Z

He is listed in the program as both supporting characters and as Barrie himself, and in each one-act he frequently steps aside to declaim the playwright’s cheeky stage directions and character descriptions. Theater Review: ‘This Side of Neverland,’ at Pearl Theater 2013-05-13T21:47:10Z

Choose one and you’ll see photos and information about habitat, range and migration, diet and feeding behavior, eggs and nesting, and conservation status, as well as audio clips and whimsical descriptions of songs and calls. 17 Learning Tools For Your Next Outdoor Excursion 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

“His descriptions are sharp,” and “in the audiobook version, Ray Porter’s forceful narration heightens the propulsive quality of Verini’s writing, while also highlighting the general and enduring absurdities of war.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The key to good description is clarity, both in observation and in writing. 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

In his introduction, Shankar writes that the anthology is “an inherently collaborative effort, a dialogue, a response,” and the same description works for Hayes’s form, which unites all of the poems here. Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

That pace flags only occasionally, usually during descriptions of the landscape, which are frequent enough to become slightly tedious. Review | Diane Cook’s ‘The New Wilderness’ is accidentally timely but also timeless 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

Her delivery of Chopin's occasionally fiery political passion underlined the brilliance of Robert Schumann's description of the mazurkas as "cannons buried in flowers". Weir Untangled/MacGregor 2010-06-08T20:44:00Z

Black Dub, led by the guitarist and producer Daniel Lanois, also fits the description. Music Review: An Old Hand Plucking At the Heartstrings 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z

According to Michael Grimes, a spokesman for State Farm insurance, the likely answer is a detailed inventory list, along with receipts, serial numbers, descriptions and photos. Disasters happen. That’s why you should have a home inventory. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Also I was a little confused by this description: "the same suspiciously contoured cheekbones". ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 12: Your Child Is Your Child 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Right next to the description of a “blue-collar criminal” is the description of his “pretty blue-collar mother.” Hollywood’s hidden sexism: How casting notices keep beauty standards alive 2014-01-25T00:00:00Z

Her descriptions and recollections capture island life better than any I’ve ever read. Everything Is Different on an Island 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Take the classic example of ekphrasis: the description of Achilles’ shield in the Iliad. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

If all that doesn't dissuade you from the poultry business, you may be cheered by the second half of the book: gorgeous color pictures and descriptions of different varieties of chickens, many extremely rare. Books can help with urban chicken farming 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Moore, whose awards included a Pulitzer Prize, was hailed for her precise language, penetrating descriptions and keen observations. A definitive work on Marianne Moore and other best poetry to read this month 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

He devotes only a few lines in the memoir to his family life, but at times the book wallows in descriptions of his feelings. A New Forum for Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Architecture 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

His description of the volatile leader is nonetheless tinged with warmth. Review | What’s it like to cook for a dictator? A new book takes us inside the kitchens of Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot and more. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Three Women” includes no character descriptions, no stage directions and no dialogue — nothing to mark it as a play rather than a poem. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z

His characters, both heroes and villains, are superbly well drawn, and as in every Burke novel, the poetic descriptions of both urban and country settings bring Texas to life on the page. Burke fashions epic story in ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

At times, this seems like tautology — it’s hard to imagine a war of any kind that wouldn’t fit this description. Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

We wake up in Virginia, though “wake up” is a charitable description after a sleepless night. An accessible-travel insider documents her trip on the world’s longest passenger train 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Now, I do not accept that as a middle-aged white male, I'm unable to represent others who do not fit that description, be they female, from an ethnic minortiy, gay or disabled. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z

In a later Slate interview, Coates said that he disagreed with Hilton’s description but empathizes with her desire for broader representation. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Others, many others, are portraits of dark or light, such as the description of dinnertime at Hearot, the King of Denmark’s mead hall: Joan Acocella: Tolkien’s “Beowulf” 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The first essay, “The Dream of India,” strings together short descriptions of that country; at the end, we learn that all of the descriptions predate 1492. The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The description continues: "This will become the most collectible beer can in American history." Donald Trump's mugshot beer: How the Bud Light boycott bred the ultimate conservative cash grab 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

One of the great scenes in Davenport’s book is the description of the helicopter trip Bezos took to find the land, which ended with a terrifying crash. In This Space Race, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Are Competing to Take You There 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Where Rice-Oxley gets close to a workable explanation for his sudden unravelling is in his description of what life is like for a modern middle-class man. Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley – review 2012-06-08T21:55:12Z

Her descriptions of the places she goes and the people she meets are solid enough for campfire retelling. Review: Friedman's travelogue treads no new ground 2011-04-06T20:35:14Z

Mr. Stanley begins by offering a definition of propaganda that extends beyond dictionary descriptions of biased or misleading information used to promote a particular political cause or point of view. ‘How Propaganda Works’ Is a Timely Reminder for a Post-Truth Age 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Falwell portrayed abortion, and by implication anyone connected with it, as grotesque and inhumane, using detailed descriptions of mutilated body parts in his pitch to followers. The religious right is neither: The real history of how decades of radical, violent rhetoric led to the Planned Parenthood shooting 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Rated R for descriptions of violence and adult language. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

For airbnb, the key is to read the description and communicate with hosts if any questions or confusion. A Crash Course in Airbnb 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

They include vast downloads of Westeros history and religion, outlines of genealogy and toothsome descriptions of banquets, which are vivid on the page — and should stay there. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

So yes, my crash course leads me to conclude that the ballet-for-horses description is right, in a limited way. Dance Review: Dressage Is Not Quite ‘Swan Lake,’ but It’s Surprisingly Close 2012-08-10T09:57:03Z

So we get tasty figurative gumdrops that subtly illuminate the inner thoughts of the characters, like the glamorous Evelyn’s description of the setting sun, which, she says, looks “like a starlet whose solo is over.” ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

An audit in late 2014 by the accounting firm Leaf & Cole characterized the opera as a "going concern" — an accounting description for a company expected to be financially stable for at least a year. 'La Bohème' a rousing comeback for San Diego Opera 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Until you realise that the same description applies to listening to Maroon 5 in a damp, smelly room. When is a wine bar not a wine bar? When it's a coffee shop 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Bombeck’s description of motherhood did not mirror my own home life. Why Erma Bombeck is still the patron saint of motherhood comedy 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

When the decision was published, the film's distributor requested a reconsideration of the description "mild sex references" and more clarity to the frequency of mild bad language. BBFC changes Paddington 'sex' advice 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

Pixar's first poster for its latest film, "Brave": The description makes the movie sound like a Scottish fairytale told by your fairly drunk uncle. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of cultural ambivalence 2011-06-25T12:02:00Z

They are the company’s soubrettes, with compact bodies and brilliant virtuoso techniques, though Ms. Peck increasingly shows a dramatic range and lyricism that belies that easy description. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

I loved the plot for this story, as well as the depth of description in some parts of the book. Breathe by Cliff McNish - review 2012-10-12T14:00:00Z

There is a powerful description of this in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, her novel set in a dystopian future plagued by infertility. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z

Alvarez's description of events chimes with the prosecution's contention that Murray delayed for too long in summoning help. Bodyguard tells court of Michael Jackson's final moments 2011-01-05T21:44:01Z

“It’s like if a woman falls in love with you without knowing you have money or you’re famous,” he said, repeating a friend’s description. Gad Elmaleh: Talking Funny in French and English 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The beauty of “The Devoted” lies in its intricate descriptions of religion’s hush and ritual. Sex, Love and Religious Fervor Abound in Two New Novels 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The New York Times’ publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 fits that description. Perspective | Booting Jim Acosta from the White House was bad for press rights. Charging Julian Assange might be worse. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

You find yourself scrolling to a random page and reading a description of Roth’s first marriage: Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Once upon a time, “naughty nuns” would have been the quickie description for a leering exploitation movie; these days, it’s the hook for this quirky period comedy from the writer and director Jeff Baena. ‘Margaret,’ ‘American Animals’ and More Streaming Alternatives 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

He agrees it's not a bad description of his own muted acting style, but reflecting on his work seems to frustrate him. Guy Pearce: Don't look down 2010-12-04T00:02:00Z

There’s no description for her because no one ever talks about her. His infidelity, our infertility: Could I forgive an emotional affair now? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mostly, he accomplishes this with a blow-by-blow description of repeated doctor visits and proceedings before administrative law judges. America Has Mistreated Its Coal Miners. Here’s Their Fight for Justice. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

"It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it, like what you see in someone's eyes or expression, or hear in her voice." 'In Sunlight and Shadow': Mismatched lovers in '40s Manhattan 2012-09-26T22:10:04Z

But that description doesn’t do justice to the story’s breadth and depth. ‘The Third Murder’ Review: Mystery and a Master’s Vision 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Its descriptions of the land and the natural world are enchanting. Review | The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Penn’s sense of menace and threat is leavened by his descriptions of Guzmán’s embrace of his family, particularly his two sons. Guzmán interview draws fire for journalistic compromises 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

That seems like a pretty good description of his later work: paintings that are awkward in an interesting way. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z

Perhaps that accounts for the disconnect between the political drama of Ms. Ross’s descriptions and the tameness of the works performed. Review: Sexy Soviet Ballet Steps, Once Delivered as Protest 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

This summer, there is “The Silent Wife” by A. S. A. Harrison, a sleeper hit that happens to answer to the same description. The Novel ‘Silent Wife’ Benefits From Success of ‘Gone Girl’ 2013-08-04T21:53:54Z

A woman spotted the truck in Aurora after seeing the description on the news. Moving truck full of family's possessions stolen as they slept in hotel 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Phosphorescent, On tour There's a lot to be said for writing your own job description. This week's new live music 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

“The music is not only a description of the sea — it behaves like it,” Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim wrote in The New York Times. What It’s Like to Hear the Desert in Music 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Because I wanted something to help me stop eating Oreos, and this description of how salt, sugar and fat are manipulated into our food supply is doing a bang-up job. Summer reading: Guardian US journalists share their tips 2013-07-03T19:14:59Z

Photographer’s description: “Sunrise with Mount Rainier, as shot from a Cessna 172 at 11,500 feet, at minus 20 degrees Celsius, with the window open.” Reader’s Lens | Sunrise from a Cessna 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Did Marines have anything – books, movies – that gave an accurate description of what it’s like to be over there? A more honest Iraq War story looks like this: “Sometimes the Marine Corps kind of sucks” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

His description of the show — part sci-fi mystery, part satirical performance art — sums up its appeal. Night Vale comes to Brentwood with 'It Devours!' 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

His inverted description of the Vogon fleet as "hanging in the air in much the same way that bricks don't" is still, I think, possibly the funniest sentence to have ever been written. Where are all the right-wing comedians when you need them? 2013-03-12T15:03:25Z

Kitsch is static — it’s a description of an object or an item — where camp is performative, and you’re in on the joke. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

This book tells the sobering tale of two families, one Sinhala, one Tamil, on opposing sides of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict, and also weaves in detailed descriptions of the island. A backpacker’s guide to Sri Lanka: a one-month itinerary 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Some of the pieces I read have a joking tone, with descriptions of fearless dachshunds and urban homesteader types alike noshing on unique sources of protein. I’m terrified of the cicada onslaught 2013-05-20T23:45:00Z

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, published in 1836-37, was Dickens’ first novel, though “picaresque romp” is a more accurate description of its structure. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 7: The Pickwick Papers 2012-01-30T18:40:16Z

Another thing I’d like to see improve is the specifics of audio description. How Lauren Ridloff’s Deafness Became a Superpower in Marvel’s ‘Eternals’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

On the night of Antwon’s death, Rosfeld stopped a car that matched the description of a vehicle involved in a shooting. What Antwon Rose’s Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

It’s an excellent description of how Guinness builds the character. Television: ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Alec Guinness - Review 2011-10-22T04:00:07Z

In Eleanor's description of her father's dysfunctional career as a whaler – afraid of boats, he had to throw javelins from the beach – there's a hint of what Fulcher and Brown are capable of. Rich Fulcher: An Evening with Eleanor, the Tour Whore 2010-08-24T13:57:00Z

His thriller is graced with masterly descriptions of the area and the pending storm that is another killer the trio must survive. Michael Koryta's 'The Cypress House': a whiff of doom in a whisp of smoke 2011-02-03T00:02:06Z

I was intrigued but since there were no recipes or even a good description to go on, I made a note of it on my ongoing list and kept scrolling. Use your garden bounty to make green tomato crumb cake 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

Not only does Mr. Ross possess glittering powers of description and a heat-seeking eye for emotional and physical detail, but he’s also able to capture the way people talk today with fluency and panache. Books of The Times: Tall Tales From Gifted Storytellers 2011-06-20T22:00:07Z

The aura of religiosity that hangs over that description fits it well. Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z

Our research is consistent with a different description of Flores' allegation of discrimination: true. New evidence of discrimination against Black coaches in the NFL since 2018 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Those were the most-oft repeated descriptions of this year’s Oscar race overheard in Los Angeles last month, as members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prepared to select their nominees. Perspective | An existential question animates this year’s Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Cringe-inducing as that description is by itself, the product is so much worse. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

“Summer Valley Fair,” a poignant and delicate musical by Dylan Frederick, closed on Sunday, and I almost didn’t see it because the show description in the festival materials made it sound cheesy and bland. New York Musical Theater Festival Includes ‘Deep Love’ and ‘Pope!’ 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The latter includes the immortal description of Messrs Hillary and Tenzing as they ascended the planet's highest mountain, "carving steps into the roof of the world". New band of the day - Public Service Broadcasting (No 1,414) 2012-12-12T17:00:45Z

The German artist’s view of a country lane on loan from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, fits that description. Exhibition Review: 17th Century Art: The Landscape Comes of Age 2011-06-03T12:00:43Z

Ms. Darst’s description of how, after so many near-death experiences, her mother actually did die makes it clear how much unfinished business remains between them. Books of The Times: ?Fiction Ruined My Family,? by Jeanne Darst - Review 2011-09-28T21:54:46Z

While museum directors in the past were largely judged on their scholarly bona fides — Ph.D.s in art history were considered essential — and fund-raising capacities, the job description has expanded dramatically in recent years. What Does It Take to Run a Museum? The Job Description Is Changing. 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

I still, reading through them, come upon passages, especially his descriptions of characters, that I wish I had the courage to steal. By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“Both good people,” Bahny said, considering his choice as he offered an unsolicited description of his expansive book and CD collection and referred to himself as a “stereotypical Upper West Side Jewish liberal.” Do Jewish New Yorkers care about identity politics? Jerry Nadler hopes so. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

The crisis, even as it has decimated film and television, has created some new job descriptions – including the producer in charge of coronavirus preparedness. Mission impossible? How to shoot a blockbuster in the coronavirus era 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The theme of the event was digital disruption, and coordinators decided that the distracting gadgets fit the “disruptive” description to a T. Kids are over fidget spinners. Adults are just getting into them. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Her description of cells rushing to staunch a wound is so full of wonder and delight that it recalls Italo Calvino. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Indeed, some took the New Press’s description of what happened to Mr. Bellesiles as provocation. Michael A. Bellesiles Tries to Live Down Scholarly Scandal 2010-08-03T22:00:00Z

“Someone called me an ice princess,” she said, “and it was probably the most astute and flattering description possible.” Real Wedding Day Looks 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

A blurry feeling settled over me as I kept encountering rhyming descriptions and plot points. In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

He gives a state-mandated description of the fetus: almost exactly seven weeks, he says, “nice and early.” It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z

Some descriptions are erotic: “Rubbing my neck, holding my hand, slipping his fingers in and out of the sleeves and neckline of my shirt. Dipping a few times into the edges of my bra.” Casual sex isn’t just for college kids 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Casting the right actor for a role often means finding someone who matches the character description in a script, but Josh Sundquist didn’t know if that was possible for his series “Best Foot Forward.” ‘Best Foot Forward’ Is a Story About, and By, People With Disabilities 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

In "Bittersweet", the use of literal roots to suggest metaphorical ones is not exactly surprising, but it's effective because it's grounded in clear and precise description. Water Sessions by James Lasdun – review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z

They include touchable examples of artworks, audio descriptions and labels written with Braille, curator Stephanie Moore said. Largest festival of disabled artists opens in DC 2010-06-08T22:30:00Z

It is in the description of these events that Fink, a Stanford-educated physician and a health and science writer, is at her best. Looking Back at a Hospital Devastated by Hurricane Katrina 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Combining with nature writing, it's peppered with keenly observed descriptions that serve to reveal the dire implications of ignoring our natural environment. Debut author: Melissa Harrison 2013-01-26T17:00:01Z

In a typewritten draft of his best-selling 1948 autobiography, he scribbled a description of his war-torn hometown in southern France: “I was born into a world which was the image of hell.” A Monk’s Interests Captured on Camera 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The problem is, his story included physical descriptions of the men he’d met, along with their sports and their countries of origin — making it easy to identify them. Why media coverage of LGBT Olympic athletes is ‘simply unacceptable’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Her descriptions of Michael often verge on cliché or folklore. A Lamentation for a Life Cut Short 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

With the possible exception of the sickbed vigils, your description of your childhood is a loveless one. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It was a non-crying shame when her parents passed away 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Very accurate item description — I pounded this on my alarm clock exactly five times, and that was the perfect number to completely mute the stupid &$^# ringer. Style Invitational Week 1325: Stand up and jeer — jokes for the WHCA dinner 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

There is something here of Jung’s description of “shadow” life in which any aspect that isn’t being attended to will increase in power and magnetism. Rachel Cusk Strips the Novel Down to Its Frame. Again. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

“We read our lives through them, and their descriptions of the inner and outer worlds become mixed up with ours — they become ours.” Writers Gather to Read Salman Rushdie and Support Free Speech 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

It all sounds perfectly cozy, in his description: “Shelly and I agreed on rules,” he adds. Review: ‘Permission’ and Spankings at the Lucille Lortel Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded for a body of work, cited Buck’s “rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China” and her “biographical masterpieces.” A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades 2013-05-21T21:00:02Z

If it’s a challenge to get a written description of labor, materials and other details, things will probably get worse when the work starts. Pro or no? What to consider before hiring out a home painting job. 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Honour found descriptions of the artists’ interactions with models. Antiques: Elvis Presley Auction; Books on Depictions of Slaves 2012-08-02T21:55:34Z

The title of his longtime quartet’s 2013 album, “Without a Net,” was a reference to his description of how the band improvised. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

That too sounds like a description of the Not the Booker. Not the Booker prize 2012: the shortlist 2012-08-13T09:28:03Z

The victim provided a description of the suspect’s vehicle, which the deputies said matched the vehicle Mr. Jean was in. Wyclef Jean Is Briefly Detained and Handcuffed in Los Angeles 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The descriptions of the murders are tense, psychologically complex, riveting. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Just as film-makers must edit their sunsets, novelists must use setting, research and description judiciously – in fact, painfully sparingly, while paradoxically conjuring up a sense of place. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z

"I was pressed to think of a description less likely to help me identify agrimony when I saw it." The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z

That's an apt description for the new disc, her first in four years and the follow up to her best-selling album. A sense of community for Neko Case 2013-09-04T13:31:39Z

“Every sentence has a graceful weight and meter and is illumined by a subtle intelligence that makes his descriptions arresting but never showy.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

"The red mask looks like a virosome, disgusting and scary enough. If you like pranks, please wear it. You will succeed!" one remaining Amazon description reads. Home Depot's giant skeleton is a metaphor for this year's outsized morbidity 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

Sure, the late-night host has “comedian” baked into her job description, but the topics she takes on — homelessness, family separation, xenophobia, the recent restrictive abortion laws sweeping the nation — aren’t exactly funny. Samantha Bee isn’t covering antiabortion laws because she’s a woman. It’s because laughter makes a statement. 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

McCullers' evocative descriptions of place contribute in no small part to this. Overlooked classics: The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers 2012-06-21T14:01:14Z

One of literature’s most striking descriptions of the creative process can be found in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Pale Fire.” Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

This description is – almost – already a short story. Dear Life by Alice Munro – review 2012-11-08T08:01:01Z

I have amazing friends and family, adjectives and descriptions that don’t convey the same meaning in print. How drugs and “Saved by the Bell” saved my life 2014-03-16T23:00:00Z

The extensive ingredient guide provides ample descriptions, and if you can’t find something locally, ingredients are readily available online. The Best Cookbooks of 2021 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Other big changes are being made to gender specific character descriptions, swapping "female" with "woman," or doing away with the mention of gender altogether. Roald Dahl’s "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" rewritten to include gender neutral Oompa Loompas 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

The, um, climax of Sunday's episode found Sasha doing background research by mounting Hank, showing off her downy rump and oft-marveled-over great tits -- her description, quite accurate -- and then slugging him in the face repeatedly. "Californication's" atrocious masculine fantasy 2011-01-10T16:30:00Z

His pitch was futuristic, but the description of this idealized new world sounded awfully familiar. The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The one other big-name pop collaboration was a mismatch: Ariana Grande performed with Little Big Town, though maybe performed adjacent to Little Big Town would be a better description. Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert Take Top Honors at the 2014 Country Music Association Awards 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

He added that there would be “potentially other consequences” for companies who fit that description but fail to repay the loans. Ruth's Chris Steak House repaying $20M small-business loans following backlash 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

A: On the face of it the Alpine Symphony is a vivid musical description of a day’s journey ascending and descending a mountain, and of the emotions this stirs in the wanderer. Sibelius rocks, and other reasons a Danish conductor keeps coming to Seattle 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

Do you want a description for a set of symptoms — a diagnosis? Temple Grandin on DSM-5: “Sounds like diagnosis by committee” 2013-05-18T12:30:00Z

Meanwhile, Brown successfully packs a novel’s worth of social description and commentary into a radically compressed pictorial space. At Seattle Art Museum, ‘Victorian Radicals’ is certainly Victorian. But radical? Not so much. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Denali Highway in south-central Alaska fits the latter description, a 135-mile route through rolling alpine tundra terrain that morphs into a carpet of interwoven red, orange and purple the first few weeks of September. Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives 2010-10-26T22:00:00Z

"It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We've now updated the pictures and description." Netflix apologizes for inappropriate "Cuties" poster amid outrage over sexualizing children 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

In the Leeds city archives, James found the original plans, drawings and descriptions for formal gardens designed by Richard Woods, "a lesser-known Capability Brown", he said, referring to the great 18th-century landscape architect. Yorkshire Sculpture Park widens appeal 2011-07-24T21:56:31Z

You can read descriptions of what the colors may have been, but we took liberties to glamorize a little bit and bring more character to it. ‘The First Lady’ re-created over 100 years of White House interiors 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Still, £2.60 does get you a full "virtual visit", with 100 amazing 3D panoramas, and descriptions of individual artworks. From Tate to the Louvre, the world's best museum and galleries online 2013-04-09T06:00:09Z

As someone who didn't even know that sex existed until that moment, I immediately started twisting in my chair and had to leave the room as the teacher's descriptions got more and more detailed. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Her description of her sunburned mother in a bikini, “bags of white pus forming on her sternum, bones for days,” is especially startling. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Once, as Williams was dressed in a tuxedo and on his way to perform at Carnegie Hall, two police officers pulled him aside and said he fit the description of a crime suspect. Seattle Opera’s ‘Aida’ spurs discussion of ways black people are misrepresented — or not represented — in opera 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Stupidly, I made this playlist public — with my usual custom cover art and Gen Z-friendly song descriptions. I’m in the Wedding Party. Can I Mask Up for the Ceremony? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The best way to pass the video on was simply to present it without much description: Watch this, it’s weird. Looking for Meaning in “Too Many Cooks” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Asked Tuesday on NBC's "Today" about reaction to comments in which Sheen called himself "a total rock star from Mars," among other startling descriptions, he shrugged off the reaction. Sheen media blitz heads to Twitter after TV shows 2011-03-02T13:01:11Z

Plath earned a cult following through the novel "The Bell Jar," whose descriptions of a suicidal young woman foreshadowed her own death, which followed only a month after its publication in 1963. Poem by Ted Hughes details Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-06T21:11:00Z

What makes this podcast special is the attention to imaginative description: we’re told exactly what colour the sky might be, what the ground might feel like, and it takes our experience from educational to magical. Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

I will never forget the description of a blind man staggering out of a ransacked supermarket with what he thinks is a tub of food. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z

Which, if you’re familiar with any of Sedaris’s writings, is an exact opposite description of the effect his essays and humor pieces have on a reader. David Sedaris’s Diaries Track a Path From Struggle to Success 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Half baked” would be an apt description of NIDA’s decision to fund a “Center for Cannabis Addiction” at the grant-hungry Scripps Research Institute. Pot: Not just for losers! 2012-08-15T11:44:00Z

There are descriptions of views from the top of Pudding Rock, toward the Palisades in New Jersey and down to the East River and Long Island Sound. When the Bronx Was a Forest: Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Those who said he was reckless pointed to his description of his first battle: “I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me there is something charming in the sound.” On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a description and perhaps a rueful suggestion of what the show could be if it weren’t as firmly dedicated to being smart entertainment. Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 2 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

On one hand, it’s a fitting description for the steady march of “Easy” or “Hard Time,” the latter of which was the best thing about the Stonewall trailer. How Seinabo Sey Beat Self-Sabotage to Make One of 2015's Best Debuts 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

I tend to prefer the earlier piece, for its thick description and subtleties, while recognizing the greatness of the later one. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

His description of his hunger while footloose in Vienna is pointillist. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

“The Explorer” moves at a good clip, its short scenes packed with crackling dialogue, and Rundell brings wonderful gusto to her descriptions of the many discomforts of junglelife. A Novel Set in the Amazon, Harking Back to Classic Survival Stories 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, Jerome's descriptions of Hampton court, Marlow and Medmenham are all that survive from the original plan for a travel book. Summer journeys: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome 2013-07-16T15:52:40Z

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s description of a triplet of giant evils — racism, extreme materialism and militarism, each insoluble in isolation from the others — helps us identify an answer to the Tribune’s question. Claiming our right not to kill: Resolutions should be about fighting racism, greed and militarism 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

But this description fails to convey what Shields wanted to show her readers: “The recounting of a life is a cheat,” she wrote. The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

There might be no better description of reading Levy, who loves to yank at our wiring, our orienting premises and prejudices. In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The rub, of course, is that any friendship that satisfies the first part of that description and not the second isn't a real friendship. What I'll miss about Blockbuster 2010-07-19T15:01:00Z

As a mere aesthetic description, “shiksa” delivers none of the thrill of the forbidden, is no longer the go-to object of lust, is someone your mother would just as likely approve of as not. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

The most inevitable description of “Atlanta” tags it as another one of those shows about nothing. ‘Atlanta’ Has Brilliant Characters. And Some of the Best Acting on TV. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

What it achieves it does with small gestures: Schmidt’s hilarious descriptions of his sexual technique, Nick’s one-sided conversations with a silent older man he meets in a park. Critic’s Notebook: ‘New Girl’ Season Finale, With Zooey Deschanel 2013-05-13T21:56:07Z

If I were to point out what he’s overlooked in his description, my father would shrug, as if to say, “Well, yeah, there’s that, too.” The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

They wrote the song “Stop For a Minute,” which starts with the description of rushing to check on a patient’s call light. Nurses’ musical voices give comfort in midst of pandemic 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Open the pages of those collected television columns and one stumbles again on such delights as his description of a typical episode of the original “Mission: Impossible”: Clive James Got It Right 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

From your description of the building, it seems that it could be the one where I lived as a child until 1956. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Even looking back over those one- sentence descriptions of TV ideas in the first paragraph of this essay, I am humbled by how inadequately they convey the vividness they had as I conjured them. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z

They attempt description, in the manner of science. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Fourth wall-breaking and concrete realizations of metaphorical descriptions — as in, for instance, getting slaughtered by the competition — are the norm here. How "Valley of the Boom," a story of tech world disruption, disrupts TV too 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

But one person complained that the description was misleading as two concerts were subsequently announced. AEG warned over Kanye gig advert 2013-06-26T01:32:54Z

It’s never apparent beforehand, in a verbal description of the choreography, the collaborators, and the dancers; and it’s not necessarily discernible in the first minutes of a piece. Netta Yerushalmy’s Perfect Dance 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

The book begins with the obligatory description of his Austrian childhood and that he and his brother were forced to do situps to earn their breakfast. Books of The Times: ‘Total Recall,’ by Arnold Schwarzenegger With Peter Petre 2012-10-01T00:40:43Z

“How to Dance in Ohio,” a piercing documentary Monday night on HBO, might from its pocket description seem to be a variation on this evening-news staple. Review: ‘How to Dance in Ohio,’ a Documentary on HBO, Follows Three Women on the Autism Spectrum 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

What’s behind them is conveyed by lighting, sung descriptions and Bartok’s brilliant orchestral writing. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z

With great descriptions, vivid characters, tremendous laughs, great passion and irony, and stimulating meditations on identity, memory, art, love, snobbery and sex. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

The structure itself fits the description of Dracula’s Castle in Bram Stoker’s writings: high above a valley atop a rock with a flowing river below. Cobblestones? Check. Castles? Check. Budget? Check. Why Romania Is Worth the Trip. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Oh, and it involves the return of the Spaghetti Monster–the description, in the language of a terrified girl, of a man disfigured with facial scars. True Detective Watch: Scarface 2014-03-03T03:01:18Z

I wasn't quite sure about his description of Henry VI pt 1 as "Kill Bill in tights" in the first episode of Schama's Shakespeare. Simon Schama: TV dumber-down or simply the greatest? 2012-06-28T13:55:10Z

It’s a good job description, maybe even for a humorist. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

For "N.W.A" Miguel harnesses the Compton hip-hop group's moniker to describe a lover with a certain taste in men, then turns the track over to expert rapper Kurupt for a more detailed description. In 'Wildheart,' Miguel explores L.A.'s 'weird mix of hope and desperation' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Made me salivate, the description probably better than the food! At Taqueria El Sinaloense, Regional Dishes Worth an Early Trip 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

It records the sale of 83 enslaved Americans, their names and their descriptions to bring humanity to the horrors of slavery, said curator Bill Yeingst, who directed the "American Stories" project. Smithsonian opens new, diverse US history timeline 2012-04-11T20:24:37Z

“Boys will be boys” is such a glib-sounding statement, such a reductive description of personality traits. Perspective | We need to talk about why mass shooters are almost always men 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

The uplifting melodies are juxtaposed with descriptions of hills in flame. Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z

And as a treat, on May 26, Vicky Shick, the veteran dancer and choreographer, presides over morning class, in which, the description states, students work to find “ease, clarity and a bit of motion.” DanceAfrica, Dormeshia and Contact Improvisation (for One) 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Many of the descriptions are very detailed and amusing. The High Skies of Adventures by Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash - review 2013-05-17T11:00:00Z

An angry researcher demanded that I correct my erroneous description, since the mechanism does not actually allow you to travel in time. Jo Marchant on science writing: 'You need a burning curiosity' 2013-03-13T07:00:01Z

Shorthand is essential in television, and Mr. Wright displays a facility for pithy description in person and on the page. Playwrights Shuttle to TV and Back 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z

The Home Edit’s tips for kids’ stuff is basically a description of what I do. Everyone’s decluttering – is it time to throw out all your children’s toys and artworks? 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

As Geoff Dyer stresses in his penetrating introduction, Lawrence ignores genre straitjackets as he blends travel writing, memoir, philosophical musings, storytelling and a novelist’s flair for portraiture and description. Review | We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

One research paper described Halloween as an “evolving American consumption ritual,” but a better description might be an over-the-top spending ritual. Half a billion on Halloween pet costumes is latest sign of America’s out-of-control consumerism 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

This time I set my mental bar very low, especially when I read the menu description. Choice Tables: Lisbon?s Culinary Golden Age? 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z

Ms. Falk, who runs the master’s degree program in communication at , found that each of eight female candidates that year received about “four physical descriptions for every one that described a man.” The Fashion Conservatives 2010-10-20T22:33:00Z

Much of this satisfying tale is told in the details as King lavishes us with descriptions and behaviors of the late '50s and early '60s, as seen from Jake's point of view. Stephen King's ambitious new novel, '11/22/63' 2011-11-11T21:02:03Z

It was four pages long, typed in a generic font, and included both a toxicology report and an extensive description of the autopsy itself. I may have caused my father's death 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Joyce’s beloved short story ends with an elegant description of snowfall that subtly expands into a vast existential statement. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

The frankness, the spare and open description, was shaming and expansive all at once. Discovering John Fante 2010-04-08T07:30:00Z

And unlike some earlier divas, for whom the job description seemed to include being as difficult offstage as was humanly possible, she is, for a superstar, almost unnaturally normal and unaffected. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

While this satirical description may have resonated at the time, it no longer rings true today – in terms of the physical description if not the metaphorical critique. Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal means 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

And as I sipped my cocktail at an outdoor table, absorbing the euphoria of a perfect spring evening, the words felt more like an apt description than a promotion. Spring in Paris, My Adopted City, After the Siege 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Rather than relying, as in typical documentary style, on talking heads’s descriptions, Rasmussen could put Amin visibly back in his own ’80s Kabul. A Refugee’s Harrowing Story, Finally Told Through Animation 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The description on the back cover was intriguing, though, and I had 23 hours of travel in front of me. How Tim Cahill’s ‘Pass the Butterworms’ launched my travel writing career 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Downward doggers will appreciate her pose descriptions and the window into a teacher's thoughts about students during the quiet intensity of a class. Review: Om is where the heart is 2013-01-24T19:09:08Z

What kept Mexicans like her awake, she said, were televised images of the students’ incinerated bones and the suspects’ description of dumping bodies “as if they were carrying potatoes.’ Museo Jumex Cancels a Hermann Nitsch Show 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

"The Old Age of Nostalgia," for instance, ends with a description of lost moments that "still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of a summer night." Four new poetry collections 2012-08-29T19:22:04Z

Learning how to engage their audience with the right kind of verbal description is key for presenters, and trainees sometimes practice listening to each other’s descriptions blindfolded. Seattle Art Museum program brings art to those with low or no vision 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Its operator was almost always recruited by the N.K.V.D., the Russian secret police and a forerunner of the K.G.B., according to a description of the item. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Many of the descriptions of food and drink in “Sweetbitter” made me salivate. What it feels like to be a bestseller: Stephanie Danler and 'Sweetbitter' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Together, they devised what they called ‘the art and technique of audio description,’ ” says Oplinger. ‘He’s picking his nose’: How volunteers help the blind ‘see’ a theater performance 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

I think there was more explicit description of the effects of hormones! The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

Translation: If the dern gubmint would just stop overtaxing the rich at gunpoint, which is a super-accurate description of reality, then they could have enough money left over for charity, you guys! Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z

Treated to intense printing, including digitalized sequin patterns, the effects echoed Erdem’s descriptions as “volatile, erratic — and a bit erotic.” Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z

His descriptions of the Sioux opened up and deepened my understandings of life in the Bronx. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

The lawsuit is unusually detailed in its description of the small label's close relationship with Scott. 2010-02-04T00:33:00Z

Late in life, she repents by marrying a man who molds clay babies based on her descriptions of all the fetuses she aborted.“I admit there are issues with Gugu’s mental state,” Tadpole says diplomatically. Book World: ‘Frog’ by Mo Yan 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The show’s most famous civics lesson, and still the most effective description of legislative process you’ll ever need, remains “I’m Just a Bill” — but Mr. Dorough didn’t write that one. 5 ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Songs From Bob Dorough We’ll Never Forget 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

I’m always surprised when I remind myself that it’s a description of living on another planet entirely. Salman Rushdie, Diana Gabaldon and other authors reflect on the books they find most transporting 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

It’s also funny, raw and stylish; Mr. Beauman, 26, can deliver an arresting description. New Books: ?Irma Voth,? ?Boxer, Beetle,? ?Cabin,? ?Headhunters? 2011-09-14T22:31:31Z

In the reading, “Grief” sweeps you up in its jumbled rush of emotions that shatter ready-made descriptions. Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

The description also befits the Carmen whom Georges Bizet evoked in his opera of the same title 30 years later. 'Carmen': Quite a woman at Seattle Opera 2011-10-05T22:47:04Z

Kerrison’s account of the girls’ residence with their father in Paris in the 1780s includes vivid descriptions of the streetscape and architecture they encountered, as well as of the impact of their divergent educational experiences. Jefferson’s Three Daughters — Two Free, One Enslaved 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

“It’s just bad branding. We want to promote this profession, and we don’t want to defend a name that’s a poor description of what we do and some people find inappropriate or insensitive.” Who are these ‘special masters,’ and what makes them so special? 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

But for many forms of cancer, this binary description no longer captures the truth. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z

Someone fired at the two from inside a passing black car and police noticed a car nearby that matched that description. 15 shot, 1 dead across city overnight 2012-03-17T11:23:00Z

The establishment of “cultural uniqueness” depends on “affidavits, testimonials, or letters from recognized experts”—mostly descriptions by anthropologists of the different traditions of mourning. Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

It is the first thing on the menu and the more I thought about it the more it's description had come to puzzle me. Felix Trattoria’s Sfincione (or, focaccia by any other name) 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

For all the novel’s lovely description of romance “before,” Bausch is even more insightful when he follows the corrosive effects of anxiety “after.” Review: ‘Before, During, After,’ by Richard Bausch

In response to Smith’s description of a second trimester abortion, read on the House floor, Democratic U.S. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z

No one could possibly write a better description of a classic melodrama villain. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Miller was intrigued by Homer’s description of Circe as ”speaking like a human,” an odd detail that is never fully explained in the Odyssey. Circe, a Vilified Witch From Classical Mythology, Gets Her Own Epic 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

With her rich imagination, vivid descriptions, and skillful handling of events, Roy weaves a tapestry of family life in India, for better or for worse. 'An Atlas of Impossible Longing': a richly imagined portrait of love and unfulfilled desire 2011-06-08T20:46:06Z

Ms. Stockman arrived at the airport in her Volkswagen Beetle looking for a man wearing a gray hoody and denim jeans, a description of what Mr. Ryan was wearing that day. It Was Red Alert at First Sight 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

For what it’s worth, though, “mostly want” and “mostly does not want” isn’t a description of parents I’d choose for myself. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Just remember that it won’t be Mother Nature changing the diapers 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

I’m also not suggesting you tiptoe around the mother for fear of being banished — just that you rewrite your mental job description from “fix this cruel mother” to “support this beautiful child.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Hard to watch a mother play favorites 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The foundation’s continued description of the Guarneri violin as “an instrument of understanding” on its website is “particularly inappropriate,” the panel said, given its refusal to pay the heirs. Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

When I was young, I loved My Family and Other Animals for its minutely detailed descriptions of animals and insects. Summer readings: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell 2011-08-09T09:43:08Z

The author also spoke local tongue which made the description very vivid. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

For Rioult Dance Company, however, that description is more than a metaphor. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 3-9 2012-08-02T22:34:41Z

His works are known only through descriptions by writers, chiefly Pliny the Elder. Open thread: which lost works of art would you most like to see? 2012-07-01T18:01:01Z

She then provides a devastating “sampling of Ron Chernow’s descriptions of Mary Washington,” which include: “self-centered,” “querulous,” “crude,” “coarse,” “hypocritical,” “slovenly,” “strangely indifferent,” “crusty” and “complainer.” What the History Books Won’t Tell You About George Washington 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Liem gives us what we expect from a comprehensive guide to a famous wine region, including producer profiles, artsy photographs and descriptions of the region’s geography and geology. The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Director Malcolm D. Lee, who also wrote and directed the movie’s 1999 predecessor, hit back at critics who used the most simplistic descriptions of his film. Is love lost on the black romantic comedy? 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Note that an experience may not be suitable for all travelers; read the descriptions carefully before booking. Trying an Airbnb ‘experience’ on for size with a ‘Mad Men’ costume designer 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

As a basic job description for literature, that works for me. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

With its descriptions of the atmospheric, almost medieval Cévennes region of France, it could be a travel companion, but simmering beneath the surface is an undercurrent of menace. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

At a wine bar where all the descriptions somehow read like Allen Ginsberg’s grocery list, I tasted a Sicilian example said to evoke “copper kettles, chamomile flowers, Ricola popsicle.” How the Orange-Wine Fad Became an Irresistible Assault on Pleasure 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Singing “Ding-dong, your rules are dead!” over the blare of multiple screens, even just figuratively, does not fit that description. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: And now, the Festivus pole and the airing of grievances . . . 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

The new rules will more than double that income threshold to $47,476 a year, meaning workers earning less, regardless of job description, will be entitled to overtime pay starting Dec. 1. Work Advice: What the new overtime rule might mean for you 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The narrator meanders often, with quoted dialogue blending into descriptions of what a character is doing or wearing with hardly any nods to quotation marks or other visual dividers in between. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

As of 6 p.m., no one was in custody for the shooting and there was no vehicle description available, O'Brien said.  2 dead, 1 wounded in South Side shooting 2011-11-05T23:15:00Z

His wonderfully evocative descriptions of Parisian streets, parks and buildings are full of a melancholy nostalgia for a passed era. Paris by Julian Green, translated by JA Underwood - review 2012-07-24T10:30:02Z

It’s not like live description — “here’s the content, and you can listen to it or not, but that’s your only choice.” ‘Access as an Ethic’: Giving Dance Myriad Points of Entry 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Such enjoyment overwhelms, and we have to give ourselves up to it, forfeiting fantasies of control, which is why words fail, and literary descriptions can seem inadequate, amusing and foolish. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z

At times her descriptions seem gratuitously to indulge the same morbid fascination that has long drawn people to these objects. Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Soon after the essay was published, other writers and publications, including Gawker, noticed similarities between Ms. Bello’s description of the origins of plagiarism and the work of others. Her Novel Was Pulled for Plagiarism. Her Explanation Was, Too. 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

For many artists, that chorus of adoration is part of the job description, and a loss in appeal means a loss in vitality. Pop culture's sacred cows? Just dare to dis them 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

What about that description of her in the trailer? Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Back then, Beverly Hills was a quiet community where celebrities were largely left alone, a description many give to Brentwood now. Beverly Hills: Still Elite, but ... 2011-05-27T17:11:25Z

Mr. King’s description of America in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, fearing imminent nuclear annihilation, is at least as scary as anything he ever made up. Books of The Times: Stephen King?s ?11/23/63? - Review 2011-10-30T22:44:25Z

It is worth reading just for Dubus's lengthy descriptions of fighting – passages that exhilarate even as they sicken. Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III ? review 2011-07-29T10:43:00Z

In a description of their holding group for the project, the investors say that together they're worth more than $50 million. Old INS Building gets new life as arts space 2010-10-17T22:43:00Z

On her new album, the mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti shows an instrument far too lovely to echo such description. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

And as long as new bidders are dazzled by catalog descriptions of the works, if not by the art at which they barely look, prosperity seems assured for some more time. Auctions: Money Pours Into Impressionist and Modern Art 2011-05-06T11:30:08Z

Find short descriptions of all eight books we chose at wapo.st/kidspostbookclublaunch2019. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Stars Beneath Our Feet’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

In that sense the writer's description of the social dynamics in their invented world is simply wishful thinking. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

The FBI report labels the Juggalos as a “loosely organized hybrid gang,” although that description isn’t part of the most recent national report on gangs. Music duo Insane Clown Posse loses gang lawsuit 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Because of what I was accustomed to eating at home, it always surprised me as a child when I heard people use the word "slimy" unfavorably in descriptions of food. An ode to slimy, slippery, sticky food 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

We endure gory descriptions of men dying in war. The Body Keeps Score. So Does This Memoir. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

As the months passed he realized that this was the element still lacking in descriptions of the devastation. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

You heard right — I did a double-take when I saw the description of the restaurant. A $1,000 Day in San Francisco for $100 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, O’Neill was a copious writer of stage directions, sometimes giving long, meticulous descriptions of his characters as they are introduced and precise indications of both actions and their emotional inflection. | 'The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O?Neill Volume 1': Neo Futurists Present Stage Directions From O?Neill Plays 2011-09-13T02:05:01Z

And Heinrich Neugeboren, in designing a monument to Bach by visualizing the lines of a fugue, attempted to make literal Goethe’s famous description of architecture as frozen music. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

But not all of his descriptions land, like when a bus floor is “grooved pink plastic, with white marbling, like a cut of bacon.” Unhappy Families Abound in These New Books About Fathers and Sons 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Surviving descriptions suggest that a majority of them were men, although certainly not all. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

Her mother, Marian, looked after the home, the two children and the neighborhood, and she volunteered with the PTA — a collection of picket-fence tasks that might fit the president’s job description for a “housewife.” Perspective | All the president’s ‘Suburban Housewives’ 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

My book "A Flat Place" makes a case for description rather than summary and conclusions. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

For some folks, “trapped in the wrong body” is a precise description. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Here are a few selections from Carboni’s ongoing series and a description of each in her words. A photographer turned spy captures a city of sheltering-at-home artists 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Joyce also furnishes written descriptions of the music for deaf or partially deaf people, detailing the “muted and covered sound” of “Strength” and the high organ notes in “Care,” “resembling a fast medical monitor.” For composer Molly Joyce, disability is no barrier to virtuosity 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

The genre is aptly called “crush” and the descriptions alone are almost unfathomably repulsive. The dark world of animal “crush” films 2014-04-18T19:36:00Z

That’s how Jacques Pepin uses it in this chowder, which is humble and satisfying and quick — an apt description, you might say, of the great chef himself. Canned hominy=kitchen harmony 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Here's a description of the bookshelves: He began to show me around Bleak House. Guillermo del Toro: The man with the monsters 2011-02-09T19:11:40Z

Servers sometimes seemed to be reading dish descriptions from a teleprompter, but they made up for that with a care and attentiveness that felt unforced. At DaDong in Midtown, Modern Art and Lame Duck 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The description doesn’t fall far from the vision Anna Wintour described when she spun off Vogue in an effort to convert adolescent women into Condé Nast loyalists. Who Will Mourn Teen Vogue? 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

A survey of the nature of community in 19th-century North Carolina leads to a description of James City, which began in 1863 as a camp for escaped, destitute slaves near Union-occupied New Bern. Museum Review: Tracing Southern History From the Bottom Up 2011-08-05T18:12:02Z

Express surprise at surgeon author's description of many doctors as still resistant to following checklists, thinking of them as "nursing stuff". Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

But keeping things vague is not part of an academic’s job description. Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Seizing on Josh’s “baby witch” description, Nick recalled asking Josh, “If you were in a movie, who would be your witch persona?” Date Lab: ‘If you were in a movie, who would be your witch persona?’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

It’s truly hard to provide a short description of “Out on a Limb,” Andrew Sullivan’s newest book. Andrew Sullivan, No One’s Ally, Tells It as He Sees It 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world. Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The descriptions of Rick’s backside are for the ages. Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

It was published last year in Britain as “Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age,” which is a more accurate description. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bourdain was a blood-and-organs kind of guy, and he became identified with his unflinching, at times ostentatious, descriptions of life, death, sex and digestion. Anthony Bourdain Was a Teller of Often Unappetizing Truths 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

The Times quoted Burgess’s description of Picasso, “the only one of the crowd with a sense of humor,” in his telling. Before He Was a Cubist, Picasso Was an Invertebrate 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

At the same time, he also offered a dryly reportorial description of the humiliations and restrictions brought on by his disease. With Wounded Spirits, the Frightnrs Rally Around Their Frontman 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a very good description of our music.” Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter: 'Now we can concentrate on album number nine' 2013-06-12T00:27:11Z

The album opens with a description of sexual mutilation so vivid it can’t be reprinted here, and the trail of depravity deepens with each song. Album review: Lou Reed and Metallica, 'Lulu' 2011-10-28T05:34:00Z

Some might say that’s a playwright’s job description — one that Miller himself followed in autobiographical works like “After the Fall,” about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Review: Putting Arthur Miller on Trial in ‘Fall’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Before I go further, you should probably just watch the thing, because it defies description, and because someone put it on YouTube: When Patti LuPone Haunted a Laundromat 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Dip a toe into the unceasing torrent of news from inside the Beltway and it becomes obvious that, in United States politics, image management plays little part in anyone’s job description. From President Macron, a Lesson in Style 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

“Nationality descriptions can be very complex, especially when making posthumous attributions,” Glenn D. Lowry, the director of the museum, said in a statement to The Times. Museums Rename Artworks and Artists as Ukrainian, Not Russian 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

“The remarkable success of the podcast ‘Serial’, which brought to light the many questions that remained unresolved in this case, also left many questions unanswered,” says the description on the podcast’s website. “Serial” inspires new podcast investigating Adnan Syed’s case 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

I know no more honest a description of its editorial methods for selecting the poets: they branch out like tributaries of association. Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK edited by Nathan Hamilton – review 2013-04-12T08:01:01Z

It is self-evident that these landscapes are more than descriptions; that you're not just meant to admire the view. Van Gogh to Kandinsky; Edvard Munch: Graphic Works; Picasso and Modern – review 2012-08-04T23:05:38Z

I appreciated it anew, particularly his description of trip planning. John Steinbeck’s classic travelogue showcases man’s best road trip buddy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The attitude might be best summed up by one of Winogrand's many singular descriptions his methodology. Moment of truth 2010-04-17T23:05:00Z

Any advice for reading between the lines when there's a boiler plate description? 20 Wines for Under $20: Weeknight Pleasures for Relaxed Evenings 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

People in Chinatown knew who the real killer was, and it was a Chinese American who fit the physical description and was part of the Chinatown gang. "Free Chol Soo Lee" investigates "what went wrong" in 1973's forgotten conviction of an innocent man 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

What do you think of Paul's description of the company as "a pop world within a world"? ZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' – a classic feature from the vaultsZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' 2013-01-01T11:00:00Z

The initial buzz surrounding Herself lead to the site trending on Facebook with the description “actress launches website for women featuring personal interviews and nude photos,” basically guaranteeing men will visit. How Caitlin Stasey's NSFW Website Is Moving Feminism Forward 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

It serves as both a description and predictor of the political movements that are likely to happen the next time our nation passes such major legislation. The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

It would be a mistake to reduce Mr. Ray’s career to being the anti-Harvey Weinstein, even if there’s also some truth to this description. Bingham Ray, Light of October Films and Daring Cinema 2012-02-03T19:51:30Z

“I like language that sounds quotidian but poetic,” says Gerwig – the perfect description. Greta Gerwig: 'I'm at peak shock and happiness' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

Its best moments come as pictures that form in your head when you read the description of everyday life in some ancient society. A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Just because it’s not in your job description doesn’t mean it’s not your job. How to Handle Your Annual Performance Review 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

There was no party at the fraternity in question at the time described, and no student who fit the descriptions of the alleged ringleader of the attack. Five years on, the lessons from the Rolling Stone rape story 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

This large and glossy tome includes descriptions of the underground of old-time shops she had built on her own Los Angeles estate, which is where Mr. Urie’s character works for a brief, enchanted spell. Critic’s Notebook: Creating Barbra Streisand in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ 2013-07-29T22:28:23Z

There are no technical descriptions or images that explain the process. Litho-mania 2012-07-11T00:00:00Z

But in the recent and forthcoming crop of romances, I couldn’t find a single one to fit that description. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

In “Birdsong,” the exact same description gets applied to Lincolnshire, to the north. Review: Coward, Coward Everywhere, From Cabaret to West End and On 2010-10-05T13:42:00Z

The final poem, “Musica Humana,” begins with a description of a postmortem examination of Beethoven’s inner ears, the auditory canal “covered in glutinous scales/shining throughout the autopsy.” Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

“The life she portrays in the most depth is her own, and her descriptions of money struggles and health challenges are candid and engaging,” Curtis Sittenfeld writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

He called his old mentor, Giles Oakley, for assistance and was alarmed to find he also was given a contemptuous three-sentence description. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z

Put differently, “Zama” is about male power in crisis, which works as an apt description for “I Love You, Daddy.” Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

“A common description of his work is of its petite musique — it’s haunting little music.” French author Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize for literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Still running — deadline Monday night, July 27: better descriptions for anagram businesses. Style Invitational Week 1394: Two movies, one line 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

They said my mother’s gun was the same kind as the one used at the crime scene, and that I matched the description of the man they were looking for. I spent 28 years on death row 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

It's not a body without a head, but one of the more applicable descriptions is a basketball team. Widespread Panic savors different kind of success 2010-06-18T15:45:00Z

I was also intrigued by descriptions of its leaves’ flavor. Perspective | This herb tastes like tarragon and adds beauty to your back yard 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Dürer was sent a description and a sketch of that rhino by another artist, and from this he prepared his woodcut. Why did the Nazis steal so many books? 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

“My job description as an actor is to tell other’s stories, to imagine myself into other people’s lives,” she said. Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

“He took his own transactions with the world and transposed them into images and stories. We do the same. The best description we can make of ourselves is as storytellers of a sort.” Newton Harrison, a Founder of the Eco-Art Movement, Dies at 89 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The writing in “Once Upon a Time” has paragraphs of all sorts — digression, voice-over, description. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

So is the description of it in the flyer for the book as "an extremely sophisticated secret intelligence service", which looks like another publisher's puff. Under Every Leaf by William Beaver - review 2012-05-18T08:00:03Z

Though not inaccurate, the description has become convenient shorthand, warding off deeper investigation of his work. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

You mention in the description of your show that you are dedicated to carving out space for queer femmes. Cherdonna Shinatra takes her subversive clowning to Frye Art Museum with ‘DITCH’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The winner is the first to force “the other contestant to touch the ground with any part of his body at knee level or higher,” reads the officially agreed description. North, South Korea join hands to get wrestling on U.N. culture list 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Benjamin Albucker is, by his own description, an exacting, opinionated, slightly neurotic aesthete. This Store Still Needs a Name 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Once, when a doctor resorted to the cliche “pins and needles” in suggesting a description of the pain in her leg, she corrected him. Lucia Perillo, poet who unflinchingly dissected mortality, dies at 58 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The vast majority of Berlin’s stories include a description of a house, as rich and textured as if it were a character. A New Story Collection and a Memoir by Lucia Berlin, Patron Saint of Soulful Cool 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Possibly this description of it as a force will do more than anything else I can have said about it to reconcile you to it. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

From your description of “Heaven” – “If heaven’s impossible to know, ‘Heaven’s’ hard to recollect” – that seems to be your least favorite. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

The grandmother missed a Stones’ concert earlier in the year due to health complications, according to the video’s description. Watch This Grandmother's Joy When Jagger Joins Swift 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

It was a pretty accurate description of what the show had been all about. Abdullah Ibrahim | Classical review 2010-04-01T21:00:00Z

“Every time you travel, you always bring back something for your life, but you never notice,” the airline added in its YouTube description. Chinese airline's new ad focuses on the bad decisions travelers make, instantly becomes a hit 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Most dishes are dropped off with a quick description and words that beg for elaboration. Arômes review: A chef’s imagination runs wild. Sometimes a little too wild. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

According to Cusick, Terry Nation, the Doctor Who writer who created the Daleks, suggested they should make a gliding movement "like the Georgian state dancers", but there was little other visual description in the script. Raymond Cusick 2013-02-24T18:19:55Z

It's a fine description, bettered only by Babel's own. A brief survey of the short story part 38: Isaac Babel 2012-02-10T10:22:38Z