| 单词 | descriptive |
| 例句 | Wilkerson ends a richly descriptive introductory chapter with a paragraph composed of exactly two syllables. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The names we chose were descriptive, not sentimental: Big Red, Black Mare, White Giant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Nervous, I stand up and read my descriptive essay about walking Mrs. Gilbert’s dog, with his “tiny needle teeth” and “smooshed-in snout.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Big Bird is saying that Big Bird is merely a descriptive name of the type of animal he is, and that he wants a particular name. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "You said it had to be descriptive. What the hell's the difference if it's about a baseball glove?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The magazine was printed somewhere in Maine and full of stenciled poems and descriptive paragraphs separated from each other by asterisks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A stranger with a flair for cocktail-party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z But there’s no harm in separating them by putting a descriptive word or two in between: Dilbert decided to discreetly mention dating in the workplace. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the song finishes, I look at Spike and say the world’s least descriptive word: “Wow.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Then Mrs. Popper would play a pretty, descriptive piece called “By the Brook.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z I should add, my grandchildren, that not only did our drill instructor speak English in a strange way, he also used many colorful words and descriptive phrases that I won’t repeat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z "Don't knock yourself out or anything, but just make it descriptive as hell. Okay?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z It is true that descriptive and prescriptive rules are different kinds of things and that descriptive and prescriptive grammarians are engaged in different kinds of activities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They also said it publicly, as just another descriptive adjective. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So I told him I would simply write an account of our visit, just as if I were doing a descriptive special article for The Daily Telegraph. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The descriptive sort of linguist tends to observe change in the language, note it, analyse it and manage not to wake up screaming every night. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Then Mrs. Popper began playing the pretty, descriptive piece “By the Brook.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m feeling apprehensive,” he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Line has traditionally been admired for its descriptive value, so that its expressive potential is easily overlooked. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "Anything. Anything descriptive. A room. Or a house. Or something you once lived in or something-- you know. Just as long as it's descriptive as hell." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Dreamlike” is the only descriptive word he uses specifically. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was a regular visitor who read the labels and descriptive notices in their entirety and approved of every animal he saw. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The descriptive literature that may be picked up in any hardware- or garden-supply store seldom if ever reveals the true hazard involved in handling or applying the material. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What I hope will become clear from this book is that one can usefully combine a descriptive and prescriptive approach to what is happening to this single aspect of the language. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Linguists capture their regularities in “descriptive rules”—that is, rules that describe how people speak and understand. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Writing 3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Not content with their names, they take descriptive titles also—the Empire State, the Garden State, the Granite State—titles proudly borne and little given to understatement. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Writers is merely a descriptive adjective: it tells you what kind of workshop this is—one for writers. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She searched in her mind for the right descriptive word. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them, reverent or irreverent, descriptive, either poetic or disparaging. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There's fear and horror, of course, but also boredom and excitement; some are direct and descriptive, others poetic and elegiac. Bang Goes the Theory 2010-09-07T23:04:00Z An appendix then surveys the major contributions to the “literature of descriptive bibliography.” Review | ‘Caravaggio’s ‘Cardsharps’ on Trial’ raises questions of artistic authenticity amid riveting courtroom drama 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z This descriptive work is autobiographical, the hero of the piece being the composer. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It is quite difficult to find a title that is descriptive and economical, and in that respect Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” may rank among the very best. So, You’re Going to Call Your Play _____? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z His drawings are reductive — whole stems are sometimes omitted — but they are also uncannily descriptive. Art Review: Ellsworth Kelly’s Plant Drawings at the Met 2012-06-07T20:16:13Z These otherworldly figures intone descriptive passages from Melville that capture the addictive nature of the sailor’s life. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z It’s a descriptive term that is almost always used approvingly. What Is a Great Wine? Verdicchio di Matelica Has Some Ideas 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z His most iconic painting of the Riviera — while certainly less descriptive of the view than reflective of his emotions — hangs in the studio where he created it in 1946. An art lover’s Impressionist video trip to Provence and the Riviera 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Another problem with this book is the lack of descriptive writing. The False Prince by Jennifer Neilsen - review 2012-10-05T14:00:00Z Typical of his past work, Kristofferson's new tunes delineate his feelings in descriptive verse that is unflinchingly honest and ultimately full of wonder. Review: Kris Kristofferson confronts mortality 2013-01-28T15:47:08Z The forces come together, the predestined violence comes to pass, and Boyle's writing never loses energy or descriptive power. T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Set on facing spreads, the pairing of simple but descriptive images makes readers think: are a painter and a graffiti tagger related by their work or completely different? Christmas gifts 2012: the best children's books 2012-11-30T22:49:01Z As a professor, he taught a class called descriptive geometry, which involved teaching students to use two-dimensional images to represent three-dimensional shapes and problems. He Invented the Rubik’s Cube. He’s Still Learning From It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z That’s certainly the painterly, descriptive way audiences are often encouraged to think of this repertory staple. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z These bustling scenes are idealised, of course, but the descriptive simplicity is fresh and engaging. Inaugural poem for Obama is a valiant flop 2013-01-22T16:29:35Z There is a virtue sometimes in admitting that we are not really there, in leaving the descriptive flourish aside and letting expository prose do the hard work. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z But the appeals court concluded that in this case the phrase was "merely descriptive as applied to the plaintiffs' business." Oprah Winfrey beats 'Own Your Power' trademark appeal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The language is almost entirely descriptive, mind-bogglingly so; it is as if Dylan is writing for an audience that has never heard of the books he names. The Rambling Glory of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Back in my graduate days, I remember hearing functional MRI dismissed as “brain geography,” prettily descriptive but doing little for real understanding. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z Still, stuff like Ridley Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings” and Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” are Biblical only in the broad, descriptive sense of the word. An atheist’s guide to Scorsese’s “Silence”: You don’t need faith to be astonished by the faithful 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z To the extent af Klint was known to art historians before the 1980s, it was as a portraitist, illustrator and painter of descriptive botanical studies. In Search of Hilma af Klint, Who Upended Art History, But Left Few Traces 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It was Taylor who came up with the simple, descriptive title, “Jazz Samba.” Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C. "And all that rests of the shoulders of good descriptive taxonomy and biodiversity science." New to Nature No 37: Heliotrygon stingrays 2011-04-09T23:15:00Z But it doesn’t have to just be a descriptive travel tale to help you forget about your worries and drift off to sleep. A book at bedtime: the rise of sleep story apps 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Well-Mannered: I disagree that “my nephew’s mother” or “my nephew’s mom” is either dismissive or clunky — to me it seems perfectly descriptive, as well as correct. Perspective | Ask Amy: Wronged wife blames the cellphone 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The gestating child also leads him to reflect on how parts form and fuse; at regular junctures, he writes descriptive sketches of friends, carefully noting the toll life is taking on their bodies. Review | Naptime: Karl Ove Knausgaard is in the winter of his discontent 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z There are no long descriptive labels and no route for visitors to follow, the display is all about looking, says the Tate. New horizon 2013-02-11T18:29:59Z More than anything, they are human, and beautiful, and descriptive, and rooted in a land and its natural environment that are both gone forever and less far away than we might think. Summer readings: Mikl?s B?nffy 2011-08-05T09:00:35Z Not only are the units of measurement different, but the equation is only descriptive and predictive. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z But the book’s title seems less than descriptive of his theme, which is about the agency of various leaders, rather than their dazed stroll into global slaughter. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z If you keep all the good words – the rich, descriptive, wild long words – to yourself then you retain their high value. Why reading fiction with friends is therapeutic too 2013-02-01T16:20:42Z Although the mother never quite coalesces as a distinct character, the forest springs to vibrant life, thanks to Engle’s vivid descriptive images. Beauty, magic and sibling love — in three new books for young readers 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z I don't know, it has that a little bit, but it's also descriptive, it's true. Why Reggie Watts learned to be funny 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z After playing “Sugar Man,” he warned the crowd the song was “descriptive, not prescriptive,” and to stay off drugs. Concert Review: Rodriguez charming but disjointed and flat 2013-04-26T18:49:42Z With simple, descriptive titles like “Death in Infancy” and “Those Who Die in Their Twenties,” these pieces are stunned gasps of empathy, reaching far into other lives. The Poet Robert Hass Is a Virtuoso of Common American Speech 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But, she said, she found she was more interested in the descriptive language of what she was writing than the plot or characters. Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In 1964, social psychologist Erich Fromm created the highly descriptive term “malignant narcissist” to attempt to capture the nature of such individuals in his book “The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil.” Why Donald Trump scares you so much — and why it matters 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Instead, Walker’s observations soon transcend the descriptive and coalesce to become an emblem of America’s decline. Review | Poetry need not be a call to action, but ‘The Long Take’ is 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He “was always descriptive in nature about it,” she said, “bragging about sexual escapades.” CrossFit Owner Fostered Sexist Company Culture, Workers Say 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z You want to share the pleasures of Mosley’s jazz-inflected dialogue and the moody, descriptive passages reminiscent of Raymond Chandler at his best. Review | Walter Mosley is back with a whole new character to love 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The work does not purport to be descriptive, he writes, but it begins with an alarm in the percussion, followed by fulminating surges, a tentative calm and, finally, another alarm. Review: Color and Contrasts From the New Juilliard Ensemble 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z What’s an example of some of the more descriptive or evocative language you use on this tour? At the Library of Congress, blind visitors get to feel what others see 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The new novel is routinely attacked for being inhuman and coldly descriptive. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z He’s like a burglar who takes all your stuff and leaves a descriptive Post-It where each stolen item used to be. REVIEW: Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy': The Expendables In Outer Space 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Occasionally, the daylight gate as a descriptive phrase becomes repetitious. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Now that it’s over, a more descriptive name might be in order. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z So doing, Rembrandt also celebrates his mastery of more intuitive, physical, less descriptive ways of using paint. Art Review: ?Rembrandt at Work? at Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-05T22:11:33Z Tse’s mordant humor and descriptive powers lift the narrative from unmitigated gloom. ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Port’s descriptive elan is particularly in force in his account of Hendrix’s famous rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1968, which pushed rock guitar playing to a height it may never again reach. Review | A look at the two men who turned up the volume on rock music 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Down a corridor, we spotted his reedy frame bent close to a descriptive panel. Urban bourbon: A whiskey lover’s jaunt through Louisville 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Although trigger warnings are often thought of as a phenomenon of the political left, theaters in socially conservative parts of the country are also embracing more descriptive content alerts. Brace Yourself in Act II: Trigger Warnings Come to the Stage 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Everett's perspective is so engaging and his descriptive powers so arresting that his words become about more than his own experience. Vanished Years by Rupert Everett – review 2013-06-09T10:00:03Z Ghostly translucence borders passages of crisp, descriptive opacity; the spectrum of blues conjures at once the aquatic and the celestial. 'All the Flowers' turns blooms in LACMA artworks into a photogram bouquet of blue 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z He outlined the historical debate on whether dictionaries should be “prescriptive,” i.e. dictating the way things ought to be, or “descriptive,” i.e. merely documenting the way things are. Perspective | A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z His sentences teeter between the flatly descriptive and the goofy. Story collections by Thomas McGuane, Luis Alberto Urrea and Graham Swift 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps the problem is that we have just become too comfortable with images of violence, whether visual or descriptive, that populate our screens and literature – from the trial of OJ Simpson to the Black Dahlia. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Most of his instrumental works bear descriptive titles, many drawn from Greek drama. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z Stay tuned for kidnapping, attempted murder, a roundelay of appearances from past lovers and their lovers, plus wonderful descriptive passages about the sea in all phases of weather. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “She was very good at dialogue and she was very good at descriptive writing and characterization,” Mr. Happold said. Susie Steiner, Author of Acclaimed British Crime Novels, Dies at 51 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z As any good descriptive linguist will tell you, slang is and always has been a valid part of language. From GOAT to ghost: Here are America’s 30 most googled slang terms 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The three stories are clearly separated with coy or cryptic or plainly descriptive titles. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The Sienese style they collectively shaped was defined by the interplay of two seemingly antithetical preferences, one being descriptive realism and the other abstract decorative patterning. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z Court of Appeals ruled that closed-captioning and descriptive video fall under the auxiliary aids umbrella. Glasses show captions for deaf, hard of hearing 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Entitled My Days, it sets Psalm 39 together with a particularly descriptive section from Gibbons' autopsy, and proved entirely worthy of the Hilliards and Fretwork, for whom it was composed. Hilliard Ensemble/Fretwork – review 2012-10-04T12:28:42Z Largely descriptive, the narratives don’t reveal much that you haven’t read or heard before. Review | Jake Gyllenhaal is a stage animal for sure. But he needs more feral turf in ‘Sea Wall/A Life.’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z I wouldn’t put a beautiful piece of descriptive prose in a film script. Neil Gaiman treasures ‘strange moments of the inexplicable’ 2013-05-30T20:34:05Z Yet, with the help of illuminating descriptive labels lifted from Mr. Roberts’s book, those here cumulatively bring to mind a panoramic vista that’s as entertaining as it is edifying. ‘A Brief History’ Depicts City’s Story at Historical Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z And it offers a consumer-friendly feature: a descriptive capsule of information on each of the wines on display. City Hall Restaurant’s Chef Opens Wine Shop 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z They feature symbolic objects, like the special glasses and descriptive labels used with different wine types. How brands turn customers into devoted followers 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z You never noticed a little descriptive phrase about the man at dinner; pale, nervous, eating nothing but soup … your clue was there, in those four words. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z "It seemed like it was really descriptive of how someone going through drug problems is often perceived as that alone," he says. Chris Cornell's acoustic solo tour is a smash 2011-04-29T21:44:05Z Amid floating strings, Wilkins murmurs the song’s indelibly descriptive hook: “Now I’m scuba diving in space.” Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The value added to this grotesque shlock was SkyMall’s enthusiastic descriptive copy. Remembering SkyMall, the in-flight catalogue at the apex of commercialism 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z And yet this could stand as it as, as a splendid descriptive exercise, with the writer considering what to do when, in the course of composing it, a poem threatens to become overloaded. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z He had no time to waste on superfluous adverbs, adjectives or tricky verb forms, and he had no patience for moody interior monologues or lyrical descriptive passages. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z Indeed, in The Best Intentions, a vast majority of the dialogue is separated from the descriptive text as if it were a screenplay. Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z Some contemporary theological scholars disagree over whether this portrait is prescriptive for modern-day followers or simply descriptive of expectations of the time, but such discourse was flattened in the lilac room. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z As a result the dialogue “became too declamatory and descriptive and didn’t allow for the development of the soul” of the characters, he said. The Battle Behind the 12-Hour ?Demons? 2010-06-26T02:41:00Z “I am a founder. End of conversation. Gender should not be descriptive in the world we live in today. It doesn’t define me professionally.” She Wants to Kill the Girl Boss 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Although some readers may bristle at Faye’s narrative reticence — she comes at us obliquely, bent by the gravity of others’ voices — hers is a cruelly clear-sighted descriptive prowess capable of stripping her subjects bare. Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Just the way she was telling the story was super descriptive and pretty funny. Date Lab: They took advice from Aziz Ansari’s ‘Modern Romance.’ Good sign? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Outside of Tracy Kidder’s “House,” I can’t think of a book with such vividly descriptive passages on the day-to-day frustrations, stresses, and rewards of home construction. Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z He’s sometimes called a “minimalist,” but this is a descriptive term rather than a categorization. Arvo Pärt, sounding the depth of still waters Beautiful, descriptive sentences that play with language in original, unexpected ways. Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z From both Handel and Bach, Tippett adopted a template of narrative recitative, contemplative arias, descriptive choruses and — specific to Bach’s Passions — familiar chorales. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z “Doubly blessed when it comes to descriptive powers, Heller is as good on nature as she is on interiors.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z You don’t need a great deal of descriptive power to bring Vidal or his world to life. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The case is locked, but a descriptive label explains that once a day a performer will open it and “activate” the piece. Art Review: Work by Niki de Saint Phalle and Bruce High Quality Foundation 2012-08-23T14:00:00Z You are able to tell an incredibly descriptive narrative in 62 hours of television. Aaron Paul: ‘It’s impossible not to throw our own emotions into the mix’ 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The dryly descriptive titles have a precedent in “Railroad Incident, August 1995” from “Assorted Fire Events.” A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Opinion was more divided on Rourke's work, but many people also loved it: "I thought the writing very clean, with some marvellous descriptive sections." Not the Booker prize: and the winners are ... 2010-10-12T11:31:00Z Throughout, the voice of J. D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield echoed, as did the sentence style of Hemingway — terse, declarative, deadpan descriptive and even masculine! Sally Rooney’s Riposte, Ralph Nader’s Candidacy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “Color is so brilliantly descriptive in film, and even the color of someone’s eyes gives you so much information,” Zambarloukos said. This Movie Season, It’s a Black-and-White Boom 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Paired with the images, the text too becomes almost visual in its way, ranging from descriptive prose contextualizing what is shown in the portraits, to poetry, to statements on the social experience of blackness. Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z As Lasky writes in her descriptive note, this Penelope's perspective is "one that might be more complicated than is usually told". Poem of the week: The Bed That Is a Tree by Kim Lasky 2012-05-28T10:54:50Z Mr. Wieck organized the exhibition, which overlaps with the book only in a few places, and wrote the show’s witty and descriptive labels. Art Review: Medieval Style Files: Tailored Artistry 2011-05-26T22:25:13Z That something would not be the novel’s descriptive passages nor its dialogue. Review | ‘The Silent Patient’ was a huge hit. Next we have ‘The Maidens.’ Don’t believe the hype. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z What makes “Wild Nights” so liberating is that it is descriptive, not prescriptive. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Stelter spikes these accounts with his own aggressively descriptive writing. Books of The Times: Brian Stelter’s ‘Top of the Morning,’ on Talk Show Wars 2013-04-22T20:27:32Z A more aptly descriptive title for the movie would be, “The Price of Seichel,” or, “From Nebbish to Macher Without Subtitles.” Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Hersh’s language is vivid and conversational, as descriptive and elliptical as her own music. “No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Atul Gawande’s “Better” — a doctor writing about his work, with a special emphasis on the treatment of cystic fibrosis — is just a truly magnificent piece of descriptive writing. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Driven by a huge percussion section, with weird and wayward textures, vividly descriptive melodies and a shimmer of emotion, this is music that is not only sophisticated, but also danceable. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ? review 2011-03-01T01:50:25Z Bill described her job as “doing the words,” the words being the names and scene setters in his Evening Hours column and the descriptive paragraphs in On the Street. ‘Child, I Trust You’: On Deadline With Bill Cunningham 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Bawden’s descriptive gifts were perhaps nowhere more evident than in two later books: the novel “Circles of Deceit,” a finalist for the Booker Prize in 1987, and the memoir “Dear Austen,” published in 2005. Nina Bawden, Author of ‘Carrie’s War,’ Dies at 87 2012-08-23T04:57:28Z They revisit this concept, which works much better as music than as descriptive preamble, under the banner of the Sound It Out series. Jazz Listings for Oct. 28-Nov. 3 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z He wasn’t much older when, under the descriptive moniker Crazy Legs, he became world famous for spinning on his back. Dance Review: Crazy Legs and His Rock Steady Crew Teach Hip-Hop 2013-08-01T20:53:21Z That passage gives me goose bumps, a credit to Koryta’s descriptive powers. Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Kit has a timeless voice, descriptive and observant, weaving a complicated story about racial and religious bigotry, violence and, yes, the stealing of children. A Religious Boarding School That’s Actually Hell 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z At the south end, the Goodsell Ridge Preserve presents an outdoor exhibit of trails and descriptive panels charting the evolution of our planet over millenniums, as illustrated by Chazy Reef fossil remains. The Pastoral Isles of Lake Champlain 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z In the early 80s, when Moorcock was living in LA, he wrote Ballard a series of long descriptive letters about the city, which were later published as Letters from Hollywood. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z BB is a seriously fine naturalist, and the beauty of his descriptive writing never gets in the way of the tension and thrills. Sara Maitland's top 10 books of the forest 2012-11-14T15:08:31Z "Suddenly it could be used as a descriptive term, without all the negative connotations it would have had 10 years earlier." Shoegaze: the genre that could not be killed 2013-04-12T12:00:00Z Loosely descriptive details intimate machines, bonfires, workers and surrounding buildings, all but dwarfed by the primordial setting. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z “Miami and the Siege of Chicago” is a companion volume to “Armies of the Night”—not as extensive, as grand, but in no way inferior in descriptive and rhetorical power. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “Whatever their name, they continue to paint pictures before which descriptive adjectives retreat in disorder,” the article says. Before He Was a Cubist, Picasso Was an Invertebrate 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The most commonly used dictionaries, whether in print or digital, reflect what is known as “descriptive lexicography,” meaning that editors study the way people use words and determine their meaning based on that evidence. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Ten descriptive qualifiers with made-up Italian words are not. Miss Manners: Don’t expect coffee shop choices for after-dinner cup 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z In the cold open, McKinnon played one of her many recurring characters, alien abductee Colleen Rafferty, who shared wildly descriptive details of her experience with Pentagon intelligence officials. Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson to leave SNL as part of big cast shake-up 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Shark Thriller is pretty amusing, but even that title isn’t perfectly descriptive; it doesn’t tell you if the sharks fight each other or eat humans or what. Cowboys, Aliens, Snakes and Sharks: In Praise of Literal Movie Titles 2011-12-06T09:58:38Z The name, though not entirely descriptive of the color, does conjure the image of a man impeccably dressed in a tailored three-piece suit — an image that aptly matches the richness of the hue. Surfboard Yellow, Gentleman’s Gray, Mizzle: How do paint companies name their hues? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z The glasses also support audio amplification for those who are hard of hearing and descriptive narration for people who are visually impaired. Glasses show captions for deaf, hard of hearing 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z More or less every shot represents a descriptive line in a screenplay rather than a free observation or a distillation of inner experience; each image checks off predetermined points rather than effecting discoveries. When Bad Nazis Happen to Good Directors: Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z His descriptive power comes instead from precise observation, each successive detail adding another tile to the mosaic. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z Both the urban and rural locations are realised through lyrically descriptive writing of the highest quality. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z The show's excellent catalog uses the descriptive word "porous" for Stark's art. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The get-togethers have affected their work, from a musician who wrote song lyrics sparked by a painting he saw at The Glen Workshop, to a painter who found inspiration in a writer's descriptive words. Northwest Christians explore faith, art and culture 2011-04-22T23:34:36Z Rosenberg said she thought about titling her survey something descriptive and stately, like “Five Decades.” Aura Rosenberg’s Seriously Playful Art of Collaboration 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The richly descriptive narrative charts the suicide of a young man shortly after he and a young woman are spotted throwing something off a bridge into the river below: New '33 1/3' book explores life of mysterious chanteuse Bobbie Gentry 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z With their outdated glamour, eerie glow, ambiguous emotions and descriptive quirks, these paintings are undeniably rich. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Her prose — densely though never overly descriptive, rich and bursting, verdantly Appalachian — puts you vividly in this world, where the banal is rendered strangely and tenderly. A Girl Goes Missing. A Loner Takes Her Place. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z At a time when studio publicists gave descriptive nicknames to young actresses, such as Lauren Bacall’s “The Look,” Miss Scott was known as “The Threat.” Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z They are full of descriptive prose and, crucially for my stories, a journey that’s interesting enough to capture the imagination and make someone want to hear it, yet soothing enough to make them nod off. A book at bedtime: the rise of sleep story apps 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy has more than enough descriptive power to drive this book. Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Hamelin finds the word “virtuoso,” which is invariably applied to his playing, a somewhat derogatory descriptive that implies mere showmanship, he said during a recent interview in a practice room at Mannes. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z “Ordinary People” in many ways resembles a traditional novel: realistic, concerned with social mores and psychological states, full of sharp descriptive language—the “bleaching conquest of gentrification,” the “demeaning regularity” of mornings. In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Its long but descriptive subtitle reads: “Harvesting, Storing and Sowing Techniques for Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits.” A primer on seed saving 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The first thing you notice about "King of the Badgers," the new novel by British writer Philip Hensher, is how sharp its descriptive detail can be. 'King of the Badgers': A media circus in England 2011-09-21T23:08:04Z “Video is more descriptive, more entertaining and, really, the most detailed way to present a collection,” Ms. Kamali said. Front Row: For Fashion Week, Designers Start to See in 3-D 2011-08-31T21:33:23Z As a work of descriptive film criticism there’s something quite interesting about putting so many different line readings of the same dialogue side by side. | 'A Christmas Carol': ?A Christmas Carol? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2011-12-11T22:50:21Z It is, in the descriptive sense, a work of art, written and directed by the gifted Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, who appears onscreen as narrator, interviewer and spirit guide. The Case of the Artist and the True-Crime Documentary 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The show's title, Baryshnikov says, is meant to be both commanding and descriptive. Baryshnikov shows his dance photography in Miami 2012-02-23T17:42:09Z He prints a few descriptive sentences of a couple walking together from Wharton’s “House of Mirth,” and mentally X-rays them. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z By taking a subject so remote in time and manners, Flaubert gave himself license to stretch and indulge the exacting descriptive talent which he deployed so scrupulously in "Madame Bovary". World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z In fact, it was one of the first museums to use descriptive labels in exhibits. Smithsonian’s ‘Futures’ exhibit encourages visitors to be innovators 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Objects are frequently small, and it isn’t always easy to find the descriptive information that explains them. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z I'm treating it as a descriptive, even scientific term: a performance in which the actor does much more than was probably necessary to get the point across. The overacting hall of fame 2011-09-23T23:30:00Z He told me that wine and tea share some of the same descriptive vocabulary: “curves,” “fruity,” “soft,” for example. | All the Tea in Paris 2011-08-25T20:20:04Z “Off the Map” isn’t a very descriptive title for ABC’s latest medical drama about do-gooders in a remote jungle clinic — “Doctors Without Shirts” would be more helpful. | 'Off the Map': Doctors Operating Abroad, With Lots of Body Language 2011-01-12T00:12:29Z By using descriptive language, you may be able to connect with him before he becomes more frustrated. Perspective | My 2-year-old hits me. How can I respond better? 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Other points are more descriptive: Distractions disappear as their attention remains solely with the task at hand, though effortlessly so. It’s great to be ‘in the zone’ — while working, exercising and creating art. Here’s how to get there. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Briscoe is a lushly evocative writer and renders the changing seasons in intricate descriptive detail. You by Joanna Briscoe ? review 2011-07-08T10:42:01Z But books like this were considered scandalous, descriptive of social outliers, not as guidebooks to the behavior of young working women. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z Never have Washington's words mattered more than right now and sound descriptive of Trump, who has behaved in ways that raise doubts about whether he would step down if defeated in the 2020 presidential election. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Way too much of the novel consists of descriptive filler, detailing palaces, rooms, grottoes, mansions and the like. Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire These witty extensions bring the poem to descriptive life while reinforcing the concept of unity between insect and human, the sheet on the washing line and space-time itself. Poem of the week: Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry by Ruth Stone 2011-08-01T09:17:06Z This Formula One show was more workmanlike: a descriptive narration of the outfits, as in old fashioned couture shows. Milan Designers Fusing Sporty and Formal 2012-01-16T18:52:22Z Her plots are straightforward, even slightly predictable, though that may be a generational matter; what passed for speculative warning in the 1970s and ’80s, now seems more directly descriptive of our present ills. Where Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Neighboring galleries display pastoral landscapes, portraits of bourgeois matrons, and melodramatic history paintings that may not appeal to everyone, but certainly reveal the exquisitely descriptive manner of 19th-century Spanish painting. A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z For a critic, his descriptive prose groans under comatose adverbs and adjectives. Books of The Times: Paradise Is Only Half the Story in a Complex Caribbean Nation 2011-04-14T21:52:13Z But it’s hard not to get lost in the descriptive terminology in “Playing Changes.” A Case for the New Jazz Sound That Will Inspire Playlists 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The interest of what is called descriptive or representative in real poetry and all real art is always human, or, in other words, 'imaginative'. Poem of the week: The Two Deserts by Coventry Patmore 2011-03-28T11:18:29Z Highlights and high points: From Paris, we rode the train to Normandy and took a tour with a wonderful guide who, through his descriptive and animated presentation, brought the D-Day invasion to life. What a Trip: Friends unite in Bavaria It just seemed interesting and novel and descriptive. A Minute With: Deborah Harry talking new Blondie 2011-09-07T11:56:05Z When the story moves from intensity and estrangement the descriptive language occasionally reaches for compensatory effect. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “And one small thing, which shows up in every piece: the word things. My dad was an English professor. There’s always a more eloquent, descriptive word.” The 7 Most Ridiculous Things in Vogue's Blake Lively Profile 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z This is not only condemnatory but also plainly descriptive. Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Lash said it was important to present that piece within the proper context, complete with descriptive labels that let viewers know what they were about to see, as well as appropriate supplementary programming. The pushback against how Black suffering and victims of violence are depicted in art 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Sims shines in her deft characterizations, and in the descriptive passages that call the gloomy Northwest skies "stomped-newspaper gray" and the Puget Sound waters "slaty and ominous." New novels by Jane Porter and Elizabeth Sims are steeped in sense of place 2010-08-04T23:12:00Z The Independent was equally effusive -- and wonderfully descriptive. The reviews are in for Kate Bush's first concert in 35 years 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z But for all the performers' virtuosity and Lloyd and Brandstrup's conceptual deftness, I found myself wondering more than once whether the staged action added to our appreciation of Coleridge's gothically descriptive words. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review 2013-01-13T00:05:32Z The wording is playful and descriptive, and Sugar’s commentary injects humor. 3 Illustrated Novels With Animal Magnetism 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z And this dictionary was going to be different from everything before it, because previous dictionaries had not necessarily been based on descriptive data, meaning they had been quite prescriptive rather than descriptive. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z This week: Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the cartoons above, up to a total of 25 entries. Style Invitational Week 1464: Picture this — our cartoon caption contest 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z A more apt descriptive may be “stale,” even downright archaic. What Happened to Risk on the Red Carpet? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The passages about her life with Matthias are written in the third person, in lush, descriptive sentences. Using Fiction to Show How Self-Control Becomes Self-Destructive 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z If his subjects were purely imaginary, he rendered them with an uncommon amount of descriptive reality, staging scenes in his studio and going to nearly unbelievable lengths to assemble models and props. Rockwell Paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 2010-07-01T16:28:00Z Hinkle, who lives and works in Los Angeles and Oakland, is not making standard descriptive portraits. 100 missing women: Drawings at African American museum tell a powerful story of loss 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z That served as today’s koan, especially after my iPhone revealed that “jellied moose nose” is not some Yankee mondegreen but — this is still hard to believe — simple descriptive prose. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z I appreciate the descriptive wine notes alongside some selections, but not the “staff picks,” half of which are over $100 a bottle. Review | José Andrés brings Spanish comfort food — including a lot of eggs — to Bethesda 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Wood’s descriptive language is rich and inventive, dense but never heavy. ‘Weathering’ review: A haunting debut set in the British countryside 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z To say that Matthew Barney makes art movies is not to provide a genre descriptive. Review: In ‘River of Fundament,’ Matthew Barney Contemplates Waste 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z This is a list of really descriptive and evocative, fun words. F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary 2012-08-13T21:03:11Z Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village is both a marvellous descriptive poem and a powerful political essay. Poem of the week: The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith 2010-05-31T09:35:00Z There are 13 musical portraits, and the wordy texts – Chaucer's original rendered into more or less modern English – are given colourful if generically descriptive settings, some as solo numbers, others for the chorus alone. The Canterbury Pilgrims – review 2012-07-27T15:09:14Z Neeson says he had asked about the race of the attacker, along with other descriptive characteristics. Liam Neeson says he’s not racist, explains rage after attack 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine a breathing person who has not experienced something along these lines, which is why love addiction can sound too vague to be a helpful descriptive. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z According to the American Psychological Association, “masculinity ideology” is a certain set of descriptive, prescriptive, and small-minded perceptions about boys and men. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The story is full of really descriptive sounds and smells and sensations. The Witch's Hand by Peter Utton - review 2012-06-29T08:00:00Z McLain’s descriptive style is occasionally a little pedestrian and generalized for Gellhorn’s unusual life, at times her voice not as searing as the spectacles she witnessed. Paula McLain Returns to ‘The Paris Wife’ Territory 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z For instance, there's a discussion about whether accusing someone of being "evil," a "predator," a "fake" and a "shifty man" are "opinions" or descriptive of "acts of misconduct" that are actionable as libel. Britney Spears' ex-manager, mom escalate legal feud 2010-06-10T05:06:00Z The person you are worried about is making descriptive statements that alarm you. Perspective | Ask Amy: Couple wants to inspire nephew to be charitable 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Powell's writing was amazing: beautiful, descriptive and therefore horrid at times! Burn Mark by Laura Powell - review 2012-07-13T08:00:00Z My digestive system was, without being too descriptive, doing a spectacular job. A Takeout Addict Tries Clean Eating 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z If descriptive bibliography is like doing anatomy, the Hinman is a CAT scan machine. ArtsBeat: The Rare Book Scholar's Secret Weapon 2012-07-24T13:00:40Z But the choreography they performed, by Francesca Harper, was so flimsy and poorly constructed that the fanciful title of Mr. Adams’s music remained descriptive. Review: Attacca Quartet Serves Up John Adams, With Dance as a Side Dish 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The other, a series of ekphrastic responses to photos of fractured skulls dug up under a Colorado asylum, presses Rekdal’s descriptive powers to pure insight. Poet Paisley Rekdal should be better known, and 'Imaginary Vessels' may be the collection to do it 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Try writing sentence after descriptive sentence without a comma or a dash. ‘It Requires Genius and He Had It’: Readers on Cormac McCarthy 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Fans would text ideas or descriptive words that were flashed on a screen, and the band would build improvisations in response, changing course each time a new word popped up. Umphrey's McGee lets fans conduct the band in concert 2012-04-19T17:23:00Z A career headline spinner who hired and fired with gusto, he writes here in crisp sentences more descriptive than introspective, giving résumés for even minor characters. For Jann Wenner, the Music Never Stopped 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z In an agreement proposed by the artist and agreed to by the management company, Rothenberg provided a descriptive text to be displayed on a printed plaque nearby. Hollywood sculpture censored after the Harvey Weinstein scandal has been returned to view 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Beyond that, though, little can be said, since the half-hour score has six movements with descriptive, but unexplained, titles. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Bernthal added that Pelecanos’s intense attention to detail extended to all corners of the production, from the deeply descriptive stage directions in the scripts to the makes and models of the cars in each scene. ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The language is so full and dynamic and descriptive and whole. Keegan-Michael Key Is Looking to Tell Some ‘Human Stories’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Filled with sharp descriptive details of New York City, it focuses on homes, church, school, and the lives of women and children — people who’ve found themselves, mainly through marriage or inheritance, affiliated with the mob. Review | Naomi Krupitsky’s ‘The Family’ is a Mafia tale with a unique perspective 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z They took the project very seriously and wrote carefully crafted letters that used descriptive words they learned in class to persuade potential adopters. Kids wrote pleas to help unwanted shelter pups find homes. It worked. 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z "Stonemilker," for example, is accompanied in the liner notes with the descriptive, "9 months before." On 'Vulnicura,' Bjork is heavy and at her most personal 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I don’t even mind the universally reviled “moist” — it’s so perfectly descriptive! Salon’s author questionnaire: “Sometimes people say the writing is good to subtly suggest that everything else is bad” 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z In early weeks genuinely descriptive, this quickly became a hollow buzzword co-opted by advertisements. The 20 Phrases That Defined 2020 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Invisible Fence is a descriptive name for a electronic pet barrier, but it would be a great name for an Internet pawnshop. Style Invitational: You gave us a bad name. Now give us a better one. 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A more descriptive title for this book, to borrow the name of the White Stripes album, would have been “Icky Thump.” William T. Vollmann’s ‘Last Stories and Other Stories’ 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Those who view with alarm the bodying forth of the military-industrial complex might do well to consider for a moment the third part of this descriptive proposition. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Hammy dialogue, amateurish narrative pacing, some truly terrible descriptive prose: the example above is just one of many. What Philip K Dick needed was a co-author 2010-06-04T15:07:00Z “Recount a sexual encounter and give her little bits of that memory throughout the day. Women love it when you get super descriptive,” she said. Sex blogger gives advice to men whose wives won't have sex with them 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z They are threatening; her intensity lies in her descriptive language, not in her moral judgments. Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z “A lot of it, from ‘broken windows’ on, was just descriptive,” Branas told me. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z For English-speaking audiences, to hear Mr. Tomlinson’s Gurnemanz relate this tale in vividly descriptive English made what can seem like narrative filler when “Parsifal” is performed in German into an episode of engrossing musical drama. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z Consider the extra grammatical “aspects” of African-American English, the “be” aspects conveying habitual states, which add descriptive precision and nuance. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Eggers' style is mostly subdued and plainly descriptive, with large blank spaces between short paragraphs increasing the sense of emptiness. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – review 2013-01-30T10:07:03Z It's an opportunity to be descriptive, another level of creativity in the creative process of filmmaking. What's so hard about making movies accessible? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z We talk about our name and how it’s descriptive but dull! Coaches for the office? An organization takes a page out of the sports world to grow talent. 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z To compensate for the dearth of written evidence, Stuart brocades her family history with descriptive passages of "talcum-fine white sands" and "rustling" cane fields. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z The Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater was superb, too, both in the supple descriptive writing and in the more exuberant battle scenes between the feuding families. Music Review: Shakespeare?s Lovers via Berlioz, via Russia 2010-02-24T23:15:00Z This week: Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the Bob Staake cartoons above. Style Invitational Week 1392: Picture This — a cartoon caption contest 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z However, “addiction” in the descriptive sense does not mean “addiction” in the clinical sense. Internet addiction is just the next evolutionary step 2013-05-31T15:20:00Z Half a century later the descriptive precision is not shocking but absorbing. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z I use the word “intense,” because the word “difficult” is pejorative and not very descriptive. Perspective | Why one child can be more ‘difficult’ than another 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Touching in parts and some nice descriptive touches. Readers recommend: songs with handclaps 2010-07-08T23:02:00Z The voice is chatty, descriptive but not judgmental. “Is There Still Sex in the City?” and the Decline of a Particular Fantasy Life 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The county wants to keep Silver Spring Black Box on the books, but he acknowledges that it’s not a descriptive name for the space, which is located at 8641 Colesville Road. Theater coalition taking over Black Box space to keep shows going in Silver Spring Google the address, Google people’s names and phone numbers, Google even chunks of descriptive text in the ad to see if it’s been copied from elsewhere. Frugal Traveler: Burned! A London Vacation Rental Scam 2011-01-25T21:24:09Z It’s a lovely bit of writing – Nuttall-Smith is a wizard with descriptive prose. ‘The chef started crying’: the Toronto critic who can make or break a restaurant 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Max's collected memories, and Last's own recollections, provide ample opportunity for Ironmonger to display some fine descriptive talents. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger 2012-08-22T15:06:29Z It is difficult to reconcile Hill’s perception of Wilder’s “evolution as a writer,” her “descriptive genius,” and her techniques for creating “tension and suspense” with the evidence of the manuscript. The Clunky Memoir That Became “Little House on the Prairie” 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z An enthralling storyteller, Bowen excels equally in colorful descriptive passages, whether depicting a cardinal’s gorgeously luxurious apartments or the wild vegetation, cypress groves and marble fragments of ancient Rome: Review | ‘Black Magic’ is an oft-overlooked thriller. Don’t overlook it. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z If desire itself is certainly a form of pain — because to want a connection is to experience a lack, a space that can be exploited — perhaps these stories are merely descriptive. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Austin’s mission is to demolish what he calls the “descriptive fallacy” – the idea that all language does is describe the world. How to pick (and stop) an argument 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z An elaborate scene in the descriptive style of Paul Delvaux titled “Les Mains” was consigned to Christie’s by the Museum of Modern Art. Auctions: Bidders at Christie's Open Pocketbooks, but With a Clear Eye 2011-11-02T12:30:11Z Their descriptive detail, sense of place, existence in the present moment and the occasional educational components help many listeners get out of their heads. Once Upon a Time … Bedtime Stories Were Just for Kids 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z “The Middleman” is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing, clipping along in brief chapters, somewhat reminiscent of the novels of James Patterson, and often animated by lovely, spare descriptive writing. A New Thriller Imagines a Revolt Against the Corporate Order 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps to prove that he has the requisite artistic skills after all, Mr. Creed has included a small, dark, relatively descriptive self-portrait. Last Chance: Martin Creed’s Solo Shows at Gavin Brown and Hauser & Wirth 2013-12-17T22:13:14Z The translation by Neil Smith adheres to the authors’ sanguinary style with descriptive accounts of subsequent murders by a killer or killers who seem to have it in for politicians. Pop-Up Brothels, Severed Tongues and Creepy Nursery Rhymes 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Despite the veneer of objectivity his later stories required, the reader is never far from a detail that generates a disproportionate amount of descriptive light. A brief survey of the short story part 42: Danilo Kiš 2012-08-02T15:03:20Z The sound was melancholic, the visuals muted, but the combination never descriptive or poetic. A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Beneath each of the descriptive panels is larger, simplified text geared to kids. This 15th-century orphanage in Florence is now a kid-friendly museum 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z They are terse and acrobatic, scriptural and bawdy, vividly descriptive and enduringly ambiguous, never far from either a riddle or a punch line. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Colbert’s “truthiness” was a word so powerfully descriptive that the definition he suggested made its way into the dictionary. The Best Bit of Steve Carell’s Turn on “S.N.L.” This Week 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z His 1911 “Still Life With Gingerpot I” is more conventionally descriptive, yet the splintering lines indicate his embrace of Cubist structure, which sets him on the path to abstraction. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z Their age “allows for a little descriptive leeway, because so much of adolescent life is overwrought to begin with,” Marra said in an email. Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z There are benefits: the need to orient their mother means they are excellent at giving directions and have advanced descriptive powers. Sometimes it is also useful to be under the radar. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z The letters are remarkable, revealing an observant author and fearless woman with keen descriptive powers. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “A Replacement Life” is full of descriptive treasures. ‘A Replacement Life,’ by Boris Fishman 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z I did enjoy this book, however, I felt that the narrative was unbearably descriptive at times and it distracted away from the action itself. MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza 2013-07-09T08:00:00Z It takes away the descriptive elements which can weigh down prose while still engaging your imagination in a way film does not. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Proust might not have agreed with this evaluation, but he understood that the descriptive terms can be one and the same. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z The telling phrase that describes this piece is not its nickname but Beethoven’s descriptive subtitle, “Sonata Quasi una Fantasia,” meaning rather like a fantasy. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z The title of Sally Davies’s Art League show is straightforwardly descriptive: “Global View: Light & Shadow.” Review | In the galleries: A colorful survey of Washington artists 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck as a writer, is one of the most theatrically descriptive writers. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z He’s a terrifically descriptive writer, particularly when illuminating the banal suburban world around him. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z This is very much a hymn to la vie Parisienne – and as I spent a lot of time there in the 1980s, I can vouch for the author's veracity and descriptive grasp. The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain – review 2013-03-19T12:09:05Z Here the term green carries double meaning as both visual descriptive and allegory. Television Review: A Fantasy World of Strange Feuding Kingdoms 2011-04-14T21:32:03Z Matter-of-fact descriptive titles like “Colossus, Ankles Cross, Hand Hooks Heel, Finger Tips Press Bun,” by emphasizing their cheeky what-you-see-is-what-you-get quality, nudge them into the self-conscious realm of paintings about painting, too. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z When Lucy speaks as her mother, it’s with a sort of descriptive physical shorthand, conjuring sharp edges and a nasal twang. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z They then wrote descriptive poetry to convey this emotion. Why every parent should read to their kids 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “It’s much easier to draw something when the words are incredibly descriptive and visual, because that feeds your imagination,” he says. Camila Alves McConaughey takes on picky eaters, with love 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Though not overtly descriptive music, its four movements, playing for a little under 20 minutes, imaginatively evoke the feeling of four distinct times in the passage of a day. Emerson, 'Four Quarters' a beguiling start to UW season 2012-10-03T16:55:04Z The enzymes the team discovered have a descriptive, if unwieldy, name. Scientists discover key to a potential natural cancer treatment's potency 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Researchers are now “moving past a descriptive form of biology, to one where we understand life by building it,” he says. Synthetic yeast project unveils cells with 50% artificial DNA 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Sparrows in particular will be most impacted by the new decision, in part because many species look alike, making more descriptive names challenging. Birds Named after People Will Get New English Names 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z There are articles that came out in the 19th century that said: “Why are we naming birds after people? It’s not very descriptive.” ‘Why are we naming birds after people?’ Behind the plan to scrap many bird names 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The renaming process will aim for more descriptive names about the birds’ habitats or physical features and is part of a broader push in science for more welcoming, inclusive environments. Birds in the Americas Will No Longer Be Named After People 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Even with more descriptive names, consumers might not be guaranteed to get exactly what they’re looking for. White Rhino. Dr. Gonzo. Cannabis names reveal more than you think 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The day began with three workshop facilitators giving themselves descriptive nicknames: “Joyful” June, “Caring” Clinton, “Resourceful” Romano. This King County high school is starting the semester with a focus on preventing violence 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z It’s descriptive, emotionally important and deeply wrapped up in identity. Is it India? Is it Bharat? Speculations abound as government pushes for the country’s Sanskrit name 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z The study’s annotators also disagreed about ambiguous descriptive facts. Algorithms Are Making Important Decisions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z The lyrics are as descriptive as a Polaroid; the track reminds me of my auntie’s living room with the plastic on the furniture. Granderson: For 50 years, hip-hop has been a way for Black men to express vulnerability 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z “As much as I love a fun and unique dress code, I always suggest couples clarify exactly what they mean with a descriptive sentence or two so there’s no guessing,” he said. Space Disco Cowboy? Couples ditch traditional dress codes in favor of out-there themes 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Buffalo’s Dawson Knox puts it in more descriptive terms. History says highly touted rookie tight ends don’t always make a major impact right away 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z In most cases, the name change fit with medicine’s growing preference for descriptive terms over honorific ones. Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms? 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Less descriptive are the Ken doll posters, which spotlight the men of the cast and include phrases such as, “He’s just Ken,” “He’s Ken too” and “Ken again!” Talk about future nostalgia: Dua Lipa just joined the cast of 'Barbie' 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z “Somehow, it just found its way into the common lingo in recent years, because it is dramatic and it’s descriptive,” Masters said. Bomb cyclone, atmospheric river, polar vortex: How our weather terminology has grown with recent wild storms 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “It was alliterative. It was descriptive,” he said decades later, “and I liked the contradiction — a flop that could be a success.” Dick Fosbury, whose ‘Fosbury Flop’ revolutionized high jump, dies at 76 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The agency further adds, “Buffalo wings is a fanciful term that requires a descriptive name.” Man Sues Buffalo Wild Wings Over ‘Boneless’ Wings 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z “When I write a song, I try to be really descriptive in my lyrics and paint a picture of the moment in time that the song stemmed from,” Cyrus said during the special. Eagle-eyed Miley Cyrus fans think a new song is about her ex Liam Hemsworth cheating 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Operating outside of academia, these groups are making the canon less prescriptive and more descriptive, a dynamic record of what people are actually reading and enjoying now. Building a New Canon of Black Literature 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z But because the results are purely descriptive, any conclusions about the work are still tentative. Your native tongue holds a special place in your brain, even if you speak 10 languages 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Specifically, the emergence of large language models – AI systems that are trained on vast amounts of text – means computers can now produce human-sounding written language and convert descriptive phrases into realistic images. Tech experts on what AI tools like DALL-E mean for artists and creative workers 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Wherever you lose something, it’s best to be as descriptive as possible about the missing item and to include any unique features, such as color, stickers, specific markings or serial numbers. Advice | How to recover a lost item at TSA, the airport or your flight Jean-François Richet’s “Plane” is as efficient, economical and effective as its title, which is a good one, actually — clear, descriptive, communicates what the film is about. Review: In 'Plane,' action star Gerard Butler once again sticks the landing 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The end-of-the-year deadline was put in place to hold planes to modern rules governing pilot alert systems, which aim to better organize cockpit warning messages into a more centralized and descriptive interface. Congress Gives Boeing a Reprieve on 737 Max Cockpit Changes 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Such language is not flattering to Republicans, but it is more descriptive than judgmental. Opinion | The L.A. journalist making Americans smarter about politics 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Their best practices include short, descriptive terms that convey the pathogen's severity, seasonality and environment, among other qualities. World Health Organization renamed 'monkeypox' as mpox — here's why 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z What’s truly extraordinary about the painting, though, is its startling sense of animation, which goes far beyond mere descriptive acuity. Commentary: Huntington museum lands a smashing gift, painted by court artist to Marie Antoinette 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z What’s more, unlike elected bodies, these assemblies are chosen to mirror the population, a property that political theorists refer to as descriptive representation. Citizens’ Assemblies Are Upgrading Democracy: Fair Algorithms Are Part of the Program 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z There are many miniature essays you can extract, but it’s also terribly descriptive. Orwell uncut: New Substack will serialize Orwell’s writings 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath, the Rams did not struggle to find accurately descriptive words. No Matthew Stafford TD? A Cooper Kupp rushing TD? Rams win a weird one vs. Cardinals 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Is this arrangement an aberration of North Korea, or is it descriptive of the other eight nuclear states? North Korea’s new law is far from the only nuclear threat the world faces 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Water is a rigid designator, while “the substance that fills the lakes and oceans” is descriptive. Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths in Semantics, Dies at 81 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z As attractive as descriptive representation is, there are practical obstacles to realizing it while adhering to the principle of random selection. Citizens’ Assemblies Are Upgrading Democracy: Fair Algorithms Are Part of the Program 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.” Enjoying Seattle Reads through audiobooks 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Which term is more descriptive, voltage or potential difference? College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z You do not need to memorize a list of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes and their descriptive features. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z It’s a wonderfully descriptive name: just as objects that sink below our horizon cannot be seen on Earth, so anything happening inside the event horizon can no longer interact with the rest of the universe. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z This passed for descriptive representation in a society that practiced slavery and excluded women from the political process. Citizens’ Assemblies Are Upgrading Democracy: Fair Algorithms Are Part of the Program 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z People talk about facts using descriptive claims and values using evaluative claims. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Most importantly, this is a descriptive equation only, giving no information as to the cause of the equality. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z You do not need to memorize a list of Earth’s different aquatic biomes and their descriptive features. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z When they were first discovered, some astronomers called galaxies island universes, and the term is aptly descriptive; galaxies do look like islands of stars in the vast, dark seas of intergalactic space. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z As clever as a kleroterion is, the present-day selection process for citizens’ assemblies is more complicated because our concept of descriptive representation is much more nuanced. Citizens’ Assemblies Are Upgrading Democracy: Fair Algorithms Are Part of the Program 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Determine whether the statements below are evaluative or descriptive. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The learning objectives covered under Big Idea 7 of the AP Physics Curriculum Framework are supported in this chapter through descriptive, algebraic, and graphical representations. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z In other words, the linear model of ecosystems, the food chain, is not completely descriptive of ecosystem structure. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Still, Kepler’s laws are purely descriptive: they do not help us understand what forces of nature constrain the planets to follow this particular set of rules. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z This type includes all the features of a descriptive annotated bibliography, including a summary of the material. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Propose a descriptive statement and a value statement that form the basis of each statement that you identify as evaluative. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In this section, we will explore three different models of representation and the concept of descriptive representation. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z A holistic model—which accounts for all the interactions between different species and their complex interconnected relationships with each other and with the environment—is a more accurate and descriptive model for ecosystems. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z We could not do that before when we were doing descriptive statistics because those data were univariate. Introductory Business Statistics 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z Edit to include concrete nouns and descriptive language when writing about images. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Definite description a method of conceptual analysis that substitutes a descriptive phrase that uniquely identifies the object or thing named for an object term or proper name. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z This form of representation is called descriptive representation. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Both types of logical thinking are related to the two main pathways of scientific study: descriptive science and hypothesis- based science. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Use your understanding of descriptive statistics from the very first part of this course. Introductory Business Statistics 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z People reading about visual and digital images expect to encounter vivid, descriptive language that allows them to picture the image as they read. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z How are evaluative claims different from descriptive claims? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z At one time, there was relatively little concern about descriptive representation in Congress. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z It would be helpful to manually calculate these descriptive statistics, using the given data sets and then compare to the graphs. High School Statistics 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z Organizing and summarizing data is called descriptive statistics. Introductory Statistics 2013-09-19T00:00:00Z Such descriptive writing incorporates your personal experience with the elements of visual rhetoric discussed in this chapter. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Because knowledge and justification are treated as valuable and epistemology studies these concepts, epistemology is both descriptive and a normative discipline. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z What does the trend toward descriptive representation suggest about what constituents value in their legislature? American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z This area of statistics is called descriptive statistics. High School Statistics 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z Each template will have a descriptive name on top, and under that, it will tell you how many photos you can use with the template. How to use a TikTok video template 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The text does not adhere to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter: using descriptive diction, as discussed in Section 17.6, and employing sensory detail. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z For example, “the weather today is sunny” is a descriptive claim because it simply describes what someone observes. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Please be aware that descriptive lambasting below the belt is a technical foul. In his own words: A look back at Bill Russell’s Seattle Times sports columns from the 1970s 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z “And then murder hornet wasn’t very descriptive, either, because they don’t murder people.” The World’s Largest Hornet Is Getting a New Name 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z To represent “height is a function of age,” we start by identifying the descriptive variables for height and for age. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z After starting with a descriptive title, write an opening paragraph that grabs readers’ attention and alerts them to what’s coming. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Some philosophers argue that certain types of descriptive claims imply an evaluative claim, especially if they are linked by the concept of purpose or function. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The screenwriters also modernized some of the descriptive cues in the script, occasionally referencing contemporary ideas or people. Why the creators of 'Persuasion' put a contemporary spin on Jane Austen's classic 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “Calling it the Asian giant hornet wasn’t very descriptive because a number of related giant hornets come from Asia,” said Jessica Ware, an entomologist and president of the Entomological Society of America. The World’s Largest Hornet Is Getting a New Name 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Using descriptive variables, we can notate these two functions. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Does the essay have a clear, descriptive title? Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Through trial and error, he found the right recipe of descriptive words to create consistent results — words like “flesh” and “body horror” and “Cronenberg.” An experimental horror ARG is testing the boundaries of AI art 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z A holistic model—which includes all the interactions between different species and their complex interconnected relationships with each other and with the environment—is a more accurate and descriptive model for ecosystems. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z A more objective and descriptive term is diamictite, meaning a rock with a wide range of clast sizes. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z In this case, we introduced a function to represent the conversion because the input and output variables are descriptive, and writing could get confusing. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z As defined, an abstract is a purely descriptive summary, typically found at the very beginning of a journal article or in a periodical index. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In the settings, you can turn off the face groupings and edit the descriptive tags. Use That Everyday A.I. in Your Pocket 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z This type of reasoning is common in descriptive science. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The descriptive trail guides have photos and reviews. A primer for hiking newbies 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z She added that the County Durham-based brand was "not distinctive and only descriptive" and could pose a "serious threat" to Zara if the market was crowded with brands that looked and sounded similar. Zara trademark dispute not fair, boutique owner tells tribunal 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Although annotations also can be descriptive, informative, and similarly brief, they are usually evaluative and critical. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In what they called the “descriptive” condition, the group simply watched a video that informed viewers that 5 percent of a different college program’s students were Black. People Think Minority Groups Are Bigger Than They Really Are 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Both types of logical thinking are related to the two main pathways of scientific study: descriptive science and hypothesis-based science. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The term “scout” is descriptive of both the Boy Scouts’ and Girl Scouts’ programming, the judge wrote. Judge tosses Girl Scouts’ recruitment suit vs. Boy Scouts 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z His parents taught him that being blind was just another descriptive adjective - like being "fair-complexioned or dark", or tall or "not so tall". Cobhams Asuquo: The Nigerian singer who hated his own voice 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Identify some of the descriptive language specific to visuals that Leo Davis uses when talking about the painting. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The most common negative descriptive terms used in the records were “refused,” “not adherent,” “not compliant” and “agitated.” Doctors Are More Likely to Describe Black Patients as Uncooperative, Studies Find 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z From that point on, to borrow the phraseology of bad book descriptive copy, nothing would ever be the same. Opinion | It’s pointless to yearn for a post-pandemic return to normalcy. Or is it normality? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z With brutal honesty and descriptive precision, she reveals the complex moral universe in which prosecutors live but far too many refuse to confront. Review | In a flawed system, a Black prosecutor wonders if she’s pursuing justice or being complicit 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “They are not attributable to a particular artist, and criteria, including a descriptive title, dimensions and conditions can change dramatically over a short period, with losses or additions.” New research tracks ancient artifacts looted by the Nazis 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The text generally adheres to the “Editing Focus” of this chapter: using descriptive diction, as discussed in Section 17.6, and employing sensory detail. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z As in the author’s previous novel “The Red Notebook,” the Parisian tableaus are so descriptive that you can almost smell the croissants. 10 noteworthy books for January 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z In the case of Alexa, an algorithm picked out the descriptive part of a warning and amplified it without the original context. Alexa told a child to do potentially lethal ‘challenge’ 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The idea is that replacing the term “schizophrenia” with something less frightening and more descriptive will not only change how the public perceives people with the diagnosis, but also how these people see themselves. ‘Schizophrenia’ Still Carries a Stigma. Will Changing the Name Help? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z I don’t make much use of flashbacks because they make things too definitely descriptive, and they take away from the richness of how you want to portray something. He made one of the year's most acclaimed movies. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi talks about 'Drive My Car' 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Show and tell: descriptive and narrative techniques to help readers imagine the subject combined with reporting techniques to relay factual information. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Jerusalem was where Amichai lived after escaping Nazi Germany; it is where he died in 2000; it is where his accessible, imaginative, descriptive style transformed him into a sort of poetic prophet. Review | Jerusalem’s subterranean discoveries and disputes 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Ken's descriptive powers sent shivers through fans of the radio series, Uncanny, and its presenter Danny Robbins and the programme was soon trending on twitter. Alanbrooke Hall: The Belfast building spooking UK listeners 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z "It is so well thought out...it is basically descriptive, it is clever." Bart Simpson graffiti appears following Kidderminster speed camera 'moon' 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z As I walked, I thought about the last few days, which I’ve spent writing a long descriptive passage of when I first got badly sick, as a kid. How John, Paul, George and Ringo helped a writer survive the pandemic 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The first is descriptive annotations, or informative, summarizing the material and explaining why the source is useful for your topic. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z This effort comes closer to classifying what cells do, but is still descriptive in that it describes behavior rather than morphology. An Inventory of All the Brain Cells That Let You Run, Jump and Roll 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z As a general rule, anatomical terms are supposed to be informative and descriptive. Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The counting starts with descriptive statistics on the daily state of the pandemic — who’s infected, who’s sick, how many have died. Opinion | Science Alone Can’t Heal a Sick Society 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z "And that movement towards intimacy is purposely delayed by Rooney's descriptive prose, which heats up slowly." Sally Rooney: Reviews hail quiet brilliance of Beautiful World, Where Are You 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Shows my use of descriptive writing/figurative language: “Learning a foreign language is like learning to ride a bicycle: you must learn to perform multiple tasks at the same time.” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The metaphor retains its descriptive power today, when ordinary activities — driving and jogging and sleeping in one’s own bed — can turn deadly because Black people’s full humanity remains invisible to some of their fellow citizens. Review | How to see the world ‘with, through, and alongside’ Black artists 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z I chose to do the entire body, as I felt it was more descriptive and would help make the animal more recognizable. Finding these artful animals around Capitol Hill is as easy as ABC “That was our internal joke name, but it’s quite descriptive.” These Brittle Stars Have Thousands of ‘Pig Snouts’ on Each Arm 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The office also ruled the team’s name was too generic for trademark purposes because it is “primarily geographically descriptive,” meaning it leans too heavily on the team’s location. Washington Football Team’s trademark initially refused 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z More than 6,000 comments made by the visitors were recorded, nearly half of which were “purely descriptive statements that asserted a fact about the exhibit or the animal.” Opinion | Modern Zoos Are Not Worth the Moral Cost 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z But “University of the Huskies” would be more descriptive. Take it away, D.C.: Let’s give our Washington a new name 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z I’m disturbed that a Post editorial endorsed this descriptive statement about a key role in our government. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Enough shoving cicadas down my throat 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Still, law enforcement officials found notes containing “derogatory descriptive terms to identify the ethnicity of the homeowners,” the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement. Asian Homeowners Were Targeted in Burglary Ring, Prosecutors Say 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z "It's more descriptive to say 'throughout the whole process.'" Racism derails Black men’s health, even as education levels rise 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Some research on pertussis and tetanus exists, although it is more descriptive than data driven. Can "vaccinated" breast milk protect kids? The science is hazy 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z “Without bragging or hyperbole,” Mr. Matthews told Men’s Journal in 2015, “you had to write a very careful, descriptive account of who you saw, what you did and some of the atmospherics.” Jason Matthews, spy novelist who drew on his experience in the CIA, dies at 69 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The abstract summarizes "a descriptive study in 51 peanut-allergic children" whose molecular markers were assessed in skin and blood tests conducted before undergoing TIP and one year later. An unorthodox allergy clinic seeks to disrupt medicine 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In Mark’s photos of girls, their struggles are descriptive, not deterministic. Photographer Mary Ellen Mark captured the contradictions of modern girlhood 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z I chose Toni Morrison because, as a writer, her moving, descriptive stories inspire my own. What’s on your desk, Adia Watts? 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z At the time, the United States had referred to events in Myanmar as “ethnic cleansing,” a descriptive term that cannot be used to prosecute perpetrators. Special Report: Pompeo rejected U.S. effort to declare 'genocide' in Myanmar on eve of coup, officials say 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Lepore suggested using “blandly descriptive” phrases like “The attack on the U.S. Capitol,” or “The Sixth of January.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A vandalized statue in the Capitol sums up the dark day of Jan. 6 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The office of the prime minister, who is facing a tough fight ahead of the March 23 election, was more descriptive. Netanyahu says he spoke to Biden about COVID, Iran 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z While the primary story is a descriptive account of policing in D.C., a secondary story explains how and why Brooks traded her academic cap and gown for an expandable baton and gun. Review | A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Struck by the power of Plath's descriptive imagery, Parks began to explore those qualities in her own writing. Arlo Parks: 'In times of chaos, I've always reached for music' 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The conversation stays with me — and not only because Davis was so descriptive. Anthony Davis Is the Teammate LeBron James Has Been Waiting For 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z As the trial nears, law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University law school said the House Democrats’ case is “long on descriptive elements and short on intent elements.” ‘Like a loaded cannon’: Trump aimed mob at Capitol, impeachment managers charge 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Political scientists also look at the number of people from various groups who serve in office, a type of representation known as descriptive. Why Kamala Harris and ‘Firsts’ Matter, and Where They Fall Short 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Given the dogs I’ve owned, it’d be more descriptive to have the Scooting Group, the Humping Group and the Flatulent Group. Perspective | We had our dog’s DNA tested. We’re not sure we believe the results. 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z This could have been simply descriptive, or it could have served as a warning: Here be snakes. Perspective | What’s in a name? Well, for Snakeden Branch, it means ‘Here be snakes.’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Your titles are descriptive, straightforward, but you do add a disclaimer stating that “This is not Donald Trump” or whoever. How do you get people to stop believing the lies? Ask artist Alison Jackson 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z In these pages, the praise of Biden is largely descriptive — neither analytical nor revelatory. Perspective | What does Obama really think about Biden? His memoir doesn’t say. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z And this invisibility is directly tied to the lack of descriptive and substantive representation in American politics. Haven't Democrats learned not to take the Latinx vote or granted? Maybe they just like losing 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Eight hundred words constitute a rigid carapace resistant to descriptive writing and narrative. Opinion | Au Revoir but Not Adieu 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Most Latin names are descriptive — sometimes vividly so. Yes, You Can Learn to Speak the Language of Plants 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Among his favorites were descriptive but uncommon words like “jostle” during physical battles, and inventive yet understandable actions like “soccering” when players used their feet. Hockey Broadcaster Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick Retires 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Professor Delgado told me he saw in “white supremacy” an effective descriptive tool. ‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z There’s room for all of us, and whether your family cookbook contains precise measurements or descriptive prose that just describes how a dish is made, it’s all valuable. How to make a family cookbook, filled with recipes from your favorite people 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But I stray into descriptive writing, anathema to the columnist. Opinion | Au Revoir but Not Adieu 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z But in the end, all it took was a different descriptive word to help me turn the corner and finally embrace this tiny seed. Embracing quinoa’s nutty flavor is the key to unlocking its potential 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The largest descriptive study yet of hospitalized U.S. Why COVID-19 is more deadly in people with obesity—even if they're young 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z I suggest that instead of ‘coughed up’ you could have used the more descriptive word: ‘regurgitated.’ A woke Trump convention 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The script also doesn’t insult the audience by adding unnecessary descriptive lines. Review: ‘All Together Now’ is a sweet call to help others 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Boochani wrote “No Friend but the Mountains” in Persian, sending texts of ideas and descriptive fragments to nonexistent WhatsApp numbers that he used to organize his thoughts. Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The other descriptive word associated with quinoa that kept coming up was “nutty.” Embracing quinoa’s nutty flavor is the key to unlocking its potential 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Say we want our model to be more descriptive. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Social Science Modeling 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The word “racist” was written in red spray paint on the platform and descriptive plaque for the statue of Private Benjamin Welch Owens, who served in a Confederate Maryland artillery unit during the Civil War. Confederate statue toppled, vandalized at Maryland church 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The word “racist” was written in red spray paint on the platform and descriptive plaque for the statue of Private Benjamin Welch Owens, who served in a Confederate Maryland artillery unit during the Civil War. The Latest: Confederate statue in Maryland toppled 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “Not at all like ads in other cities at the time, that are a lot wordier and a lot more descriptive of the product.” 'Cronk rules everything around me': long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The descriptive analysis of 95 patients with confirmed Multi-Symptom Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C, and four patients with suspected MIS-C, was published on Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. One-third of New York children with Kawasaki-like disease had a preexisting condition, study says 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z In Florida, directions printed on death certificates tell doctors not to use it and to be more precise and descriptive. Experts: Floyd’s health issues don’t affect homicide ruling 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z In Florida, directions printed on death certificates tell doctors not to use it and to be more precise and descriptive. Experts: Floyd’s health issues don’t affect homicide ruling 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z “We are disappointed by this provisional ruling as it is our belief that anyone should be able to use descriptive terms such as ‘incredible’ that explain the qualities of a product. Nestle to appeal ban on 'Incredible Burger' branding in Europe 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Cookie settings, privacy settings, extensions, and Google sync settings are all becoming more prominent and will get better and clearer descriptive labels. Chrome is getting a ton of big safety and security updates soon 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. McClure’s early poetry was often descriptive and drawn from everyday experience. Michael McClure, poet who helped define Beat generation, dies at 87 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z He helped to transform ecology from a descriptive discipline into a quantitative, analytical science. Robert May (1936–2020) 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The strongest brands are evocative, not descriptive, she added. Zoom, Xoom, Zum: Why Does Every Start-Up Sound Fast Now? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z A federal trial judge disagreed, ruling that the addition of “.com” to a generic term transformed it into “a descriptive mark eligible for protection.” Supreme Court Hears First Arguments via Phone 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Here are some descriptive phrases you might use to describe the activist-firing. I was a vice-president at Amazon. I quit because of its toxic company culture | Tim Bray 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z He expects to be able to share “more descriptive materials about how the galleries work” within “the next 4-6 weeks.” Commentary: LACMA has begun demolition. Where are the gallery plans? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The first tee at Augusta National — the tee box, in the game’s descriptive jargon — 1`is a dead-flat perfect rectangle of green. Book excerpt: Sunday is when Tiger Woods made golf history, but Saturday is when he won the 2019 Masters 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z “The Glass Hotel” is a more descriptive name for “The Hotel Caiette,” an isolated establishment on the northern end of Vancouver Island. Review: ‘The Glass Hotel’ a tragic tale for the times 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s a very descriptive title, based on the biblical Book of Acts in the New Testament,” theater Director Gabe Rivera said. New owners rename Amish tourist site The Barns at Nappanee 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “Just remember, let the picture be descriptive, you be informative,” Azinger recalled. LPGA veteran Cristie Kerr prepares to use her playing experience in a new role: on-course TV reporter - Golf Digest 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z When you visit a website like www.theverge.com, what you’re actually visiting is a much less descriptive series of numbers. Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z His statements at rallies and on Twitter are often tasteless, tacky, vulgar – pick a synonym – but they normally aren’t descriptive of his political positions.” Bernie in the barrel for South Carolina debate 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z On Thursday, Hook added another descriptive epithet, calling Iran “the world’s leading state sponsor of anti-Semitism.” U.S. sanctions Iranian election officials ahead of vote as Pompeo tours Saudi military base 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “But really, the name, ‘Boom,’ with his incredible background in jazz and swinging jazz would be a pretty descriptive name of what we try to do,” Adamson said. Fremont men team up on songwriting 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z It is not quite enough, however, to explain Amazon’s utterly pervasive and unique new branding language, which is neither specifically foreign nor descriptive of the products in any obvious way. All your favorite brands, from BSTOEM to ZGGCD, fuel a portion of Amazon’s business 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “The name is not just a brand, but descriptive of what we provide,” Piantino said. Caribbean territory of Anguilla, with its domain name, cashes in on a quirky trend 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Why it’s good: If Scarecrow weren’t too impossibly elaborate to scale, I’d feel a little bad spoiling the premise, because the descriptive bait-and-switch was part of its charm. Sundance VR and AR got extremely weird in 2020 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Sughrue said: “I love his letters whether published or unpublished because they are immediate, always passionate, often very funny and gloriously descriptive … you get unfiltered Dickens.” Charles Dickens 'treasure trove' goes to London museum 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z It is worth noting that, although inferential analyses offer a deeper look at cancer than do descriptive studies, their results are also associated with a higher degree of uncertainty. Global genomics project unravels cancer’s complexity at unprecedented scale 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z “The name is not just a brand, but descriptive of what we provide,” Mr. Piantino said. Tropical Breezes, Pristine Beaches and a Domain Name to Die For 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z It imagines an America that in 1977, during the early Carter years, must have seemed like preposterous parody but today appears merely descriptive. Letter of Recommendation: John Waters’s ‘Desperate Living’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The body moves more realistically when it is responding to descriptive language, it turns out, than it does while being cued with the words for sex positions. The Sex Scene Evolves for the #MeToo Era 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z To that end, he strove to dissociate color from its usual descriptive role. Perspective | It’s one of the most original self-portraits ever painted. And, yes, it’s a lot of yellow. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Plains Cree is a very descriptive language, Iron said, so learning how to use all the possible adjectives to describe a play has taken some practice. Canadian network kicks off 6 NHL broadcasts in Plains Cree 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Milk-striped euphorbia is named for the milky line down its stem, but I think the Latin name, Euphorbia pseudocactus, is more descriptive. Low-maintenance succulents make watering a breeze 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Wallace described nearly 2 percent of all known bird species during his time there, Dr. Berry said, conducting the kind of basic descriptive biology that undergirds this new research. Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z How long would it take to summarize each in descriptive detail and fulfill the additional requirements of cataloguing? Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The new app teaches phrases and sentence structure, with chapters that progress from simple, conversational Potawatomi to more complex, descriptive uses of the language. Pokagon band aiming to revive the Potawatomi language 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z No doubt they’ll find Wood’s writing both technically descriptive and personally revealing, a mix that sets it apart from many accounts that focus primarily on the difficulties involved in the trek. In ‘Rising,’ Sharon Wood recounts the journey to become the first North American woman on Everest 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z KAPALUA, Hawaii — Don’t call the upgraded Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort a renovation or a redesign, even though either of those descriptive terms would suffice. The Plantation Course at Kapalua has undergone a 'refinement' that should present a stiffer test in PGA Tour's 2020 opener - Golf Digest 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Are the descriptive narratives of mystical sources simply mere social constructions, more fashionable nonsense solely based on metaphor, but nothing else? Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem? 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z “Shoes, pants, shirt, backpack, glasses, hair, scars on his face … I’m thinking from top to bottom, every descriptive thing I can give you of my child.” Missing transgender teen misidentified, LGBT groups speak up 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z For in conjuring greatness in descriptive writing that rises to the occasion, he is borne aloft by the art he has rescued from the abyss. Commentary: John Simon, Clive James and the future of criticism in our culture 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Utterly convincing as a haunted, recovering alcoholic detective, Hammer reads in a lazy, reflective pace that highlights Burke’s descriptive brilliance, which rivals most literary authors. Step into the shoes of your favorite sleuth with these 7 audiobook mystery series 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z I am interested in people and I’ve always been more interested in photography that is open-ended, pictures that are suggestive and open to interpretation, rather than pictures that are descriptive. A fan's-eye view at the football – a photo essay 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Morissette’s register no longer sounds histrionic — it’s descriptive of a mood many of us recognize. Alanis Morissette Isn’t Angry Anymore. But ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Rages On. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Sharing ideas with experts in varying fields through more descriptive, story-like science reporting, will enhance interdisciplinary collaboration. Why Can't More Scientists Write Like Darwin? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It is a slur against certain women, against a minority of women, and for them it is a justified slur, a descriptive one.” University decries professor's 'vile' racism and sexism – but says it can't fire him 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z But they were unsatisfied with the original translation and thus translated it again, with the text eventually becoming more descriptive and “moralised”, according to Montefusco. Marco Polo parchment sheds light on last year of his life in Venice – researchers 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Hockey Canada said the term midget, novice, peewee, atom and bantam would be replaced by age descriptive names from under-7 to U21. Hockey Canada to stop using 'midget' as age category to make sport 'more inclusive' 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, it's difficult to be more descriptive about the neutron star because of its dust shroud, but the group expects this to change with time. 'Blob' hides long-sought remnant from star blast 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z So much of Fleabag’s power in the play was her descriptive weaponry. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: ‘There was an alternative ending to Fleabag ... but I’ll never tell’ 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Most of the speech was descriptive, explaining the format and the purpose of Drollinger’s Bible studies. How the Trump Cabinet’s Bible Teacher Became a Shadow Diplomat 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “My main fear is that these results will be over-interpreted. They are informative descriptive statistics, but descriptive nonetheless.” The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z In more than 30 crime novels across the last three decades, Connelly employs a keen journalistic eye to search out telling detail and descriptive color from the city’s streets. More grit than glamour: Inside crime writer Michael Connelly's L.A. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z |
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