Quotes of: Describing Keyword

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Christopher Hitchens

Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have the most sophisticated technologies, and much training or programming is now done with vir...

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require a reader imaginatively to construct their meaning. The most widespread of these figurative descriptions are what ar...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what is truly known can’t be described or articulated by creativity or logic, science or art — but perhaps it can be described ...

Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light…unless all ages and races of men have been delu...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

It was strange to become a vampire ,to be presented with what could only be described as an eternal life, and then to die anyway when you're sixteen.

City of Glass

Rigveda: Book No 1. Hyme No. 164 verse 46: “Truth, one and the same be, Wise describe it differently

Chants of Hindu Gods and Godesses in English Rhyme

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

Envy

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

The Fridgularity

The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full of the amazing variety that we see.

The Grand Design

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

A Grief Observed

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

Bob Seger

What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art.

Claire Cameron

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Gus Van Sant

The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness.

2 Peter and Jude

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

All Mortal Flesh

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.

Amelia

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence? ...The term was .

I Hunt Killers

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

Knowing God

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace