Being ambitious, capacious books, any attempt at description feels reductive.
Compassionate conservatism could well turn out to be rather better at description and analysis than coming up with affordable remedies.
"She's masterly at description, equipped with a deep regard for the essential dogness of dogs and attuned to the tiny things... that capture who they are," Caroline Knapp wrote here in 2000.
Mitchell is as good at aphorism ("Faith, the least exclusive club on earth, has the craftiest doorman") as he is at description ("Now and then goldfish splish and gleam like new pennies dropped in water").
Robert Boyle, in his indispensable book, "The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History," may have trumped all future attempts at description when he introduced it as "the most beautiful, messed up, productive, ignored and surprising piece of water on the face of the earth".
These are the kinds of quirky details Thomas explored the first time around, and shes masterly at description, equipped with a deep regard for the essential dogness of dogs and attuned to the tiny things -- a wag here, an expression there -- that capture who they are.
Raymer is an ace at description: from American neo-gothic detail (her sister lived with "an abusive drug addict who had a Lee Press-On Nail for a front tooth") to gambling patois ("Gimme the Bulls first half, over oh one minus the oh nine for two dimes").
The following part of the article is aimed at description of multi-barrier systems for intermediate level waste repositories.
