We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody.
Eric, you see, is a contingent creation, an accretion of habits and conventions, a postmodern construction.
Rather, it's that her journals, unfettered and intimate, offer up a whole life: an accretion of hopes raised and sometimes sorely dashed, of relationships that shift and stutter and deepen over time.
Willa Paskin of Slate described the episode as "creepy, gorgeous, unsettling, and searching" and noticed "a literary quality, an accretion of meaningful detail" within the show's narrative.
Rather than capturing a single moment in time, each work contains an accretion of impressions blended into a harmonious whole.
The restaurant seems less like a coherently planned environment than an accretion of whimsies.
This was very encouraging, and it makes intuitive sense: we have been formed by an accretion of experiences, only a small number of which we can readily recall.
Good travel writing is not just an accretion of observations or a collage of separate scenes; it is highly selective, and it is bound together by a theme that keeps the writing, like the traveller, moving forward.
In place of Christ is an accretion of peels that look a bit like dried flowers; at the same time it has a steady radiance.
