He began with an alluring description of the future state — improved margins, a cooler, higher-tech product line, and excited customers — then asked his audience to move forward with him to reach that goal.
The details of the skill, knowledge and painstaking preparation required are as alluring as the descriptions of delicate, powerful and enduring images, while the idea of blemishing the skin in order to create beauty is a metaphor for Ces's path through life.
That we get rather less than a fully considered answer — but a good deal of alluring and titillating description in its place — is the single shortcoming of a book that is based on a very good and eminently discussable idea.
But most of all, "Italian Food Artisans" by Pamela Sheldon Johns Chronicle Bookss, $24.95) provides behind-the-scenes descriptions with alluring photographs to show how more than a dozen traditional Italian foods are made.
A situated state that comprises an internally consistent hierarchical model of the world, with multiple levels of description; from the (alluring) visual objects that predict the sensory impressions upon my retinal epithelia to the (oculomotor) proprioceptive predictions producing saccadic eye movements (Fig. 4).
They seem content, to borrow Ida's description of herself, "to be there and alluring like the view, like the sea".
It felt like a world I'd never seen before, and the level of detail and description in the script was just incredibly alluring.
Her books always include thorough discussions of geography, ethnography, religion, history and agriculture, along with descriptions of spices and aromatics and recipes so alluring that you can almost smell them on the page.
He also has a flair for description: the letter O, he writes, "suggests an alluring or erotic roundness," while two O's together resemble "two fat men fighting for a seat on the bus".
An instant armchair classic when published a few years ago, this tour of largely uninhabitable lands springs to life not only through Schalansky's playful descriptions, but also through the pale and lonely illustrations – each alluring island cast adrift on a single page like a high-tide sandcastle.
