In quoting DeVoto on Freud, Stegner was also describing himself.
But she was also describing how the galleries depicting that day's events will unfold for visitors.
He was also describing his lot in the culinary world, which regards him, understandably, with a certain measure of bafflement.
Also, describing bacteria that are resistant to one, or even a few, drugs as "superbugs" is inappropriate.
He was also describing an aesthetic — jet set, vintage-chic, more than a little campy — that lives on in the Pink Martini of today.
"We cannot describe ourselves," Phillips writes, "without also describing what we need to escape from, and what we believe we need to escape to".
Shorto's achievement is to complicate this picture, and with it our understanding of modernity, by also describing the religious context of the philosopher's ideas.
In a 1999 court case, he accused the Duke of Edinburgh of "masterminding" the deaths, also describing the royals as "that Dracula family" during the 2008 Diana inquest.
— and when Karl Ove describes his father's rage and its petty triggers, he is also describing himself as we've come to know him over thousands of pages.
But the punch line is that he is also describing, more or less, precisely what happened, though not right away, and not exactly according to plan.
One 25-year-old said his mother was among the dead, also describing how young and old women had been separated.
