The letters to White and his wife, Katharine, are gems, such as this description of a drunken Sinclair Lewis in Bermuda in 1936.
And yet this is a writer capable of something as beautifully simple, and achingly deep, as this description of Richard and Jamie, as they see their mother approaching them in the pub: "The brothers straightened, reshaped as sons".
As this description suggests, Sullivan comes across in these essays not merely as the kind of writer you want to spend time with, but the kind of person as well.
He read out sections which should have been full of high drama, such as this description of a bungled penalty: "...as he was falling to the ground he flung his foot towards the ball so desperately, so violently, that his left boot actually fell off his foot.
But as this description makes clear, the net operating loss deduction is not a single item but really the sum of all of the different deductions that a taxpayer has taken.
As concise as this description goes, the brain of a CDSS is an automatic classifier which usually is a mathematically induced logic model.
He expresses the staggering beauty of the upper cantos with calm and limpid language, as in this description of divine light:.
Throughout, there are wittily pragmatic, original descriptions of minerals, gases, and metals, as in this description of zinc: "Zinc, zinco, Zink: laundry tubs are made of it, it's an element that doesn't say much to the imagination, it's gray and its salts are colorless, it's not toxic, it doesn't provide gaudy chromatic reactions in other words, it's a boring element".
Throughout, there are wittily pragmatic, original descriptions of minerals, gases, and metals, as in this description of zinc: "Zinc, zinco, Zink: laundry tubs are made of it, it's an element that doesn't say much to the imagination, it's gray and its salts are colorless, it's not toxic, it doesn't provide gaudy chromatic reactions — in other words, it's a boring element".
Not only Presley's achievements, but his failings as well, are seen by some cultural observers as adding to the power of his legacy, as in this description by Greil Marcus Elvis Presleyy is a supreme figure in American life, one whose presence, no matter how banal or predictable, brooks no real comparisons..
Throughout the novel, Shanghai, with its distinct and mysterious longtang — neighborhoods circumscribed by narrow alleys — is as powerful a presence as its citizens and provides the occasion for the most poetic writing, as in this description of young girls' bedrooms, "where anything can happen, where even melancholy is noisy and clamorous.
