Mr. Díaz, who received the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing, kept his acceptance speech to one sentence: "All I had to say was, 'thank you.' " But during the cocktail hour beforehand, he described the "immense, powerful sense of self" in Mailer's work, and praised his "engagement with the social and the civic".
Manager Louis van Gaal was very fond of Overmars beforehand and described him as a "multi-functional player".
The result is the body functions less effectively and may contribute to all the symptoms we have described beforehand.
The occasion was described beforehand as a circus as often as a Scottish Cup tie, with the pictures beamed from Cork to China.
In comments beforehand, Mr. Ax described that work as "the whole world in 13 minutes," and he made a good case for that expansive description.
The game was played in 54-degree temperatures — accompanied by 20-mile-an-hour winds — and conditions described beforehand by Manager Willie Randolph as more like "early April or late September or late January".
An Indian man arrested in connection with the attacks, Fahim Ahmad Ansari, had been described beforehand by Indian newspaper reports as a former member of the Students Islamic Movementt who met with Lashkar operatives in Dubai in 2003.
By engaging in this "do-si-do" (as the action was described beforehand by an usher), the ambience of the performance space, softly lighted by Chloë Z. Brown and featuring a droning electronic score by Seth Garrison and Clara Latham, was at once defused and charged.
And I need never go on another TV or radio show and find that, however the discussion was described beforehand, what we're really meant to talk about is how poetry is dead, or the novel is rubbish, or the short story is irrelevant.
