It's full of good jokes, tiny sharp bits of description, nuggets of gossip.
Her work is characterized by great delicacy and refinement of feeling, and comprises dainty love songs, verses of deep religious feeling, stately odes, written for special occasions, and charming bits of description".
Each page reproduces the postcard with a bit of description about the subject, and a picture of the back of the postcard, which sometimes contains a personal message from the sender.
When she praised a specific bit of description, I had to admit that it hadn't come about spontaneously — it was only after looking carefully at the photographs and trying out various metaphors that I settled on the idea that the leeches were gathered around the middle of the bottle like a belt.
It seeps in through the gaps, pauses, arbitrary transitions, approximate meanings, false starts, and boring bits of all description.
Arguably the most tantalizing bits of self-description are the spaces provided for political and religious views.
That's the basic idea of "The Keeper," which is, in a sense, a song that Sam Childers would write to these children and to the mothers and the families of the people who he's sticking his neck out for, and it's sort of an assertion of that and a little bit of a description of that.
I actually think a sheet with basic statistical tests, you know the more common ones, and what they actually mean, a little bit of a description of the test...sort of like a mini-statistics course I suppose would be very useful.
In its original form, the Kolmogorov complexity is the length, in bits, of the shortest description of a data string given some universal computer.
This remarkably apt bit of self-description is either a parlor trick or one of the most bravura rehearsals in the history of the form.
Thus, our model could be thought of as a one-bit description of tumor dynamics, where one bit encodes the genotype of a cell with respect to the additional driver mutation.
