The above negative accounts of experiences were countered by descriptions of instances of being cared for by healthcare staff with compassion and sensitivity; "the staff on that ward, they were good to me.
At one point, she said she wished that the United States government would follow Mr. Hussein's example in ordering the emptying of Iraq's prisons, a move the Iraqi leader made last Sunday, in part to counter Mr. Bush's descriptions of him as a murdering tyrant.
The array of craft ales on offer protrude from the tiled wall behind the counter, with a brief description of the beers scrawled around the taps.
After Rio +20 this summer, I argued that, counter to John Vidal's description of "eye-catching global bottom-up initiatives", the End Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Save the Arctic campaigns were more about enumerating the actors of public relations than diffusing political power.
Mike will make a crack about Bob's backhand return; Bob will counter with some choice descriptions of Mike's serve.
Ti Green's set, with its aluminium back wall, also has a grey neutrality that counters the text's description of England as a slaughterhouse.
Each frank concern with the practicality of VR storytelling is countered by some new description of an issue Oculus has overcome: how 3D cursors need to be drawn in scenes to allow players to accurately follow objects, how to track the player's gaze to control narrative timing.
It told stories about where the food came from, putting up displays by the seafood counter with photographs and descriptions of the real fishermen who had caught it all — a genre that Michael Pollan, in "The Omnivore's Dilemma," called "supermarket pastoral".
But when she does go into tactics and strategy – troop movements, supply lines, attacks, counter-attacks – her descriptions are refreshingly accessible.
The Newtonians countered that phenomenal descriptions were scientifically adequate so long as they were grounded in empirical facts, and since no facts had yet been discerned that explained what gravity is or how it works, no scientific account of it was yet possible.
Some 250,000 Turkish troops then briefly massed on the Iraqi border, jolting the Americans into naming a former NATO commander, Joseph Ralston, as a "special envoy for countering the PKK" (his own description).
