As is often remarked, someone who has lost a spouse is handily defined by the word "widow" or "widower".
In one of the many tributes to him, David Shribman, the editor of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a political reporter who covered Mr. Kemp for years, wrote, "At a time when conservatives were still defined by the word 'no,' Kemp tried to say 'yes".' My wife and I had dozens of dinners with the Kemps.
But who could have anticipated the man who started his career with the punked-up sharpness of 'In the City' and 'The Eton Rifles' making a two-disc album that runs for 70 minutes and is most easily defined by the word 'concept'concept
Among other factors, the context is defined by the word neighborhood in the sentence.
But when the wounds cut so deep into your psyche or are forever life-altering, letting go doesn't have to be defined by the word forgiveness.
Australia's bowling coach, Craig McDermott – whose enormously successful tenure has been defined by the three word mantra: pitch it up – wore a stony expression on the Australian team's balcony.
Permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy Sara Danius defended the win, comparing Dylan to Sappho and Homer and arguing that poetry and song were once conjoined in fact, Homeric and Sapphic songs pre-date the concept of literature altogether, and only became defined by the written word after they'd survived long enough through oral transmission.
Global cognitive function was assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and cognitive impairment was defined by the three-word delayed recall task of the MMSE.
The world has grown accustomed to a gentle image of Buddhism defined by the self-effacing words of the Dalai Lama, the global popularity of Buddhist-inspired meditation and postcard-perfect scenes from Southeast Asia and beyond of crimson-robed, barefoot monks receiving alms from villagers at dawn.
