Sentence examples for described as though from inspiring English sources

Wrinkled old bodies are often described as though they were inherently repellent.

A dark, bleak house described as though it was a person.

"It'll be described as though the BBC is telling people in some way that they must commit suicide," Simpson said.

People are often described as though they were a particular kind of substance, a specific subgroup within the over-all category of objects, whose distinguishing features happen to include consciousness and autonomous motion.

The English philosopher R.G. Collingwood (1889 1943), for example, uncharitably charged Hume with having no real historical understanding, since Hume interpreted the characters he described as though they were Edinburgh gentlemen of his own time.

Even the scenery in a Megan Abbott book is described as though you're witnessing something you shouldn't: a table of food at a party features a "glistening ham, pink as a newborn"; a girl practices a normal handstand, "her upturned face blooming with blood"; the vault table is a "womb," a "sloping tongue".

The phones you describe as though they were not quite as far along as ours and may have left the laboratory a little too soon.

JM Coetzee is often described as reclusive, though elusive might be a better word.

These are sloppily described as fundamentalist, though there really is nothing in Christianity that could justify human sacrifice.

Punchdrunk's work is routinely described as groundbreaking; though it is debatable how much ground is being broken by co-opting an entertainment franchise as established as Doctor Who.

(She was frequently described as homely, though Brendan Gill, in "Many Masks," his 1987 biography of Wright, called her a "gaunt, beaky beauty").