The imagination sees and draws and describes many things — pornographic, erotic, satiric, and blasphemous — that are uncomfortable or ugly.
Social enterprise is a fuzzy term that's used to describe many things but largely refers to private actors providing goods and services to the poor and optimizing for something other than a pure financial return.
And it inspired a neologism, "outing," a word now used to describe many things, and a specific phenomenon with regard to closeted gays in the public eye, still much-discussed today.
Just as in English, you can use the word "beautiful" to describe many things in Spanish, such as the weather, an item of clothing, or a beautiful view.
Since then, as an idea, it has taken on a life of its own, aided by the very nature of its hybridness — that is, it is a phrase that can be used to describe many different things at once.
It could be that we use one word, depression, to describe many different things, or perhaps depression is merely a symptom of deeper processes that we're not aware of.
Lee has been described as many things.
Bush himself is described as many things: "a visionary," "magnanimous," "instinctive".
Hicks was described as many things during his time at Guantánamo.
I can be described as many things but no description of me is complete without saying "Englishman".
