Sentence examples for described to quote from inspiring English sources

There are reasons this place has often been described, to quote Thackeray, as a land of "fear and blood, crime and punishment".

The catalogue contains a fair number of pieces that could be described — to quote from a Britten essay by Albert Innaurato — as "well-made twaddle".

The exact path the pussycat describes, to quote Rich from Atlanta, is "a quarter of a circle whose radius is 1/2 the length of the ladder".

Charles Ward Smith was born in Ventura, Calif., on June 25 , 1927 to Charles and Maude Smith, whom he described to interviewers as "Bible quoting" Christians.

Few critics' lists of the 'greatest American novels' fail to cite it; few reporters describing its influence fail to quote Hemingway's famous claim that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn".

I chose: whom to talk to, whom to quote, whom to describe, whom to pass over.

"Can you believe the coincidence?" Marías likes to quote Laurence Sterne to describe his craft: "I progress as I digress".

He therefore favored epigrams, detachable sentences made easy to quote; these often describe an undefined "we" or a generic "you".

To bolster the contention, he used an annual budget hearing last week to, as he described it, quote the Supreme Court justice Byron White declaring "I know it when I see it" about pornography.

Inexplicably, Miller claimed that he believed the "fire" described in Daenerys' quote "could be a kind of proxy for 'AK-47s.'".

They in turn are described as quoting the words of God rather than interpreting them.