Sentence examples for described war from inspiring English sources

Holmes described war as "an organized bore".

In February the UN issued a report that described war crimes but not genocide in the Darfur region of The Sudan.

To the generals, he described war with the United States as "the decisive battle between the army of faith, right and justice, and the forces of tyranny and American-Zionist savagery on the other".

While he described war as "beastly madness," he nonetheless portrayed its fury in his unfinished fresco of "The Battle of Anghiari" and even developed weaponry, including a large crossbow, chariots and even something resembling a rudimentary tank.

For all that, he described "War and Peace" as "not a novel," and saw Russian fiction as best represented by its awkward misfits, like Gogol's "Dead Souls" and Dostoyevsky's barely fictionalized book about the Siberian prison camp, "The House of the Dead" — unconventional works that were nothing like what he called "European forms".

Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan gave a sermon in which he described war as a "sign of human failure" but said it was sometimes necessary as "the lesser of two evils".

As anchorman and reporter, Mr. Cronkite described wars, natural disasters, nuclear explosions, social upheavals and space flights, from Alan Shepard's 15-minute ride to lunar landings.

Comment on newspaper terms describing war movements.

The New Yorker, January 24 , 1942P. 11 Comment on newspaper terms describing war movements.

By Robert Henderson The New Yorker, January 24 , 1942P. 11 Comment on newspaper terms describing war movements.

Even when they're singing "When This War Is Over," describing war as a crime and observing that peace "won't bring back those poor boys in their graves," they sound unconcerned.