Its all hard, dirty work, efficiently described without irony or self-pity.
He wanted a handshake with the person he described without any evident irony as "the great man".
They have three children, described without irony as an "invasion" that imperils a longed-for magnum opus.
He described, without emotion, color codes used to determine how much medical attention victims received before they were evacuated.
And 1825, he later said, could not be described without going back to the momentous year of 1812, when Napoleon invaded Russia and occupied Moscow for a month.
He sits on a step in his safari suit and his open neck shirt and wonders just how that life style might be described; without success.
In their economic policies both Tony Blair and (until October 2008) Gordon Brown could be described without real exaggeration as Thatcher in trousers.
He was described without attribution as having suffered "an embarrassing failure" for his inability to remove Thomas Neppell, his party's chairman.
Their show isn't so much a play as a series of comic bits, sketches and other oddities, almost none of which can be described without ruining the fun.
So exotic did the baby seem in mid-1950s Dagenham that locals flocked to see what they described, without malice, as a "piccaninny".
And, after the story's publication, John Brennan, at that time Obama's counterterrorism chief and now the director of the C.I.A., touted the success of the operation that the A.P. described, without citing any damage to national security.
