Sentence examples for describing a kid from inspiring English sources

"The problem with describing a kid who is up-and-down and irritable and sullen and wild and then grandiose is that he could indeed be rapidly cycling between mania and depression, but it could be an awful lot of other things, too.

He proceeds to describe a kid who spent two years in camp for possession of a knife.

This exhaustive New Yorker article on him describes a kid from New Jersey who was cocky, prone to lying, and pretty uncomfortable sharing a room with a gay guy all pretty run-of-the-mill.

Vance is describing a moment known to many kids from troubled families.

There, the indomitable orator talks about the future, vividly describing a new day when black kids will join hands with "little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers..."...

There, what Leon described as "a kid rager" was under way.

The stance was likened to a corkscrew or, as the White Sox pitcher and Dodgers coach Ted Lyons once described it, "a kid peeking around the corner to see if the cops are coming".

However, there was considerable media interest; Spin described Kid A as "the most highly anticipated rock record since Nirvana's In Utero".

There was also the monitoring of procedures or treatments that children had to go through as this mother of a preschool child described: A lot of kids with neurological needs and special needs, you know, once they get really worked up it takes a long time to calm them, and yeah, I was pacing the hall.

Mr. Kinney also played an emotionally distant divorced dad in the recent box-office hit "Save the Last Dance," a film he describes as "a kids' movie".

LucasFilm are now promoting the rerelease with what it describes as a "kids featurette" (for which read: patronising trailer for those under the age of 10).