Sentence examples for describing anything from inspiring English sources

Austin claimed that, when one says "I know," one is not describing a mental state; in fact, one is not "describing" anything at all.

Its near-spherical wheels spin on some complicated gimbal system, allowing it to hang a sharp left without describing anything as tedious as a curve.

After the publication of Orientalism set off a firestorm of criticism from every angle of the east-west divide, Said declared, in a retrospective essay, that "the orient-versus-occident opposition was both misleading and highly undesirable; the less it was given credit for actually describing anything more than a fascinating history of interpretations and contesting interests, the better".

Even with a broad consensus that cloud computing is a general term describing anything that delivers hosted services over the Internet, interpretations of this vary widely and the field is subject to excessive hyperbole.

Ivy Compton-Burnett was obsessed with the exact meaning of language, and she hated describing anything that wasn't included in what her characters actually said.

Thomas Jefferson, who had a keen interest in palaeontology, is partially responsible for transforming the word mammoth from a noun describing the prehistoric elephant to an adjective describing anything of surprisingly large size.

When you describe anything, it is altered.

Thingee (sic); it can be used to accurately describe anything.

You'll have noticed I haven't tried to describe anything yet.

Haikara, a corruption of the English words "high collar", has long described anything chic and western.

He described anything but a Thunder appearance in the postseason as a disappointment.