Philosophical concepts do not carve out a segment of reality but rather provide a way of describing it: in its philosophical employment, the concept of action does not distinctively denote a subset of objects, i.e., the deeds performed by animals of the human species, but is rather a way of describing what happens as an expression of rational as opposed to causal processes.
The musical had its premiere in 2011 at La Jolla Playhouse, with Charles Isherwood describing it in The New York Times as "chipper and polished but oppressively cute".
He is frustratingly coy about the piece, stopping himself more than once before describing it in detail.
Nevertheless, Lind is greatly troubled by Bush's foreign policy, describing it in a chapter title as "Armageddon".
"This opinion remains classified," he said, and "the senate rules prohibit me from describing it in detail.
Dickens was especially obsessed with it, describing it in several letters and even devoting a gripping passage of "Little Dorrit" to its grisly occupants.
Somehow a popular novelist had read and absorbed his work, describing it in detail and acknowledging his paper in the preface.
In an interview with Bomb in 1991, he called it "a film without a story," describing it in terms that indicated his natural bent toward artistic subversion.
"But she is also describing it in a conceptual way as opposed to the more literal, documentary rendering we've seen about Sufism by and large".
Describing it in 2004 as "a solo pitch invasion, resulting in a Keystone Cops-style chase the length of the pitch.
Oates attempts to deflect criticism of her story by describing it in a footnote as a "work of fiction, though based on (limited, selected) historical research".
