US diplomats sent colourful cables describing the impact of Anna Nicole Smith's move to the Bahamas.
"It was a loud thud," he said, describing the impact on the three-bedroom house.
Describing the impact of the hip operation, he said: "She has got over the operation very well.
In London, you understood why show-business historians invariably use the word organic in describing the impact of "Oklahoma!" when it first opened.
Fugate is said to have come up with the Waffle House Index as a way of humanising disaster and an easy way of describing the impact on communities.
Other competitions seem even more arcane: Consider the contest for the best essay describing the impact of accelerated depreciation rules on fire sprinkler installation.
On the whole novelists, rather than – as Burgess rather heroically attempted – recreating the structure of the classical symphonic form, usually confine themselves to describing the impact of music on the individual or collective psyche.
He tells the story vividly, with fascinating contemporary quotations describing the impact of each new group of immigrants, from Jewish moneylenders to Huguenot weavers, from Irish labourers to Indian shopkeepers - until it seems hard to imagine Britain without these stimuli.
Harnessing all the drama of a Mills and Boon novel, the US ambassador pulled out every stop when describing the impact of a B-list celebrity on the tropical Caribbean paradise of the Bahamas.
In a recent phone interview Mr. Gelb said that in describing the impact of the HD broadcasts on attendance at the house he had meant to emphasize the positive.
In a paragraph describing the impact on buses, some routes were described generally as having "encountered larger delays and reduced speeds due to the introduction of more turns, which are subject to pedestrian interference".
