"Renaissance man," Mr. James writes in an essay on Pier Paolo Pasolini, "is a description tossed around too lightly in modern times -- actors get it if they can play the guitar".
Impotent, anemic, heartless were among the descriptions thrown around in the wake of the loss.
There is no precedent for such fortunes suddenly to find their way into global financial markets, and they help explain the waterfall of liquidity that has driven up the value of risky (and less risky) assets of all descriptions around the world.
(Participant F14) During axial coding, it became clear that many participants' comments and descriptions around independent living were related to self-reliance and 'doing what I want'.
Now, a score of communal plank tables are set perpendicular to a wall in the large shoebox-shaped space, a Baroque style bed is tucked in a corner, ratty chairs and stools of every description are scattered around, a huge shrine consecrated to Brazil's Candomble religion, replete with statuary, food offerings, lighted candles and pine boughs, is set at the entryway.
When reduced to a mere description — "Pass around small bits of laminated card stock in place of money" (poker), or "Roll imprinted cubes and buy fictional properties" (Monopoly) — even the most captivating games can seem impossibly boring.
But what has become ever more possible over the past 20 years or so, thanks almost entirely to the internet, is that rather than searching for an existing role into which they can fit, individuals can construct their own tailor-made job description designed around their own skills, interests, needs and location, and go it alone.
For both the sentence level and object description level, around 85% of this sample expressed positive emotions and only 15% expressed negative emotions.
