Truly definitive descriptions of familiar human artifacts are profoundly rare in fiction, but certainly this is one of them.
Her book A House Is a House for Me is very popular with young readers because of its use of rhyme, song-like rhythms, and creative descriptions of familiar things: "A hill is a house for an ant, an ant.
It fails, for example, to include a description of the familiar force of gravity, which not only keeps us rooted to the ground but also shapes the universe at the scale of stars and galaxies.
The DSM committee dropped so-called passive-aggressive personality from the manual years ago, but the phrase is such an evocative description of a familiar behavior that it has become a fixture of the shared language.
Japan later shed the hobbles of feudal regulation, of course, and the population are now free to move about as they please; but for Daimyo read content, and for the Daimyo's princesses and progeny read metadata, and you have a description of a familiar Internet business model.
Typically, patients tend to neglect the left hemi-space in perceptual tasks, including physical line bisection [4] and representational tasks, such as the description of a familiar place from opposite view-points from memory [5].
The victim's description of the rapist sounded familiar: the husband.
In this work a metric is developed using a less familiar description of the crystallographic space which avoids this problem.
The juvenile national calendar, or, A familiar description of the U.S. government.
Other comets have been shown to be about half rock, half ice, leading to the familiar description of comets as "dirty snowballs".
