The official description of the rose — "The blooms give the impression of delicacy and softness but are, in fact, very tough and little affected by bad weather" — reminded her of him, she said.
No flower has received more poetic description except the rose and the lily, with poems by authors including John Gower, Spenser, Constable, Shakespeare, Addison and Thomson, together with Milton (see Roman culture, above), Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats.
The SHAPE head of security, Colonel Schreiber, was designed to be the antithesis of Bond, with greying hair, the air of a bank manager, desk with silver framed photographs of his family and a single white rose; the description shows Fleming using colour to show Schreiber's lack of colour and personality.
The familiar passages ranged from an elaborate description of Modjeska's rose-colored cashmere robe to Ms. Cather's evocative account of a toast delivered by the actress "looking into the blur of the candlight".
His rose-tinted description of his formative years overlooks the fact that in the mid-1970s, when Mr. Thompson was entering the job market, the city was in the throes of a fiscal crisis, with double-digit unemployment rates, and the schools were generally viewed as a disaster.
My favorite moments are Eden's discussion of "prickly flowers" (roses) and this description: These are berries that birds eat.
I read Rose Macaulay's descriptions of "the new ruins" in her 1953 book The Pleasure of Ruins (which itself takes its title from Henry James's observation about the "note of perversity" that is attendant on pleasure in "aspects of sentient ruin").
And true to her description, a mass of tiny pink roses bloomed through the invasive honeysuckle, blanketing the western fence and making their way into the overgrown trees.
This can be done directly or via the poetic description of something else, such as a rose, wine, or another person.
According to the product description, each card is "hand-assembled, features a gorgeous artisan rose base metal and rose colored coating".
