"We do not want an authoritarian democracy," he said, using a description that is becoming increasingly common here.
HTML provides a straightforward solution: the alt attribute, a short description that is embedded in an image's underlying code.
Even though Klara takes back an incriminating description that is coaxed out of her, the adults won't let it drop.
Fixing everything else that's broken, well, it is not clear whose, if anyone's, job description that is.
"He describes her clothes in one of their encounters," she said, a description that is included in the book's conclusion.
So it may be best to tack in the opposite direction, with a description that is no less accurate for seeming completely illogical.
Description that is intentionally inapt, unsettling, or excessive is as old as Homer, whose similes, veering off in wild and unexpected tangents, Oswald reproduced brilliantly in "Memorial".
A detailed analysis may be extremely nasty, yet an aggregative or systemic description that is far easier may tell you all you need to know.
He then goes on to tell the company's top operatives and engineers about their latest innovation, a "tool for the heart", a description that is so cheesy it turned into a cat poster as soon as it left his mouth.
"I think it's a description that is used insouciantly in the fashion industry," said Hamish Bowles, the European editor at large of Vogue, as he ordered a sushi special at the Condé Nast cafeteria last week.
Sometimes the problem is a description that is oddly wide of the mark: "six-legged forest creatures came lumbering out of the broiler grate", where the lumbering forest creatures turn out, bafflingly, to be cockroaches.
