In "Sticks & Scones" (Bantam, $23.95), she uses recipes to fill in the gaps in her descriptive abilities.
His descriptive abilities grew as he continued to labour at his style, culminating in the descriptions of Gloria Bog in The Country Funeral, located in the heart of the territory where so many of his stories take place.
Enright willfully exchanges the descriptive abilities she demonstrated in her previous novel, "The Gathering," winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, for Gina's pop-psychology clichés, vagueness and inexactitude.
So think of me, dear reader spending days and days at the edges of a tiny island, watching peregrine falcons, or kestrels, cormorants, buzzards, gulls, descending and climbing, climbing and descending, surrounded by shapes of sky and sealights that would sorely tax anyone's descriptive abilities – things that stretch the mind and teach it humility and let it be content.
She recalls rereading her ex-husband's love letters, traveling in Europe and developing her descriptive abilities, her mother's affairs and beauty, her first experience with violence, her parents quarrels and living with a family named Gardner whose house was more ordered than her own.
First, slides of orienteering checkpoints were shown and afterwards participants had to answer questions concerning aspects of short-term memory, focus of attention, map interpretation, estimation or descriptive abilities.
– allied to a graphic and often grotesque descriptive ability.
But somewhere in the depths below this medieval practice, there is a level of perversity that defies my descriptive ability.
The criteria for the appraisal of the descriptive ability of a multinomial were R 2 = 0.819, standard error = 20.420, and F-ratio = 19.550.
The comparative methodology involves two phases: (1) a descriptive ability based on likelihood-based optimality criteria such as the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and the deviance statistic; and (2) a predictive ability based on the residual bootstrap.
There are obviously intrinsic limits to the descriptive ability of 2D models in river modeling, but the results of this study point to the utility and cost-effectiveness of a well-designed 2D model.
