Eugenides handles the difficulties of describing the manic phases of depression from within – through Leonard's eyes – with rare skill, the gradations of self-delusion measured almost incrementally in his prose as Leonard seeks to take control of his teeming thoughts and reduce his lithium dosage.
He wants to testify both to the evils of the Holocaust and to "the simple joy" (he's very fond of the word "joy") of creative endeavors even as he acknowledges the difficulty of describing these subjects without resorting to cliché.
That was a lurid way of describing the technical difficulties in assessing tenants' income and deciding, in some cases, that they had become too rich for their houses.
Because of the complexity of the system and the analysis, and the difficulty of completely describing the probabilistic characteristics of the whole process analytically, the Monte Carlo simulation technique is used to determine probability distributions and failure probabilities.
Yet, there is still concern with regard to extending a simplified network model technique to the field scale due to the difficulty of adequately describing the complex heterogeneous nature of porous systems.
To avoid the difficulty of describing variable material properties during the post-failure process in a strain-softening rock mass, a multi-step brittle plastic model (MBPM) was proposed on the assumption that rock mass properties were uniform in a very small region.
Considering the complexity and nonlinearity of the pitch system, and the difficulty of describing with precise mathematical model, Chen, et al [98], proposed ANFIS based on a prior knowledge, which was used to predict wind turbine pitch faults.
The streak of craziness; the thrill of the quest; the frequent difficulty of describing what their invention was, how it worked, what it was for; their vulnerability to ridicule, because what they had done or thought was new; and the need to protect that thought, as something interesting and precious in itself.
Dillon talked about the problems inherent in copyediting Mercer lyrics, such as whether or not to include hypens in do-re-mi; about Andrew Porter's compendious music and opera writings for The New Yorker; and about the difficulty of describing voices in words — "I once compared a singer's voice to a ripe Kalamata olive".
