Sentence examples for economical description from inspiring English sources

Ms. Callaghan, who is a member of the prolific 13P (13 Playwrights) theater company, writes with a world-weary tone and has a poet's gift for economical description.

Henry James's economical description of Ibsen's social dramas as stories of "the individual caught in the fact" must accommodate, to some degree, the new facts of a new time, or evoke an oppression that is more psychological than social.

Evolutionary classification leads to an economical description of the protein sequence universe because attributes of function and structure are inherited in protein families.

Although he had liked to say in the mid-70s that he had "one more book left in me" (he was thinking of The Classic) he had, as the bibliography records, a whole string of them (his many books were listed, with economical description, by John Mullan in his obituary on Thursday).

Along similar lines, Lindsay (1937, 458) had earlier argued that "such an isolation of concepts would defeat the very aim of physical science, which is to provide a simple and economical description" of physical experience "in terms of a minimum number of concepts".

The book is more of a thriller without thrills, and its flaws can be connected, perhaps, to the successful example of a writer such as Alan Furst, who weaves a mood of menace out of his deft, economical descriptions while providing a subtle pulse of suspense and embedding larger historical events within his intricate narratives.

With its stock of memorable characters, laconic humour, economical yet vivid descriptions and tense action sequences, Always A Little Further was instantly recognised as a joyful classic of outdoor literature and an antidote to the stresses and freneticness of city living.

Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, on this view, had been seduced by positivist philosophers (like Ernst Mach and his ostensible followers, the Vienna Circle) into thinking that their theory was not conjectural but was merely a compendious, economical but non-hypothetical description of experience.

When he is not communing with himself but is in actual situations, these reiterations disappear; the dialogue and the descriptions are economical and lean.

There's something reassuring about his dry, economical prose, his brutally pruned descriptions and his clipped abbreviations ("Dec bell-openings"; "delicate Perp tracery").

Observations and anecdotes about the Indian people, their religion, food and way of life; discussion of the political and economical climate in India; and descriptions of the physical environment and climate are woven throughout, although they rarely dominate any one letter.