Urban background students expressed more negative statements than rural background students and tended to use more complex, sometimes emotive language, while rural background students provided more personally nuanced everyday language descriptions.
Rizza has a mesmerizing ability to get into the brain of an Asperger's-ridden loner who may or may not be giving us the whole story about his intentions and his past, which makes even the most banal and everyday actions and descriptions carry a tense, compacting weight.
Already well known in his homeland, Mr. Brandys came to the attention of American readers in 1984 with his moving descriptions of everyday life in a Communist police state in "A Warsaw Diary: 1978-1981".
Its verse was written in a new poetic style simple, direct, precise, and humorous and it contained descriptions of everyday objects, situations, and beings (e.g., "Ode to the Onion" and "Ode to the Cat").
The result is that it is unusual to find narrative descriptions of everyday life, undistorted by the crude labels now applied to Gazans as terrorists, suicide bombers or Islamic extremists – descriptions that have all but obliterated any concept that Gaza contains real human beings with feelings and aspirations just like other people.
Descriptions of everyday convivialities (Bayat, 2008; Gilroy, 2004, Frykman, 2016, Schmidt, 2016) challenges Kymlicka's assumptions that the solidarities that could connect refugees and people of non-migrant backgrounds would only be possible in a world reorganized by "post-national cosmopolitan, agonistic, or ecological theories of democracy and citizenship".
In a recent study, people with depression engaged in a computer task that involved repeatedly having to generate positive imagery in response to auditory descriptions of everyday situations (Blackwell & Holmes, 2010).
6–– 9 In the CBM paradigm most commonly used for depression (an imagery focused form of interpretation bias training), participants listen to descriptions of everyday situations that start ambiguous as to their potential outcome, but which are consistently resolved positively.
Experienced ICU workers thought that reading the diaries was a source of considerable support and encouragement to the families, not only through the information written by the ICU staff, most notably about signs of progress, but also through the descriptions of everyday care procedures.
Six sessions were in an auditory form in which participants listened to audio recordings of descriptions of everyday situations (approximately 10 s each) and were instructed to imagine themselves in the scenarios "as if actively involved, seeing them through your own eyes" (Holmes et al., 2006).
