Sentence examples for he describes rather from inspiring English sources

This colourful, exuberant, brilliantly detailed account by Jerry White is the latest in a long list of irreplaceable books about London, all written as if the author were personally remembering what he describes rather than excavating it.

While Chowdhury devotes some portion of "The Last Dive" to debates in the deep-diving community regarding the merits of mixed gas or what he sees as the need for wider use of underwater communications equipment and portable shipboard decompression chambers to treat divers who "get bent," these are matters of interest primarily to technical divers -- a group he describes, rather proudly, as "small".

Anthony Lane's review in the magazine this week of the new German film "Everyone Else" fills me with envy: I wish I had seen the film he describes rather than the new German film of the same title that I saw, because his is a substantial and engaging experience, whereas mine is the film that wouldn't die.

It's an unintentional romantic ploy that works but it's spoiled a bit since instead of being the final heartmelting admission, it's only the second in a string of images he describes, rather spoiling the climax when Gina leans in for a kiss about four numbers too late.

The video would have been far more poignant and entirely less infuriating if it had shown the narrator engaging in the activities she described rather than Olivia Wilde.

"My view of positive psychology is that it describes rather than prescribes what human beings do," he says.

A chunk of stone comes out with various cylinders and cubes, which Suave Dave describes rather too quickly.

He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.

We were at a conference together one evening and Kato described rather harrowing experiences in the camp he was assigned to, especially an evacuation of the camp down a steep wet hill.

He also shared Mises's suppositions about value-freedom in economic science, the need to describe rather than evaluate preferences, and the instrumental task of science, namely, of showing how to achieve ends rather than assessing their value.

Instead it is content to describe, rather than explain, to be voyeuristic, but not remotely discerning.