Ordinarily, we expect important poets to have a distinctive style, a way of writing that identifies them as surely as a painter is identified by his brushstroke.
But the label identifies them as "mini Canadian treats".
It identifies them as mythic, shipwrecked survivors on a ravaged urban waterfront.
Mr. Fradin believes CherryCard can be financed out of retailers' marketing budgets because it identifies them as socially conscious enterprises.
Dressed in gauzy white tunics, they move with a girlish sweetness that identifies them as the nymphs from Nijinsky's L'Après-Midi d'un Faune.
In his writings, Mr. Ellis identifies them as the ivory teeth of stocky whales and celebrates them as among the most beautiful objects in nature.
But his paintings, especially, have their own touch, eloquence and integrity, as well as a bluntness of scale and brushwork that easily identifies them as postwar American.
One of the last things the soldiers did before leaving was strip off the shoulder patch in the form of a lightning bolt that identifies them as members of the Fifth Special Forces, and their insignia of rank.
An inscription at the lower edge of the painting, scratched into the painted grass, identifies them as David Leedom, his wife and family, and Mary Twining and her husband, who were dead by that time.
However strongly the instruments resemble lumber on sawhorses, an impression played up in a video Mantra made for NPR, Mr. Gordon identifies them as simantras, traditional wooden instruments used by Eastern Orthodox monks and later adopted by Xenakis.
Brown notes that proximate causes can be situated within a matrix that identifies them as being instigated at either an elite level or a mass level and as being instigated by developments that occur internally or externally.
