Sentence examples for like descriptions from inspiring English sources

For example, if we think of naming an entity and describing it as, semantically speaking, fundamentally different ways of talking about it, should we think of natural kind terms as functioning like names or like descriptions?

"I would try to write what I thought of as love poems, but that were really more like descriptions of how much that person had hurt me.

Then, following Thoreau's original structure, they offer observations of nature at different times of the year, like descriptions of summer perch and fall chestnuts.

While the "afterlife e-mails," as they're called, became the basis for creating the site, Mr. Krim envisioned FinalThoughts as a free, one-stop source where people interested in death and dying could find all kinds of information, like descriptions of estate and funeral planning and online discussions about spirituality.

Thus, it is argued, mental images are in some important way, more like descriptions than like pictures.

It's nice George is able to look back on his youth with such fondness, even if his descriptions of raves come off more like descriptions of dogging, but it's worth calculating what the actual risks for him were, and are.

Minute arabesque-like descriptions of nature, particularly of garden scenes, are frequent: the rose and the nightingale have almost become substitutes for mythological figures.

Well, because the stiff, minimalist, as Mr Rayner puts it, "haiku-like" descriptions (grudgingly expanded, he explains, and now with pictures!) struck me as ridiculously pompous.

Not only are Michelin's opinions on cheaper, casual restaurants notoriously hit and miss, but the book itself, with its haiku-like descriptions and unintuituve, hieroglyphic symbols, remains a pointedly user-unfriendly read.

Galton alluded to this in his original 1880 paper, concluding that "the missing faculty seems to be replaced so serviceably by other modes of conception... Men who declare themselves entirely deficient in the power of seeing mental pictures can nevertheless give life-like descriptions of what they have seen".

She liked to make her work seem easy, and she liked descriptions that contained evident omissions.