Sentence examples for lively descriptions from inspiring English sources

Yet Sackville's tendency toward heavy-handed symbolism undercuts her pointed, lively descriptions.

It is to Fraser's credit that she allows readers to keep all these "variegated" alliances straight through her lively descriptions of the features, accomplishments and appetites of the king's lovers.

Mr. Goad gives brief, lively descriptions of 448 landmarks in this chronological guide, which design-minded tourists will want to take along (although armchair travelers will probably be frustrated by the small grainy photographs).

Freddy was a P&O steward and often away at sea, so the affair was conducted largely through letters – letters in which Thompson gave lively descriptions of the day-to-day business of her life, but also wrote of her physical passion, her use of abortifacients, and her mounting domestic frustrations; she longed for Percy's death and claimed to have fed him powdered glass.

This is a positive move: the TV series should stand on its own, doing visually what can't be done in prose – although some of Martin's more lively descriptions will be lost in the process.

Indeed, the document is peppered with lively descriptions — "speaking incredibly fast" and "said entire intervention in one breath" — to liven up the transcript of what can otherwise be "very boring" sessions.

Many respondents have cared for only one or two patients in this category up till now and said they remembered the specific care situations fairly well, and they gave lively descriptions of their experiences.

One who is in the right state to be capable of giving a "poetic and lively description" of things will find himself "in a living and beautiful world" (Journal, 10/13/60 & 12/31/59).

Each page has lively description in French and English and catches the optimism and thrill of the tunnel breakthrough.

The lively description of a desert storm at the end of Imruʾ al-Qays's qaṣīdah is a splendid example of such passages.

Chagall's lively description of his meeting with Apollinaire suggests, by the way, that he missed his calling as a writer: "Wine rang in his glass, meat clattered between his teeth.