Stewartism (if it comes to that) may describe a kind of splendid anti-idealism: the vigorous and manly pursuit of the not too much.
Yasmina Reza, the author of "Art," may describe a world filled with snarled ambiguities, but her plays are as orderly as an obsessive-compulsive's sock drawer, suggesting reassuringly that human depths can, after all, be calculated with a slide rule.
But as in many fraternity parties, things get out of hand, and one bit of repartee may describe a woman as "hot," which may lead to someone in the studio calling her a prostitute or a "fat cow," which may lead to a free-for-all, even chaotic, discussion among callers, shock jocks and other guests on the show.
Bitter and death-ridden — it is an act of mourning for his sister Fanny — the piece may describe a man unconsciously willing his own death at 38, or it may not foresee at all the series of strokes that robbed him and us of a lot more music.
She drew my attention to the occasional habit of the O.E.D.'s editors of writing definitions that lumped together startlingly disparate items, like the one for bing, which states that it may describe a heap of corn, potatoes, stones, earth or dead bodies.
In robustness analysis Q(s) may describe a plant uncertainty.
Testicular tumors rarely present with acute pain; rather, patients may describe a vague discomfort or palpable abnormality.
In fact, rapid cycling may describe a distinct phenotype with biologically different properties driving both the mood and sleep disturbance.
A re-engineering pattern may describe a process that starts with the detection of the symptoms and ends with the refactoring of the code to arrive at the new solution.
Those with angioedema may describe a burning sensation of the skin rather than itchiness.
