As an actress, she's grown beyond my powers to describe.
The shock our family experienced at the death of our beloved Uncle Simon is beyond my power to describe.
On both occasions, the two countries began using the term 'strategic partnership' between the two powers to describe their relationship".
Probably the most admired quality of Simenon's books is his scene-setting, his power to describe and to make the description call up emotion.
By Ian Frazier The shock our family experienced at the death of our beloved Uncle Simon is beyond my power to describe.
The downside is that as the mathematics becomes more abstract and gains power to describe huge swathes of conceptual knowledge, it becomes harder and harder to describe in words.
Joseph Nye, the Harvard political scientist who coined the term "soft power," to describe the use of ideas and attraction rather than force, told me that China has improved its ability to persuade — up to a point.
Mantel, celebrated for her portrait of a cunning, manipulative man (the Thomas Cromwell of her "Wolf Hall" books), turns, in these stories, to sour, impassive women whose sole recourse against bleak circumstance is the power to describe it pitilessly.
A President Obama, says Joseph Nye, the Harvard professor who popularized the term "soft power" to describe the capacity to gain support through attraction rather than force, "would do more for America's soft power around the world than anything else we could do".
I thus use the concept of "intimate power" to describe the particular features of the exercise of power in the intergenerational parenting coalition, highlighting the connection between intimate relations and power in the family.
