Sentence examples for superb description from inspiring English sources

The result is "Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point," a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read.

Lyn MacDonald's books on the first world war set the standard for a generation, and Catherine Merridale's superb description of life in the Red Army, Ivan's War, is unlikely to be equalled.

In "Guinea," the story of an Italian-American soldier and his comrade, an Irishman from Boston, lost with a dying Japanese prisoner in tow, Murray provides this superb description of the foliage: "It was late October -- fall -- but in New Guinea things were green.

In 1861, Tolstoy himself went to hear Dickens read A Christmas Carol in London – and maybe the superb description of Scrooge's horrified vision of everyone's utter indifference to his death, at a Christmas yet to come, planted a seed for the opening chapters of The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

First place goes to Jennifer Leslie, a biologist at MIT, for her superb description of a session about using neuroscience in the courtroom.

The last section of "Solo" brims with superb descriptions of folk music and the drunken talk of men and women who are brought together, then driven apart, by the fall of Communism.

In addition, the authors provide superb, concise descriptions of the strain diversity of the major pathogenic species and the clinical and epidemiologic relevance of certain phylogenetic clades.

Bellow's complaint against America had been building since the 1960s, and The Dean's December, with its superb but unsettling descriptions of the Chicago ghettoes, was taken, by many, as a rancidly conservative book, even a racist one.

His references to homosexuality, "oral stimulation," and masturbation are couched in a rich setting of wit, charm, linguistic subtlety, superb literary craftsmanship, evocative description, and deep human sympathy.

Klein is a superb reporter, and his descriptions of the machinations required by these two very different engagements provide a thoroughgoing liberal education in millennial governance.

Ovid's hexameters in the Metamorphoses are a superb vehicle for rapid narrative and description.