In The Residence at Whitminster, for example, the present-day narrator reconstructs the story of the death of two boys in 1730 and a subsequent haunting by way of notes written by the children's guardian, letters written a century later by a young woman, her beau's diary, and assorted other documents.
Shero often communicated with his players by way of notes left in their lockers.
Journalism is a way of noting — well, some journalists are wonderful writers and others are just putting facts one after the other.
To say, for instance, that an acquaintance is well preserved is a compliment, but it is also a way of noting that the person is older than oneself.
One of its meanings in Arabic is "right" -- the ancient cartographers' way of noting that Yemen, from the mapmakers' perspective in Athens or Rome or Alexandria, lay to the bottom right of the Arabian peninsula.
Moreover, her mother, a lifelong homemaker, had a curiously haiku-ish way of noting how things were served: "The asparagus soup on the yellow linen napkins with the crocus in the Wedgewood".
He also paints bodies, in and out of water, and buildings by swimming pools or watered lawns, and here too his eyes seem to go wide as he finds a direct and somehow innocent way of noting them down.
Boston Manager Terry Francona complimented Beckett for working hard and for maturing, his way of noting how Beckett tempered his emotions, stopped overusing his fastball and became a smarter pitcher.
But when you encounter the brash and goofy São Paulo rock band CSS you will have a hard time not saying, "They're Brazilian?" If that is simply a way of noting that CSS are loud, sing in English, and are not acoustic musicians rooted in the soft rhythms of samba, then fine.
Facebook mentions videos ads you "scroll through", which could be a subtle way of noting that auto-play video ads are coming.
It's a way of noting that you are doing an activity with someone to remember later or broadcast it out to your network.
