"I will be honest with the descriptions of the problems we uncover.
There's a revisionist argument for this interpretation, but it doesn't tally with the descriptions of Vivie in the text.
The bleakness and humanity of these flashbacks are underscored when contrasted with the descriptions of Dante's glitzy late-'40s Rome, which I'm assuming is the author's intention.
Here are the top 10, along with the descriptions that ran then: 1) "A Brief History of Time," by Stephen W. Hawking.
It may be that the educational value of myths is even more bound up with the descriptions they provide than with the explanations.
This has something to do with the widely divergent acting styles on display and probably more to do with the sense that the performances only rarely tally with the descriptions given by the characters of themselves and of one another.
Women who have integrated such bastions will be familiar, too, with the descriptions of her temperament ("domineering"), which are of a variety that tend to reveal more about the insecurity of male holdovers than about the comportment of female pioneers.
Fending off the acclaim that greets him, Edgar dismisses his paintings as "reheated Dalí," but it's hard to square that comparison with the descriptions of four recent works, "the ones I'd come to think of as my sunset-composites.
In his report, Mr. Stancik said that Mr. Ayed had provided a version of events regarding several of the allegations against him that conflicted with the descriptions of his behavior made by students and teachers who complained.
Comparing places today with the descriptions in medieval annals can be a risky business: more often than not, time has ripped most of the old details out, replacing them with something much more mundane.
I said the catalogue of ships was beautiful, with the descriptions of all the places the ships came from and all the Greek warriors gathering for the siege of Troy.
