Described by author Walter Starkie in The Road to Santiago as a subtle people, he sums up their national character with a local term seny meaning " common sense " or a pragmatic attitude toward life.

Described by its creator as " an average stone-age community ," Dogpatch mostly consists of hopelessly ramshackle log cabins, pine trees, " tarnip " fields and " hawg " wallows.

Described by Bowie as " Ziggy goes to America ", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album.

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Described as the " Maestro's spiritual testament ” by his biographer Tullio Kezich, excerpts culled from the conversations later served as the basis of their feature documentary, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ) and the book, I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon.

Described by one source as a " determined, rather plodding organizer ", he failed to obtain a degree, but, according to the Jesuit priest, Father François Ponchaud, he acquired a taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of Karl Marx.

Described another way, the signals transmitted by the control store are being played much like a player piano roll.

Described by historian Walter Goffart as " the bible of warfare throughout the Middle Ages ", De re militari was widely distributed through the Latin West.

Described by the Government as " The oldest military formation in the Republic, nominated in the statutes of 1295 ", its uniform is medieval in design, and although it is a statutory military unit, it has no actual military function today.

Described as a glam rock band, because of flamboyant costumes and make-up, Skyhooks addressed teenage issues including buying drugs (" Carlton ( Lygon Street Limbo )"), suburban sex (" Balwyn Calling "), the gay scene (" Toorak Cowboy ") and loss of girlfriends (" Somewhere in Sydney ") by namechecking Australian locales.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

Described as " a typical New York butch " and " a dyke — stone butch ", she had been hit on the head by an officer with a billy club for, as one witness claimed, complaining that her handcuffs were too tight.

Described as a place of unending Springtime and a paradise of green plants, Tlalocan was the destination in the afterlife for those who died violently from phenomena associated with water, such as by lightning, drowning and water-borne diseases ( Miller and Taube, 1993 ).

Described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court Sir Thomas Roe.

Described by many as about " the meaning of life " or " gender identification " or " the hollow existence of the American suburbs ", the film has defied categorization by even the filmmakers.

Described in detail by eyewitness Thomé Lopes and chronicler Gaspar Correia as one that is unequalled in cold-blooded cruelty, da Gama looted the ship with over 400 pilgrims on board including 50 women, locked in the passengers, the owner and an ambassador from Egypt and burnt them to death.

Described later by Friedrich List, it was designed to allow the fledgling American manufacturing sector, largely centered on the eastern seaboard, to compete with British manufacturing through the creation of tariffs.

Hydotherikornis oregonus ( Described by Miller in 1931 ), the oldest purported alcid from the Eocene of California, is actually a petrel ( as reviewed by Chandler in 1990 ) and is reassigned to the tubenoses ( Procellariiformes ).

Described by Mark Bowden in his investigative work Killing Pablo, the sicarios played a key role in the wave of violence against police and authorities during the early 1990s campaign by the government to capture and extradite fugitive drug lord Pablo Escobar and other partners in the Medellin cocaine cartel.

Described scientifically by English naturalist John Latham in 1790, the Black Swan was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, Chenopis.

Described by many today as one of America's more " historical cities ", Wilkes-Barre has gained considerable bad press ( although it is not a major nationally recognized location ) since the Knox Mine Disaster.

" Described by writer Johannes Jonsson as " slow black metal with influences from Nordic folk music ", it has been considered a category of folk metal.

* Pacal's sarcophagus lid: Described by Erich von Däniken as a depiction of a spaceship.

Described as “ the determining moment in Fellini ’ s life ”, he enjoyed steady employment between 1939 and 1942, interacting with writers, gagmen, and scriptwriters that eventually led to opportunities in show business and cinema.

Described as a " devout " and " very quiet man ", Atef was one of the few al-Qaeda leaders to not make public video statements.

Described by some as ' apartheid's dumping ground ', from the 1950s the area became home to people the apartheid government designated as non-White.

Described by the U. S. government as the biggest ground operation in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, the offensive led to the capture of more than 100 suspects and the deaths of 10.

Described by BBC as India's leading guru buster, Basava Premanand has " been honoured by the government with its highest award for the promotion of scientific values among the public.

Described as counterculture patriots, they were ardent conspiracy theorists, government watchdogs and computer hackers who frequently assisted central X-Files characters Mulder and Scully, though they sometimes had their own adventures.

Described as good-looking, articulate and open-minded in his approach to problems, Bo's rise from a municipal official to the central government generated great media fanfare and elevated his status to something of a ' political star.

Described as the " most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ", it was passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government to dissolve the British Transport Commission ( BTC ), which had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport.

Described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as " the great technician of cabinet government in the mid twentieth century ", also Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors 1963-1967.

Described by journalistic observers as one of the state's most " colorful " and " shrewdest " public officials, he has long been known to speak his mind with an uncommon frankness, as well as what one critic called a " highfalutin, professorial air ", that has occasionally caused him political embarrassment.

Described as a wealthy, sporting man who served in the army with Colonel Brandon, he is very affable and keen to throw frequent parties, picnics, and other social gatherings to bring together the young people of their village.

Described as a small " plat of ground ", the vineyard seems to have been all he possessed and lay close to the palace of Ahab, who wished to acquire to " have it for a garden of herbs " ( probably as a ceremonial garden for Baal worship ).

Described by the composer as a " poème dansé " it depicts a young Persian prince who travels to the ends of the Earth in a quest to find the lotus flower of immortality, coming across its guardian, the Péri ( fairy ).

Described by peers as gentle, self-effacing, and ambivalent toward politics, Henry Swift was Minnesota's third governor for less than a year, completing the second term of Alexander Ramsey, who had been elected United States Senator.

Described as being " the master of the double standard ", a " Psycho-Dad " as well as a perceived hypocrite who often embarrasses his children, even if he wants what is best for them.

Described by WWE ( formerly the WWF ) chairman Vince McMahon as the most profitable wrestler in the company's history, he gained significant mainstream popularity in the WWF during the mid-to-late 1990s as " Stone Cold " Steve Austin, a disrespectful, beer-drinking antihero who routinely defied McMahon, his boss.

Described by British journalist John Walker as a " cautious toe in the water " for LucasArts, the move was prompted by LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez, who had assumed the post only two months prior.

Described through first-person narrative as a man familiar with the firearms and machinery trade, Hank is a man who had reached the level of superintendent due to his proficiency in firearms manufacturing, with two thousand subordinates.

I mean hideously compromised lives ...." Described as an " invisible star " who can still travel by the London Underground to film premières unrecognised, he has observed: " They just think, who's that < nowiki > t ***</ nowiki >

Described by Tim Riley as " the echo of a left-behind affair that rebounds off a couple of self-aware curves (' I am not askin ' you to say words like ' yes ' or ' no ,' / ... I'm just breathin ' to myself, pretendin ' not that I don't know )," the song was soon covered by Joan Baez, as well as Judy Collins, who had a considerable amount of commercial success with it.

Described by Mafioso Donald Frankos as a little bright-eyed man who stood at 5 feet 7 inches, he was very talkative, chain-smoked hand rolled Bull Durham tobacco cigarettes, and dispensed mounds of legal advice to any convict willing to listen.

Described as a " young lad " who saved Princess Zelda's elderly nursemaid Impa from Ganon's henchmen, Link assumes the role of the hero attempting to rescue Princess Zelda ( and the kingdom of Hyrule ) from the evil wizard Ganon, who has stolen the Triforce of Power.

Described later as an " inner sanctum ", " an immense informal network of influence ", and by Jan Smuts as a " dangerous, cunning, political fascist organization ", in 1920 Jong Zuid Afrika now restyled as the Afrikaner Broederbond, was a grouping of 37 white men of Afrikaner ethnicity, Afrikaans language, and the Calvinist Dutch Reformed faith, who shared cultural, semi-religious, and deeply political objectives based on traditions and experiences dating back to the arrival of Dutch white settlers, French Huguenots, and Germans at the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries and including the dramatic events of the Great Trek in the 1830s and 40's.

It is inhabited by the High Priest Not to Be Described, who dwells alone in a prehistoric monastery, and by a race of degenerate humans who are feared by all other men.

Described by the composer as a " poème dansé ", it depicts a young Persian prince who travels to the ends of the Earth in a quest to find the lotus flower of immortality, finally encountering its guardian, the Péri.

Described as a " flamboyant " and " gregarious " player who " never did anything without flair ", Yardley had a stellar 7-year career, making the NBA All-Star team every year except for his rookie season.

Described by his father as " a typical boy who couldn't settle down " and by his former school principal as one of " the most troublesome kids ", Hicks reportedly experimented with alcohol and drugs as a teenager and was expelled from Smithfield Plains High school in 1990 at age 14.

Described as a security measure, it was claimed that instructions for tying a hangman's noose had been found written on stationery issued to the lawyers who met with detainees to discuss their habeas corpus requests.

Described as " the masters, if not the very source of magic " who appear as " hideous, oozing slimes and gelatinous mounds of flesh and tentacles ", they are each the embodiment of a particular aspect of evil and subsist upon the respective brands of suffering they inflict.

Described by the magic magazine Genii ( December 1996 ) as " the most innovative magic mind of our day ," Harris is listed in Magic magazine ( August 1999 ) as one of " the 100 who shaped the art magic in America ".

Described as " A superior blues player who could also swing fairly early ", Green played on several Bessie Smith recordings, ( including one called " Trombone Cholly "), recorded in the 1920s with several other blues singers, and also worked with the bands of Benny Carter ( 1929 – 1931 and 1933 ), Chick Webb ( several times during 1930-1934 ), Jimmie Noone ( 1931 ), Don Redman ( 1932 ), and at the end with Kaiser Marshall.