Describing his new bishopric, Gregory lamented how it was nothing more than an " utterly dreadful, pokey little hole ; a paltry horse-stop on the main road ... devoid of water, vegetation, or the company of gentlemen ... this was my Church of Sasima!

Describing how to summon the dukes of Hell, even Lucifer, for the purpose of resisting the temptation of their vices, and binding their influence in the aspirant's life.

Describing the media's " societal purpose ", Chomsky writes, "... the study of institutions and how they function must be scrupulously ignored, apart from fringe elements or a relatively obscure scholarly literature ".

Describing the length of production, Brooks said: " It's amazing how much more perverse you are as a writer than as a director.

Describing how things are does not imply that things ought to be that way.

Describing how the idea of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra came to him, Jeffes said:

Describing the logical schema, however, still did not describe how physically data would be stored on disk drives.

Describing how he got his nickname " Head ", Welch stated, " Guys said my head looked like it was too big for my body, and so they started calling me “ Head .” I guess it stuck ”

Describing his parents in one of his diary entries, he wrote: “ That's how I grew up, assured of my own innate advantage over other people, proud of the dignity of my parents, their relatives and friends, entourage of servants, rising from their seats in the ante-room when I passed from my rooms into my parents ’ part of the house, swimming in all kinds of luxury and almost not knowing rejection in satisfaction of my desires .”

Describing how the apparatus works, Quintron explains that " You had to spit on a stick, like a paint stir stick, and you had two metal leads that you would touch to either end of the line of spit and then you would move the leads closer together-higher pitch-and farther apart-lower pitch.

Describing how the music in the ceremony witnessed communicates and confirms the belief systems of Taoism will reveal music is as intrinsic to the Taoist as the path of Tao itself.

Describing how his personal views affect his writing, Yon stated, " I feel no shame in saying I am biased in favor of our troops.

( Describing eye drops that came from a shelf, an eye that fell from its location on a shelf, or an eye that delivered a shelf )

Describing the Bible as " fabulous mythology ", Paine questions whether or not it was revealed to its writers and doubts that the original writers can ever be known ( he dismisses the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, for example ).

Describing glassware can be complicated since manufactures provide conflicting names for glassware.

Describing Polanski immediately after Tate's death, Farrow testified, " Of this I can be sure — of his frame of mind when we were there, of what we talked about, of his utter sense of loss, of despair and bewilderment and shock and love — a love that he had lost.

Describing his first impressions of the city, Lang said that " the buildings seemed to be a vertical sail, scintillating and very light, a luxurious backdrop, suspended in the dark sky to dazzle, distract and hypnotize ".

Describing French Conservatives of the 1870s, the writer opined that " their mistake was, not in appealing to the country, but in appealing to it in behalf of a Monarchy which had yet to be defined, instead of a Republic which existed ; for in the latter case they would have had the whole of that silent majority with them.

* Describing a small portable radio as a " transistor " ( though that may simply be an abbreviation for " transistor radio "), or a CRT-based television receiver as " the tube "

Describing the PIJ suicide bombings, the judge said: " Anyone with even the slightest bit of human compassion would be sickened.

Describing the album's musical style, The Quietus opined, " It had to sound passé, it had to be overdone ; if you're trying to bulldoze the shiny edifice of western pop culture, you can't do it tastefully or with subtlety, can you?

Describing his post-calamity life, he claimed to be functioning permanently in what he called " the natural state ": A state of spontaneous, purely physical, sensory existence, characterized by discontinuity – though not absence – of thought.

Describing the situation with presenter Annie Othen, Mr Dyke said that the station would be added to the BBC's Local Radio portfolio:

Describing itself as a " propaganda group " at its current size, SA attempts to relate to its audience primarily on the level of ideas, rather than seeing itself as a party that can be capable of leading mass struggles.

Describing his thoughts upon being informed by John Abizaid a few weeks after the leak that he and his report would be investigated, Taguba said " I ’ d been in the Army thirty-two years by then, and it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia.

Describing this period for Sweden as a whole in a linear translatio imperii kind of regnal succession, can then only be achieved at least partially based on speculative historical reconstruction, which appears to have happened in diverging directions from the early 13th century on, at the latest.

Describing the legislation, Miller said " North Carolina would still not be required to perform civil marriage, but it would be required to recognize marriages performed in other states .” The announcement comes on the heels of the North Carolina Legislature announcing that it would included a proposed constitutional amendment on the next ballot banning gay marriage.

Describing the bandwidth of a double-pumped bus can be confusing.

" Describing the situation, Johnny L. Wilson of Computer Gaming World wrote, " The games that sell big are the ones that allow you to blow stuff up, so, if anything, that could be a problem for Flight Unlimited.

Describing his early life, Hyneman said " I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

Describing the brand GIVe " as the most exciting story to come out of retail this year " and " from what we ’ ve seen it's set to be a major new fixture on the British high street ", Miller revealed that she and her Editor-in-Chief, Jane Bruton, had been given a preview of the new range which Davies kept very firmly under wraps prior to the brand's launch in October 2009.

Describing a culture as " primitive " is considered by many to be offensive.

Describing his relationship with Liebling, Vedder said: " Relationships can be tough.

Describing the film as " an emotionally draining experience ", Kapoor explained that it was difficult to disconnect from her character.

" Describing the sources of his novel, Wilder explained that the plot was inspired

Describing prehistoric Aboriginal culture and society during her 1999 Boyer Lecture, Australian historian and anthropologist Inga Clendinnen explained:

Describing the cove in 1779, Adam Walker said, " This beautiful rock is like the age-tinted wall of a prodigious castle ; the stone is very white, and from the ledges hang various shrubs and vegetables, which with the tints given it by the bog water.

Describing the various songs on Bleach, Christopher Sandford wrote: "' Paper Cuts ' includes a folk-influence melody and ponderous rhythm of an early Led Zeppelin number ; ' Mr. Moustache ' addressed itself on Nirvana's male fans ; ' Downer ' showed the same exceptional contempt for the group's audience ".

Describing the music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult, due to vagaries surrounding the meanings of various terms.

* 1919 – Effect of Curing Condition on Wear and Strength of Concrete ( Describing 120 tests on cylinder-shaped samples and 300 tests on cubic samples in various moisture conditions and testing periods varying from 3 days to 4 months ).

Describing Flanders as the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium is commonplace, although Jewish groups have been speaking Yiddish in Antwerp for centuries, and Flanders ' minority residents include 170 nationalities — their larger groups speaking French, Berber, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Polish.

Describing an individual encounter with Polgár, former U. S. Champion Joel Benjamin said, " It was all-out war for five hours.

; RFC 1521: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies

Describing life in Vienna ( dated at either 1776 or 1786 ), Don Curzio wrote, " The people were dancing mad [...] The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements of waltzing of which they never tire.

Describing such a transformation for an object tends to make more sense in terms of rotation about an axis through the center of that object, combined with a translation, rather than by just a rotation with respect to some distant point.

Describing what Robert Rieber called “ the third most famous of multiple personality cases ”, it presented a detailed discussion of the problems of treatment of “ Sybil ”, a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason.

Describing himself as a " juvenile delinquent ", he noted that his father was a " bully " who would sternly punish him for his misbehaviour.

*:* Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flower — Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies, an 1884 book by John Wood.

Describing the causes of the Intifada, Benny Morris refers to the " all-pervading element of humiliation ", caused by the protracted occupation which he says was " always a brutal and mortifying experience for the occupied " and was " founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation "

Describing this groundbreaking book many years later, Childe would state that it " aimed at distilling from archaeological remains a preliterate substitute for the conventional politico-military history with cultures, instead of statesmen, as actors, and migrations in place of battles.

Describing the origins of Hawkman, Fox recalled, " I was faced with the problem of filling a new book that publisher Max Gaines was starting ... As I sat by the window I noticed a bird collecting twigs for a nest.

Describing the nature of the emotion, Plato asserts that it is the result of the great love for another person.

Describing Republican candidates for president Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on a panel on the Colbert Report, Cassidy stated, " I believe the both of them are the most embarrassing, sad, pathetic ...

His Fourteen Ways of Describing the Rain — composed for Arnold Schoenberg's 70th birthday celebration — is considered a masterpiece of the genre.

Edzard Lutz describes it as " the traditional Arabic political term for Israel ", stating it is used in Arabic ( particularly Iraqi ) international documents, Describing its use in Jordan, Joseph Nevo includes it as part of " Arab rhetoric and its traditional reluctance to use the term ' Israel '".

Describing his wife, Jacques Cousteau said, " She was the happiest out of camera range, in the crow's nest of Calypso, for example, scanning the sea for whales.

Describing the impact of the volume, Martin explains that " he full impact of that and Kaname's relationship comes out beautifully in episode 7, when Kaname seeks out Sousuke in a moment of fear and, for the first time, Sousuke isn't there for her.