Describing the character, Variety columnist Howard Prouty wrote that " The joy of all this is watching Columbo disassemble the fiendishly clever cover stories of the loathsome rats who consider themselves his better.

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

Describing the character of a typical farmer, it says:

Describing a character Cass Seltzer, she wrote on page 105:

Describing her role, Grammer said: " My character Camille is basically a parody on myself, obviously, from ' Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Describing the technical details of his work he says: " I use an Apple Mac, Schminke watercolours, Caran d ’ Ache pencil crayons ( with electric sharpener ), Saunders Waterford paper 190gm3, black kandahar and coloured inks with a dip pen, toothbrush, porcupine quills, and my trusty left hand.

Describing the Chemehuevi as she knew them, and presenting the texture of traditional life amongst the people, Carobeth Laird writes:

Describing the legacy of the crisis, Sean Wilentz writes:

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 train journey to Siberia, he writes: " The terrible heat, the lack of fresh air, the unbearable overcrowded conditions all exhausted us.

Describing the contents of an old letter written by a monk which he had obtained, Gurjieff writes :-

" Describing the Hoke Moseley novels, Horsley similarly writes that Willeford " uses both his transgressors and his investigator ... as commentators on the injustices of class and on a system that seems preoccupied with owning and controlling human life.

Describing Miles feelings shortly after the war ended and quoting from a September 25, 1865 letter, Walther writes:

Describing that event, he writes,

Describing Baba as " The Messiah ," the article also claims he listed miracles he had performed, and said that a person who becomes one with the truth can accomplish anything, but that it is a weakness to perform miracles only to show spiritual power.

Describing it as one of the " games that changed the world ", GamePro stated that E. T.

Describing the attractors of chaotic dynamical systems has been one of the achievements of chaos theory.

Now there are 48, in 42 states …” Describing one free market think tank founded by an alumnus of the Leadership Conference, DeParle said, “ No one is more central to this replicating effort than ( Mackinac Center President Mr. Lawrence ) Reed …”

Describing the first reason, he “ portrays himself in the guise of a wandering minstrel, his journey just one in a series of adventures .” The second reason is more religious, explaining in his Vita S. Martini that he took this route to worship at the shrine of St Martin in Tours, visiting other shrines as he went.

Describing Heyward's achievement in Porgy, the African-American poet and playwright Langston Hughes said Heyward was one who saw " with his white eyes, wonderful, poetic qualities in the inhabitants of Catfish Row that makes them come alive.

Describing him as " this wonderful man ," William Stubbs says that Wharton did for the elucidation of English Church history " more than any one before or since.

Describing the book as an offering, Kahn said, " How precious a book is in light of the offering, in light of the one who has the privilege of the offering.

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 the inspiration for and origin of Living in Oblivion in an interview with Salon, DiCillo described making a movie as " one of the most tedious, boring, painful experiences, and that's just when something goes right ".

" Describing the claim of one's own armies being welcomed as liberators as " one of the great imperial fantasies ", Bruce Lincoln, Professor of Divinity at the University of Chicago, notes that the Babylonian population repeatedly revolted against Persian rule in 522BC, 521BC, 484BC and 482BC ( though not against Cyrus or his son Cambeses ).

* 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 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.

“ It would appear at times that a theologian need not actually know God .” Describing the theological crisis, Weinandy said: “ Much of what passes for contemporary Catholic theology, often is not founded upon an assent of faith in the divine deposit of revelation as proclaimed in the sacred scriptures and developed within the living doctrinal and moral tradition of the church .”

Describing the film as " manic, carnivalesque, and treating death as a minor ( and temporary ) inconvenience ", he enjoys Kusturica's portrayal of life on the Danube as " gritty, unforgiving and driven by a fully contemporary materialism " and furthermore commends " Kusturica's convincing portrayal of his homeland as a social and architectural ruin, where everything is either falling apart or overbuilt in misbegotten grandiosity ".

Describing it, Schmidt later said that, while it " almost always worked ... every thirty minutes someone would put their foot down slightly wrong.

* Hutton, William 2005, Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias ( Cambridge ).

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

* ( 1905 ): The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608 – 1617, Describing His Experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago, Hakluyt Society

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 his final season at St. John ’ s, Lapchick told the Washington, D. C .– based Evening Star: " I used to double up with chest pains.

" Describing the end of the Biltmore and the Grand Central Art Galleries ' final show there, John Russell of New York Times wrote:

Describing it as " John Waters ' first stab at making a mainstream movie ," Edvins Beitiks ' review in the San Francisco Examiner said it " starts out well and winds up no worse than most of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood " In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert noted a " tension between the gentler new Waters and his anarchic past.

Letters from an American Farmer Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs not Generally Known ; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America ( 1782 ) is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur.

Describing the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

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

Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote: " I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget.

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 Basil Hallward ) Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness.

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

Describing their victory, the new council leader Richard Austin said: " We knew that the mood of the people of Boston was very black and they really do want something to happen to Boston that isn't happening at the moment.

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 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 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 itself as the friend of " The Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker ", it was a four-page journal.

Describing the tour, Stevens remarked that seeing a crowd of over 13, 000 fans each night coming to see them was " such an unbelievable feeling ", and the other members of the group shared an " adrenaline rush " as well as a wave of emotion before going on stage.

Describing the post-war times, Pete Townshend wrote in his autobiography, " Until he was expelled, Roger had been a good pupil.

Describing the unique aesthetics of Pialat's work, film critic Kent Jones wrote: " Even more than Jean Eustache [...] Pialat was an irascibly private artist, charting a twisted, crook-backed path with each new movie, almost always emerging with works in which the mind-bending vitality of immediate experience trumps all belief systems, allegiances, plans.

Describing the incident to the House of Commons Robinson was moved to tears, showing, as the biographer P J Jupp put it, " a propensity under stress which was to earn him the first of several nicknames, in this case the Blubberer ".

Describing the intensity of a January 1987 Big Black performance in Forced Exposure, Lydia Lunch remarked that " I was pulverized into near oblivion as wall after wall of frustration, heartache, hatred, death, disease, dis-use, disgust, mistrust, & maelstrom stormed the stage waging war with military precision insistently invading every open orifice with the strength of ten thousand bulls ".