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 the character, Proinsias Mac Cana writes: " Cigfa strikes one as a slight though effective vignette of a contemporary bourgeois snob while William John Gruffydd hypothesises that the character was a later addition to the tale.

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 ".

" Describing job expertise using cognitively oriented task analyses ( COTA )".

Describing the work as " 57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit ", Lynch played the film on a loop at the Academy's annual end-of-year exhibit, where it shared joint first prize with a painting by Noel Mahaffey.

Describing himself as non-religious and as accepting the concept of natural selection as a well-established fact, Stove nonetheless attacked what he described as flawed concepts proposed by some " Ultra-Darwinists ".

Describing the characteristic nature of International reality marked by ' anarchy ' he says, " Anarchy is what states make of it.

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.

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

Describing the gravel and sand knolls, “ Between Greenville and Richmond, along the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, they are unusually clustered, and are worked by that company in many points ”.

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.

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 …”

* Descriptive ( or synchronic ) linguistics: Describing dialects ( forms of a language used by a specific speech community ).

Describing President Boris Yeltsin's performance as a " minus " overall, Lebed gained fame by suggesting that the country could use a military dictator like Augusto Pinochet.

Describing her method she said " We turn vision on by teaching the eyes to shift.

Describing the process, Huxley wrote that " Vision is not won by making an effort to get it: it comes to those who have learned to put their minds and eyes into a state of alert passivity, of dynamic relaxation.

Describing his approach to training, Cecil himself said: " I do everything by instinct really, not by the book.

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 his childhood and teenage years as a “ horror story ” characterized by “ frequent parental physical and mental abuse, horrible breakups with girlfriends and consequent near nervous breakdowns ,” Arudou saw himself as a “ driven person — with the irrepressible urge to do whatever is necessary get as far away as possible as quickly as possible .” He attended Cornell University, first visiting Japan as a tourist on invitation from, his pen pal and future wife, for several weeks in 1986.

Describing species or subspecies, based on syntypes, in modern practice, is generally frowned upon by practicing taxonomists.

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 the organisation, Ding announced that the group were " a common group of citizens brought together by a shared fate and suffering ".

Describing current instructional methods as homogenization and lockstep standardization, alternative approaches are proposed, such as the Sudbury Model of Democratic Education schools, an alternative approach in which children, by enjoying personal freedom thus encouraged to exercise personal responsibility for their actions, learn at their own pace and style rather than following a compulsory and chronologically-based curriculum.

Describing current instructional methods as homogenization and lockstep standardization, alternative approaches are proposed, such as the Sudbury model schools, an alternative approach in which children, by enjoying personal freedom thus encouraged to exercise personal responsibility for their actions, learn at their own pace rather than following a chronologically-based curriculum.

Describing his time in London as ' life forming ', he considered acting merely an ' odd job profession ' until the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu offered him a part in Amores Perros.

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 himself as having " tears in my eyes " after reading more on the riot and Brown's death, Hebert further discovered that Brown still lay in the unmarked grave he was buried in at Potter's Field.

Describing her childhood experience, she includes several facets of her life, such as her mother's mental instability and her mentally disabled brother's tragic death.

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 van Gogh's film Submission as " furiously provocative ", Jayasekera said his death was:

Describing van Gogh's film Submission as " furiously provocative ", Jayasekera concluded by describing his death as: