Some argue that no act of sharing, helping or sacrificing can be described as truly altruistic, as the actor may receive an intrinsic reward in the form of personal gratification.

The Chief of Staff of the Guatemalan army described his actions as an “ act of warning throughout the Republic for any disorders of this nature .”

Great Auk specialist John Wolley interviewed the two men who killed the last birds, and Ísleifsson described the act as follows:

He described it as essentially weakening his mental " filters " and causing him to speak and act impulsively.

Ebbinghaus also described the difference between involuntary and voluntary memory, the former occurring “ with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will ” and the latter being brought “ into consciousness by an exertion of the will ”.

He reaffirmed much of Humanae Vitae, and specifically described the practice of artificial contraception as an act not permitted by Catholic teaching in any circumstances.

When James Braid first described hypnotism, he did not use the term " suggestion " but referred instead to the act of focusing the conscious mind of the subject upon a single dominant idea.

The responsum maintained a prohibition on male-male anal sex, which it described as the sole Biblically prohibited homosexual act.

This act proved that the Limia was not as dangerous as the local myths described.

This genetic diversity can provide the variation of physical and behavioural attributes ( phenotypes ) upon which natural selection can act, but, as described below in Section 6, Origin and function of meiosis, the genetic diversity may be largely a by-product of the homologous recombination that is primarily employed for its DNA repair function during meiosis.

" Meritocracy in its wider sense can be any general act of judgment upon the basis of people's various demonstrated merits ; such acts are frequently described in sociology and psychology.

Those who expressed sympathy for McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of Gore Vidal's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh.

In November 2003, The New Yorker described how the " giddily puerile " act had " become massively popular with the mainstream audience, a demographic formerly considered untouchable by punk-rock purists.

Such movement can be described by the Fluid Mosaic Model, that describes the membrane as a mosaic of lipid molecules that act as a solvent for all the substances and proteins within it, so proteins and lipid molecules are then free to diffuse laterally through the lipid matrix and migrate over the membrane.

The blowoff act would be described provocatively, often as something deemed too strong for women and children, such as pickled punks.

From a critical point of view, Solomon's building of a temple for YHWH should not be considered an act of particular devotion to YHWH, because Solomon is also described as building places of worship for a number of other deities ().

The physical act of the salute is best described as the right arm taking the path of the longest way up and then the shortest way down.

Although Shula was relaxed and charming when dealing with the press, it was all an act ; Dolphins players described him as " neurotic " and " absolutely crazy.

Turkish forces invaded the island in two waves, occupying 37 % of the island's territory in the north-east and evicting 200, 000 Greeks from their territories, in an act described by many sources as ethnic cleansing.

In November 2004, a United Nations Secretary General report described terrorism as any act " intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act ".

Authors of similar recent experiments with atoms and molecules, described below, claim that these larger particles also act like waves.

The Latin historian William of Tyre deplored this act of war against fellow Christians, and described the atrocities committed by Raynald's men in considerable detail.

" In 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope later that year but was then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, described the series as " subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul before it can grow properly ," and gave permission for publication of the letter that expressed this opinion.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

Gropius was not necessarily against Expressionism, and in fact himself in the same 1919 pamphlet proclaiming this " new guild of craftsmen, without the class snobbery ," described " painting and sculpture rising to heaven out of the hands of a million craftsmen, the crystal symbol of the new faith of the future.

Media reports immediately following his death indicated Haley displayed deranged and erratic behavior in his final weeks, although beyond a biography of Haley by John Swenson, released a year later, which described Haley painting the windows of his home black, there is little information extant about Haley's final days.

The term originated in the Middle Ages and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window.

Lucien Pissarro was taught painting by his father, and described him as a “ splendid teacher, never imposing his personality on his pupil .” Gauguin, who also studied under him, referred to Pissarro “ as a force with which future artists would have to reckon ”.

Historian Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: " Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy.

" He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, " for several years I was almost mad … You know my picture, ' The Scream?

The writer Dean Swinford, ( whose concept of irrealism was described at length in the section " Irrealism in Literature "), wrote that the artist Remedios Varos, in her painting The Juggler, " creates a personal allegorical system which relies on the predetermined symbols of Christian and classical iconography.

In Australia, the art journal the art life has recently detected the presence of a " New Irrealism " among the painters of that country, which is described as being an " approach to painting that is decidedly low key, deploying its effects without histrionic showmanship, while creating an eerie other world of ghostly images and abstract washes.

When finished, the painting was acclaimed as a masterpiece of design and characterisation, but it deteriorated rapidly, so that within a hundred years it was described by one viewer as " completely ruined ".

Before this it had been described as scarring, painting, or staining.

He described the painting to the Shogun as a landscape showing the Tatsuta River with red maple leaves floating in it, winning the competition.

Tracy spent the majority of the next two years at home with Hepburn, living what she described as a quiet life: reading, painting and listening to music.

Similar qualities have been described in Chinese painting and miniature trees and rockeries.

In October 1932, the famous art connoisseur and Rembrandt expert Dr. Abraham Bredius published an article about a recently discovered Vermeer which he described as a painting of a Man and Woman at a Spinet.

He described Pop Art as, " not ' American ' painting but actually industrial painting ".

The artist provided another clue when he described his predilection " to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them ", and was in any case notoriously reluctant to consider a painting complete.

Francesco Sansovino described such a procession in minute detail in 1581, and his verbal description is confirmed and complemented by Cesare Vecellio's 1586 painting of a ducal procession in the Piazza San Marco.

Playing down the changes, Nelson described the new look as " a tidy-up … rather like restoring an old painting.

By 1556 — fewer than sixty years after it was finished — Leonardo's biographer Giorgio Vasari described the painting as already " ruined " and so deteriorated that the figures were unrecognizable.

The painting, later described by Pausanias, showed Tellis in Hades, sharing Charon's boat with the priestess of Demeter.

Beckett described and defended the writing style of Finnegans Wake thus: This writing that you find so obscure is a quintessential extraction of language and painting and gesture, with all the inevitable clarity of the old inarticulation.

In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze is described as hanging on the wall ; Holmes remarks on another work by the same painter to show it could not have been purchased on a professor's salary.