) In 2007, Christopher Gray of The New York Times described it as " a writhing composition in white Tyrolean marble depicting Lorelei, the mythical German figure, surrounded by mermaids, dolphins and seashells.

Banshees are frequently described as dressed in white or grey, often having long, pale hair which they brush with a silver comb, a detail scholar Patricia Lysaght attributes to confusion with local mermaid myths.

The army of heaven is described in similar terms as the resurrected and raptured believers: " The armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses.

He described the white stripe as representing the glaciers and ice cap, which cover more than 80 % of the island ; the red stripe, the ocean ; the red semicircle, the sun, with its bottom part sunk in the ocean ; and the white semicircle, the icebergs and pack ice.

Conditions were harsh as these goldfields were centered in the Great Victoria Desert and Hoover described the region as a land of " black flies, red dust, and white heat.

Although the described person may reside on completely flat terrain, hillbilly is substituted in place of more disparaging terms, such as white trash.

Writing in 1790, Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind ; about 36 inches high, generally of a white or cinammon colour, somewhat like the Greyhound but more robust.

Racially speaking, Kuwaitis are described usually as white or tan / black.

In his Kitab al-Asrar ( Book of Secrets ), the physician and chemist Razi described two methods for the production of kerosene, termed naft abyad (" white naphtha "), using an apparatus called an alembic.

If it does, it will develop into a red giant as described for mid-sized stars below, but never fuse helium as they do ; otherwise, it will simply contract until electron degeneracy pressure halts its collapse, becoming first a blue dwarf and then a white dwarf.

If the core of the star is not too massive ( less than approximately 1. 4 solar mass, taking into account mass loss that has occurred by this time ), it may then form a white dwarf ( possibly surrounded by a planetary nebula ) as described above for less massive stars, with the difference that the white dwarf is composed chiefly of oxygen, neon, and magnesium.

PZ Myers has described theology as " smart old white guys " inventing rationalizations for what they personally want to believe.

Numerous accounts described airplanes carrying white assailants firing rifles and dropping firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families.

* The U. S. Navy's s were described as " white elephants " because the " tactical and strategic concepts that inspired them were completely outmoded " by the time they were commissioned – the Japanese heavy cruisers that they were designed to hunt down had already been destroyed.

* In 1907, author Henry James described the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island as being " white elephants " and " witless dreams " because they were summer homes for the wealthy and were unoccupied for most of the year.

* Digital terrestrial television project by Radio Televisyen Malaysia is described as a " white elephant " because it has been delayed and recently deferred because technology rapidly evolved over time.

Eisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as " a Mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have ' exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn " asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $ 3 a page.

The Incas described these " white gods " as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the " morning of time " and taught the Incas ' primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs.

The writer described the fate of an elderly woman who was supposedly the last white person living in her street.

Wright's semi-autobiographical Black Boy ( 1945 ) described his early life from Roxie through his move to Chicago, his clashes with his Seventh-day Adventist family, his troubles with white employers and social isolation.

The earliest description is from Ctesias who described them as wild asses, fleet of foot, having a horn a cubit and a half in length and colored white, red and black.

* In Around the World in 80 Days ( 1972 – 1973 cartoon ), in Episode 10, Zenobia's ghost is described as wearing a golden helmet and purple silk gown, and riding a white camel.

Mr. Nagrin has described four `` places '', each with its scenery and people, added two `` diversions '', and concluded with `` A Toccata for the Young '', a refreshingly underplayed interpretation of rock'n'roll dancing.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

However, many people, notably Jehovah's Witnesses, believe that the wisdom in this proverb symbolizes Jesus Christ because he is later described in a similar way.

The word " Acts " denoted a recognized genre in the ancient world, " characterizing books that described great deeds of people or of cities.

In Revelation 9: 7-11, Abaddon is described as " The Destroyer ", the angel of the abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions ' teeth, wings, and the tail of a scorpion that torment people for five months.

The National Democratic Revolution ( NDR ) is described as a process through which the National Democratic Society ( NDS ) is achieved ; a society in which people are intellectually, socially, economically and politically empowered.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

Reports of the controversy reaching England at the time described the bowling as fast leg theory, which sounded to many people to be a harmless and well-established tactic.

Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.

If so, they may have originally comprised residual Celtic elements in central eastern Europe such as the Cotini, who formed a Celtic enclave in the Germanic-speaking zone and are described by Tacitus as iron-ore miners working as tributaries of the powerful Quadi Germanic people.

In 1822 it was described in detail and recorded as a " bou-mar-rang ", in the language of the Turuwal people ( a sub-group of the Dharug ) of the Georges River near Port Jackson.

The book could be seen as an allusion to the history as described by Moses ; for the minor Prophets, in promising God ’ s assistance to his people, must often remind how God in a miraculous manner brought up the Jews from Egypt.

Ulric Neisser coined the term " cognitive psychology " in his book Cognitive Psychology, published in 1967 wherein Neisser provides a definition of cognitive psychology characterizing people as dynamic information-processing systems whose mental operations might be described in computational terms.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

Tamari claims that wars, such as the Sosso-Malinke war described in the Sunjata epic, led to the formation of blacksmith and bard castes among the people that ultimately became the Mali empire.

Romani people by country | Romani people have been variously described as the low-caste or untouchable people of Europe.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

Although Kent is described in the show introduction as " mild-mannered ", he can be very assertive, often giving orders to people and taking authoritative command of situations, though, as in the Pre-Crisis Superman stories at that time, Clark is still considered the secret identity.

In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement ; that is, the population so described finds itself for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at some point, if the " homeland " still exists in any meaningful sense.

Before departing for Bennington with the news, Allen was visited by Duane, who offered Allen payments which Duane described in his diary as payment " for going among the people to quiet them ".

In Christian folklore, the elber began to be described as mischievous pranksters that could cause disease to cattle and people, and bring bad dreams to sleepers.

She is described as a beautiful old woman and by her aspect people saw that she belonged to the subterraneans.