He does not appear to have a job, and is described as having private means, although he describes himself as " a traveling salesman in wines and spirits.

Alcaeus himself seems to underscore the difference between his own ' down-to-earth ' style and Sappho's more ' celestial ' qualities when he describes her almost as a goddess ( as cited above ), and yet it has been argued that both poets were concerned with a balance between the divine and the profane, each emphasising different elements in that balance.

According to the majority viewpoint, Acts describes Paul differently from how he describes himself, both factually and theologically.

Jean de Venette, a Carmelite friar and medieval chronicler vividly describes the chaos in France which he states he himself witnessed, after the time of this Battle.

Said himself describes his book, Orientalism, as a humanist critique of the enlightenment.

Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.

Wendy Doniger describes the gospel accounts as a " meta-myth " in which Jesus realizes that he is part of a " new myth [...] of a man who is sacrificed in hate " but " sees the inner myth, the old myth of origins and acceptance, the myth of a god who sacrifices himself in love ".

Dennett describes himself as " an autodidact — or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of informal tutorials on all the fields that interest me, from some of the world's leading scientists.

In this book, Hofstadter jokingly describes himself as " pilingual " ( meaning that the sum total of the varying degrees of mastery of all the languages that he's studied comes to 3. 14159 ...), as well as an " oligoglot " ( someone who speaks " a few " languages ).

The word dēmiourgos properly describes his relation to the material ; he is the father of that which is animal like himself.

He describes himself as " being known to one and all as a guy who is just around ".

In the two opening chapters the speaker describes himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem (,, ;, ), presenting himself as a philosopher at the center of a brilliant court.

Jesus declares his unity with the Father, promises to send the Paraclete, describes himself as the " real vine ," explains that he must leave ( die ) before the Holy Spirit comes, and prays that his followers be one.

In the body of the poem, Odin describes at great length the cosmogony of the worlds, the dwelling places of its inhabitants, and talks about himself and his many guises.

The Ghost describes himself as being in purgatory, and as dying without last rites.

He also describes a meeting between himself and the Muses on Mount Helicon, where he had been pasturing sheep when the goddesses presented him with a laurel staff, a symbol of poetic authority ( Theogony, ll.

He came from a prominent family ( his father was master of ceremonies at the court of the Duke ), and he often describes himself as having noble status in the inscriptions to his prints.

He describes himself as free and mentions that he makes money with a job " selling toner over the phone ".

He is well known for using influences from American comics, television, and films in his work, and describes himself as a big fan of Batman and Star Wars.

As Nikolai Ryzhkov describes it in his memoirs, " every Thursday morning he ( Mikhail Gorbachev ) would sit in his office like a little orphan – I would often be present at this sad procedure – nervously awaiting a telephone call from the sick Chernenko: Would he come to the Politburo himself or would he ask Gorbachev to stand in for him this time again?

Torvalds describes himself as " completely a-religious — atheist ", adding that " I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature.

The Church of Scientology describes Hubbard in hagiographic terms, and he portrayed himself as a pioneering explorer, world traveler, and nuclear physicist with expertise in a wide range of disciplines, including photography, art, poetry, and philosophy.

In the documentary Pilger praises the courage and commitment to freedom of Charter 77 and describes the communist totalitarianism as " fascism disguised as socialism ".

Article 1 of the State Constitution describes China as " a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship " meaning that the system is based on an alliance of the working classes — in communist terminology, the workers and peasants — and is led by the Communist Party, the vanguard of the working class.

Hoskins ' father was a communist and brought up Hoskins as an atheist, but Hoskins now describes himself as an agnostic.

In essence, the party is communist ; according to the programme of the party, the LSP was founded as an organization upholding socialist ideas after the 1991 events that the party describes as a ' counter-revolutionary bourgeois-nationalist coup '.

There is much contention even among communists around Avakian's development of what he has defined as a " new synthesis ": what he describes as a recasting of the theoretical framework for carrying forward communist revolution ; a re-envisioning of revolution and communism.

A document from Gordon from 1963 to US president John F. Kennedy also describes the ways João Goulart should be put down, and his fears of a communist intervention supported by the Soviets or by Cuba

Ex-Soviet Spy Viktor Suvorov describes building the Palace of the Soviets as the ultimate sign of communist supremacy in the world, in the book " Last Republic ".

Arenas describes the military operations against Marquetalia in May 1964 as part of an United States initiative called Plan LASO ( Latin American Security Operation ), allegedly meant to suppress dissent and possible communist rebellions that might spring up in the region.

Max Thurian describes the classic Reformed / Presbyterian concept of apostolic succession in the following terms.

Latour notes that such social criticism has been appropriated by those he describes as conspiracy theorists, including global warming skeptics and the 9 / 11 Truth movement: “ Maybe I am taking conspiracy theories too seriously, but I am worried to detect, in those mad mixtures of knee-jerk disbelief, punctilious demands for proofs, and free use of powerful explanation from the social neverland, many of the weapons of social critique .” ( p. 230 )

; Epiphenomenon / zombie reply: Several philosophers argue that consciousness, as Searle describes it, does not exist.

The doctrine of five phases describes two cycles of balance, a generating or creation ( 生, shēng ) cycle and an overcoming or destruction ( 克 / 剋, kè ) cycle of interactions between the phases.

The client / server characteristic describes the relationship of cooperating programs in an application.

* Seeking racial justice, which it describes as becoming a pro-reconciling / anti-racist church.

He / she will construct a project schedule model that describes the precedence links between elements of work.

Public finance describes finance as related to sovereign states and sub-national entities ( states / provinces, counties, municipalities, etc.

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

The Mahn-und Gedenkstätte Ahlem describes the history of the Jewish people in Hanover and the Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte / Kestner Pro Arte shows modern art.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

In this book he describes radical nanotechnology as a deterministic / mechanistic idea of nano engineered machines that does not take into account the nanoscale challenges such as wetness, stickness, brownian motion, high viscosity ( Drexler view ).

( ISO / IEC 21000 ) MPEG describes this standard as a multimedia framework and provides for intellectual property management and protection.

Chapman describes Oxford as " Rare and most absolute " in form and says he was " of spirit passing great / Valiant and learn ’ d, and liberal as the sun ".

A red / white colored Siberian Husky with heterochromia The American Kennel Club describes the Siberian Husky's eyes as " an almond shape, moderately spaced and set slightly obliquely.

Christopher Frayling, in his noted book on the Italian Western, describes American critical reception of the spaghetti Western cycle as, to " a large extent, confined to a sterile debate about the ' cultural roots ' of the American / Hollywood Western.

Sometimes, especially outside the U. S. and in the context of cable / satellite television, it is used instead of the term television network, which otherwise ( in its technical use above ) describes a group of geographically-distributed television stations that share affiliation / ownership and some or all of their programming with one another.

His song describes the place well: " The land of Id, ' tis such delight, the land of milk and honey / No need to lock your doors at night, the King has all the money!

He describes his message as a review of events following 9 / 11, and in this statement, he neither admits nor denies responsibility for the 9 / 11 attacks.

The Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið describes Ásatrú as " Nordic pantheism " involving " belief in the Icelandic / Nordic folklore " including all the " spirits and entities " besides " gods and other beings " this entails.

Émile Zola describes the back-stage and on-stage situation in the Théâtre des Variétés during the Second Empire in his novel Nana, which takes place in late 1860s and describes the career of operetta diva / courtesan Nana.

There is conjecture that some of the most yearning poetry attributed to Wyatt was inspired by their relationship and that it is Anne whom he describes in the sonnet Whoso List to Hunt, as unobtainable, headstrong, and belonging to the King: " noli me tangere for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold though I seem tame ".