The author of Kings describes how Jehu entered the city without any resistance, and saw Jezebel, the mother of king Jehoram, presenting herself from a window in the palace and receiving him with insolence.

Rich with allusions to Christian teaching, the poem describes a mother drowning her illegitimate infant and its being netted by fishermen.

Nancy describes longing for her mother during those years: " My favorite times were when Mother had a job in New York, and Aunt Virgie would take me by train to stay with her.

In a later semi-fictional autobiographical piece called Le Roman d ' un rallié, Coubertin describes his relationship with both his mother and his father as having been somewhat strained during his childhood and adolescence.

The Mahabharata describes one of its warrior heroes, Karna, as being the son of the Pandava mother Kunti and Surya.

In the book, she describes learning about Ono's control over John ( who referred to Ono as " mother ") in the period in the mid-1970s when Ono chose May Pang to be John's companion.

The most commonly encountered family relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris but in another tradition Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife.

The other books on this theme were " The King Who Rained ," " A Little Pigeon Toad " ( in which a child's mother thus describes her father ), and " The Sixteen Hand Horse.

In Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers in the Soviet Union to justify the re-allocation of their farmland: the tale describes how a child is awarded to a servant-girl rather than its natural mother, an aristocrat, as the woman most likely to care for it well.

") Screenwriter and director Alain Cavalier also describes Bresson's role pivotal not only in the New Wave movement, but for French Cinema in general, quoting " In French cinema you have a father and a mother: the father is Bresson and the mother is Renoir, with Bresson representing the strictness of the law and Renoir warmth and generosity.

* Postcards from the Edge ( 1987 ) by Carrie Fisher describes her substance abuse and often-strained relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds.

She describes her violently anti-Semitic father, a law professor in Krakow ; her unwillingness to help him spread his ideas ; her arrest by the Nazis for smuggling food to her mother, who was on her deathbed ; and particularly, her brief stint as a stenographer-typist in the home of Rudolf Höss, the commander of Auschwitz, where she was interned.

The Quranic account of Jesus begins with a prologue, which describes the birth of his mother, Mary, and her service in the Jerusalem temple, while under the care of the prophet and priest Zechariah, who was to be the father of John the Baptist.

Hoppus describes his mother as always supportive in his decisions to drop out of college and tour with Blink-182, however, he describes his father as " more realistic, [...] he said, " Have something to fall back on.

By James ' third year his mother and five of his siblings had died of consumption, leaving James to what biographer Herbert Paul describes as a " loveless, cheerless boyhood " with his cold, disciplinarian father and brother Richard.

" Gloria describes herself to her mother about having been a " slut " and Annie slaps her.

Merchant's Ophelia describes a series of women throughout time — women who dared question the patriarchal status quo and who were often castigated for doing so — and is a cry for women's rights and for more understanding of female archetypes beyond the scope of the " mother " and the " whore ", both of which severely limit women and attempt to turn them into little more than chattel.

Cynan ap Iago seems to have died while Gruffudd was still young, since the History describes his mother telling him who his father was.

He describes his father as a " conformist in religion ", while his mother and other family members important in his childhood were secular Jews ; shortly after his bar mitzvah he became an atheist.

A psychological interpretation, by Bruno Bettelheim, describes it as " splitting " the actual mother in an ideal mother and a false mother that contains what the child dislikes in the actual mother.

Plato's theory of forms or " ideas " describes ideal forms ( for example the platonic solids in geometry or abstracts like Goodness and Justice ), as universals existing independently of any particular instance.

Peter Burke describes sprezzatura in The Book of the Courtier as “ nonchalance ”, “ careful negligence ”, and “ effortless and ease .” The ideal courtier is someone who “ conceals art, and presents what is done and said as if it was done without effort and virtually without thought .” ( 31 ).

* The City of God ( written 413 – 426 AD ) by Augustine of Hippo, describes an ideal city, the " eternal " Jerusalem, the archetype of all Christian utopias.

Joseph McCabe describes Gregory as a " rough and violent peasant, enlisting his brute strength in the service of the monastic ideal which he embraced.

In reality, Vegetius probably describes an ideal rather than the reality.

Rawls argues that a set of moral beliefs in ideal reflective equilibrium describes or characterizes the underlying principles of the human sense of justice.

An Epistle to a Friend ( the above-mentioned Conversation Sharp ), published in 1798, describes Rogers's ideal of a happy life.

For an ideal gas in a constant area pipe, the effect of heat addition to the pipe may be calculated using the Rayleigh flow model, which describes how the Mach number varies with changes in the stagnation temperature.

The above describes an ideal wake, where the body's means of propulsion has no other effect on the water.

In reality, Vegetius probably describes an ideal rather than the reality.

Hooke's law can be derived from this formula, which describes the stiffness of an ideal spring:

Moorcock describes Mirenburg as " an attempt to produce an ideal middle European city ," based mainly on Prague.

In classical statistical mechanics, the H-theorem, introduced by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1872 ( who originally considered the H as the Greek capital letter η ), describes the increase in the entropy of an ideal gas in an irreversible process.

In The Republic, he describes four forms of unjust state, with timocracy as the second-most preferable of the four and closest to the ideal society.

Among other things, Schlick describes his " ideal " organ, which is a two-manual instrument with eight to ten stops for the Hauptwerk, four for the Rückpositiv, and four in the pedal:

Elizabeth Wichmann describes the ideal basic timbre for Peking opera songs as a " controlled nasal tone ".

Amagat's law or the Law of Partial Volumes of 1880 describes the behaviour and properties of mixtures of ideal ( as well as some cases of non-ideal ) gases.

These rights were diminished over time, ( Victor Hugo's Les Misérables describes the events of 1832 ) and Cabet wrote a utopian work about an ideal society entitled Voyage en Icarie.

A regulative ideal can be expressed in the form of a description, but what it describes is an ideal state of affairs, a condition of being that constitutes its aim, end, goal, intention, or objective.

Baudelaire describes the effects of the drugs and discusses the way in which they could theoretically aid mankind in reaching an " ideal " world.

The paper describes the typical Western ideal for oral cleanliness, as well as providing an outside view on hospital-care and on psychiatry.

The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation, describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a device that can apply acceleration to itself ( a thrust ) by expelling part of its mass with high speed and move due to the conservation of momentum.

# A statistical model that describes how the noisy measurements vary around their ideal values.