Hanging oneself describes a method of suicide in which a person applies a ligature to the neck and brings about unconsciousness and then death, by means of partial suspension or partial weight-bearing on the ligature.

Philo describes the first seven months of Caligula's reign as completely blissful.

Evelyn, quite poetically describes it as " lowering the biscuit into the tea and letting it soak in there and trying to calculate the exact moment before the biscuit dissolves, when you whip it up into your mouth and enjoy the blissful union of biscuits and tea combined.

In addition to real life counterparts of the Abyssinian maid, Milton's Paradise Lost describes Abyssinian kings keeping their children guarded at Mount Amara and a false paradise, which is echoed in Kubla Khan.

He describes how the " Old Man of the Mountain " ( Sabbah ) would drug his young followers with hashish, lead them to a " paradise ", and then claim that only he had the means to allow for their return.

Some apocrypha and pseudepigraphic sources express pessimism about human nature (" A grain of evil seed was sown in Adam's heart from the beginning "), and the Talmud ( b. Avodah Zarah 22b ) has an unusual passage which Edward Kessler describes as " the serpent seduced Eve in paradise and impregnated her with spiritual-physicial ' dirt ' which was inherited through the generations ," but the revelation at Sinai and the reception of the Torah cleansed Israel.

David I. Grossvogel, describes this situation as the " restoration of a childhood paradise lost ," attributing Le Voyageur Sans Bagage as the beginning of Anouilh's search to justify his the unhappiness of his youth.

Of all of Keats's poems, " To Autumn ", with its catalog of concrete images, most closely describes a paradise as realized on earth while also focusing on archetypal symbols connected with the season.

Ghilman ( singular ( ghulam ), plural ghilmān ) describes either young servants in paradise or slave-soldiers in the Ottoman, Mughal and Persian Empires.

Behn ’ s New World seems almost utopian as she describes how the people get along: “ with these People, … we live in perfect Tranquility, and good Understanding, as it behooves us to do .” This New World is unique during this period ; it is " simultaneously a marvelous prelapsarian paradise and the thoroughly commercialized crossroads of international trade ”.

All in all, Jack's journey through an America that scholar Paul Socken describes as a " lost paradise " ( see below ) is one of disillusionment and self-discovery that allows him to break through the impasse he had met in his writing.

Anaïs Nin describes the process as akin to being " jected from a paradise of soundlessness .... thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.

In " Theologia Mystica " Pordage describes a spiritual journey through the Boehmean cosmology of the three worlds of the " Dark-Fire " or wrath-world, the " Fire-Light " or severe world of common human experience, and the " Light-Fire World " or paradise.

In one of his poems Catullus describes his happy return to the family villa at Sirmio on Lake Garda near Verona.

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).

Calvin then describes the New Covenant using the passage from the Apostles ' Creed that describes Christ's suffering under Pontius Pilate and his return to judge the living and the dead.

Ameliki describes how some of the Nephites wished to return to the land of Nephi, apparently in an attempt to reclaim it.

* Hervé Bazin's novel Les Bienheureux de la Désolation ( 1970 ) describes the 1961 forced exile of the population to England, and their subsequent return.

Upon his return home, he describes being haunted by ghosts and nightmares.

They disagree whether Jesus describes the signs that accompany his return.

In the 1st century BC., the Roman poet Virgil describes Charon in the course of Aeneas ’ s descent to the underworld ( Aeneid, Book 6 ), after the Cumaean Sibyl has directed the hero to the golden bough that will allow him to return to the world of the living:

If the hero does return after the culmination of the quest, he may face false heroes who attempt to pass themselves off as him, or his initial response may be a rejection of that return, as Joseph Campbell describes in his critical analysis of quest literature, The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Buzz Windrip, a populist United States senator who is elected to the presidency after promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and traditional values.

The poet in return immortalized his friend in a famous sonnet in which Milton, with a musical perception not common amongst poets, describes the great merit of Lawes.

Chapter 100, the last of all, quickly describes the return journey to the Tang Empire, and the aftermath in which each traveller receives a reward in the form of posts in the bureaucracy of the heavens.

It describes the mystical return that not only leads to forgiveness for the sins but can fully enable the repenting person to be elevated to a spiritual place that is higher than where they were before the sin.

For the years 449-455, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written c. 890, describes how King Vortigern ( a British tribal king ) invited the Angles to come and receive land in return for helping him defend against marauding Picts.

On the return trip around Cape Horn in the middle of the Antarctic winter he describes terrifying storms and incredible beauty, giving vivid descriptions of icebergs, and the scurvy that afflicts members of the crew.

The novel England, England by Julian Barnes describes an imaginary, though plausible, set of circumstances that cause modern England to return to the state of Deep England.

Some people argue that the song describes the journey to the mines in South Africa, while others say it describes the return to Zimbabwe.

Umberto Eco describes the green swath as a sort of balm on which a monk might rest weary eyes, so as to return to reading with renewed vigor.

International Gothic describes courtly Gothic art from about 1360 to 1430, after which Gothic art begins to merge into the Renaissance art that had begun to form itself in Italy during the Trecento, with a return to classical principles of composition and realism, with the sculptor Nicola Pisano and the painter Giotto as especially formative figures.

He describes the attitude of the seasonal worker who vows not to return the following year, but somehow forgets about the hardship and remembers only the positive side during the off season, and inevitably returns.

In the Heart Sutra, Guanyin describes to the arhat Sariputra the nature of reality and the essence of the Buddhist teachings.

However there are differences that can be used to determine which theory describes reality more accurately.

It describes the relationship between the fundamental objects of physical reality and those of everyday experience as well as those of a more abstract social nature.

Catatonia describes a profoundly agitated state in which the experience of reality is generally considered to be impaired.

" Living with corruption ", his latest documentary shown on CNN, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in Sierra Leone and Kenya, affecting mostly the poor.

If there is a new theory which is better at explaining and predicting phenomena than an older theory ( i. e. it has more explanatory power ), we are justified in believing that the newer theory describes reality more correctly.

This does not mean that quantum mechanics describes the world as more deterministic, unless one already considers the wave function to be the true reality.

Call stacks are also discussed in GEB, as one dialogue describes the adventures of Achilles and the Tortoise as they make use of " pushing potion " and " popping tonic " involving entering and leaving different layers of reality.

" He describes his position as critical realism and believes that science and religion address aspects of the same reality.

Artists who strayed from the official line were severely punished describes the products of socialist realism as " inferior ", ascribing this as necessarily proceeding from the limited view of reality permitted to creative artists.

The Vigilant Citizen further reports: " While Feldman does not directly mention Monarch mind control ( which is used on Hollywood child stars and is characterized by systematic sexual abuse ), he describes a reality that is very similar to it.

Maggie Bowers claims he is widely acknowledged as the originator of Latin American magical realism ( as both a novelist and critic ); she describes Carpentier's conception as a kind of heightened reality where elements of the miraculous can appear while seeming natural and unforced.

Eliade describes this view of reality as a fundamental part of " primitive ontology " ( the study of " existence " or " reality ").

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

* John Prine's song " Illegal Smile " describes escaping the reality of a bad day, but ending up in court.

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

Jacques Le Goff describes the " translatio imperii " concept as typical for the Middle Ages for several reasons: the idea of linearity of time and history was typical for the Middle Ages ; the " translatio imperii " idea typically also neglected simultaneous developments in other parts of the world ( of no importance to medieval Europeans ); the " translatio imperii " idea didn't separate divine history from the history of worldly power: medieval Europeans considered divine ( supernatural ) and material things as part of the same continuum, which was their reality.

A concept or theory should be evaluated by how effectively it explains and predicts phenomena, as opposed to how accurately it describes objective reality.

While Raskin merely describes the main binary oppositions providing examples mostly from the Jewish humor ), Davies explores the situations where the scripts apply ; for example, he has discovered that the most common opposition, stupid / clever, is applied under particular circumstances in the social reality of two ethnic groups concerned.

The Guide describes the inhabitants of the higher dimensions as " a pretty nasty heathen lot ", that should be wiped out if only we could " work out a way of firing missiles at right angles to reality.

A Pulitzer Prize winner describes reporting on national security as her sources face internal inquisitions ; a veteran reporter in Las Vegas talks about taking on casino moguls and organized crime ; while a reporter covering the Mexican border explains how she has survived the violent reality of the undeclared war on our border.

In this letter, Pope John Paul describes the characteristics and virtues that political leadership should require, which are truthfullness, honesty, fairness, temperance and solidarity ( as described in paragraph 98 to 100 ), given that truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular.