The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

Ivinskaya describes Liubimov as, " a shrewd and enlightened person who understood very well that all the mudslinging and commotion over the novel would be forgotten, but that there would always be a Pasternak.

Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.

In the same novel Egan describes lifeforms in the 6-D ' macrosphere ' which use a collapsed atom chemistry with energetic processes of the same order as nuclear reactions, due to the peculiarities of higher dimensional physics.

In her novel Brain Plague, Joan Slonczewski describes a species of intelligent microrganisms with arsenic based chemistries that live symbiotically with human hosts.

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

In notes to accompany his biographical novel A Man of Parts David Lodge describes how Wells came to regret his attitudes to the Jews as he became more aware of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

Typee, Melville's first novel, describes a brief love affair with a beautiful native girl, Fayaway, who generally " wore the garb of Eden " and came to epitomize the guileless noble savage in the popular imagination.

* In John Steinbeck's novel The Winter of Our Discontent, the protagonist Ethan Hawley describes a mandrake root in his family's collection of curios collected on whaling voyages, "[...] We even had a mandrake root-a perfect little man, sprouted from the death-ejected sperm of a hanged man [...]".

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) produce a six-stage classification that describes the process by which a novel influenza virus moves from the first few infections in humans through to a pandemic.

His 1949 novel Space Cadet describes a future scenario where a military-controlled global government enforces world peace.

An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796.

This novel describes the city of Amaurote by saying, " Of them all this is the worthiest and of most dignity ".

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

* Christopher Moore's novel, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, describes a Thuggee ritual.

* Christopher Koch's novel: " Out of Ireland " describes life as a convict in Van Diemen's Land.

In his 1969 novel Knight in Anarchy Shipway describes the life of Humphrey de Visdelou as he follows Geoffrey de Mandeville to his doom.

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.

* Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein describes tractor / pressor beams as a product of the physics of a " newly-discovered magneto-gravitic or electro-gravitic spectra " featured in the novel.

Barbey D ' Aurevilly describes a couple as Philemon and Baucis in his short story " Happiness in Crime " from the collection Les Diaboliques.

Verlaine's concept of the poète maudit in turn borrows from Baudelaire, who opened his collection Les fleurs du mal with the poem Bénédiction, which describes a poet whose internal serenity remains undisturbed by the contempt of the people surrounding him.

Like Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces, Trionfo di Afrodite describes rituals for a ( in this case Greek-Roman ) wedding.

As official Marvel historian Les Daniels describes, the name Red Circle was " a halfhearted attempt to establish an identity for what was usually described loosely as ' the Goodman group ' when a new logo was adopted: a red disk surrounded by a black ring that bore the phrase ' A Red Circle Magazine.

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.

" Les Brutes " ( 1980 ) describes the savage acts done by the Warsaw Pact military forces at the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, " H & D " ( 1979 ), with " H & D " standing for " Hôpital & Débiles " (" Asylum & Psychos "), accuses the Soviet Union and its secret services ( KGB ) of suppressing dissent by sending political opponents to psychiatric hospitals under fake diagnoses.

For example, Leo Steinberg's essay " The Philosophical Brothel " describes Picasso's Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon in a perspective that is existential-phenomenological.

Les Avariés ( 1901 ), Damaged Lives in English, was banned by the censor, due to its medical details of syphilis, was read privately by the author at the Théâtre Antoine ; and Petite amie ( 1902 ) describes the life of a Parisian shop-girl.

The Houguez were originally from Alderney, and the poem describes their life on Les Casquets.

The Plains of Passage describes the journey of Ayla and Jondalar west along the Great Mother River ( the Danube ), from the home of The Mammoth Hunters ( roughly modern Ukraine ) to Jondalar's homeland ( close to Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France ).

With his latest book, The warring states ( French title Les royaumes combattants ) Jean-François Susbielle describes the world as a closed system composed of seven kingdoms: the USA, Japan, China, Japan, Russia, India and Brazil.

The Houguez were originally from Alderney, and the poem describes their life on Les Casquets.

180 BC, he describes them then as " similar in language and customs " to the Scordisci, a tribe of Illyria described as Celtic by Strabo ( although he adds that they had mingled with Illyrians and Thracians ).

After several rounds of debate between Job and his friends, in a divine voice, described as coming from a " cloud " or " whirlwind ", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and rhetorically asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.

For him, the sense of an expression in language describes a certain state of affairs in the world, namely, the way that some object is presented.

A word that describes a place using a non-native terminology or language is referred to as an exonym.

They are self-conscious about speaking formally and their rhetoric is shown to be flawed, as if Euripides was exploring the problematical nature of language and communication: " For speech points in three different directions at once, to the speaker, to the person addressed, to the features in the world it describes, and each of these directions can be felt as skewed.

In 1984, the Ethnologue released a three-letter coding system, called an " SIL code ", to identify each language that it describes.

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 ).

By an abuse of the definition, a particular formal language is often thought of as being equipped with a formal grammar that describes it.

The New Testament describes tongues largely as speech addressed to God, but also as something that can potentially be interpreted into human language, thereby " edifying the hearers " ( 1 Cor 14: 5, 13 ).

" A fully explicit grammar that exhaustively describes the grammatical constructions of a language is called a descriptive grammar.

Jordanes, a Goth writing in Italy in 551, a century after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire, describes the Huns as a " savage race, which dwelt at first in the swamps, a stunted, foul and puny tribe, scarcely human, and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance to human speech.

The use of the same bytecode for all JVMs on all platforms allows Java to be described as a write once, run anywhere programming language, versus write once, compile anywhere, which describes cross-platform compiled languages.

The pilot episode of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, " Broken Bow " ( 2001 ) describes the Klingon language as having " eighty polyguttural dialects constructed on an adaptive syntax ".

Finally, the fourth section describes the concepts and language relating to mass, space, and motion.

Halliday describes language as a semiotic system, " not in the sense of a system of signs, but a systemic resource for meaning ".

Halliday describes himself as a generalist, meaning that he has tried " to look at language from every possible vantage point ", and has described his work as " wander the highways and byways of language ".

Orthography thus describes or defines the set of symbols used in writing a language, and the rules about how to use those symbols.

The syntax of a language describes the possible combinations of symbols that form a syntactically correct program.

While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning.

Jesuit missionary Jacques Gravier's pioneering Kaskaskia-French dictionary explicitly describes and names the passenger pigeon as mimi8a in the Kaskaskia Illinois language, said to be equivalent to tourtre in French.

A page description language ( PDL ) is a language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap.