Her time spent at the many locations featured in her books is very apparent by the extreme detail in which she describes them.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

The Last Survivor describes the many treasures left for the dead such as the weapons, armour and golden cups, strongly paralleling Scyld ’ s “ well furbished ship ..., bladed weapons and coats of mail ,” Hildeburg ’ s kin ’ s “ blood-plastered coats of mail boar-shaped helmets ” and Beowulf's treasure from the dragon.

Church tradition developed outside of the canon of the New Testament describes the martyrdom of many saints, including the legend of the martyrdom of Barnabas.

This section describes what is generally referred to as the " classic RISC pipeline ", which in fact is quite common among the simple CPUs used in many electronic devices ( often called microcontroller ).

Cosmological perturbation theory, which describes the evolution of slight inhomogeneities in the early universe, has allowed cosmologists to precisely calculate the angular power spectrum of the radiation, and it has been measured by the recent satellite experiments ( COBE and WMAP ) and many ground and balloon-based experiments ( such as Degree Angular Scale Interferometer, Cosmic Background Imager, and Boomerang ).

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 )

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

* Cortical magnification, describes how many neurons in an area of the visual cortex are ' responsible ' for processing a stimulus of a given size, as a function of visual field location

The narrative voice in many of the songs describes an erotic relationship, in the troubadour fashion, with the Divine.

Iamblichus describes the One as a monad whose first principle or emanation is intellect ( nous ), while among " the many " that follow it there's a second, super-existent " One " that is the producer of intellect or soul ( psyche ).

This subjective experience is often called a quale ( plural qualia ), and it describes the private " raw feel " or the subjective " what-it-is-like " that is the inner accompaniment of many mental states.

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 book describes its own structure around ten " toledot " sections ( the " these are the generations of ..." phrases ), but many modern commentators see it in terms of a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories ( chapters 12 – 50 ).

Like most similar works of its time the journal was not written contemporaneously to the events it describes, but rather compiled many years later, much of it dictated.

Wilhelm Dörpfeld suggests that Homer had visited many of the places and regions which he describes in his epics, such as Mycenae, Troy, the palace of Odysseus at Ithaca and more.

Nonetheless, modern historians agree that he also had many faults as king, including what historian Ralph Turner describes as " distasteful, even dangerous personality traits ", such as pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty.

The story describes the slave's mojo as fixing him into many formations, and he ultimately dies because he misuses its power.

The Qur ' an describes many prophets and messengers as well as their respective followers as Muslim: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and Jesus and his apostles are all considered to be Muslims in the Qur ' an.

In this work he describes many of his experiments with his model earth called the terrella.

The Museum was the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler in 1995 entitled Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, And Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, which describes in detail many of its exhibits.

Similarly, Nostradamus's notorious ' 1999 ' prophecy at X. 72 ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ) describes no event that commentators have succeeding in identifying either before or since, other than by dint of twisting the words to fit whichever of the many contradictory happenings they are keen to claim as ' hits '.

* Spacecraft propulsion — describes many different propulsion systems for spacecraft

One of Whorf's examples of this was the supposedly many words for ' snow ' in the Inuit language, which has later been shown to be a misrepresentation but also for example how the Hopi language describes water with two different words for drinking water in a container versus a natural body of water.

The following describes many of the clothing items and accessories common among skinheads.

A passage in the Poetic Edda poem Sigrdrífumál describes runes being graven on the sun, on the ear of one of the sun-horses and on the hoofs of the other, on Sleipnir's teeth, on bear's paw, on eagle's beak, on wolf's claw, and on several other things including on Bragi's tongue.

The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma ( in the sense of " truth ") as " beyond reasoning " or " transcending logic ", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of things as they really are.

Research on these geometries led to, among other things, Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes the universe as non-Euclidean.

Among other things, the CLI specification describes the following four aspects:

Those are the things that he describes in this book.

Rava states in the Babylonian Talmud that although Ezekiel describes the appearance of the throne of God ( Merkabah ), this is not because he had seen more than the prophet Isaiah, but rather because the latter was more accustomed to such visions ; for the relation of the two prophets is that of a courtier to a peasant, the latter of whom would always describe a royal court more floridly than the former, to whom such things would be familiar.

John presents a " higher " Christology than the synoptics, meaning that he describes Jesus as the incarnation of the divine Logos through whom all things were made, as the object of veneration, and more explicitly as God incarnate.

" Fire is both a substance and a motivator of change, it is active in altering other things quantitatively and performing an activity Heraclitus describes as " the judging and convicting of all things.

It is used in English as well with terms like bling, which describes the glinting of light on things like gold, chrome or precious stones.

Process thought describes truth as " movement " in and through determinates ( Hegelian truth ), rather than describing these determinates as fixed concepts or " things " ( Aristotelian truth ).

** A 64-bit Program status word ( PSW ) which describes ( among other things )

This class of theories holds that the truth or the falsity of a representation is determined in principle solely by how it relates to " things ", by whether it accurately describes those " things ".

It describes the " primordial state " of all things as well as a basic character of the Tao, and is usually associated with spontaneity and creativity.

Has a chapter on the Holy Vehm ; among other things, it describes the practice of " Free As a Bird ".

The film also features an ' out-of-universe ' voice-over narration that describes the events depicted as things that would happen during a nuclear war.

* The National Geographic documentary entitled Inside the Mafia ( June 2005 ) describes, among other things, his lifelong struggle against organised crime: " From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Falcone and a handful of colleagues wage a lonely and dangerous war against the mafia.

Fromm also spoke of " orientation of character " in his book Man For Himself, which describes the ways an individual relates to the world and constitutes his general character, and develops from two specific kinds of relatedness to the world: acquiring and assimilating things (" assimilation "), and reacting to people (" socialization ").

Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization ( entity classes ), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of ( attributes ) and associations between pairs of those things of significance ( relationships ).

The book describes her life as a series of three acts, each thirty years long, and declares that her third " act " will be her most significant, due in part to her commitment to the Christian religion, and that it will determine the things for which she will be remembered.

In this description, on the other hand, although there are many elements of the description that we could transfer directly from the grounds to the suitor ( natural beauty, lack of artifice ), Austen is emphasizing the consistency of the domain of use rather than stretching to make a fresh comparison: each of the things she describes she associates with Darcy, and in the end we feel that Darcy is as beautiful as the place to which he is compared and that he belongs within it.