He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

The term originated in the Middle Ages and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window.

It can also be described as the meter or feel of a piece ( being in a straight duple meter or having a swing feel ).

Martin Luther described Paul's letter to the Romans as the " most important piece in the New Testament.

The essay has been described as " a daring and original piece of work in which he set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom of philosophy ", and as such was controversial, particularly among the conservative professors at the University of Berlin.

Among the artifacts recovered were a piece of wood, pottery sherds, weathered stones initially described as hand tools, fossilized bones, and a tooth.

The main theme can be described as a celebratory version of the original theme from Tomb Raider, as similar chord and instruments are used in the piece.

Billboard described the album as musically melding " backwoods blues, skewed gospel, and unruly art stomp into a sublime piece of junkyard sound sculpture.

Unlike the game of Renaissance described above, Rococo has a similarly named Swapper piece that moves like a Queen, but trades places with the enemy it runs up to, a full Queen's move away.

In older English commentary, the files are labeled by the piece originally occupying its first rank ( e. g. queen, king's rook, queen's bishop ), and ranks by the numbers 1 to 8 from each player's point of view, depending on the move being described.

" To pin " refers to the action of the attacking piece inducing the pin, and the defending piece so restricted is described as pinned.

Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro ( 1928 ), which he considered trivial and once described as " a piece for orchestra without music ".

The western pediment has Apollo as the central figure, " majestic " and " remote ", presiding over a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, in strong contrast to that of the eastern pediment for its depiction of violent action, and described by D. E. Strong as the " most powerful piece of illustration " for a hundred years.

The PRC Foreign Minister emphasised that the Anti-Secession Law was not a piece of unenforceable legislation, while the US Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack described Chen's policy as " unhelpful ".

Kozintzev described his vision of the film as an ensemble piece: with Lear, played by a dynamic Jüri Järvet, as first among equals in a cast of fully developed characters.

Ernest Hemingway, who later purchased the piece, compared the artistic accomplishment to James Joyce ’ s Ulysses and described it by saying, “ It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there.

The film received poor reviews and was described by Bosley Crowther as " a distressingly empty piece "; but, with a profit of $ 2. 5 million, it was one of her biggest box-office successes.

An anonymously-contributed version described as a " hole location gauge " was printed in the June 1964 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, with the comment that " this outrageous piece of draftsmanship evidently escaped from the Finagle & Diddle Engineering Works " ( although something else called a " hole location gauge " had already been patented in 1961 ).

A piece of a carpometacarpus supposedly from Oligocene rocks near Lusk, Wyoming was described as Gaviella pusilla, but this handbone also shows some similarities to the plotopterids which were flightless wing-propelled divers and if these are apomorphic would make an unconvincing member of the Gaviidae ( though it still could be a small-winged gaviiform in an – as of yet undescribed – family " Gaviellidae "): while the carpometacarpus in Gavia is somewhat convergent to that of wing-propelled divers, enabling the wings to be used as rudders for quick underwater turns, Colymboides still had an unspecialized plesiomorphic hand.

" One literary critic said that had the novel not been about slavery, " it would be just another sentimental novel ," while another described the book as " primarily a derivative piece of hack work.

Note also that if a piece of land, say a large park, is described as five kilometres square, that means it has the shape of a square, each side of the square being five kilometres long.

Wilson described the piece as " consisting of five ' rounds ', with interspersed spoken word ".

Bakshi next directed the pilot Hound Town for NBC ; he described the result as " an embarrassing piece of shit ".

It is described by Glyn Jones in The Dragon Has Two Tongues as a " staggering and accomplished piece of literary hokum " ( p. 51 ), " a book Jones finds impossible to take seriously, though much of it read with absorption " ( p. 53 ).

One major problem about this theory is that in real-life situation, the time between encoding a piece of information and recalling it, is going to be filled with all different kinds of events that might happen to the individual.

In chess, a pin is a situation brought on by an attacking piece in which a defending piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece on its other side to capture by the attacking piece.

In a situational pin, moving the pinned piece out of the line of attack will result in a situation detrimental to the player of the pinned piece, such as a checkmate.

Although a situational pin is not an absolute pin and the pinned piece can still be moved according to the rules, moving out of line of attack can result in a bad situation or even immediate loss of the game.

Being " run out " refers to the situation where the distance from the climber's position to the last piece of gear is far enough that the climber will receive little, if any, protection from a fall.

" Diebold spokesman David Bear played down the seriousness of the situation, asserting that " For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software.

In a piece for The Nation, Andrew Kopkind called it " the most convincing story about popular resistance to imperial oppression since the inimitable Battle of Algiers ," adding that he'd " take the Wolverines from Colorado over a small circle of friends from Harvard Square in any revolutionary situation I can imagine.

* Fork ( chess ), a situation in chess where one piece simultaneously attacks two or more opposing pieces, usually resulting in the loss of an enemy piece

* Samuel Beckett's Play ( play ) ( 1963 ): absurdist theatre piece about the situation between two women and one man.

:" ... the music of Semele is so full of variety, the recitative so expressive, the orchestration so inventive, the characterization so apt, the general level of invention so high, the action so full of credible situation and incident — in a word, the piece as a whole is so suited to the operatic stage — that one can only suppose its neglect to have been due to an act of abnegation on the part of opera companies.

The situation has led to Brahms's piece being referred to today in recordings and concert programs as the Saint Anthony Variations in addition to its original title.

Judith Bray, land law expert from Buckingham University, speaking to BBC about the case, said that " the legal situation is very confusing because a piece of legislation in the 1920s separated manorial rights from the ownership of land.

If the attacked piece is the king, the situation is referred to as a discovered check.

When a limited-overs match is affected by rain or bad light, and the Duckworth Lewis method is used to adjust the target for a team batting second, because of the complexity of the situation, the fielding side's captain may decide to give a piece of paper with the Duckworth Lewis calculations to the vice captain or another player, so that he is not overburdened with duties.

The simplest and probably most common situation of backporting is a fixed security-hole in a newer version of a piece of software.

Using and subverting elements of various genres, including thriller, situation comedy and grade-B horror film, the piece is written with cynical humor, but is serious in tone.

Amid the ruins of the city of Tumbes, he tried to piece together the situation before him.

As soon as a situation develops where the opponent cannot escape losing a piece to a pawn, or where a pawn may attack two opposing units at the same time, the player must move his / her pawn to that location.

The Kingpin skillfully ruins Murdock's life piece by piece, but Murdock cannot see his handiwork — instead, he is convinced that he is simply unlucky and that there is no enemy for him to fight except for his increasingly desperate and violent attempts to investigate this situation.