To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein consider and mark how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind in the sight of God and of his law.
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic that really comes out of the culture that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.
Representation of the world like the world itself is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view which they confuse with the absolute truth.
If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now the novelist must take a good hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms molecules cells tissues and organs.
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
In Romanticism the main determinant is the mood the atmosphere. And in that regard you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.