What is "descriptions"

Usage examples of "descriptions".

A comparison of his stages with my descriptions will show the very strong and wide-ranging correlations and similarities.

Some of the descriptions appear to be based on newspaper accounts, rather than what was later learned to have actually taken place.

A Polish Jewish immigrant hairdresser with a history of mental illness and a reported dislike of women, he fit the eyewitness descriptions, the disorganized personality, and the police descriptions.

Certainly, descriptions such as the following would prove to Chief Stiltz that the author and the killer were one and the same.

Not another reflection do you hear from me, if I must pay forfeit of my privilege to hurry you on past descriptions of places and anatomy of character and impertinent talk about philosophy in a story.

Rather, they give two dissimilar descriptions of the same underlying theory.

Since their mutual descriptions are so different, and since none of the men can see the others, each thinks that he has grabbed hold of a different animal.

After a whole day spent in this employment, he would return about nightfall with several cocoanut shells filled with different descriptions of kelp.

As a religious solemnity, however, it had not at all corresponded with the horrible descriptions of Polynesian worship which we have received in some published narratives, and especially in those accounts of the evangelized islands with which the missionaries have favoured us.

The demoralizing influence of a dissolute foreign population, and the frequent visits of all descriptions of vessels, have tended not a little to increase the evils alluded to.

The men however, are not quite so harmonious in their utterance, and when excited upon any subject, would work themselves up into a sort of wordy paroxysm, during which all descriptions of rough-sided sounds were projected from their mouths, with a force and rapidity which was absolutely astonishing.

I take exception to the various descriptions of the witch Magrit which you placed in my mouth!

Notices and descriptions were posted in every village for miles around, and a small reward was offered for the return of the runaway serf.