#describe

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

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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. ↗

— Evan Davis

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Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#changing #curves #described #expression #movement

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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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. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#always #big #curly #described #else

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people. ↗

— Hans Blix

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Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

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