#descriptive

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

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After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#descriptive #fat #i #just #thought

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#fat #just #me #most #point

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Shriveled apple cores stood side by side on the window sill, a long row of them with their seed chambers bitten open and the pointed sees scattered on the floor. The brown, discolored remnants of their flesh bore the imprint of his grandfather's teeth. That was the image This was left with, the one that ever since was the first to recur when he thought of his dead grandfather: shriveled apple cores on the sill of a window that looked out onto an overgrown garden. ↗

— Hansjörg Schertenleib

#descriptive #death

Without her glasses Vivian did look a little frightening. She had tight sinewy strappy muscles and a face that was hardened and almost brutal - a face that might have been chiseled by a sculptor who had fallen out of love with the idea of beauty. ↗

— Brian Morton

#descriptive #beauty