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Description Quotes
When the right words matter as much as the thing itself.
Each of these lines plays with the limits of description: one speaker says certain cruelty is beyond description entirely, another admits ordering food just because a menu word like 'crusted' caught their eye.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.
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