That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man. ' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.
Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a special and distinct place. This prayer, which some call the Psalter of the Virgin or Breviary of the Gospel and of Christian life, was described and recommended by Our Predecessor of happy memory, Leo XIII
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering. "
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence. . . it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design. . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
Love cannot be described. It must be tasted.