"describe" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is a piece made strong by underlying Latin dance rhythms and by a rhapsodic piano part that, as Miss Leon nicely describes it, leaps "like the flames of a fire, with ever-changing shapes of constant heat."
- Mr. Helburn and I formed a bond over our mutual love for the wines of Gigondas, which he described nicely as "soul food in a bottle."
- Peter D. Lawrence ("French Supermarkets of Stylish Wares for the Home," Travel, Jan. 7) nicely described the excellent examples of design found there, and the special style of some of the European solutions to home improvement needs.
- The quotation reads, in part, "One observes in order to see what one would not see if one did not observe," which somehow nicely describes one's multilayered experience of the paintings - and, maybe, of all paintings.
- They call it getting "whacked" - mob talk for a contract killing - which nicely describes the psychological violence occurring on Wall Street these days.
- "The term 'movie mogul' came into use around 1915, nicely describing the immigrant producers in the eyes of the public - part splendid emperors, part barbarian invaders," Mr. Sklar wrote.
- Marx: From each according his ability to each according his need - that would nicely describe the "assist", then?
- He and his contemporaries were mindful of Galileo's fate, and Cutler nicely describes how hypotheses were argued with one eye on observable facts and the other on Scripture.
- So I vote to retain a perfect storm, which nicely describes a confluence of events.
- LEAD: In "Lost Among the Girls" (About Men, Oct. 30), Rand Richards Cooper nicely describes his life in a girls' school - the combination of minority status and the special treatment of token pet.
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