I prepare for novels by writing descriptive passages of places and characters.

But it takes a while to get going and some of the descriptive passages feel too long.

She has a reason for every bit of action and each descriptive passage.

It's so casual, in fact, that you may not even be aware of reading a descriptive passage.

Little other than isolated records can be established from most of these, although there are some fine descriptive passages.

In a series of descriptive passages the events leading up to the race to save the human species are explained.

He may not use long descriptive passages for any of this necessary material.

There's sometimes a very descriptive passage about the night before.

ON a more serious note, the descriptive passages found in the letters often rival those of his novels and stories.

Long instrumental passages descriptive of storms or battles were also present.