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A bruised silence descended on the van. — Hillary Jordan

We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams? — Diane Griffith

A voice called out, cold as chloroform and old shame. — Scott Lynch

When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles. — Amber Dawn

It was as hot as ever, even the turn of the moon bringing no relief, and the cries of cicadas fell like showers around me. — Lian Hearn

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I won't say the pain was indescribable, since there are plenty of good descriptive words: excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, and so on. — Jeff Strand

Though it had been over a year, she staggered through the world like one freshly bludgeoned by love. — Alexandra Kleeman

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

A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment. — Robert C. Martin

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake. — Cormac McCarthy

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac

Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to take risks, to haunt the edges of things. — Paul Auster

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had. — Fredrik Backman

Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow. — Douglas Adams

A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey. — Raymond E. Feist

If too descriptive, you lose the readers' ability to interpret. And that's a vital organ you don't want to fuck with. — Jason Lebowitz

He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive — Rayne Hall

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley

My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to — Neal Stephenson

And then there was a moment of silence. As if time was taking a deep breath. — Fredrik Backman

Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb. — Dan Sofer

Unsettling, like seeing Stalin on a skateboard. — David Nicholls

Pretty as a painting, but thorny as a rose. — Jean Zimmerman

I was just being honest and descriptive." "No, you were being an asshole." "It's not my fault they have to always be the same thing. — Paul Neilan

Bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch.
Descriptive on an affair — Susan Richards Shreve

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word. — Camryn Manheim

Even as winter comes, mornings are crisp, and the big, blue sky seems to hang newly washed over the sea of hills. — Deborah Lawrenson

Just like the sun coming up yonder out of the sea, pushing rays of light ahead of it. — Esther Forbes

What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive. — Alistair Begg

The pale sword came shivering through the air — George R R Martin

The child was slender as fleeting hope. — William Peter Blatty

Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it ... — Tamara Rose Blodgett

The summer came upon the country like a conqueror. — W. Somerset Maugham

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine — Tanith Lee

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. — Daniel Handler

I feel her wave of worry like a patio heater - faint and ineffective, but constant. — Neal Shusterman

Because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning ... — Tamara Rose Blodgett

Sounds - the stretched-out, far-off kind - drift through the halls, and I close my eyes, trying to break them down. — Victoria Schwab

His skin was blotched as a dying banana. — David Mitchell

[H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's. — Joe Haldeman

His voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking — George R R Martin

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

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive. — Elliott Erwitt

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. — Iron & Wine

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars. — Donna Tartt

He looks like a man.'
'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist. — Julia Quinn

Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue. — Lisa Scottoline

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn. — Allen Lacy

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Moby

Now here he was: sartorially, facially and interpersonally sharpened; every inch the beatific boffin. — Sam Byers

And it sounds like two tectonic plates are getting it on somewhere beneath us — Daniel Jose Older

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. — Robert Delaunay

The ghouls leered at her, unbreathing, their flesh crisply necrotic like rice paper pressed over old oozing wounds. — Scott Lynch

Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.
The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect. — Ann Barrett Batson

Beyond the haze, the globe was decorated with a mosaic of sapphire, emerald and amber. The planet glittered like a jewel in the moonlight. — L.T. Gibbons

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. — Hilary Mantel

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening. — William Peter Blatty

Wuthering being a significant, provincial adjective descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. — Emily Bronte

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. — Khaled Hosseini

We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Tess was carried along the wings of the hours — Thomas Hardy

we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair. — Laurie Lee

The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths. — Julie Lessman

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. — Brian Morton

God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting. — Michael Horton

The day was gray, the color of Europe. — Markus Zusak

For Aaron, looking like a skeleton was very much for life, not just for Halloween — Kestral M. Gaian

Interactive Decision Theory would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory. — Robert Aumann

He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked ... fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus. — Josh Lanyon

I like Sade. I'm re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible. — Michael Gira

The roof was a gymnasium for the winds — Thomas Hardy

At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits. — Franz Kafka

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going. — Andrew Bird

Some scents sparkle and then quickly disappear, like the effervescence of ctirus zestor a bright note of mint. — Deborah Lawrenson

[T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds. — Julie Lessman

Her long platinum blond hair fell in loose waves past her shoulders, with a few black peekaboo strands. She wore a black minidress and combat boots. — Jamie McGuire

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. — Alexander Woollcott

Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons. — Amber Dawn

When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out. — Philip J. Kaplan

I could see tongues of dense fog licking over the ridge in the distance, where this world ended and the next one began, cold, damp, and sunless. — Ransom Riggs

... in my spell of uncertainty as to where I was... — Marcel Proust

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens. — Alexandra Kleeman

She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open. — Boris Pasternak

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue. — Douglas Wood

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive. — Lisa Gardner

The trees were like black skeletons reaching to the sky, pleading with their bony arms for the sun to get stronger. — J.R. Ward

Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail. — Charles Wheelan