Explaining

Michael Corkery/The Wall Street Journal A label explaining uses for a signal bell to warn miners of impending danger. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Because you don't get to make over 200 appearances on the MotD sofa wearing a form‑hugging middle-aged-divorcee-in-JD-Weatherspoon-style shiny shirt, with a caption under your name explaining who you are so that younger viewers don't think they're listening to just any dull old gadgie the producer found loitering round a mini-cab office halfan hour before the lights went up, unless you can say things like "And he takes it with aplomb" with, well, aplomb. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Each item will have a tag explaining its origin and significance, and it will likely take several years to completely divest. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the sixteenth century the application of a term explaining celestial movements to political movements on the earth was natural. ❋ FELIX GILBERT (1968)

These were so natural as to require a label explaining this; but I would remind all workers in taxidermy that there is no useful end gained by modelling small stones; a great amount of labour is wasted, and the intention of modelling -- which is to replace the great weight of large stones by extraordinary lightness -- is completely overlooked. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

Some indeed there are, who, by perverting the established signification of words, (which they call explaining) have ventured to expunge all there doctrines out of the scriptures, for no other reason than that they are not able to comprehend them; and argue thus: — The scriptures are the word of ❋ 1704-1787 (1776)

The Federal Trade Commission estimates that one in eight fur-trimmed garments lack a label explaining the source of the fur, Ma said. ❋ By CATHY BUSSEWITZ (2010)

They should have come out strong and hard in explaining how NOBODY (except the wealthy) can feel secure about their healthcare simply because no job is THAT secure that anyone is guaranteed to have both a job and employer-provided healthcare forever. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since her recent attack on the CIA Nancy Pellozi is back peddling hard in explaining her comments after the facts were thrown in her face. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile, Anne Thompson got a good quote from Logorama producer Nicolas Schmerkin explaining the approach H5 took to the film. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Before this essay, Freud was understood to have placed the sexual instinct, Eros, or the libido, centre stage, in explaining the forces which drive us to act. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)

Litlove this is a wonderful post, so lucid and succinct in explaining a zen approach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For his part, Thomas is quite candid in explaining why he suddenly feels free to disregard decades of precedent: “it is far from clear that the Court would have the same approach were it to consider the question today in the first instance.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mario Cuomo of New York was a bit carefree in explaining away his suggestion, tape-recorded prior to the outbreak of the war in the Persian Gulf, that Iraq might be tempted to withdraw from Kuwait in return for some land and oil. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Horowitz (then with ATK) personally asked Bolden and other astronauts to assist in explaining these complex issues to members of Congress, so they could make an educated decision. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The more Ah Cho persisted in explaining the mistake, the more stubborn Cruchot became. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Reporters at The Times and The Washington Post, among others, have lately made real strides in explaining how the game works. ❋ Ellis Weiner (2010)

That said, I think that conservatives and liberals simply have different values, and that goes a long way in explaining why they hold contrary positions on different issues. ❋ Unknown (2010)