Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] describe as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 THE man once described as Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch 's ‘ chief pornographer ’ was back in his native Ulster this week — to address a church meeting !
2 Cash was handed to the men both described as white and aged between 30 and 35 .
3 The feature usually described as predominant in Gothic buildings is the use of the pointed arch in place of the semi-circular one which had been employed in both Roman and Romanesque structures .
4 In it , we are told , ‘ the hero 's death or isolation has the effect of a spirit passing out of nature , and evokes a mood best described as elegiac ’ ; ‘ passing out of nature ’ is of course the main theme of hobbit-poetry .
5 By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) .
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