You don't need to rely on the testimony of a pseudonymous young woman, "Andrea," for the most dramatic, detailed and harrowing description in the entire piece.

Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left.

Ekphrasis or ecphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic, description of a visual work of art.

The story, filled with dramatic descriptions of body punches and knock downs, has become more than glory-days banter for Mr. Rosenbaum.

Set around the time of the Mercenary War, it includes a dramatic description of child sacrifice, and the boy Hannibal narrowly avoiding being sacrificed.

"You probably got a much more dramatic description, I'll bet."

But the others paid us little heed; even Madame was listening openmouthed to Vandergelt's dramatic description of the thief's remains.

In a report by Tass, the Soviet press agency, a dramatic description of heroism was presented, describing the captain as the last to leave the ship.

Yet in all the dramatic descriptions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural Spain these factors are scarcely mentioned.

His letter provides a "dramatic description of the events" (Florin Curta) leading to the destruction of the kingdom.