21.   Grinning and upbeat, speaking with a gentle lisp, London describes a life that by all rights could have ended dismally.

22.   He described a life of wandering, dazed and often drunk, so averse to human contact that he shopped for groceries in the middle of the night.

23.   He is a Boston resident whose life was described in a US District Court trial earlier this year.

24.   He writes entries twice a week describing the life of a training-camp rookie.

25.   I think the problem with describing emotional life is that we have to stretch ourselves to find the words to say something that is refreshing, accurate, authentic.

26.   In her remembrance, she described their life after he came home.

27.   In conversation, though, McCourt describes his life with humor rather than pathos.

28.   In one, Abdul Wakil, apparently a member of al-Qaida, describes life in Afghanistan to a friend.

29.   In the book, Reeve describes the life of privilege that was ended by the accident.

30.   In the few scientific studies, a majority of these patients describe their lives in positive terms.