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“He called the game with such a great flair and such great descriptiveness that he had learned from Glickman, and it was riveting and gripping,” Halberstam said of Albert’s early years.

From New York Times • May 17, 2021

His tendency toward descriptiveness did not make him an ideal television personality, but his knowledge of world affairs and his unflappability under pressure was helpful in covering major developments in politics and diplomacy.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2014

What keeps the novel from flying off into allegory is its extraordinary descriptiveness.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2012

The poems, which he wrote as he was dying, have an alarming clarity to them, a cool descriptiveness.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2012

Now indeed we come to the most difficult part of our task, and it is better to confess at once that anything resembling journalistic descriptiveness must be resolutely laid aside.

From Lord of the World by Benson, Robert Hugh