He colorfully described the policy as chasing would-be purchasers from the front of the shop, but "directing them to the back door for a handout."

A popular 1933 movie musical named 42nd Street, set in Depression Manhattan, colorfully described the bawdy mixture of Broadway shows and prostitution during the early 20th century.

Any slippage from that principle is a step down the road to what Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's chief technology officer, colorfully describes as "the Federal Bureau of Operating Systems."

Sometimes he colorfully describes how he wanted to show up those who had doubted, pitied or vexed him.

There is Mr. Minio, colorfully describing his just-arrived-this-morning Massachusetts gray sole and playfully griping on the phone about someone he has dubbed, if only for a moment, a knucklehead.

A bird watcher colorfully described the Golden-whiskered Barbet eating papayas in a private fruit orchard by writing:

Ms. Burke colorfully describes Loy, now married to Haweis, in pre-World War I Florence.

Stewart's reconstruction of their only encounter shows the two as men of their times, colorfully describing their habits and social worlds.

Lead the sort of vagabond life that you were so colorfully describing.

The piece contains long passages colorfully describing life in the two capitals in great detail, including the entertainment areas.