Excerpt from Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World.
What I found so fantastic about this book is that, Scarry's main point is to prove an argument, but she can't do that (well) without filling the book with descriptions because of the subject matter.
Most readers, don't understand what torture is, but through her clear descriptions it becomes more accessible to the reader, and thus her argument becomes more accessible.
She uses a lot of concrete nouns, verbs and senses, and I think the Solzhenitsyn example also enhances the description.
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