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His descent was like nightfall.
The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
I want to see women of African descent shine.
I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.
I'm very proud of the fact that I am of Hispanic descent.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
The Workers Party rose to power when the Western Left began its descent.
If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.
Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.
We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.
I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.
I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.
I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent. We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.
Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.
I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.
In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.
My siblings and I grew up on Indian food. My mother, though of Slovenian descent, learned to cook Indian delicacies for my father after their wedding.
For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.
I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.