Assertion: knight's description | /r/CapableOf | carry great appeal
Facets:
value: for the audience of that time
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The descriptions of the altars, the stadium, and the magnificent feasts are tedious for the modern reader in the same way that the descriptions of shields and armor in the Homeric epics are static and dull for the modern reader, but these descriptions carried a great appeal for the audience of that time because they reinforce the notion of an ideal, ordered society.