And the boat is rather a handsome sight, too. She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys, with a gilded device of some sort swung between them; a fanciful pilothouse, all glass and "gingerbread," perched on top of the "texas" deck behind them; the paddle boxes are gorgeous with a picture or with gilded rays above the boat's name; the boiler deck, the hurricane deck, and the texas deck are fenced and ornamented with clean white railings; there is a flag flying gallantly from the jack staff....

His skipper had come up noiselessly, in pyjamas and with his sleeping-jacket flung wide open. Red of face, only half awake, the left eye partly closed, the right staring stupid and glassy, he hung his big head over the chart and scratched his ribs sleepily. There was something obscene in the sight of his naked flesh. His bared breast glistened soft and greasy as though he had sweated out his fat in his sleep. He pronounced a professional remark in a voice harsh and dead, resembling the rasping sound of a wood-file on the edge of a plank; the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw. Jim started, and his answer was full of deference; but the odious and fleshy figure, as though seen for the first time in a revealing moment, fixed itself in his memory for ever as the incarnation of everything vile and base that lurks in the world we love....

SUPPORT JUDGMENTS DIRECTLY.  The direct method of supporting judgments or opinions is a natural  in speaking or writing: the judgment comes first.    You might say to someone, "That's a sweet boat."  They might then ask,  "What do you mean by sweet?"  You would then supply the details that define or account for you opinion of the boat. This whole-to-part organization of an idea or image has many advantages for both you and your reader. In order to state a judgment first, you must have thought through your topic beforehand.  Your reader has an immediate overview of the topic--he only has to watch closely as you fill in the supporting details.
UNFOLD YOUR JUDGMENTS.  The direct method of supporting judgments is close to the deductive process of thinking in that the conclusion comes first and is followed by supporting details. By contrast, the unfolding method is similar to the inductive process of thinking, for the details come first and lead to a conclusion.  The Conrad selection illustrates this method--Conrad's judgment comes at the end, preceded by a series of vivid details which are carefully arranged which lead the reader naturally to the conclusion.