| 单词 | paragraph |
| 例句 | Slipping the letter out, she read haltingly, telling herself after each paragraph she would stop. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Quang-ha is clever enough to delete the first paragraph of the Mark Twain paper and go through the computer file and misspell a dozen words before he prints it out. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “It was a short paragraph. It wouldn’t have taken her long to retype it and make copies.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I tore through the lessons, quietly keeping tabs on where I stood among my peers as we charted our progress from long division to pre-algebra, from writing single paragraphs to turning in full research papers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the final paragraph, Mother described the birth of Emily’s second child, a daughter, who had been born a month before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I’ve learned something about myself after only reading the opening paragraph! A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I really doubt a couple of paragraphs can change how people think or act, but I guess the school has to do something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z They were writing paragraphs, lists, charts, and graphs. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man taking his application gave him the standard literacy tests: “What is the first line of the thirty-second paragraph of the United States Constitution?” he asked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I started with the basic facts, a paragraph or two, but I couldn’t stop there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder about things like the sounds and scents that surrounded Thoreau as he wrote each sentence and paragraph. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z After declaring his irreversible intention to retire, Washington devoted several paragraphs to the need for national unity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z One of them he calls criminal warfare, and he then explores it in five consecutive paragraphs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We would talk about any number of things, and Miss Whitlaw encouraged me to write short paragraphs about dragons, which she and Robin then corrected. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrew Brown, the editor of The Federal Gazette, devoted an optimistic paragraph to the “dawn of returning health and order.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z That paragraph is deliberate, of course; it’s just to display a bit more of the slang that was used by everyone I respected as “hip” in those days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He tapped at one part of a paragraph. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “It’s right there in the second to last paragraph.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Sixty years ago, when he wrote Mind the Stop, G. V. Carey gave just one paragraph to the apo-strophe, because there was so little to say about it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z There were so many mistakes most of the contestants didn’t know what it meant, what they were supposed to do, or why the judges hadn’t proofread their paragraph before passing it around. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “At the top? The second paragraph, I believe?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In the offices around him, official readers go through thick reports, boiling the information down to the salient paragraph. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the paragraph below is a list of around 250 surnames, all taken at random from the Manhattan phone book. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our homework assignment was to write a paragraph about what we thought the precept meant or how we felt about it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z In a cruel irony, ballet commentators back in Russia were irked by Western reviews of the Stravinsky- Nijinsky ballets, which used adjectives such as 'barbaric’, ‘primitive’, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ in almost every paragraph. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Different pens, different handwriting, conversations between some writers, arrows to longer paragraphs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Dell copied a paragraph from one of Dickie Winkleman's old files. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Many writing guides provide detailed instructions on how to build a paragraph. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I looked over the paper, for I really did not know what he meant; but he took it from me and pointed out a paragraph about children being decoyed away at Hampstead. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He’d spend half an hour reading a paragraph over and over again and even then, he didn’t know what to do with it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Adam looked back at the letter, and again it changed mood with its paragraph. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn't dwell on it long because the very next paragraph talked about clothes, my favorite subject. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I flipped the flyer over to find restaurant stats and a paragraph about the environmental impact of a high-rise in Canal Grove. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Wayne Washington quoted me in the final paragraph: “‘They used us to get money,’ she said of the Mosses. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Didn’t Keegan tell us in the second paragraph that the problem with Clausewitz and his heirs is that they all put too much stock in culture? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This paragraph from Accidental Millionaire, one of the many Jobs biographies, gives us a sense of how extraordinary his childhood experiences were. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother’s speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This has gone on longer than I planned, so I’m going to repeat the Morgenstern paragraph I interrupted; it’ll read better. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Charles put himself in the first paragraph, as if to extend a hand and say. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That tedious paragraph was filled with metadiscourse—verbiage about verbiage, such as subsection, review, and discussion. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What does exist is the paragraph break: a visual bookmark that allows the reader to pause, take a breather, assimilate what he has read, and then find his place again on the page. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Three of them listened patiently as she read her two paragraphs explaining the situation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She told Dad once that she sounded young and naive, but I loved the way her paragraphs sounded—the way the botany-speak blended with her excitement and became a secret language with magic words. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z James pointed to a paragraph on his answer key made entirely of Os and Is: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She never in a million years would have figured out how to decode James’s paragraph. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He carries the words with him all day, letting them sort themselves into phrases, coming together, drifting apart, tumbling over onto themselves, settling into sentences, and paragraphs. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z And then, to lighten things up a bit, I start a new paragraph. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Now open your books to page two hundred and thirteen,” said Snape, smirking a little, “and read the first two paragraphs on the Cruciatus Curse...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z With that paragraph, suddenly the Lacks brothers became very interested in the story of HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Derivatives not obviously connected with the Latin roots are given in the last paragraph of each section. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire incident, in fact, from start to finish, was probably over in less time than it has taken you to read this paragraph. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She leafed through the pages, skimming for signs of Reed’s name among the dusty paragraphs and disjointed phrases, but the stories were gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Begin with the second paragraph, but mind you don’t read aloud. I don’t want to find the Shadow here in my room.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The preceding paragraph gave examples of blueprint copying, whereas the transfer of Chinese porcelain technology to Europe provides an instance of long-drawn-out idea diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My eyes landed on the first sentence in the final paragraph. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It’s only one syllable, but it speaks paragraphs. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It takes me an hour and a half to write two paragraphs. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z His heart picked up speed as she flipped past the cover page, skimming the paragraphs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z On this night against the Abilene Eagles, he gained forty-six yards on ten carries, and his return to action earned a single paragraph at the tail end of the Odessa American account of the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The discussion of each theme coheres not just because it is localized in a string of consecutive paragraphs but because it refers to the theme using a set of transparently related terms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Inside these folders, you’ll find your buddies’ schedules, as well as a paragraph with a little bit about the person assigned to you. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I reach the bottom of paragraph 2 and stop. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But the rest of that paragraph is illegible. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But after a few paragraphs he closes this book as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Rambling treatises on the role of government in America with all the Gs written backward, paragraphs translated from English to Spanish, tables of his elementary school classmates’ strengths and weaknesses. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Another group of people got the same passage but with a new tidbit slipped into the instructions: “The paragraph you will hear will be about washing clothes.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Even though in ELA, for our personal memoir project, Mr. Finkelman assigned Dante as my critique partner, which meant he had to read my first two paragraphs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Write two paragraphs, one about the best part of your vacation, one about the worst. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “It was a short paragraph. It wouldn’t have taken her long to retype it and make copies.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Most of his log entries were just a few words—“7:10 A.M., R chow”—but midday, he’d written a whole paragraph. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Young ladies sketched, did watercolors, wrote short paragraphs of imaginative prose. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The paragraph ended at a drawing of a sprig of mistletoe, and Anya looked up at the woman. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z One was clutching the Book to his chest, under his crossed arms, as if trying to press it into his ribs, until his lungs filled with letters and his heart became a pulsing paragraph. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She knew where the answer was—the second paragraph in the right hand column of page 157. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s simple reading comprehension. Read the paragraph and summarize, in a couple of sentences, what it was about. That’s it. It’s not rocket science.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Moreover, its encyclopedic Yearbook for 1952, which was devoted to insects, contained only one short paragraph on the fire ant out of its half-million words of text. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Give me a page or a paragraph, Violet. Just do your best.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I reread that first paragraph like three times. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Times I have been frustrated by the slowness of words, the way even a single paragraph never seemed done. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He took several deep breaths, mouthed paragraphs in front of his reflection in the pane of glass, attempted an argument with a spoon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I read all the words in the first paragraph, and then the second one. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z This is all quite fascinating, but over the next six pages the paragraphs jump around between descriptions of the Cossacks’ way of war and still more exegesis of Clausewitz. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I passed her a book and pointed to a paragraph about what they did with orphaned children. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My hands trembled as I read more of Ivette s letter, but the next couple of paragraphs only talked about the latest school gossip and how the brigadwta uniform was now considered all the rage. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Mrs. Winstead stops my turn after I read the first paragraph. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I saw the Serjeant’s eye upon me from across the room, and dropped my own gaze to the page, where I helpless took in several incomprehensible paragraphs regarding place, chess pieces, ships, and substance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z These problems naturally lead Mueller to his second theme, disciplined warfare, and he explains that theme in the two consecutive paragraphs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And while Lefty stops to breathe it in, I’d like to take this opportunity to resuscitate—for purely elegiac reasons and only for a paragraph—that city which disappeared, once and for all, in 1922. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I actually became interested in those dark, dense paragraphs of print. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Just as the basic rules for putting together sentences and paragraphs help people understand each other, knowing what to expect from a piece of music helps people understand and like it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then I started over with the first paragraph. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z We were all supposed to write a paragraph about some time in our lives when we did something very brave and how, because of it, something good happened to us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z McCandless starred and bracketed the paragraph and circled “refuge in nature” in black ink. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave her written exams in Spanish to see whether she could write a sentence, whether she could write a paragraph, whether she could do certain math problems. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as “irreproachably Americanese.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “I’m wondering if you can write just one paragraph for me. Something about you. I’d like to learn something about you.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Then Katie emailed me an update of her project outline, with the topic sentences from every paragraph. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The next paragraph began a complete change of mood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I never thought I’d see the day when chess would be all over the front pages here, but confined only to one paragraph in Pravda.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She reads a couple of very vivid paragraphs about the “whiter-than-white, nearly alabaster, snowy, bleached Alps” in Switzerland, where her family went on vacation. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z In the second paragraph, cold weather takes its turn on the stage as a topic in its own right. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This could represent paragraphs or chapters, but they were not meant to be read in the usual left to right, top to bottom fashion. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The paragraph concluded: “The victims’ families are asking that Negligent Homicide Charges be filed.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Several clauses are joined or embedded in a sentence; several sentences make up a paragraph; several paragraphs make up a section, several sections a chapter, several chapters a book. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I count the words in the 2nd paragraph. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She stared at her library book, reading the same paragraph over and over and over. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a writer should cleave an intimidating block of print with a paragraph break just to give the reader’s eyes a place to alight and rest. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One of the older members reads the Abnegation manifesto, which is a short paragraph about forgetting the self and the dangers of self-involvement. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z No sentence is an island; nor is a paragraph, a section, or a chapter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She compared the last few paragraphs and didn’t find any additional typos. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Someone had underlined a short paragraph towards the end of the article and put three exclamation marks in the margin. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He read a few paragraphs—but stopped himself. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Inexperienced writers tend to be closer to academics than to journalists and use too few paragraph breaks rather than too many. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Appreciating the treelike nature of a text can also help you understand one of the few devices available in nontechnical prose to visually mark the structure of discourse: the paragraph break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Engel, bless her, skipped over the last few paragraphs I wrote yesterday when she was translating for von Linden last night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I manage to get through another paragraph and then look up, half-expecting my audience to fly off with a rustle of wings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break— these were all done on purpose. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he had read it before—years ago, in the veterans’ hospital. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Take the second sentence in the preceding paragraph, in which I switched from herons to birds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I don't care if it can count words or rearrange paragraphs at the push of a button, I don't want a computer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Topic sentences are the sentences at the beginning of each paragraph that say what you’re going to write about. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z While we watched, words formed themselves into sentences and paragraphs on the screen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I keep reading that one paragraph over and over again. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Prime, isn’t it?” asked the boy, as her eye went down the last paragraph of her portion. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z All the top contestants were given a sheet of paper with the following paragraph printed on it: Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Ms. Fleming interrupts my counting of the 3rd paragraph. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It depends as well on impressions that build up in a reader over the course of reading many paragraphs and that depend on the author’s grasp of the text as a whole. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She looked over Immie’s writing style in emails and on Instagram: the way she signed off, the way she wrote paragraphs, the expressions she used. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Some of these paperbacks have been through a lot: pages tinted brown from coffee spills, dog-eared corners, highlighted paragraphs and pencil markings in the margins. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A short paragraph at the end of the obituary mentions that he is survived by a daughter of seventeen years of age, a Miss Celia Bowen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After almost thirty minutes of pulling at his hair and chewing on the pencil, he began to compose a paragraph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept reading the words but not understanding them, then circling back, reading the same paragraph over and over again. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Many of the national reviewers who wrote their opinions of Warriors Don’t Cry mentioned this paragraph as being significant, beautifully written, and haunting. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If you wrote a paragraph on Marilyn Monroe’s face, without telling me whom you were writing about, could I guess who it was? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This paragraph introduces one of its primary manifestations, the phenomenon of signposting. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Why do so many people—capable of delivering whole paragraphs of coherent argument in one-on-one conversation—falter when asked to speak in public? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He volunteered to read a paragraph aloud during Social Studies, but didn’t feel like helping his team advance the soccer ball in gym. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z While they were forced to run up and down the sandy gridiron, Milton was reading a paragraph by someone named Carlyle and answering the questions that followed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I suck in some coffee, skip to the last paragraph: the inevitable eclectic, the obligatory post-feminist, a however and a despite. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z NOTE—In Division II, the English derivatives from Latin roots are given in abbreviated form, and are arranged in paragraphs under the particular radicals, from which the several groups of derivatives are formed. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z A paragraph which blandly stated the results of the autopsy appeared in the back of the Hampden Examiner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I had to read the same paragraph over and over, like six times. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z We were supposed to write three paragraphs answering the questions: What is the author trying to say by describing the expensive dinners in such detail? Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z A short paragraph typed at the top read: Beware the ninja monkey. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The second paragraph gave the news that I had been awarded a completely new fellowship. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She also taught me to write, by which I mean not simply organizing a set of sentences into a series of paragraphs, but organizing them as a means of investigation. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The guidepost of a forefinger indicated the next paragraph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He reread a paragraph in his econ book and studied the graph next to it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Write a paragraph about a real-life hero. You have a few minutes to get started now.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z With the invention of sex, two organisms could exchange whole paragraphs, pages and books of their DNA code, producing new varieties ready for the sieve of selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he spoke himself, it was in complete paragraphs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I read over the email and giggled at the nonsensical paragraph of letters and numbers and symbols at the end, courtesy of Fig’s rump. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “The paragraph you read silently just a moment ago? Please go ahead and read. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The magazine was printed somewhere in Maine and full of stenciled poems and descriptive paragraphs separated from each other by asterisks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The demon girl closed the book when I finished explaining the paragraphs, and she leaned forward, her body following the line of books. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She compared the last few paragraphs and didn’t find any additional typos. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He points to a paragraph in the middle of the page, and I read it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The only sounds were the crackling of the fire and Ron scratching out one last paragraph on dementors using Hermione’s quill. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z This chapter is about the sense of style in passages longer than a sentence—a paragraph, a blog post, a review, an article, an essay, or a book. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the third to last paragraph she wrote that, if things did not get better, “there has been talk from twenty-five or more local organizations of planning a city- wide boycott of busses.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Okay, so that first line in the second paragraph is definitely one,” Matt says. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z There’s no sense in copying a sentence from every paragraph and pasting them together at the end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z James pointed to a paragraph on his answer key made entirely of Os and Is: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The document’s four short paragraphs outlined Bush’s proposal to establish a National Defense Research Committee to coordinate all technical research with military applications under his chairmanship. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stories are also divided into paragraphs, chapters, stanzas, scenes, or episodes, each with their own endings, to help us keep track of things and understand what is going on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In the first, third, and fourth paragraphs, every subject but one consists of herons. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A short paragraph typed at the top read: Beware the ninja monkey. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Wilkerson ends a richly descriptive introductory chapter with a paragraph composed of exactly two syllables. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On their birthdays they grant the world an entire paragraph. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We take turns reading paragraphs out loud about the thirteen colonies, and then Mr. Fabian hands out worksheets. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Wilkerson begins the paragraph by stating that the actions of her protagonists are universal, but she does not rest with that generalization. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I—” “Can you read for the court the last sentence of paragraph four, page four, of the autopsy report you have in front of you?” said Nels Gudmundsson. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The sheet of paper had a short paragraph at the top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mom has a note in her book, just a paragraph long, called “A Word on Words.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Reggie presses a button on the computer, and paragraphs of text appear under the “MicroScan” bar at the top of the screen. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z His death was little noticed; jockey fatalities were so common that they rarely earned more than a slim paragraph in the press. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And since seeing implies seers, we no longer have to refer to paragraphs “demonstrating” some things and sections “summarizing” other things, as if blocks of printing had a mind of their own. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I needed to look up whole paragraphs of words in a dictionary. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eagerly Chess moved on to the next paragraph. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In a subsequent paragraph, Terryl observed that the Utah public schools have a class on distracted driving in their driver’s education class. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The students were asked to read over and over a single phonetic paragraph designed to teach them how to soften their t’s and to roll their r s. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z After a few paragraphs, Marie-Laure says without preamble, “Tell me about that bedroom upstairs. Across from the one 1 sleep in.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z By the end of the class, Boobie produced the following thesis paragraph: Zebras are one of the most unusual animals in the world today. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It would mean he skipped his last year of high school, but that’s entirely possible considering how he spoke in incomprehensible scientific paragraphs when he got going. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow morning I’m going to write down a paragraph or two and call some of those news people.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your average paragraph about ninja monkeys—or is it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I stare at a single paragraph for a quarter of an hour but can’t absorb it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Finally, he says, “C’mon, now. Can you write that paragraph for me?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z You can be forgiven if you found the previous paragraph confusing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Just try, for example, to reread this paragraph by staring straight ahead at the center of the page. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bram begged me not to read the final paragraph, but I was adamant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam drew a deep full breath and held it while he read the paragraph again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It takes her so long, you’d swear she was writing a whole paragraph. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It was written in one long paragraph, with little punctuation and many spelling errors, and at first I fixated on these grammatical irregularities as a way to mute the text. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I read the same paragraph about twenty times before I finally give up. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The sheet of paper had a short paragraph at the top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They began to use razors to slice out whole paragraphs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They chewed through whole paragraphs describing the naval base, the destroyers and submarines docked at the pier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But the instructions are misguided, because there is no such thing as a paragraph. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z During the three months that it took to write and ponder the paragraph above, I often wondered what it would take to explain this process to someone who hadn’t lived it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I read the paragraph several times and said the name Hernán Cortés out loud. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The little paragraphs between the pictures ended before the letters had a chance to get cocky and wiggle about. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We returned to the classroom, came back to the same paragraph in a still-opened book. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She never in a million years would have figured out how to decode James’s paragraph. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, the only thing that could be isolated in the rocky paragraphs was the insistent hammering on the word equinox, equinox, equinox, and the name of Alexander von Humboldt. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Your average paragraph about ninja monkeys—or is it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Now, that last paragraph ended with a cluster of punctuation marks I have never seen together—in that order—in my life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Finn stopped trying to read at the start of the second paragraph. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Their teacher, a charming eight-months-pregnant young woman dressed in a traditional Indian sari, moved seamlessly among British, American, and Canadian accents as she demonstrated reading a paragraph designed to highlight phonetics. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z From the time I was two, when I first started speaking in paragraphs that began with topic sentences, Malcolm and Maud had told me that I was exceptionally smart. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I pull out a pad of paper and scribble a couple of paragraphs about the fast we’re planning for tonight. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But in the last paragraph of The Origin, Charles wrote about a spot near Down House where he and Emma often walked together. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A third one is short, only a paragraph long, and complains about working two night shifts in a row. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z My opening paragraph rah some three pages, and very nearly smoked. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Then, about a paragraph into Heather’s reading, he gets up and grabs a lav pass from Mr. Shunk’s desk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Am I correct in saying, Horace, that paragraph four on page four of your autopsy report identifies drowning as the cause of Carl Heine’s death?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After two painful paragraphs, he stopped and shut the book in disgust. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Whether he is sincere, it is a little hard to say: having emphasized his belief in miracles, he proceeds to make the concept of a miracle entirely subjective only a few paragraphs later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ms. Udell glared at the snickering boys, cleared her throat, and read the final paragraph of the chapter. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The first paragraph went on to remind the lawyers that she’d been meeting with the victims’ families. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Over and over again he wrote each paragraph, each sentence, to explain navigation to the man before the mast. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a beautiful way of speaking—sentences and whole paragraphs just seemed to flow extemporaneously, organically. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s really neat and pretty in some paragraphs, then it gets all slanted and jumbled in others. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers—where you just repeat what you’ve already said with phrases like In summation, and To conclude. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I sit at my desk now, surrounded by versions of paragraphs and pages of this book, considering that question. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the paragraphs above, for instance, it seemed natural to talk about traveling through a speech “step by step,” or of traveling through “well-known territory.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Mate reread the paragraph, this time realizing what she was reading. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the notebook pages again, woven with the purple scribbling, in which he dedicated a special paragraph to each one. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We spent the next period writing paragraphs about Zambia, choosing one minor subject. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z But then I got to a paragraph that jolted me awake. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z I warn them about ending paragraphs — and especially ending essays — with a quote, in case their readers decide that their writing pales in comparison to that of the author they're discussing. Letters to the Calendar section 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The paragraph reads like a passage from a fine novel. Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z I ran with it for a while—the momentum of that first paragraph carrying things along. This Week in Fiction: Charles Yu on Therapy and Storytelling 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z His ability to pursue a line of thought relentlessly, often spinning off into unexpected byways, letting words, sentences and paragraphs follow one another without break, never failed to impress. Milton Babbitt obituary 2011-01-30T18:29:19Z If I sat there long enough, Internet Noise would no doubt take me to the opening paragraph of George W. S. Trow’s classic “Within the Context of No Context,” published in this magazine, in 1980. There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Juicy, previously unreported material abounds, though it’s camouflaged by vaporous paragraphs of superficial commentary and self-congratulation, generally from the biggest names. Review | Behind the scenes of James Bond: A new book offers a look back at the longest-running movie franchise 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In paragraphs that flow like conversation with a witty, troubled friend, Klam captures Rich’s squirrelly consciousness, swinging from lust to despair, turning his comic eye on others and then on himself. Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z But it was still the Hitchens voice, not so different in person from what it was on the page: long, perfectly turned paragraphs, with barely a pause or an “um.” ArtsBeat Blog: Spending An Afternoon in Christopher Hitchens's Hospital-Room-Turned-Office 2011-12-16T16:48:17Z In the first three paragraphs, Morrison takes the exact same piece of language and changes it to conjure three separate beings. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The paragraph summarizes the way people lived in villages a few generations ago, when most work was agricultural and the cutting-edge technology was the internal-combustion energy. In the galleries: Works on paper at Marsha Mateyka Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z And in the novel’s final paragraphs, he offers one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time. Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z But of course the point of the books is not gorgeous sentences and perfect paragraphs, but this amazing world she created, with so much depth and resonance. How ‘Cursed Child’ Puts Parenting at the Center of the Potterverse 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z However, there’s the matter of the paragraph that followed the aforementioned official statement: Eliza Dushku's scathing indictment of "Bull" sexual harassment shows how deep CBS rot still goes 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Sometimes it can take weeks of worrying away at a paragraph, in long-hand, in silence, in a whitewashed retreat in the hills. Jon McGregor: My desktop 2012-06-20T09:06:32Z On each occasion he brings along a paragraph written by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy to read aloud, stressing the importance of every word: Anthony Kennedy and the four Supreme Court rulings that changed gay life in America 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Farley, who tends to speak in full, quotable paragraphs, is unusual for his clarity of focus, drive and ambition. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z If you take the first letter of the first 11 paragraphs of the majority opinion of Citizens United v. Style Invitational Week 1438: Nothing but the untruth 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The novel's opening paragraph is almost musical and evokes the poetry of Frost, and at once takes the reader into the bleak setting for the book's first section. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z In other words, if any of the references in this paragraph are registering with you, you may as well go see it. ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ review: Renee Zellweger still v. charming 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Just in the book’s first two paragraphs one encounters “roadways split like bad fruit,” “a bent elbow of sidewalk” and “drivers slinging past us like pinballs,” among several other metaphor- and simile-laden sentences. Exonerated for a Murder They Didn’t Commit 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Just three paragraphs long, it reads more like an off-the-cuff AA qualification than an eloquent back page essay. What Charlie Sheen could learn from Dennis Quaid 2011-04-11T15:31:00Z In "Say Anything," Jenna Wortham chronicles her former infatuations and, in a few swift paragraphs, reveals nothing less than how she became herself, taking us from ages 9 to 23. Anatomy of a Zine: When Magazines Go Indie 2011-09-03T20:00:00Z This, of course, makes it difficult to discuss in depth without spoilers, so be warned: Everything that follows the next paragraph contains major plot details. "Spider-Man: Far From Home" is a good movie made great by its final act 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z A reference to women in her hometown setting up lemonade stands in the first paragraph sets the tone. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Use bullet points, lists, or separate short paragraphs to highlight information in a digestible format, and remember to include attachments mentioned in the body of the email. 6 Tips for Writing Better Emails 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z All of a sudden I wanted to write the first one or two paragraphs. Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z As a result, major spoilers follow this paragraph. Captain America’s freedom fail: How the powerful few justify answering only to themselves 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Swaths of text appear in different shades or zigzag across the page; other pages contain only single paragraphs or single sentences. ‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer Delivers Fresh Horrors 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z And yet, paragraph by paragraph, Gloss — whose books include “The Hearts of Horses” and “The Jump-Off Creek” — is such a skillful writer that I came to believe that this may have been a deliberate choice. In Molly Gloss’s “Falling From Horses,” a cowboy goes to Hollywood to play one As so often happens with medical terms, its best if we decode that last paragraph backwards. A Consumer's Guide To Medical Jargon 2010-08-23T10:00:00Z For example: only six paragraphs into this article, I have stopped for an hour to watch the second half of Jurassic World on TV. ‘I end up eating quinoa in my pants at 11pm’: my year of living (a bit more) healthily 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z How their wretched relationship will play out is foreshadowed in the smoldering opening paragraphs of the novel, but another romance, pure and courageous, draws us through these chapters and encourages us to imagine something better. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The ensuing paragraph reads in its entirety: “We married.” ‘In Love,’ a Novelist’s Powerful Memoir About a Happy Marriage and an Assisted Suicide 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z A newspaper article’s second paragraph is traditionally called the “nut graf,” because it’s where lunatics stop reading to start dictating angry rebuttals. Style Invitational Week 1272: The hex files — think up creative curses 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Since the author himself isn't available, what we've got instead is this paragraph of his from "The Crying of Lot 49" -- and a blogger sampling all the drinks in Pynchon's books. Drinking with Thomas Pynchon 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Do I really have to keep writing this paragraph of background explanation? Movie critics: Shut up already! 2010-04-15T19:55:00Z He didn’t just spin legato lines in the searching, conversational Nocturne; he expounded entire legato paragraphs in an eloquent, unbroken stream of consciousness. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z "One reviewer in the Independent once wrote: 'Jack Higgins books are famous for harbouring all-purpose paragraphs that have stayed with their creator over the years,'" he says. A life in writing: Jack Higgins 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z And in the the final paragraph, he observed, “Pending an improbable successful appeal, everything he had worked for was now gone, likely never to be recovered, ever again.” Just call it the Daniel Holtzclaw effect now: In rape cases, sympathetic reporting about “once-promising young men” need to stop 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z I expected the review to start talking bout the experience of the Lobster Club and not some petty condescending paragraphs about "fake italian restaurant" and people in costume. The Lobster Club Does Japanese, From Raw to Half-Baked 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z She falls for Jack, a man who, she concedes, "talked in paragraphs, a man who seemed completely unpunctuated". Radio review: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe 2010-10-01T07:20:00Z She is a restless narrator, who thinks in beautiful, witty, tidy paragraphs. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z He had seen the words “trash” and “vaudeville” in the same paragraph in a magazine and thought they went well together. Trash and Vaudeville, Still Selling Punk’s Look After 38 Years 2013-05-08T21:08:43Z I devoured “Minna Needs a Rehearsal Space,” and admired the effect of its stark, single-sentence paragraphs — by the time I’d finished it, I was feeling a bit dislocated myself, and parched for lyricism and description. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Q: Do you realize that most of the regular Hunt participants are snoozing at this point, and skipping over entire paragraphs? Post Hunt 2014: What you need to know. At the least. Here’s a hint to help you get started: Nine of those words and phrases are in this paragraph. How did Shakespeare shape the English language? 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The Internet is much more than trolling, but Duggan’s one paragraph summary of recent news in this vein should send chills down your spine when seen all together: Hashtags And Harassment: Is Participatory Culture In Trouble? 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Oh, and while “Memory Rings” has virtually no dialogue, we do hear, in voice-over, a woman speaking a couple of fairly incomprehensible paragraphs from Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.” Review: ‘Memory Rings.’ Forget About It. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z But something about the third paragraph stuck deep in my craw. Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The writing in “Once Upon a Time” has paragraphs of all sorts — digression, voice-over, description. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He synopsizes events in sharp, fast paragraphs filled with vivid detail. No Light at the End of This Tunnel 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Evidently Simon is as hungry as ever, 15 years after The Wire, which still seems certain to be in the first paragraph of his obituary. David Simon: ‘If you’re not consuming porn, you’re still consuming its logic’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z “Words. Phrases. Sometimes whole paragraphs telling him what was what. The process was always more beautiful than the result.” Fiona Maazel's 'A Little More Human' is like Pynchon writing a telenovela 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z And every time you see a woman, sure, they’ll describe her appearance for like, three paragraphs before her music comes up. Natalie Merchant sees right through the sexist music industry: “The patriarchy wants to dispose of women at a certain age” 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z In place of an account of the city, he quotes several paragraphs from Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit describing Todger's corner of London. John Mullan on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club 2013-06-07T17:00:01Z Paragraph to paragraph, Just's mind is always pleasurably at play. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z The drink is the paragraph break, marking out the difference between the workweek and the holiday, between the cold world outside and the party inside. Drinking is a huge part of Thanksgiving — here's why I'm avoiding it 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z They simply reflect a certain style, he said — not unlike the 29 one-sentence paragraphs in this article. ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ Is Monologues on New York 2013-08-15T02:00:01Z Seth Meyers expressed some concern on “Late Night” about a report that President Trump has trouble digesting more than a few paragraphs of information at any one time. Seth Meyers Tries a New Way of Holding Trump’s Attention: a Limerick 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z And occasionally in phrase or sentence or paragraph we do just that. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z It's written with an eye to lyricism of language, and even how the paragraphs look on the page. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z Her dazzling use of language and natural storytelling gifts shine from every paragraph. Review: In Susan Barker’s ‘The Incarnations,’ Lives of Despair (Past and Present) in China 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z A helper transcribes the characters into words, sentences and paragraphs. David Mitchell: learning to live with my son's autism 2013-06-29T08:00:00Z In a group near the back of the class, Chris flipped through each story, reading the headlines, squinting at the photos, analyzing the first paragraphs. ‘These are all fake news,’ said the honor student. He was wrong. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z She’s straightforward and easy to read; her sentences are direct, her paragraphs heavy on dialogue. Starring Judy Blume as Herself 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z High and low cultural references snuggle up in the same paragraph. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z What happens to a book when the news about it — the side story — begins to overwhelm the sentences and paragraphs? Gay Talese's book 'The Voyeur's Motel' got the author in hot water. But is it any good? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z At the very end of the book, the omniscient narrator suddenly turns to the reader and asks, in a final single-sentence paragraph, “How will you live?” The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Love that last paragraph, made me tear up. TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Maybe, on looking back, she felt the deviation justified by the fact that this stanza serves as a kind of introductory paragraph. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z I’m sure now is about the time people reading this think we’re terrible parents, or maybe they thought that four paragraphs ago. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z I knew right away from the opening paragraph that something wasn't right. An Optimist’s Guide to Divorce 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The most incensed he gets is in an earnest paragraph about Hillary Clinton and her “negligence of Wisconsin,” in which any bile could pass as indigestion. How Conservatives Bet Big on Wisconsin and Won 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z It goes in this vein for a few more paragraphs. A dad’s case for playing hooky goes viral 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z That barb, which immediately followed a paragraph about the six people who died, including two U.S. Melania Trump denounces violence but calls ‘passion’ of Trump supporters ‘inspiring’ 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z However, in the concluding paragraph, Wolcott writes of the unrelenting media attention paid to the various subsidiary Trumps and Kardashians, “Please, stop.... Why keep feeding their ravenous egos?” Letters to the Editor 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The last paragraph of Saturday’s column generated a few queries. Bridge: What?s the Better Fit? The 4-4 vs. the 5-3 2011-02-20T21:47:32Z Only seven paragraphs into the book’s introduction, Clinton drops her first mention of Russia’s alleged involvement in the election. Seven talking points about Hillary Clinton's new book, 'What Happened' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z So the classic opening paragraph that opens with, "Marley was dead: to begin with" becomes this: See how 'A Christmas Carol' and other classics are being translated into emoji 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Entire paragraphs consist of little more than a list of proper names, like the Bible’s begats, without any reminder of who these people are and why they’re in the Kid’s story. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z As Aaron Sorkin is surely aware, whenever and however he leaves this world the first paragraph of every ensuing obituary, indeed probably the first sentence, will contain the words “The West Wing.” Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z A single-minded sense of direction returned with Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, its story shaped by Ticciati into a single chapter of long paragraphs. SCO/Ticciati – review 2012-11-14T16:16:58Z In the book’s first paragraph, we learn everything important about the three main characters: their ages, their occupations and how they feel about each other and how well they know each other. I Love Dick: the book about relationships everyone should read 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “I believe in awe, and I’m trying to put awe occasionally into my paragraphs, but particularly just in my life,” Doerr said. For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The lead paragraph of its story Thursday night sarcastically noted that Scaramucci has tried to steal the spotlight from Trump before. After a wild week, conservative media stand (nervously) by Trump 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s a matter of a few short paragraphs, but how Patrick Bateman would twist with envy. An Award-Winning Debut Novel About Innocence Shattered Offers Terror and Solace 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z When I started writing this paragraph, Mark Halperin had a new book deal; by the time I finish, it’s entirely possible he might not. Perspective | Why should we trust a man who harassed women to cover the historically female 2020 race? 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Those who wish to encounter it unencumbered by any prior knowledge should employ a primitive method of interactivity and avert their eyes from the next two paragraphs. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Macintrye takes us into the puzzle from the first paragraph of Chapter 1: “Oleg Gordievsky was born into the KGB: shaped by it, loved by it, twisted, damaged and very nearly destroyed by it.” Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The website's description is only two paragraphs long: Find someone. Social networking platform "Reality" relaunches 2011-03-31T20:32:00Z Eggers' style is mostly subdued and plainly descriptive, with large blank spaces between short paragraphs increasing the sense of emptiness. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – review 2013-01-30T10:07:03Z You may want to grab a shot of espresso for this next paragraph. The November Man – first look review: an asinine and horribly rote screenplay 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z At worst, the sporadic leaping from allusion to allusion is distracting and pedantic, as in the story “Waiting,” where in one paragraph the narrator discusses Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wharton, Anderson, Joyce, Porter, Faulkner and Beckett. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek Its basic three-act structure of childhood, Army service and wedded bliss is as subdivided as a California lot into shorter episodes and paragraphs, many only one sentence long. Prince Harry Learns to Cry, and Takes No Prisoners, in ‘Spare’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z This imaginative paragraph received more than 140 likes. How Was Your Experience? Please Rate the Entire World 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z It is not its job to call the other side for comment or throw in a “to be sure” paragraph for balance. Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It is near the end of the second paragraph that we begin to realize that the “he” that sleeps is dead. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Suspicious, Jason Patinkin started looking more deeply — and found that phrases, sentences and even multiple paragraphs in freelancer Nicolas Pinault’s stories matched those published by other news organizations word for word. When plagiarism was reported to Voice of America, managers delayed action for months 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s on display here from the very first paragraph: Women on the Scottish Coast, at the Whims of Male Violence 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z You can feel Adichie's passion and belief pumping beneath every paragraph. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review 2013-04-15T08:00:02Z Jaspers’s “Phenomenology of Perception” is on the night stand as well and occasionally I can understand a paragraph. The Classic Novel That Makes Percival Everett Cringe 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z But this personal life is delicately related to larger events — especially the execution of the Rosenbergs, whose impending death by electrocution is introduced in the stunning first paragraph of the book. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z I find myself skimming sentences, paragraphs, entire pages without missing a single important morsel. Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, ‘Gingerbread’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z But can we just focus on that last paragraph for a second? Tyler Perry vs. Spike Lee: Let's bring the Jews into this! 2011-04-20T20:06:00Z Even looking back over those one- sentence descriptions of TV ideas in the first paragraph of this essay, I am humbled by how inadequately they convey the vividness they had as I conjured them. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z And she talks the part, too, speaking in long twisty paragraphs that, like a stopped clock giving the correct time twice a day, occasionally answer my questions – and frequently seem to baffle her translator. Lucrecia Martel: 'The Oscars are a joke' 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The works are accompanied by the first paragraph of “Devil in a Blue Dress” and translated into one of nine languages. Spare Times for June 14-20 2013-06-13T22:50:42Z The first is a paragraph told from the perspective of Puldron, an unlikeable retired neighbor, and the second is the ending, which is told from the perspective of Karen’s baby, Lila. This Week in Fiction: Alexandra Kleeman on a New Mother’s Feelings of Estrangement 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z He mostly sits at a desk and, between paragraphs, ingests cubes of cheese. A Memoir About Loving — and Then Resisting — Krispy Kreme, Chili Dogs, Cinnamon Biscuits... 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z But I suspect that for Baldwin it is, in part, a rhetorical move, a grim cadence on which to end a paragraph. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Karla: This is hard to answer without knowing what was in those “few added paragraphs.” @Work Advice: No good way to say it. Deflecting—or not firing—casual insults. She would sometimes pause and skip entire paragraphs, at which point we would try to guess the bad news from which she was shielding us. The Heart Said Yes; the Hindu Horoscope Said No 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z All these sentiments appear in one paragraph of “Split at the Root.” ‘Essential Essays’ Show Adrienne Rich’s Vulnerable, Conflicted Sides 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In the opening paragraph of the essay, "Mercy," you describe the steps your grandfather took to shoot your grandmother, and then try and fail to shoot himself. "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s one paragraph of this essay, and only part of what happened that day. Motherlode: More on the Mother-Daughter Sex Talk 2011-07-29T22:03:26Z Later, when I appeared on The South Bank Show, I was asked to open a garden gate, stride up to the camera and utter a well-composed paragraph. Michael Holroyd: writers in front of the camera 2011-08-19T21:55:13Z The Prime Minister read out all thirty-four paragraphs in a clear, matter-of-fact voice, Joe wrote afterward, “and it made my blood tingle to hear those words.” The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z But full paragraphs — and sometimes more — of poetry or philosophical musing written in calligraphic script turn the sheet on the wall into a manuscript page. 'Someday Is Now' reflects influence of the '60s and Warhol on artist Sister Corita 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z At the end there’s a paragraph devoted to each one. A Book for Your Johnny Appleseed 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The other day someone wrote an amazing review of "Retrograde" and then in the final paragraph complained that it looks like a Hollywood feature because it looks too slick. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Hall commented, “In a paragraph or two, my prose embodies a momentary victory over fatigue.” Review | Donald Hall’s parting gift: Essays on aging and not always gracefully 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Most telling of all, though, are the last paragraphs of his acknowledgments, in which he reveals that he has reclaimed his German nationality following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Christle’s book about the many causes and uses of the tears we shed bounces between observations in short paragraphs, quoting lines of poetry, correspondence, psychological studies. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Some were presented in their classic form, others with spoiler paragraphs, with each version read by at least 30 people. Spoilers actually enhance your enjoyment 2011-08-17T08:00:04Z Here are the first two paragraphs of Mr. Lish’s novel, which tell a shred of her story. ‘Preparation for the Next Life’ by Atticus Lish 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In the first paragraph, Backhouse manages to drop in Shakespeare, Wilde and Verlaine. Books: Memoir (or Is It?) of Sex and Opium 2011-03-30T12:00:05Z It was almost scary to hear him quote from memory a paragraph of something he had read a decade or two before virtually verbatim. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z But birth is more often gracefully elided, occurring between the end of one chapter and the beginning of another, or even between one paragraph and the next. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z Others, more interestingly, say that it was Masefield's wife who added the paragraph. Season's readings: The Box of Delights by John Masefield 2010-12-06T15:14:00Z The resulting paragraphs can be desultory, full of fascinating but unintegrated information. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The first sentence and first paragraph need to catch the reader's attention. You can't teach creative writing. Can you? 2012-07-05T15:21:47Z Mr. Aiken intensely admires the work of William Carlos Williams, Jean de Roseberry and a few others, and says so in a few paragraphs. Over time, the L.A. Times saw Conrad Aiken as brilliant, misunderstood and dishonest 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z If you gave those same monkeys a laptop you'd hardly get 100 words, because they would all spend eternity constantly revising the first paragraph. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z In a single, fierce-as-f paragraph, Abigail Adams acknowledges the existence of systemic patriarchy and expresses the desire to tear it down and rebuild anew — using the same revolutionary measures our nation was founded upon. Rebecca Traister on the long history of women’s anger: “There is no peak fury” 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z No. Can you compel anyone to write you whole sentences and even the occasional paragraph? Dating on Tinder: how can I go beyond chit-chat and start better conversations? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Brushing aside Hollywood in a single paragraph, he added that “the heart and soul of the movie business seems simply to have left L.A., mainly for foreign countries.” Oscar’s Heart May Be in Hollywood, but His Accent Is British 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z An early paragraph summarizing the main character — known throughout the novel as Mother — reads: Review | A violent police raid leads to a casualty — and a meditation on racism in America 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z But in the first paragraph, Miller begins to thwart those pastoral expectations. Sue Miller’s ‘The Arsonist,’ reviewed by Ron Charles Allow me to begin a new, important paragraph about that. And now there's a book out there with your name on it. Imagine that 2011-04-12T11:51:16Z For one, it contains virtually no narrative conflicts; each incident that could potentially cause tension gets resolved within paragraphs or, at most, a few pages. Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z A few paragraphs later: “The Vic, she’s learned, tracks his bottles, so she drinks her own, scattered hither and yon, but not too yon.” 'Bottle Grove,' by Daniel Handler book review - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z From the first paragraph onward, I certainly appreciated it—“The Pugilist at Rest” seemed to me a small masterpiece, vividly imagined, wonderful in all ways. Postscript: Thom Jones 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It is a jolt when, in the novel's final paragraphs, the perceptions of characters give way to history, as the narrative voice turns from the mass grave to the business of memorialisation in the future. The Siege by Helen Dunmore 2011-02-12T00:05:20Z “He turned her over,” O’Connor writes in the final paragraphs of the story. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Just consider the opening paragraphs of Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea” or the final one of Salter’s “A Sport and a Pastime.” What we can learn from two literary masters: Ursula K. Le Guin and James Salter 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But in just five paragraphs, the court upheld a statute that enabled the State of Virginia to sterilize “mental defectives” — specifically one Carrie Buck, a young resident of the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s a big book, you know, and it took a year and half or so for me to write, but it started with just one or two paragraphs. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z And admit it, you’ve been humming the Jurassic Park theme since the first paragraph. Solo performance: who should score Star Wars once John Williams quits? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z I mightn’t have thought so if not for the last paragraph, which, like a sudden break in the weather, astonishes with the force of its unexpected beauty. Second Thoughts in the Second City 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z You know how some articles just grab you from the first paragraph? From “phreaks” to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s “eureka!” moment 2013-02-16T14:00:00Z Flow is important to him: margins of white space mark off sections and groupings of GIFs that are meant to scan as cohesive paragraphs or stanzas. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Others seem like excerpts from a series of disconnected stories, an assemblage of opening, middle and concluding paragraphs that together create a mosaic portrait of Yang that eventually changes Jake. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The font goes up to like 72 points and it’s bolded and placed between paragraphs. Sixteen years in academia made me an a-hole 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z If nothing, why mention all the women, some of whom come and go in only a paragraph? 'Alan Lomax,' the man who preserved America's folk music 2011-01-12T22:51:03Z A paragraph later, Louise describes us having videotaped one of our children's births and showing it to anyone who came to visit, our more traditional Jewish cousins included. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z Judith Regan, then a hotshot book editor who had been a classmate of Wolff’s at Vassar, vigorously disputed almost every paragraph of Wolff’s column about her. Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Mimicking the release of pent-up emotions, the book’s short declarative sentences suddenly transform into flowing, incantatory paragraphs. Per Petterson’s ‘I Refuse’ and ‘Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z On a good day, they would write a paragraph or two. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z This comes two paragraphs after she relays a comment Trump made to her after she was fired on “The Apprentice”: “ ‘Can I be honest? Omarosa, the Tragic Narrator of Our Times 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Professional writers with thoughtful sentences and well-composed paragraphs who came to more or less the same conclusion was another. Dear Internet: Sorry about that motherhood post 2013-02-03T02:00:00Z One other thing: What is the record for rhetorical questions in a single paragraph? Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z There is no paragraph where the star and the writer pretend to be pals — gag — while doing an everyday-person activity. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “A slam-bang, no-holds-barred extravaganza, guaranteed to pin down your attention from the first paragraph,” William Du Bois wrote in The New York Times. Al Morgan, Novelist, Playwright and Television Producer, Is Dead at 91 2011-03-14T20:07:39Z The later Rattle moulds the great paragraphs of the Brahms Piano Quartet in a way that tends to blur its outlines and undermine the stark grandeur that emerges so powerfully in the earlier performance. Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Scene; Chamber Symphony; etc ? review 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z Each paragraph is a little lonely, like a figure in an Edward Hopper painting. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z I had been feeling sick for a couple of days and was happy to be in a guesthouse with almost no guests in a village with only one paragraph in the travel guide. In Morocco, 44 hours of lingering in a small village leaves a big impression 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z She doesn’t even let her husband read her books in full, even though she might show him a few paragraphs here and there. A romance novelist struggled with Asperger’s. Now she writes about love on the spectrum. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, Eugenides writes like a man who is enjoying himself. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z For the experiment, a spoiler paragraph was included in each story either as a preface, or discreetly incorporated into the body of the text as if it was meant to be there all along. Sorry to spoil your “Game of Thrones” revenge-spoiler fantasy, but it doesn’t work 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Given the opening paragraph of this article, it must be pretty easy to anticipate its next sentence. Relationship listicle madness: All those “10 signs” stories are not going to change your life 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z This is all before he reaches the eighth paragraph. ArtsBeat: A Hatchet Man Stands Up for 'Mad Men' 2011-02-11T16:39:41Z In one paragraph alone Rupert is "spellbound" and "in shock" – "I completely forget about wanking." Vanished Years by Rupert Everett – review 2012-10-05T21:54:01Z But what’s truly disappointing is the novel’s final paragraph, which lands like a molotov cocktail of toxic cynicism. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z That afterword lifts the curtain a little, offering a few paragraphs about Mr. Desmond’s childhood in Winslow, Ariz., where his father was a nondenominational minister and his mother worked various jobs. A Harvard Sociologist on Watching Families Lose Their Homes 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In baroque dialogue allowed the luxury of paragraphing, he spars with Lowe on the power and necessity of God, murder and freedom while occasionally slicing jugulars and battling migraines that bring on eerie visions. In 'Crossbones,' John Malkovich as Blackbeard is the lure 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z When I finished the paragraph I was reading and looked up, he was standing there, grinning. Modern Love: The View From the Victim Room 2013-06-27T20:45:27Z It approaches the text in ways both abstract and overly literal, sometimes excerpting entire paragraphs. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Extended paragraphs of reported speech, not to mention exhaustive descriptions of the characters' outfits, add to the impression of a book written primarily as an outline for a television series. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z "And he'd just keep talking and talking, in these completely huge paragraphs. They were brilliant-sounding, but if you dug into them they didn't make much sense." Brian Wilson biopic 'Love & Mercy' a complex venture for Cusack, Giamatti 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Were it not so, the case would have rated no more than a few paragraphs in the local weekly paper. From the archive, 28 July 1983: Fact and fiction merge on the Street of fame 2012-07-27T23:05:35Z Its strength is the intensely beautiful way Salter combines words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into this lean, spare 300-page novel. Review: `All That Is' is masterpiece for writers 2013-04-10T12:30:12Z Her personality confirms it; her friends talk of manic late-night texts, rambling phone calls where she often speaks in paragraph blocks and recounts crazy experiences. A Picture-Perfect Wedding in the Big Easy 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z In fact, despite a long chapter on Greek thought and literature, the myth is barely mentioned, and the play receives a single thin paragraph. ‘Know Thyself’ Review: The Evolution of a Culture 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z I pencil vertical lines in the margins of the books I read whenever a sentence or paragraph seems especially striking. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Previously in this short paragraph of text, I said that the extent to which recaps are used in television is getting ridiculous and now I’m going to say something else pertaining to that. Stop it, Sherlock! Five TV tropes that need to die 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z So was I mistaken — or just selectively truthful — in calling “The Lifespan of a Fact” “terrifically engaging” just 20 paragraphs ago? Review: A Three-Way Smackdown Over ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z This paragraph nicely encapsulates the kinds of exaggerations and outright falsehoods that typify discussion of this issue. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z Twain simply can't spare the space, he's too busy trying to cram as much fun as he can into every paragraph. Saci Lloyd's top 10 political books 2013-03-15T16:24:50Z Before they left, I had them each write a few paragraphs explaining to me how they’d lost their feet. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z At 426 pages, the novel consists of “almost unbroken blocks, with no chapters and few paragraph breaks.” Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z A single paragraph sees damage "wreaked" twice on the poor Tommies at the front. CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z Sometimes I’d write a paragraph, and then read it over and over in a trance. My Klonopin fog 2012-07-28T22:00:00Z First of all Ford explains why Odour of Chrysanthemums is such a good title, and then he gets stuck into the first paragraph. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z But the last line of that paragraph struck me just the same: “the choice of how and when to tell her has been stolen from me.” Motherlode Blog: The Best Time to Talk to Your Children About the Next National Tragedy? Now. 2014-02-04T19:38:31Z That care, which breathes through every paragraph, is freighted too with a kind of desperation. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z She creates gorgeous descriptions of nature, with its “colors so rich she could smell them: flamingo rock, terra-cotta dirt, cornflower sky” in one paragraph, and heart-stopping scenes of violence in the next. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Some of Lydia Davis's short stories run to a whole paragraph. Write your own short story – in under three sentences 2013-05-24T09:19:09Z In some sections, the novel’s halting, elliptical style conveys confusion and terror more honestly than coherent paragraphs ever could. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing,’ by Eimear McBride There it was: a piece of 29 long and loaded paragraphs and all but footnoted, explaining the nonmerits of a television series. Now that 'Mad Men' has changed the TV landscape, what does it all mean? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Tailoring his ambition to his failing health, he began turning out what he called flash paragraphs, in the same confident voice of “Essays after Eighty.” Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Ninety-nine percent of the time hearing the actual song or going to the actual concert is far more revealing than any paragraph describing it. A New Novel Asks, What Is More Powerful, a Microphone or a Gun? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Then Joan Fontaine, cast as the meek governess, recites the book's first paragraphs, as if dictating a lesson in her schoolroom. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z As I thought about writing this review, I imagined an opening paragraph summarizing the events of this summer’s nationwide protests against police violence. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z I love the way you set it all up in the first paragraph. T.C. Boyle: Older, still effortlessly cool 2012-09-07T15:05:00Z Quotation marks appear in my preceding paragraph, around the word connoting a performative art that currently is shifting to the Internet — a whole field with a kind of refugee status. Review | A play premieres online — and it couldn’t be more relevant to how we are right now 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But each of these writers is given at best a paragraph or two. Books of The Times: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Take Me In 2011-08-16T16:57:42Z It includes this doubling-down paragraph: What I do is not journalism. This American Life?s Apple Retraction: The Danger of Truthiness 2012-03-16T19:32:44Z The biggest take-away, however, is from the first paragraph, where Nye describes the video that spurred the debate into fruition: Bill Nye: Creationism is “bad for science education, bad for the U.S., and thereby bad for humankind” 2014-04-15T20:10:00Z Some of the book’s most compelling passages are lists, sometimes as much as a paragraph in length. Paper trail 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The narrator’s thick patter, with its long sentences and infrequent paragraph breaks, rings with such a curious sound. Review | ‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z “In my discussion of the Ku Klux Klan I am not neutral,” she writes, adding later in the same paragraph, “I am offering an interpretation, not a scholarly monograph.” The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z With Schubert setting the imaginative bar ever higher in almost every paragraph of the first movement development, even the Schoenberg was overshadowed. Janine Jansen string sextet ? review 2012-05-18T10:37:27Z It gives us paragraphs, signed sincerely and very truly, instead. ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z There’s one striking word, however, that remains unchanged in the opening paragraph of both versions of “Red Harvest.” The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z And there are a lot of lectures about the news delivered in perfectly constructed paragraphs without the need to pause for breath by McHale, and especially by McAvoy. The Newsroom: not so great, not so wise 2012-07-04T18:33:49Z Matt requested me as a friend on Facebook, and I spent two hours fine-tuning my “About Me” paragraph and untagging myself in unflattering photos before I accepted. Modern Love: A Love for the Ages, but Which One? 2011-05-12T21:31:23Z He knows that “Dexter,” the Showtime drama he starred in for eight seasons, will make its way into its first paragraph. Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “Stay focused: We have a single focus on going to work Friday morning, and getting paid our pay and benefits — period, end of sentence, end of paragraph, end of story,” he told them. Met Opera Unions Agree to Federal Mediator as Deadline Looms 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Even the description in the paragraph above was nothing more than window dressing. Frankenstein's Army trailer: a treat for you reanimated killer Nazi fans 2013-07-16T16:55:48Z The action — a lot of it related in one- or two-sentence paragraphs that rocket you through the tale — is, as you might expect, cinematic. Don Winslow’s summer blockbuster, ‘The Force,’ is ready-made for Hollywood 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Interestingly enough there are several paragraphs of dialogue that didn't make it to the screen and would have filled a number of gaps for me. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The emotional cast to the writing, the tendency to dangle portents and wait some time before resolving them, the depiction of friendship, the short paragraphs, the philosophical aperçus — these are all marks of Penny’s writing. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Not every paragraph in a standard novel needs to shine. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z My mother is gone now, so I’ll always wonder if this is a paragraph that put a smile on her face. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The argument I will make for “Memoirs” is this: It’s densely yet nimbly written, and you sense Lowell’s judgment and discrimination in every paragraph. In Robert Lowell’s ‘Memoirs,’ Mental Illness, Creative Friends and a Takedown of Dad 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z “He’ll find all this deep rich ore, which, once you know it, it’ll make the whole story that much more powerful. Whereas other people would dispense with those characters in a paragraph or two.” Conan O’Brien’s Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z His letters always contained four paragraphs—one each about tennis, academics, family, and outside interests. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z I have also reviewed Howard Jacobson, who appears in the next paragraph, on several occasions. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z Saunders lives in the synapses — he looks at all the minute and meaningful decisions that produce a sentence, a paragraph, a convincing character. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The penultimate paragraph critique: “Despite the abundance of detail in this exhaustively researched book…” This is the best thing about the New York Times Book Review 2014-03-24T17:38:00Z Wildly informative and quite overwhelming, this collection can hardly be captured in a few scant paragraphs. Grammys 2015: An archival bounty within best historical album category 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Don’t come to “The Doors” looking for a history of the band; Mr. Marcus dispenses with that in one short paragraph in front. Books of The Times: ?The Doors,? by Greil Marcus - Review 2011-11-15T21:52:12Z The farmhouse table at which meals are served is as much a presence as the food, a solid island of calm in a swirling sea of words and paragraphs, ideas and memories, self-doubt and possibilities. ‘Radical hospitality’ at the Hedgebrook writers colony 2013-08-28T23:03:24Z Although less formally experimental than “Brown Girl Dreaming,” “Another Brooklyn” still presents its own distinctive structure: Every paragraph is set off by blank lines, which emphasizes the poetic style of Woodson’s prose. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Rude had me at the opening paragraph, when a serious scholar from her student days casually told her: “A chicken is an incredible piece of technology.” 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z How could somebody write one, and then another, and then a whole book full of paragraphs? Perspective | Reading will supposedly make you a better person. That’s not the real reason to pick up a book. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Every paragraph dares you to keep up, forcing you finally to stop asking questions, to stop grasping for chronology and just trust her. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z As that first paragraph portended, this is a story about her neighbor’s heart, not her own — an anthology of the lives she encounters in the ward known as W-3. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z In an Atlantic interview, Obama confessed to laboring for hours over single paragraphs. Presidential Memoirs Don’t Always Take This Long to Write 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z He would scratch out whole paragraphs, and in his cursive make things more economical in pencil. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In my first paragraph, I pose the question that drives all 24 chapters: To what degree do our bodily limitations of ear and eye and memory shape our reading and writing of poetry? John Keats, Chopped Prose and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Two paragraphs, on this book’s first page, set the tone: A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z With each dance phrase, Ms. Richardson offers us paragraphs, not words, mini-eassays full of emotion and intention. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The only mention of academies is in the penultimate paragraph of the schools section. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z “I don’t think you can be in the paragraph if you’ve already decided where you need to be.” Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z That paragraph — it’s from an essay I wrote years ago — pretty much sums up a central theme of the five paperbacks reprinted as “The Harper Perennial Resistance Library.” Review | What the ‘Resistance Library’ shows us about America’s struggles today 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The luminous quality of these novels—the sense that every paragraph, no matter its content, is vital—is a result of that doubleness. Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Why, then, call this a “cunning sleight of hand”? Especially when, as we learn one paragraph later, it nearly drew a false confession from this man? Review: Deep in a Homicide Unit, Details, but No Big Picture 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z A pivotal paragraph starts, “Yeah, right, she thought, and then he was on top of her again.” ‘Cat Person’ in The New Yorker: A Discussion With the Author 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z In a single, mouthwatering paragraph, she waxes enthusiastic about the flavors. 'Eat Pray Love' exalts purists' gelato in Rome 2010-08-16T19:26:00Z But a measly three paragraphs explained the Order of Merlin, a prestigious award given to witches and wizards and, of course, to Dumbledore. J.K. Rowling's Pottermore Christmas Comes to an End 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In the case of “The Nickel Boys,” for example, I break the rule for two Spencer paragraphs late in the book, and for a few pages that focus on a runaway student. Colson Whitehead on Human Cruelty 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z They offer instead an intriguing premise, an impeccable paragraph, or just a sketch of all that the book contains, inviting readers to take part in a fresh experience of their own. Review | ‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z That aside, one can only salute and marvel at the staggering fecundity of idea and insight that turns almost every remaining paragraph into a hive of constellated meaning. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There’s one chapter of paragraphs all encased in parentheses. Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z But there was something in the actual writing of that paragraph that tore me apart. Samira Wiley, of ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ on Poussey’s Big Episode 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Paragraph by paragraph, it unspooled and required as little effort as watching a movie. This Week in Fiction: Ian McEwan on Literary Crimes 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z “Why does a car door not fly open in a crash?” one paragraph begins. Ralph Nader's Tort Museum 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Just look at the names in the preceding paragraphs. ‘The Harder They Fall’ Review: A New Look for the Old West 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z An analysis in The New Republic that published not long after Axios launched that cited several phrases that could be interpreted as alarming within that paragraph. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z I have failing vision, plus a macula condition, which is not serious enough to blind me, but effectively prevents me from reading more than a paragraph or two without my vision blurring. The Novel That Made Jules Feiffer Ignore His Family on Vacation 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “I remember the date, of course,” Mr. Child writes, in one of his typically attention-riveting opening paragraphs. Books of The Times: ?The Affair,? by Lee Child, Gives Reacher a Back Story 2011-09-19T22:19:36Z The longest paragraph in South Carolina’s 1860 declaration of the “immediate causes” of secession, he notes, didn’t concern the much-debated westward expansion of slavery, but northern obstruction of the return of fugitives. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “He is in total command of the way Shakespeare’s people think and speak,” Hytner said, “in long, perfectly weighted paragraphs that emerge as if spontaneous.” Adrian Lester Finally Arrives on Broadway, via Wall Street 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Second to the last paragraph: he had grown into a lonely teenager, feeling he exits in the shadow of popular kids. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The dish that has Los Angeles written all over it is called umami cereal, and before you jump to the next paragraph, let me sing the praises of the accompaniment. Review | Voltaggio Brothers Steak House review: Together at last, this tag team antes up 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In one paragraph, the bill frets that “minors, and often their parents, are unable to comprehend and fully appreciate the risk and life implications” of gender-affirming treatments. Perspective | The GOP’s anti-trans bills are ignorance in action 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z In one glorious paragraph we have repeated occurrences of "Phil Spectre" and "Don Lett's", and the word used to describe London's relation to the rest of the country always comes out as "capitol". Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane by Stewart Home – review 2013-03-05T13:49:00Z She began to speak out three paragraphs per day, and within nine months, she had finished the book. In ‘The Pisces,’ a Woman and a Merman Fall in Love. Aquatic Erotica Ensues. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The Lovely Bones: the girl dies in the first paragraph. How a Book Becomes the Book of the Summer 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z He points to each letter with his finger, and someone at his side collects the words and the sentences and the paragraphs. Cloud Atlas author translates autistic teenager's memoir 2013-02-26T15:05:37Z She can no longer read, she told Sweeney: "Since the last six or seven breakdowns, I can't do more than a paragraph." Radio review: Out of the Vortex 2011-02-08T08:00:01Z That short, blunt paragraph arrives after the long one like a punch. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Other odes to the region are sprinkled throughout Fitzgerald’s work, most notably Carraway’s famous paragraph in “Gatsby” where he talks about his “Middle West.” Tracing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Minnesota Roots 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Variety actually mentioned the word "Oscar" in the same paragraph with "City Island." After "City Island," time for Hollywood meetings 2010-08-27T00:27:00Z The Chinese bought the rights to the book, although there’s not a paragraph in it targeted towards families in Asia. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z The outraged Mark unleashes an abusive tirade that takes up two long paragraphs. ‘Black Chalk’ review: A school game turns deadly 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z One involves making linear and melodic phrases seamlessly overlap, rather than letting them unfold like sentences in a musical paragraph; the other touches on Lutoslawski’s experiments with introducing elements of chance into his composition. Music Review: Lorin Maazel and New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-25T22:03:14Z As short as a line or as long as several paragraphs, a fragment could be potent and pointed, delivering a punch of sentiment without the persuasive padding required of more discursive forms. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Again I leave you to make up your own mind on the basis of several paragraphs of innuendo. Digested read: Oprah by Kitty Kelley 2010-04-19T22:00:00Z This is just the first line of a long, multiply-metaphorical paragraph listing Mattlin’s reasons for writing “In Sickness and in Health.” Review | The perils and pleasures of inter-abled romance 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Louise Glück’s new book, “Marigold and Rose,” is a fablelike work of fiction, all of 55 pages, with plenty of white space framing the paragraphs. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The story is written in a series of short, clipped sections, sometimes a couple of paragraphs, others no more than a line or two per page. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The mensch in him would issue warnings for the squeamish to skip ahead a few paragraphs. What Death Can Teach You About Living a Passionate Life 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until the 19th paragraph, however, that the story noted that the conflict-of-interest angle was dubious. A New York Times reporter dug into Ukraine and the Democrats. Critics are still howling. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z You should also pay attention to your paragraphs, so that they flow with the turns and rhythms of your story. 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z There my precocity at writing self-important, self-serving, impenetrably dull articles that everyone stopped reading long before the end of the first paragraph was noticed by the editor and I was transferred to the leader-writing team. Digested read: Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg 2011-07-11T20:30:02Z She lasts all of three paragraphs before Lawrence is done with her forever. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z This line appears in the opening paragraph of “Hard Times” and sets the tone for almost the entire story collection. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z This is why I referred to Satoshi Kon as a "director" in the opening paragraph: his films are so involving and cinematic it's easy to forget that they are constructed one frame at a time. Japan mourns anime master Satoshi Kon 2010-08-26T15:49:00Z In your first paragraph you say you can’t seem to come to a decision that will give you peace of mind. Psychic change or con job? 2012-11-13T01:00:00Z Kerouac, a fast typist, decided that he would ignore punctuation, paragraph breaks and traditional form, and type the story in one long sustained burst of energy. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z I pointed at their pages and said: “Imagine you’re the editor who pulled this from the slush pile. Is there a glaring typo in the first paragraph? Bam! Rejected.” Modern Love: Learning to Silence My Inner Editor 2014-02-13T19:38:06Z Even this apparent digression with its minorly clever point — that writing is a kind of con game — serves as a breathing space, a slight pause before the rush of my final two paragraphs. Review | The greatest prison escape ever? ‘The Confidence Men’ tells a sensational true story. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z He introduced himself with a brief, simple paragraph. I fell in love with a Salon commenter 2013-12-10T00:00:00Z It was David Simon — not George Pelecanos — who said, "Somebody much smarter than me described the audience as a child," as well as the paragraph that followed. ‘The Deuce’ Jumps Ahead to the ’80s and Sees the Future 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z And in his last paragraph he offers a surprising personal glimpse into the reviewer’s fear of being “gobsmacked” by a superior book, even when he is. Indexes, Soaring Imaginations and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z One could spend an entire dissertation unpacking that comment, but let’s keep it to a paragraph. Perspective | Stacey Abrams, a sea-blue dress and the politics of appearance 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z As a federal arts administrator, you get calls like these from time to time: Hi, I’m working on a Civil War novel set on Alpha Centauri, and the first paragraph is almost done. Where do art and the humanities belong? David Kipen on the new American Writers Museum 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But while I was writing this paragraph, I got a news alert: “Ariel Winter flaunts her assets,” the Daily Mail headline read, as the “Modern Family” star appeared to walk to her car. Perspective | Famous ladies aren’t ‘flaunting’ their ‘bikini bodies.’ They’re just going to the beach. 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z By bringing “style” into it, Brooks nods to Flaubert’s reputation as a compulsive tweaker, someone who could spend all day reworking a paragraph. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z She doesn’t mistake solemnity for seriousness and, in nearly every paragraph, seems to be utterly enjoying herself. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Their alertness to death gives them a significant and mysterious force in the story, while Gabriel is fixed – until the last paragraph – in one dimension only. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z The narrator says things like, “While writing the previous paragraph . . .” or “I strayed a little in the previous two sentences . . . ” or even the comically pedantic, “I reported in the fourth most recent paragraph that. . . .” Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It is written by Daniel Bettridge and has a funny bit in the penultimate paragraph where he spoils the biggest plot twists in film history. Close up: Jodie Foster aims to help scientists make contact 2011-08-18T16:38:32Z In a paragraph or two, I’m going to describe how much I admired, with a few reservations, the show’s acrid, ambiguous, unsettling last sequence, which was, refreshingly, the opposite of fan service. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z What struck me most about Stout’s great mulch revelation was the paragraph that followed it, where she experiences it as “a deafening roar” and the culmination of her entire life of radicalism. More vegetables, less work: Lessons from the mother of mulch 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The story’s timeline accelerates, breathtakingly, in its closing paragraphs. Kevin Barry’s Stories of Yearning Swing Between Pathos and Humor 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z These often consist of a single, savage sentence; they are never more than a paragraph or two. The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Every detail about Desmond suggests that we should approve of him, except one: in the first paragraph we learn that he's having a passionate affair with his granny. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z Her last post to Instagram, made on Tuesday, gives no hint of her marital woes, devoting two paragraphs to her opinions on polka dots. Britney Spears and husband separate after only 14 months 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The last two paragraphs of the book amount to one of the most excruciating extended metaphors — yes, the ship of state! The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “I don’t need to read a paragraph on why the book is good. I just need to know that it’s gay and it slaps and they’re going to kiss.” ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The writer did not press Menken to elaborate, but conservative outlets took the news — a mere paragraph in a much longer article — and ran with it. ‘Up where they woke’: Fox News and others panic about “Little Mermaid” lyric changes 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Some are illuminating, like Charles Dickens’s marked-up copy of “David Copperfield,” in which he excised paragraphs and inscribed prompts that he used in public readings from the book. A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. Quotes by Chinua Achebe, dead at age 82 2013-03-22T15:47:10Z It's more that Tempest limits herself with great big paragraphs of verse. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Everything Speaks In Its Own Way by Kate Tempest 2012-07-20T10:42:03Z If you have, proceed to the next paragraph. 'Good Wife' creators talk about going behind bars for Season 6 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Ho-Ling Wong’s English translation reads well, the narrative itself being moved along briskly by short paragraphs with lots of conversation among the characters. ‘The Decagon House Murders’ evokes Agatha Christie — in Japan 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Recently, for some magazine, they asked me to do a paragraph on each song from the album. Can Peaches Still Fit in Those Pink Hot Pants? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Although Lina famously discovered eight comets on her own, her years as a “great comet huntress” slip by in a paragraph. ‘The Stargazer’s Sister’ review: What could a woman find in the sky? 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z "The second paragraph," he said, "would always be, `So you can imagine my disappointment when ...'" A reboot for the National Geographic Channel 2013-04-11T14:04:09Z I don't think this little paragraph really explains why he is so brilliant; it would be much easier if you just read the book! Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo- review 2013-07-13T11:00:00Z The offensive article comes after just last month, The Guardian UK was accused of covering for transphobes, as it deleted numerous paragraphs and quotes from an interview with gender theorist Judith Butler. Dave Chappelle and the warped self-victimhood of transphobes 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z “I sometimes get up at night when I can’t sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, ‘My God, did I write that? ‘Fahrenheit 451′ Author Ray Bradbury Dies at 91 2012-06-06T14:50:36Z In the second paragraph, Morrison just hacks out the first paragraph’s punctuation. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “Who the hell reads the second paragraph?” snarls Walter Burns, the merciless newspaper editor in “The Front Page,” examining the copy of his star reporter. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Davis agonized over how much detail to alter, whether to keep an occasional “etc.,” and how much breathable white space to dilate Flaubert’s dense paragraphs with. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z That final paragraph of the landmark ruling was again remembered and repeated Wednesday, as Kennedy revealed his decision to retire from the court. Anthony Kennedy and the four Supreme Court rulings that changed gay life in America 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z A ship’s nautical compass, appearing in an opening paragraph, will inevitably have mutated into “a moral compass” by the section’s closing line. Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The novel was written sort of a sentence a day, sometimes a paragraph a day while I was working full time. Exclusive 'Fight Club 2' pages: Tyler Durden's been around for longer than we thought 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The New York Times reported later Friday that it also had removed a questionable paragraph from the online archive of an op-ed piece Daisey wrote for the newspaper in October. Mike Daisey embroiled in 'This American Life' controversy 2012-03-17T04:55:24Z “Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, Eugenides writes like a man who is enjoying himself. The feeling is contagious,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Angel Pavement's storyline can be given in a paragraph. JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z Lehane described a cycle for managing a celebrity crisis, in which a scandal naturally moves from the headline of a news story, to the first paragraph, to the next page and eventually gone altogether. Jussie Smollett says he wants to ‘get back to work.’ But can his career recover? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Why did Sheridan's lawyers amend the complaint to add two paragraphs claiming ABC looked into the claim and found it meritless? Sheridan amends "Desperate Housewives" lawsuit 2010-06-16T05:54:00Z To claim Thatcher in a one-line paragraph as "My other mother" is a hollow shock effect. Maggie and Me by Damian Barr – review 2013-04-25T09:00:12Z They are prose lines broken into “stanzas” of one or several sentences, each an almost paragraph. In ‘The Octopus Museum,’ Brenda Shaughnessy Sees a Cephalopod Future 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Zakaria was suspended by both outlets last Friday for lifting several paragraphs from a New Yorker magazine essay for his use in a recent Time column. Suspension of Fareed Zakaria lifted by CNN, Time 2012-08-17T00:41:51Z But the best part is the paragraph that deals with decency which we share with you in its entirety. Grammy awards: 10 things to expect – from Jack White to wardrobe mistakes 2013-02-08T15:00:02Z “I can’t tell you how many times I thought I had a scoop only to Google her stories for the past few weeks and finding she’d deposited this interesting, original detail in paragraph 24. Ugh.” Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z I found myself skipping paragraphs to find a character which I was more interested in and remembered what they were doing. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale - review 2013-02-11T12:00:00Z Then, maybe three months or six months later, I got the idea that I could turn those one or two paragraphs into a novel, and I started to write. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The chapters, in fact, read something like rich, extended cut versions of What’s Alan Watching? posts, right down to the trademark “footnotes” that he intersperses between paragraphs. Book Review: Alan Sepinwall’s The Revolution Was Televised 2012-11-28T15:32:40Z The chief minister admits that apart from the offending paragraphs, he has not read the book. India must move beyond book-burning 2010-10-21T14:10:00Z I say that because the part about the actual book in question is relegated to the last few paragraphs; and at that is somewhat desultory. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Love that last paragraph, made me tear up. TsuruTonTan, a Japanese Chain That Knows Its Noodles 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z I’m not sure how a sentence or a paragraph extends itself. A rare interview with Don DeLillo, one of the titans of American fiction 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z White keeps a journal of short phrases and paragraphs, things he thinks of and things he hears. ‘Word painting’ artist Wayne White brings 14-foot-tall puppets to the Seattle Art Fair 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z She continued for many paragraphs, talking about her husband’s “pain,” and his “pride,” and about how she had not properly “respected” and “supported” him. Perspective | The slippery language around domestic violence 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Many are a few paragraphs; a handful trail on for five or more pages. Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z Readers under 14 can skip the next couple of explainer paragraphs. Be the Star of Your Own Snapchat Story 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Just counter those assertions with a screengrab of a few choice paragraphs from that piece under the heading of "This you?" Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: PR There was a highly imaginative response to our competition to write the first paragraph of a fictional book called Just Ourselves. Our very own Orange prize: the winners 2010-06-02T13:11:00Z “The Knife” is a first novel, and it shows — especially in the long prelude to deployment and, sadly, in the final few paragraphs of the novel, which attempt to neatly wrap up everything. ‘The Knife,’ by Ross Ritchell 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z But, really, if you want a sense of what most critics think, those writing in the mainstream or not, you usually just need to read the first and sometimes the last paragraphs of their reviews. ArtsBeat: More 'Ask the Film Critics' 2011-04-22T17:56:02Z “The Odd Trump” contains what may be the most Victorian paragraphs ever set to paper: Trump and Clinton: The Victorian Novel 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z I used to find lengthy paragraphs without line breaks difficult and boring, and now I enjoy them. Sally Rooney’s Attention Span Has Improved 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “He would be very focussed on making sure we had a couple of paragraphs, maybe even half a page, on how we got here.” “The Wilderness,” Reviewed: Can a Partisan Podcast Save the Democratic Party? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Except for a few scene-setting paragraphs here and there, we barely hear from him. ArtsBeat: The Age of Oral Histories 2012-03-02T18:56:31Z Turning the page, I found a one-sentence paragraph, set off by itself. My father, the smoker: John Jeremiah Sullivan book extract 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z In another paragraph, it feels as if she’s trying to channel Robin Leach while he strolls through a gold-encrusted living room, as she talks about the insane amount of money in Silicon Valley. Pet Projects of the New Billionaires 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z It is not surprising to find both “splattered” and “shattered” in the same paragraph here. Books of The Times: ‘Killing Kennedy’ by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 2012-10-10T21:54:31Z That this seems a pipe dream should go without saying; according to Cap, all that exists of “The Reverend” is a brief opening chapter: four typed pages, six paragraphs, 1,100 words. Harper Lee: What's wrong with a one-hit wonder? 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Occasionally, the long, controlled paragraphs curl almost imperceptibly into dry wit. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z A paragraph like that one conveys the rigor of Stewart’s reporting and thinking. For Homeless Girl Scouts, It’s Not All Badges and Cookies 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The essay begins with four quotations in the first paragraph and ends with three quotations in the concluding paragraph. Letters: Exhibit a for Mash-Ups? 2010-03-25T15:55:00Z Mention the book again in the final paragraph. Style Invitational Week 1283: Put it in Bee-verse 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The death of Keats, for instance, is dispatched in a single paragraph, and long before the book's end. Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z In the sweeping final paragraph, Mr. Stadiem says that the Reagan years “would create a new generation of brash, hustling, shameless moguls who would make the Goldwyns and the Mayers spin in their marble mausoleums.” Books of The Times: ‘Moneywood,’ by William Stadiem 2012-12-24T21:52:46Z He reads himself in, zipping through the paragraphs of the previous morning, and then… bang, he's off! David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z Greenwell added a second section — an extended paragraph about internalized homophobia, shame and the narrator’s father — and a third to provide closure on the novel’s initial plot. Garth Greenwell Comes Clean 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The sentence occupies—overthrows is more like it—the entire first paragraph of “Striking and Picturesque Delineations,” and its massed armies overrun and conquer every page thereafter. An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z So he created blocky initials to be printed in red for the first letters of words beginning most paragraphs, an idea he took from a Renaissance tome. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z In this case, I had the title “Killing Commendatore,” and I had the first paragraphs of the book, and I was wondering what kind of story I could write with them. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z I was, however, distracted by Messud’s opening paragraph, in which she described classic feminist books of the 1960s and early 1970s as “seminal.” Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z When someone writes the history of media’s digital transformation, what happened Wednesday night and Thursday morning in Congress ought to get a paragraph or two. What was truly historic about the congressional sit-in? The way we watched it. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I counted four in one paragraph alone, and this can make the reading a herky-jerky affair. What Does Alzheimer’s Disease Do to a Marriage? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The “he” at the start of the second paragraph is confusing. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z “I finally figured it only meant I’d be writing three paragraphs less a year,” he told New York magazine in 2002, “because I’d only written two stories and 37 poems in almost a decade.” Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z It covers political turmoil, religious heterodoxy and scientific discovery—often within the same paragraph—and boasts a formidable cast of characters. Lost soul 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The power of Mina’s writing is such that she can transport readers from placidity to violent pandemonium in the space of a paragraph. Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z My favorite snippet of her book is the short paragraph titled “Find Joy in Food.” Teaching kids about vegetarianism While a few of her stories are of a conventional length, most range from one to three pages, and many are shorter still, occupying as little as a paragraph or a sentence. Lydia Davis: 'My style is a reaction to Proust's long sentences' 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z He remembers the editor who told him, “See how many paragraphs you can go before you put the score in.” Books of The Times: ‘His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir,’ by Dan Jenkins 2014-03-04T20:04:03Z The book’s final two paragraphs are a lyrical, almost mystical reflection that many anglers know by heart: Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But more important, he could find stories buried in the 13th paragraph, link them with other things and put a spotlight on them.” The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart 2012-04-13T23:02:42Z To state the Forsterian obvious again, adding breaks to a paragraph is not always going to make an interesting poem — but most poets don’t write that way. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z He said he continues to think that the use of “directed” in the headline and the first paragraph was justified, and that the story holds up. Perspective | After Cohen’s hearing, the BuzzFeed bombshell that Mueller disputed looks better — and worse 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The paragraph, sprung midway through Costello’s sprawling memoir, gets to the heart of what makes “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink” so fascinating. Elvis Costello has a new memoir, and it's even better than Bob Dylan and Keith Richards's books 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Bychkov took the big view of Brahms's greatest orchestral achievement, broadening the opening phrase in the way that purists dislike, and giving the first movement's large paragraphs plenty of room to breathe. LSO/Bychkov | Classical review 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z Though the final third of the novel flows smoothly, earlier battles and conversations are broken up by paragraphs of exposition, dissipating interest. The Life and Times of China’s Pirate Queen 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z And he set Wilkins’ closing words off in their own paragraph, writing in red in the left margin to instruct his typist not to miss the paragraph sign. Caro exhibit ‘Turn the Page’ is a window into his world 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z His big-picture commentary is so compressed and fluid that you often scarcely notice how casually he’s able to switch from micro to macro and back inside a single paragraph. The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Whereas the guitarist made his remarks on Twitter, restraining himself to just 76 characters, Morrissey used the blog True to You to issue 11 paragraphs of vegetarian vitriol. Morrissey supports Johnny Marr in David Cameron row 2010-12-06T10:38:00Z And, unlike with Walter Benjamin or Michel Foucault, when I read Being And Nothingness, I do not have to read the same paragraph over and over until I understand it. 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z But if you're reading my book, I want you stuck with reading the next paragraph. Mary Higgins Clark active as ever at age 85 2013-04-11T11:46:10Z A reader, on the other hand, knows nothing really at all, save what happens in the current sentence and preceding paragraphs. Javier Marías' elegant novel 'Thus Bad Begins' is filled with secrets 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It will, without question, be mentioned in the first paragraph of his obituary. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Writers are often advised to dispose of their cherished but superfluous paragraphs – to "kill their darlings". Sometimes even Tarantino has ideas that stink – but does anyone tell him? 2013-02-15T07:00:46Z The book’s central message comes in the last paragraph: “This ugly pandemic has … opened up a path to a new world.” Fareed Zakaria Looks at Life After the Pandemic 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The novel comprises some 400 pages with no chapter divisions and almost without paragraph breaks. Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z Dedicating a long chapter to them in “Playing Dead,” rather than a few paragraphs, feels like padding. ‘Playing Dead,’ a Disappearing Act for the Fraudulent-Minded 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z So I will engage with you, Janelle, even though you insulted me three times in one brief paragraph. Mending Fences (Even When You Really Don’t Want To) 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He makes demands on his readers as much as he does on the language he engages with. has no paragraph breaks, for example; is written in a set of short single-sentence sections. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Professional comedians often find it hard to resist a punchline when it comes to writing paragraphs. Robert Webb: ‘Jokes are important for men – we think we invented them’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Three movements unfold in grave, glacial paragraphs, with wavelike climaxes accumulating and receding and gathering again. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Duncan Campbell, author of The Paradise Trail and ex-Guardian crime correspondent, has started us off with the first paragraph, below. Murder, intrigue and rolled trouser legs ... help us write a crime novel 2011-07-07T10:49:00Z Did you feel there was something missing from that paragraph? Nick and Margaret: We All Pay Your Benefits; Brady and Hindley: Possession – TV review 2013-07-12T06:00:07Z In the foreword to “The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis,” published this month, the critic Michael Wood invokes Henry James, Henry Fielding, Chekhov, Sterne, Nabokov and Calvino — all in two paragraphs. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z This story corrects the spelling of Schnider in the 2nd paragraph. ‘Piano Pat,’ Montana Tiki bar entertainer for decades, dies 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z In general, Ray’s stories are characterized by short punchy paragraphs, the use of documents and newspaper reports, sudden shifts of narrative perspective, and a pervasive atmosphere of menace and approaching doom. Review | Escapist reading in the fantasy novels and weird tales from another time 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Anonymous: My main thought is that you go back to your first paragraph and first few years, and chalk it up anew to her “very shy, private personality.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A good relationship is elusive with son’s distant wife 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Fans are only treated to three paragraphs about Cokeworth, with a hint about the unbreakable vow that Snape made when he promised to protect Draco Malfoy at the start of The Half Blood Prince. J.K. Rowling's New Harry Potter Story Is Quite a Tease 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Where does Alice Munro get the bravura to jump 25 years between paragraphs? Author, author: Tessa Hadley 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z “What They Did” unfurls over a single nine-page paragraph in which time radiates outward in both directions from the spatial/emotional/historical zero point of the gaping hole. A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Most of these stories were just a few paragraphs long. What happens to local news when there is no local media to cover it? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Hitchens could size up a person, often hilariously, in a paragraph or two. In ‘Reporter,’ Seymour Hersh Recounts Leaping Tall Deadlines in Single Bounds 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z I gasped out loud when I read the last two paragraphs. New & Noteworthy, From Black Emancipators to Love and Desire 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Nearly every paragraph is strange, injected with unexpected meaning. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z He shifts point of view repeatedly, sometimes even after a single paragraph. Such a nice guy, such savage books: Don Winslow and 'The Cartel' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In a stroke of conceptual programming fit for the lead paragraph of a review like this, FX has scheduled two series in which comedians play versions of themselves one after the other on Thursday nights. 'The Comedians' works as star vehicle, 'Louie' as thought play 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Late in Carol Anshaw’s new novel, there’s a chapter set at the 2017 Women’s March in Chicago that consists of a single paragraph. Second Thoughts in the Second City 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Jackson — the “Gestational Age Act” — spends several paragraphs listing when a fetus begins to form fingernails or a diaphragm. Perspective | Why does ‘pro-life’ mean disregarding the actual lives of pregnant people? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z I’ve also been fascinated with “Sapiens,” by Yuval Noah Harari, but it’s quite dense and I usually pick it up at night so I keep falling asleep after a few paragraphs. America Ferrera: By the Book 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Like not using punctuation, using a lot of ellipses, changing the tone of the narrator, flashing forward and backward within a paragraph, changing tense within a paragraph. Why artist Tim Youd is spending his nights on Hollywood Boulevard retyping John Rechy's hustling novel 'City of Night' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z There are only a few of what you might consider recipes, in paragraph form, but after absorbing what Ms. Kalins recounts you may find you have less need for them. A Founding Editor of Saveur Shares What She Learned 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z With a quick-read format — its stories are broken into bite-size chunks, with a summary paragraph headed “Why it matters” — it broke a number of stories about the tumultuous Trump administration. Axios is the latest media company to try to make money from local news. History is not on its side. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z You could just plug in your one paragraph and maybe your budget, and the funders would have to compete with each other to support the project. Frank Conversations About Making a Living in Dance 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z I read the paragraph over and over, swallowing hard. What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z The paragraph continues with hosannas about the magazine, ending with Ms. Mengers telling its editor, Graydon Carter, that, “It’s like Proust.” Review: ‘Can I Go Now?,’ a Biography of the Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The dress communicates in long, emotional paragraphs a story that its designer Patience Torlowei, who was born in Enugu, Nigeria, knows intimately. ‘The dress comes out of pain’: Patience Torlowei creates fashion from the highs and lows of modern Africa 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z One night, I gave up in the middle of a four-page paragraph and for the next few nights I was out late. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z In the parlor’s mechanical chair, I write these paragraphs and dictate letters. Double Solitude 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z In fact, “Dead Souls” is an extraordinarily cerebral satire — almost 300 pages written as a single paragraph — about the culture of British poetry. Perspective | We need comic novels more than ever. So where are they? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z This implausible epiphany was forced on Melville by emotional necessity; and he earns and achieves it with many long paragraphs of sublimely fearless prose. Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Thornton's claim for libel and malicious falsehood related to two paragraphs of the review, published by the Telegraph in November 2008. Telegraph Media Group ordered to pay damages over Lynn Barber book review 2011-07-26T15:01:48Z A subject that I devoted the whole first chapter of my book to—the alphabet—Marcolongo dispenses with in less than a paragraph, in the penultimate essay. An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z And there, in just the first paragraph, he’s brushed off women’s history and reduced a whole gender to “the fair sex” cliché. Wall Street Journal gets a D in feminism 2013-04-02T20:11:00Z Most offensive to them was a single paragraph, midway through Hannah-Jones’s opening essay, in which she wrote that “one of the primary reasons” colonists rebelled against the crown was “to protect the institution of slavery.” Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z When you insist on a lot of white space between paragraphs and sometimes between single sentences, and if your work is humid, the effect can unintentionally verge on the amusing. Colum McCann’s New Novel Makes a Good-Intentioned Collage Out of Real Tragedy 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z In the book’s first paragraph, Maurer recognizes the con man as the “aristocrat” of grifters: he must use the full extent of his talent and ingenuity, and he plays for extremely high stakes. Anne Hathaway Wins “Ocean’s 8” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Four paragraphs later, we learn that the mystery man is Vladimir Putin, who is publicizing one of a string of American gas stations acquired by the Russian oil giant Lukoil. Rachel Maddow Takes On the Oil Industry 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Yet in the very next paragraph she says: ‘Slow, incremental changes were not going to get us anywhere. But how could we show the world we were mounting nothing less than a revolution?’ Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z But to go further on this theme would ruin a few jokes, as well as leading me back toward the sour, complaining tone of the first paragraph. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z The reviewer's last paragraph is a wonderful summary. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z A paragraph in its introduction seems to resonate beyond chimps, and to Koko: Remembering Koko, a Gorilla We Loved 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z He will hate these paragraphs if he reads them. Growing older without growing up: Graffiti artist Borf 10 years later 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z To varying degrees, they have read their dad’s “Confessions,” but they didn’t need to: for years, after writing all morning, Kronman would knock on their bedroom doors, waking them with newly minted paragraphs. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It is appreciably less expensive, especially now, given its economic woes, which sometimes earn it mention in the same paragraph, or even sentence, as Greece. Discovering the Douro 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z Drinking it was like being confined to only the first paragraph of a great book. When to Open a Bottle: Aging Wine Without the Anxiety 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The first paragraph described his “orchestrating a far-reaching pressure campaign . . . to overturn the will of voters.” Perspective | The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s what reality-based journalists must do about it. 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Each of the victims named in the previous paragraph hailed from cities and, with the exception of Sandra Bland, died in cities, too. “Sugar Town”: The shocking story of a young black man’s suspicious suicide while in police... 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Often, the first few paragraphs or pages arrive in my head—a kind of music or rhythm, which I then follow, in an attempt to discover what’s on my mind. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z PRO TIP: Milligan’s formula for a cover letter: In the first paragraph, explain why you love the company; in the second, explain how your skills will solve its problems; in the third, request an interview. Work Advice: Résumés, Part 2: Winning over the humans 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Certain events and characters in the preceding paragraph have been dramatized. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Feeling a bit dizzy from all the corporate buzzwords here – monetization, content, branding – in just two short paragraphs? Don’t laugh too hard at tronc: Yes, it’s a dumb name — but the grim outlook for journalism is no laughing matter 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Some of it’s borderline incomprehensible, like its opening paragraph: Sean Penn’s bizarre ramblings: A heartfelt David Foster Wallace tribute — or a stealth Oscar campaign for Jason Segel? 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z One more paragraph in the novel I’m reading? A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z And, that, whatever I said just a paragraph ago, is pretty legit chemistry. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z I was given even more pause on the next page, where Messud devotes an entire paragraph to the “holistic foulness” of her dachshund’s stench. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The pilcrow: The character that looks like a fancy backward capital P is called the pilcrow; it's used to mark the break between paragraphs. Happy? (National) Punctuation Day! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Speaking of writing a more evocative paragraph, the level of detail that you capture in the book is really breathtaking. Take it from the youngest winner of the toughest horse race: "We all have a bold mode" 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z There was this one paragraph in “Marry Him” that people talked about a lot from both sides — whether they agreed with it or vehemently disagreed with it. “Marry Him” author Lori Gottlieb: “I don’t think anything I’ve written is controversial” 2014-02-20T00:00:00Z Baldwin speaks in poised, impassioned paragraphs and concludes that Western civilization will either be opened for all to enter or demolished by those excluded. The Glow From ‘The Fire Next Time’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Rarely do these fragments join into larger paragraphs; rarely do the dancers let rip into a full ensemble. Alonzo King Lines Ballet 2010-08-27T16:53:00Z “Every paragraph, every sentence, every word raises questions and involves choices.” ArtsBeat: Translators Get a Slam of Their Own at PEN Festival 2012-05-04T14:33:54Z You get the sense that, were he sent to review an Olive Garden, he would remark, in his opening paragraph, that the bread sticks reminded him of the oars on a trireme. A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z “I was so tired of people sending these three paragraphs about them, and I was like, ‘I don’t care about that,’ ” she says. On Love: Mehrnaz Haji-Momenian & Gregory Millwater 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z That could have been the opening paragraph of this book, but it's one of the very last instead. 'Kearny's March': The conquest of the West 2011-12-14T22:53:03Z Pages without paragraphs catalogue the minutiae of personal recollections, the details of life that mean nothing and everything. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z The new sweaters hung loosely from her shrinking frame, her skin began to turn dull and gray and she still hadn’t written more than a few paragraphs of Tumor Humor. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z Yesterday I got a several paragraph text from her saying we "agreed" to those events by accepting the calendar, and we are letting her down. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom gives you a calendar, but she wants to be your monthly planner 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Although he’d read four books a week in prison, now he found himself unable to focus enough to get through a paragraph. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Do you ever feel that a book should be an essay, an essay a paragraph, a paragraph a sentence? Review | How spirituality shaped Leonard Cohen 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z For Grant’s recommendation, the first two paragraphs were about his grades and his family. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Jibade-Khalil Huffman started off as a poet and he uses images in his video installations as a sort of grammar, composing phrases, sentences and paragraphs with found or filmed footage. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Paragraph break, next paragraph: “I was cooking spaghetti and ketchup in my electric skillet one night. …” The Truth About David Sedaris 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “That’s the difficult thing about writing well: You labor for a long time over a single paragraph” and then “it looks as if it took no work at all.” Review: In ‘The Speechwriter,’ Barton Swaim Shares Tales of Working for Mark Sanford 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z A terse sentence of Atlas’s on the Montreal slum where Bellow lived as a child — “Rats foraged in the dirt-packed yards” — says more, and says it better, than Leader’s clotted paragraphs. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z In his article, Morrison discussed Gutfeld in a dismissive paragraph, judging that his humor was often “hackneyed,” and “far . . . from working in prime time.” In Praise of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In contrast, the page dedicated to her former White House initiative, Be Best, has two paragraphs and a video. Melania Trump auctions off her hat, and has become the latest victim of the cryptocurrency crash 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z “Well, you will have to kill that lede,” says the man who knows enough about this dance with the journalistic profession to recognize what might have been a resonant detail in a first paragraph. Roger Stone, a master of dark political arts, is playing the Russia scandal for all it’s worth 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z One panel is a comical lineup of the odd characters who once peopled the streets of Cork; witty paragraphs convey each person’s defining eccentricity. The Artist Who Dared to Paint Ireland’s Great Famine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z But, before you do, at least read the opening paragraph of “The Gentleman”: ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z A good setting, like a good paragraph or a good sentence, hits the Trifecta—fleshes out the world, illuminates character, embroiders the larger themes. Colson Whitehead on Human Cruelty 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z He had the face of a monk, the obsessive auto-didacticism of a collector and a habit of speaking in fulsome paragraphs. The ‘Kanye West of Furniture’ Is Now Nesting in the ’Burbs 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z It was also labeled an “experimental novel” because its characters are nameless and its paragraphs sometimes run for several pages. The New Booker Prize Winner Who May Never Write Again 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z That’s way too much prose for any paragraph, never mind a lead. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z We learn in the first paragraph that she was sent on a secret mission 40 years ago, and that it ended badly for her and her lover. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – review 2012-08-23T07:00:02Z The effect of this style is to put a pause after every paragraph, to hold it up for a little extra light and a little extra examination, to allow it to linger in the mind. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Early indexes often contained a paragraph of explanation for the medieval reader unfamiliar with how they worked, suggesting that their use was anything but intuitive. A Smart, Playful Book About the Underappreciated Index 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z I say what I happen to think about things, often only rehashing a paragraph I've written. Martin Amis: 'You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist' 2011-04-02T23:08:29Z A canny plotter, Taylor devises twists that tempt the reader to skip to the ends of sentences, paragraphs and even to the final chapter to see what happens next. ‘The Stranger on the Train,’ by Abbie Taylor Literary agent Christopher Schelling signed me on as a client, saying, “Any query letter that manages to mention Joyce Dewitt, Debby Boone and Princess Diana in the same paragraph is an automatic ‘Yes.’ Augusten Burroughs: “What did normal people do when they stopped drinking?” 2013-04-23T00:00:00Z The Ministry of Education on Wednesday ordered teachers to disregard that part and said the paragraph will be deleted in future editions. Kosovo schools to ignore 'rock is criminal' lesson 2013-03-20T10:54:08Z In the same paragraph, Hardy explains that “drug dealers in New Orleans saw themselves not as the descendants of slaves but as the descendants of masters.” Out of Prison but Still Not Free 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z He was celebrated for his insights and for how he expressed them, often in paragraphs lasting just a sentence or two. David Markson, postmodern master, dead at age 82 2010-06-07T16:34:00Z I think that the concluding paragraph here is weak, and does not fully explore the implications of "reputation" in relation to Taylor's image. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z I also reread Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” which is made of mostly one-sentence paragraphs, and found the effect emotionally shattering, evidence of an increasingly frantic brain. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Gravity of Friendships 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z But, despite some abstruse Jamesianisms like “instauration,” “peculation,” “invigilator,” and — my favorite — an “inspissatedly expressed and barely scrutable conjecture,” he tempers his stylistic mimicry to appeal to modern tastes, with shorter paragraphs and heightened urgency. 'Mrs. Osmond' takes up where Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady' left off but falls a bit short 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z This will not disappoint Helen Simpson, who says that "Lorrie Moore's stories pack more wit and tragicomic power into a single paragraph than most novels manage over 15 chapters." Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z There must be a paragraph in the composer's rulebook that says if you're stuck for words about your latest piece, then just say it's about time. BBCSO/Saraste – review 2012-10-07T15:32:29Z Companies don’t make it any easier by cramming 84 ingredients into one tiny 8pt paragraph, slapping words like “natural” on their products when they are anything but. Give your cosmetics a safety makeover by using this simple website 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The book’s first, short chapter ends with a showy, atypical clause-clotted paragraph that I would quote here except that it would take forever. Books of The Times: ?We the Animals,? by Justin Torres - Review 2011-09-01T22:00:18Z At one point, he writes in a parenthetical, “Please note: for the next few paragraphs, this book will be a biography rather than a memoir because I was no longer there.” The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z The adjective before the word “paragraph” in the previous sentence was chosen for a reason. 2010-02-15T18:04:00Z There's the basic oddity of the presentation, for a start – Barker indents paragraphs and direct speech seemingly at random, yet those indentations are very much deliberate. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z I was trying to lean toward the unexpected, paragraph by paragraph. A Gay Man Remembers His Awakening, as AIDS Shook His World 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z It will end, she said, with a scene mirroring the opening paragraphs of Wolf Hall, in which the young Cromwell is kicked half to death, in the mud of Putney, by his brutish father. Hilary Mantel discusses Thomas Cromwell's past, presence and future 2012-08-15T14:17:24Z Some paragraphs begin promisingly, only to end in sentences that make you wish she’d quit while she was ahead. A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z He read some of these paragraphs to me and this brought many memorable moments. In the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei’s Father Burned the Family’s Books 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Every month, they each select one standout song from their native land, with a paragraph explaining the choice. Click to download: The way to the world of foreign music 2010-09-23T09:30:00Z Perhaps you fumble around with a paragraph here and there and find that you're not in the mood – many of the words are in the wrong place and a bit, somehow, chilly. A weekend away with my manuscript 2010-08-31T09:31:00Z Near the end, crawling up the side of one paragraph, is this: "A very light bee zoomed into Ahmad and was bounced away." Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell - review 2012-05-25T21:55:06Z And the final paragraphs could have existed without anything intervening and have nothing to do with musical taste at all. In search of the Mozart effect 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The implication that “old people” shouldn’t be competing at a high level — or any level — can ring through each paragraph: The fact that they are active at all should amaze us. You can be a high-level athlete whether you’re 20 or 70. These competitors are proof. 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Indeed, that program insert encouraged the audience to do so, with a paragraph about the music’s “tribute to the fortitude of the human spirit in the face of the fiercest adversity.” Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z For instance, a single paragraph is dedicated to describing a relationship with a favorite teacher who was later accused of indecency with a child. Julián Castro’s American Story 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z But although it's perhaps unkind to highlight the above paragraph from an otherwise decent review, it does show how far Le Carré's reputation has moved in recent years. Reading group: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - does genre matter? 2012-10-04T09:01:34Z Let the record show that it took five paragraphs to outline Trump’s criminality, and I’ve barely scratched the surface. Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z I cut it because I wanted to keep the focus on what goes on inside paragraphs. Deep book, flat subject 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z Read the first paragraph and you'll be hooked; by the bottom of page two, you'll have a distinct gnawing in the pit of your stomach. Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives 2012-02-09T12:13:49Z The novel may indulge in a few purple paragraphs too many. Dina Nayeri’s ‘Refuge’ Follows the Reinvention of an Exile 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Don't know what to call that backwards-P-looking thing signifying a new paragraph? 'Just My Type': Simon Garfield's book on fonts and the people who love them 2011-08-24T20:40:04Z This paragraph could have gone on for ever. Can Cardi B and Bernie Sanders fix politics? Er … 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s a rousing reading experience, to cackle aloud at one paragraph then gasp at the next. New & Noteworthy, From Quentin Tarantino to Comic Essays of Female Friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Yeah, the first sentence of the sixth paragraph contains a relatively big spoiler. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z On the surface of the prose, the paragraphs drag. A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z We read them so assiduously and delightedly that we burned entire paragraphs into memory, and could each cause the other to collapse in laughter with an allusion. Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' 2013-06-10T16:56:34Z If you’re lucky, she says, you might have read a paragraph or two about Japanese American internment camps or the Chinese Exclusion Act in high school. The term ‘Asian American’ was meant to create a collective identity. What does that mean in 2018? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z As I was writing those last few paragraphs, prosecutors in a Los Angeles courtroom began closing arguments in Harvey Weinstein’s second trial. Perspective | The #MeToo movies have finally arrived. Only one captures the truth. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Old Nan tells a tale that takes up a paragraph. George R.R. Martin on How ‘Nightflyers’ Made ‘Game of Thrones’ Possible 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Here, in one gut-punching paragraph after another, is the articulate fury of someone who once dared to imagine that her ambition could be expressed and appreciated. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Those two things wouldn’t normally show up in the same paragraph. Denny’s Comes to Manhattan, With a Bar Menu 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z In the space of a single paragraph, for example, there is “upset the applecart” and “opened up a can of worms.” Review: Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ Heaps One Tragedy Upon Another 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It took him three weeks to write the first paragraph and about another three weeks to write the rest.” Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z And if you read the preceding paragraph and thought, “Bill Clinton is no Les Moonves, he’s more like ____” and if you were then unable to fill in the blank, well, welcome to Bill Clinton hell. Perspective | The enduring Bill Clinton dilemma 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Later that day, Kelly was reading to her from a New York Times article about her recovery and skipped over a paragraph that said six others were killed. AP Exclusive: Giffords vows return to Congress 2011-11-04T17:36:10Z The New York Times ended the first paragraph of its review, brutally, with "zzzzzzzz". A life in theatre: Nicholas Hytner 2010-10-18T07:00:00Z It starts off thin, and then he rolls off the tone, pauses and starts another paragraph. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z “He basically said, ‘If you’re not going to let somebody write the last paragraph to an Updike article, you’re not doing anything to my caption.’” Sam Gross, 89, Dies; Prolific Purveyor of Cartoons, Tasteful and Otherwise 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z A two-liner from Davis, or a seemingly throwaway paragraph, will haunt. My hero: Lydia Davis by Ali Smith 2013-05-24T15:00:03Z In other words, provided I get a few paragraphs down and then I just drop dead, it's still complete. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z Sometimes it's high spirits, such as the meandering paragraphs in which publishers bid for her "serious book". Diaries Volume II: 1992-1997 by Edwina Currie – review 2012-09-28T21:54:01Z Mr. Plepler would place a chair near a large stack of newspapers and magazines, and read aloud certain paragraphs, Mr. Shriver and others said. Richard Plepler of HBO Stands Tall in New York’s Cultural Elite 2012-09-21T15:57:49Z I remember her sitting on a wall outside the rehearsal room, looking like the little mannequin drawing between the paragraphs of Playboy magazine. Magician Paul Daniels and wife Debbie McGee on their marriage 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z There was an error in the final paragraph of Thursday’s column. Bridge: In Bridge, Looking Back to the 1996 World Transnational 2012-05-25T21:52:06Z What followed was not clarification but something closer to six paragraphs of rhetorical quicksand: Every time I struggled to understand what the two architects were trying to say I sank further into the muck. For architects, Trump's wall reveals as much as it promises to close off 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, `My God, did I write that? Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies 2012-06-06T15:02:47Z In the opening paragraphs describing the interior of Brad’s house, the interviewer casually mentions “the sideboard, with its exquisite inlay”. Who let Brad Pitt’s fashotainment shoot happen? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Before anyone rushes to cite my first paragraph back, I do not believe this is because Tempest's poems are "stage" poems, incapable of working on the page. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Everything Speaks In Its Own Way by Kate Tempest 2012-07-20T10:42:03Z The paragraphs are shorter and more efficient, each chapter a discrete burst of energy. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 6: A Tale of Two Cities 2012-01-31T18:00:47Z “When I first heard Charlie Parker records,” Mr. Coleman recalled, “I got the impression that he was speaking. His phrases were very conversational. My band and I talk a lot about ‘sentences,’ ‘paragraphs.’ After 30 Albums and 3 Recent Prizes, a Jazzman Flirts With the Mainstream 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z It was such a mess that it filled me with shame to read more than a few paragraphs. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on Reluctantly Writing Fiction About an M.F.A. Writing Program 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z And then, a few paragraphs later: “I was always seated on the front row at the couture and ready-to-wear catwalk shows, the only black man among a sea of white titans of style.” Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z It's useful to have his voice in your head, as many paragraphs begin with a warm avuncular invitation to pay attention. Ignorance by Stuart Firestein; It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller – review 2012-07-19T10:00:04Z In fact, it contains only three paragraphs about his trip's single, brief rail journey. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z In the second paragraph of “Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons,” we learn that the heroine only likes Christmas cards “from the right people” and only “invitations correctly engraved.” Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Collects Early Works by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z On Jan. 15, 2019, Miriam Nelson, then Hampshire’s president, issued a letter with a bombshell in its third paragraph: Hampshire was “carefully considering whether to enroll an incoming class” that fall. ‘The Unmaking of a College’ Review: School’s Out Forever? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Oh yes, the politics – various paragraphs overflow with names, all footnoted so that we learn what constituency they held but nothing else. Diaries Volume II: 1992-1997 by Edwina Currie – review 2012-09-28T21:54:01Z Then after a bit of instinctive tinkering, suddenly not only the prose but the meaning sings — despite the fact that the sense of the paragraph hasn’t really changed. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “Three paragraphs don’t resonate around the world like that if they’re just a straw man,” he said. The Harper’s ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s about a precocious 12-year-old, and its opening paragraph contains a question for the ages. Books of The Times: Padgett Powell’s New Novel, ‘You & Me’ 2012-08-14T12:00:00Z Those bland details of everyday life fill McGregor’s mammoth paragraphs like foam insulation being sprayed into walls. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z I was reading a dull U.S.-history textbook, mindlessly highlighting a fugitive paragraph in bright yellow. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z A collaboration might have a paragraph of historical summary. Supreme Copies: The Instagram That Attempts to Decode Supreme Clothing 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z But there is something almost terrifying about a woman whose theatrically honed voice -- full-bodied with crisp consonants and rounded vowels -- pours forth in complete paragraphs with nary an "er" or an "um." ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Christine Baranski on 'The Good Wife' and Competing With Maggie Smith 2012-09-18T20:28:48Z Some of Lydia Davis's tales are just a paragraph. Write your own short story – in under three sentences 2013-05-24T09:19:09Z The report doesn’t appear until the 19th paragraph of Bandini’s Manning tribute. Peyton Manning is no hero: Would his troubling past be ignored if he weren’t white? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z “As it happens,” I responded, “I’ve just deleted ‘as it happened’ from the beginning of four or more paragraphs in the draft, so I’m not in favor of that title.” Katharine Graham at 100: Inside the making of one of the greatest Washington memoirs ever 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z This week is now a part of our history, a paragraph or a few pages that someone in the future will read as a string of actions. What Normalization Means 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z He speaks in long paragraphs in heavily accented English. Dolce and Gabbana are rich, extravagant and politically incorrect. You got a problem with that? 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Their 18-year-old daughter can read, but can barely write a paragraph… and the education goes significantly downhill from there. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z Her sentences are usually short and her paragraphs often a few brief sentences long. You won’t want Louise Penny’s latest to end 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z She had made bigger splashes before, notably with marriages two and three, so high-profile and head-scratching they would stake a claim to the first paragraph of her obituary. Perspective | Lisa Marie Presley understood how to live life as a nepo baby 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Books written in magazine prose — conversational, breezy, without a distractingly idiosyncratic line, paragraphs chopped up short for easy digestion, the references current and pop-cultural. A Habitual Liar Almost Conned Abby Ellin Into Marrying Him. Instead, He Gave Her the Idea for a Book. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Long presents 16 pirate-themed spreads, each with expository paragraphs and a list of “10 things to spot” in Bloom’s chockablock central illustration. Feasts for Young Readers’ Eyes 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “Each art object is a sentence, a room is a paragraph, six rooms is an essay.” A Curator Unbound: First She Was Fired. Then She Found Freedom 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z In one paragraph, he asks of his wife, “Why do all of your favorite books about marriage include a dead spouse?” Review | ‘The Trouble With Men’ offers an intimate look at its subject 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z In the final paragraph he revealed what he took to be the book’s true subject: “human freedom.” Tribute to Amos Vogel at Anthology Film Archives 2013-02-02T19:03:08Z There is no page, no paragraph, not even a line that doesn’t feel crammed with Wright’s comic bile. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Or rather, scroll down a few paragraphs where we get to New York. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-29T14:58:23Z In two long interviews in November, her thoughts unraveled like elongated paragraphs, reminiscent of a Jorge Luis Borges story. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The problems of contrapuntal writing particular to group biography are not really solved; a paragraph about one sister just follows one about another. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z In one case, a grandmother was flying for the first time to visit family and sent AskTSA a threeparagraph Facebook message. Can I bring a Viking helmet on the plane? AskTSA is here to help. 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Don’t write huge paragraphs; Melissa’s toilet paper roll fictoid, at 37 words, is plenty long for us. Style Invitational: Inventing facts—a fake-trivia contest about inventions 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In duration, it's the difference between the time it takes to read this paragraph and the time it takes to win the Tour de France. Arts funding cuts reveal the government's poor business sense 2010-07-27T15:12:00Z Projects include the EU crisis in two sentences, Scotland in 12 words and, in the final, China in three short paragraphs. Style Invitational Week 1091: Turn a good idea into a bad one with 1 weird trick! Reviewing it, our critic Dwight Garner says that Eyre “writes with candor and gravity; a tensile rod of human decency braces every paragraph.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Did the first paragraph contain, besides a value judgment, five commas, two em-dashes and only one period? Why Would You Go to a Phish Concert, Let Alone 13? I Found Out 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z This is album as anticlimax, the period that ends the essay, not the beginning of a new paragraph. Music: ?Born to Die,? Lana Del Rey?s Debut Album 2012-01-25T15:42:22Z Harnick, in the liner notes to Cook’s album “All I Ask of You,” enumerates her manifold gifts in a paragraph too long to include here. Barbara Cook, a Broadway singer who revealed the great American songbook in a new light 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Overwhelmingly, subjects preferred the versions that featured prefatory spoiler paragraphs. Sorry to spoil your “Game of Thrones” revenge-spoiler fantasy, but it doesn’t work 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z During those years bunking with former classmates in a huge loft on Avenue A — complete with the classic touch, a bathtub in the kitchen — Mr. Pierce began writing short stories, some just a paragraph long. Kander & Pierce, a New Team in the Musical Theater 2012-05-23T21:58:57Z Neil is nothing if not brief — the number of lines he has might add up to a paragraph in the entire film. ‘Sundown’ Review: Stuck in the Shallow Waters of Acapulco 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Each argument worked exactly the same way, beginning with the inverted triangle approach to the introductory paragraph, moving from the general to the particular and concluding with a thesis statement. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z In the novel’s opening paragraph, Sean assaults a stranger at a party: “There was nothing to it. I swung and hit him and he dropped.” One Punch Later and Belfast Pulls Him Back 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z She dispatches the Holocaust in a few pages, Japanese Oomoto religion in a few more, and life in communist Moldova in mere paragraphs — with only as much gusto as a seventh-grade history report. Isabel Allende is a star, but 'The Japanese Lover' doesn't shine 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Now, she is remarkable for persisting at this activity long after Facebook and Twitter molded our online experience in their own image, eschewing paragraphs for 140 characters. Michelle Dean loves Ursula K. Le Guin's cat stories. Which is a good start. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z It could have been summarised in a paragraph, but this being Vogue it went on and on and on. Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Replaces 2nd paragraph to correct day of week. Schwarzenegger compares Mel Gibson to oil leak 2010-07-22T02:01:00Z Each paragraph — on the inscrutable mechanics of “packaging fees” and production stakes — intensified that familiar cliff’s-edge feeling. A Former TV Critic Puts Himself Under the Microscope 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Bill described her job as “doing the words,” the words being the names and scene setters in his Evening Hours column and the descriptive paragraphs in On the Street. ‘Child, I Trust You’: On Deadline With Bill Cunningham 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z It is, he says, a gift from “our master,” who has “underlined a few paragraphs for me.” Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Then they usually began to speed up, zipping through the opening paragraphs like a tongue-twister until the algorithms kicked in. 3 Classic Novels. 22 Minutes. Why Not? 2011-05-23T22:34:30Z These pages include single paragraphs of biographical info, but they’re rendered practically unreadable by formatting. The Big Secret of Celebrity Wealth (Is That No One Knows Anything) 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Yet it strikes a note of almost hilarious caution in its final paragraph: “One conclusion appears clear — extreme conclusions are to be avoided.” Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z The documentary does an excellent job of summarizing the story of the cycle in as few words as possible, devoting a couple of paragraphs to each opera. | ‘Wagner’s Dream’: ‘Wagner’s Dream,’ Documentary About Met’s ‘Ring’ Cycle 2012-07-18T23:04:08Z At my worst, the idea of consuming a paragraph felt unthinkable. Perspective | Reading will supposedly make you a better person. That’s not the real reason to pick up a book. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z A few paragraphs later it adds, “Be sure to point out that a dead body feels no pain.” A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Although this detail has been widely reported, if you don't know what this refers to, feel free to skip the next four paragraphs. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z He wants us to spend more time in the physical world, in the “terrain” of our cities or between the paragraphs of a printed book. What Silicon Valley Could Use More Of: Inefficiency 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z There are no fancy-pancy suburban crises; first paragraphs are as big as whole novels. Annie Proulx 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z It’s the stuff of 20,000-word long reads that you begin to drift away from after three paragraphs. It’s Brex Benedict – but can Cumberbatch make Vote Leave sexy? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The comforts of cooking were so similar to writing: Stringing together a sentence, a paragraph, a great story, was like the layering of ingredients, both creations within my control when so little was. After I survived cancer, I celebrated with a birthday cake 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z It’s peak “Fox & Friends,” the reddest of red-state stereotypes crammed into one paragraph. Perspective | I tried to watch as much ‘Fox & Friends’ as the president. Here’s what I learned. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z He then appropriates the first paragraph of “The Catcher in the Rye” as if it were the beginning of his own story. Books of The Times: Bob Mankoff’s ‘How About Never — Is Never Good for You?’ 2014-03-19T20:53:31Z Skip to next paragraph The Noko Jeans line was the brainchild of three Swedish entrepreneurs who hoped their label would help break North Korea’s isolation. Stockholm Store Drops North Korean Jeans Line 2009-12-07T08:13:08Z Up to that last paragraph, I wasn't exactly sure how I would pull that last trigger, but I knew it right when I started the whole book that I was going to go there. Harlan Coben on why even bestselling authors get those self-loathing writer blues 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z If the drama occasionally sags it's more to do with Lothar Koenigs's conducting, imposing in the orchestral set pieces, less convincing in the longer dramatic paragraphs, than anything else. Die Meistersinger von?N?rnberg 2010-06-20T20:31:00Z The penultimate paragraph critique: “Although exploring did lead to some technological advances, what caused the transformation of medicine in the 20th century was a powerful and complex interplay…” This is the best thing about the New York Times Book Review 2014-03-24T17:38:00Z She juxtaposes the printed paragraph with all of its individual words alphabetized by first letter — lead/like/laugh/least; your/you/you/yelled, etc. — a nonsense task that results in strange poetry. Who am I? Provacative answers in 'Me, Myself, I' at China Art Objects 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The memoir took seven years to write and at times he said he would labor over two words in a paragraph for two weeks. Rodney Crowell book recounts life shaped by music 2011-04-16T00:01:04Z The endings range from a short sentence or two to several paragraphs. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ With Hemingway’s Alternate Endings 2012-07-04T21:47:48Z Before reading each story, some students first read a paragraph that appeared to inadvertently spoil the outcome of the story. Enough with the spoiler alerts! Plot spoilers often increase enjoyment 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z This paragraph, in some ways, is “My Struggle” in a freeze-dried form. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z After her daughter returned with a photo of their neighbors, she wrote a paragraph that explained why she missed being around people. Perspective | How (and why) to start a journaling practice with kids 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z That bit of scene-setting may be no more than a paragraph, but flip back to the notes, and you’ll learn that she scoured three or four books to find those evocative details. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z A single paragraph might offer us reflections on psychotropic fungus, German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and fiat money. Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Gold wrote not so much in sentences and paragraphs as in litanies: cascades of facts, of visual and tactile sensations, of wild references that ricocheted from the toffee-nosed to the profane. What Jonathan Gold Meant for Food Writing 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z People love the paragraphs of dialogue he puts in characters’ mouths. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In several long paragraphs, Harry and Meghan explained that they will be taking a “revised media approach” in their new roles. How much did the British tabloids’ brutal coverage of Harry and Meghan impact their decision to ‘step back’? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z You could have added a concrete paragraph explaining exactly who Harry was/is/became, but not doing so seems to part of your project. Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z I just wrote myself a whole paragraph about why we need an Italian princess. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z He begins to mumble it aloud; he lulls himself with the words; he becomes caught up in the paragraphs. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z As a test of Britishness, what could be better than having to understand what the hell those last two paragraphs are about? My new British citizenship test: who is Cheggers, and why is he so funny? 2012-07-14T23:06:14Z Rereading the end of — not just the final, controversial paragraphs, but the full denouement — I’m reminded of how moving his part is. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z Receiving an email with a couple of paragraphs a day also builds suspense and encourages a close read of the text, she said. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z And I totally used "totally" five times in this paragraph. All the ways Gisele Bundchen's Chanel No. 5 ad confused us 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” and, if I squeeze my eyes real tight, the final luxurious paragraphs of “The Dead,” James Joyce’s masterful short story. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The information that “two weeks later, the young woman died” appeared in paragraph five. What the media gets wrong about a woman’s murder 2013-09-12T17:41:00Z For each of his 100 titles, Edwards provides a two- or three-page mini-essay, outlining the mystery’s setup — while carefully avoiding spoilers — and closing with a brief paragraph about the author. How many of the top 100 crimes novels of the early 20th century have you read? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z In grade seven, we worked only on individual sentences, in grade eight on single paragraphs, and then finally in grade nine on arguments. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Some celebrity references are oddly oblique, like a paragraph about "my friend Paul." Broken toe spurs Neil Young to write 1st book 2012-10-05T11:36:10Z As I write this paragraph, I realize that it sounds ridiculous. Psychic change or con job? 2012-11-13T01:00:00Z I was a tone-deaf 17-year-old at the time, but can still remember the delight with which we compared Aldous Huxley's paragraphs on Beethoven with those of EM Forster. Letter: John Steane obituary 2011-03-29T17:20:57Z I love your reviews, but had to stop three paragraphs in!! ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z It repeated adjectives and explanatory phrases from one paragraph to the next, perhaps to jog the dulled short-term memory of the tired long-haul flier. Dan Brown's Inferno: a tall writer offers his historic review 2013-05-14T06:01:01Z “I’m going to keep it really simple today,” he said, before reading aloud the first five paragraphs of the book’s prologue, during which he choked up several times. Creator and Fans Hit it Lucky With 'Hamilton' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Where is the celebrated rhetorician, famed for speaking in perfect paragraphs sculpted from flawless sentences? The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z But the section that gets less attention is the second paragraph: How (not) to do Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Dom’s grand space adventure occurs in the white space—in a paragraph break. This Week in Fiction: Thomas Pierce on an Anti-Escapist Space Adventure 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z And having words changed, having precious paragraphs rubbed out, well, that's sore. Family romances: When relatives write together 2010-09-24T12:02:00Z I say that because the part about the actual book in question is relegated to the last few paragraphs; and at... Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The opening paragraph of “Reservoir 13” describes the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Even as I was writing the paragraph above, someone reminded me of a Vanity Fair photoshoot that exactly – but exactly – proves my point. Oscars 2011: Melissa Leo takes the low road to success 2011-02-25T21:00:01Z He expresses himself in precise sentences and paragraphs that sound so carefully formed that it is almost as if he were reading an essay. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z These few paragraphs were what stirred something deep inside me. Before I Die by Jenny Downham - review 2012-07-24T14:00:00Z I loved the way that the mostly one-line paragraphs marched down the page in prickly self-containment, with a lot of white space that demands a certain kind of attention from the reader. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Gravity of Friendships 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z You need a properly considered ending: to paragraphs, sections, whole works. You can't teach creative writing. Can you? 2012-07-05T15:21:47Z If we hadn't been issued with a directive from on high effectively banning us from using "cloud rap" following excessive deployment of the term, then this paragraph could have been a lot more concise. New band of the day: Piff Gang (No 1,326) 2012-08-08T15:32:50Z Professor Millican compared word length and punctuation patterns in a series of tests "I was testing things like word length, sentence length, paragraph length, frequency of particular words and the pattern of punctuation," he explained. How Rowling was unmasked 2013-07-15T13:08:22Z There are really only 3 paragraphs in this post not five. How Steve Jobs Changed The Auto Industry 2011-10-06T19:56:24Z A bit earlier in the same paragraph, Milo registers a nagging sense of that experience’s comparative inadequacy. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z Tommasini does a fine job of conveying the inner life of a piece, through his rhythmic sentences and sculpted paragraphs. The Greatest Composers Ever 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Several chapters later, there is a particularly bizarre jump from a discussion of poisonous snakes of Australia to one of telescope instrumentation, separated only by a paragraph break, immediately bucking the reader from the page. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z One chapter is a scant paragraph describing the exchange with the doctor who each day appeared at Ephron’s hospital room door to ask if she had eaten anything. Delia Ephron Writes Her Way Through Cancer to a Happy Ending 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z You write, in the final paragraph, that "the supersession of capitalism still sounds plausible to me". From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z Everything in the paragraph you just read is inaccurate. Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z The key sentences in the Federer essay, to my mind, occur in the paragraph that mentions “evolution.” David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z And it almost works. In the published AP story, the controversy gets a cursory mention in the final paragraph. What I wish I asked Bill Cosby: How I learned that entertainment journalists can play hardball too 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z And when plumbing the intricacies of race and womanhood, Alyan turns paragraphs into poetry. A Family Reunites in Beirut, Where the Past Is Never Past 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z He spends but a few paragraphs on the First New Deal, which he dubs a failure, and puts it in the wrong years. 'A Nation of Deadbeats': Fascinating but unfocused look at money crises 2012-09-01T14:01:04Z When Jonas Maines tried to read a draft of his family’s story this past summer, he got through only the first few paragraphs of the prologue before throwing it across the room. Review: Becoming Nicole Shows a Family in Transition 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile the elasticity of his verse speaking – whole paragraphs of cursing on a single breath – sweeps his character along. Timon of Athens; Peace Camp; The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-21T23:05:46Z Liberal groups campaigning for the text to be restored were further disheartened when the state's congress chief minister announced that he too had found some paragraphs to be "highly objectionable". India must move beyond book-burning 2010-10-21T14:10:00Z He favors the short paragraph and the brief biographical sketch. ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The opening paragraph, which reads like Chandler or Hammett, makes clear where the focus will be: William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Rather, the Katerina of Jay’s memory is a shell of a muse: a paper doll with “thick pouty lips like cherry pie” whose history is summed up in a mere paragraph or two. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The long narrative paragraphs and clearly recurring motifs intertwine and pullulate, drawing the ear and interest along. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Take, for instance, the very first paragraph of the novel: Review | George Pelecanos has helped make TV great again. His new book reminds us why. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In a paragraph that can serve as a keynote, Eugenides writes about how the behavior of our chieftains trickles down and taints daily life. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Susan would lean across the desk, fix those large expressive eyes on me, point at a paragraph. ‘I Think You Need to Rewrite It’: Ruth Reichl on What Makes an Editor Great 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z His final paragraphs urge readers to “flee the twee” and follow him south, toward the “Guyanese grills and Dominican bodegas” where “life is still lived unposed and uncurated and close to the bone.” A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “I have no desire to read a book without paragraph breaks,” she writes. A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z I’d rather be in the landscape of a paragraph than hiking around a state park. Apology to my former student 2012-08-27T01:00:00Z So would the connection between obelisks and Freemasonry, which warrants only a few paragraphs here but was the basis for a whole book of Dan Brown’s. Books of The Times: ‘Egyptomania,’ by Bob Brier, Tells of the Mummy’s Lure 2013-12-15T21:11:48Z I didn't include the paragraph I wrote about why no one must say Native American, my Indian friends detest it. Dick Cavett dishes on showbiz greats 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z This stance caused his critics to charge that for him, all music was vocal music — an accusation he parried in characteristic style in the opening paragraph of a New Yorker review from 1975: Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Barack Obama began his memoir “Dreams from My Father” with the following paragraph: Communicator-in-chief: Where Obama’s rhetoric illuminated a complex world, Trump’s deceptive dialect dumbs down 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Corrects spelling of Gibson spokesman's last name to Nierob in 8th paragraph. Mel Gibson is focus of domestic violence inquiry 2010-07-08T19:37:00Z “I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide,” David Foster Wallace wrote in the opening paragraph of his 1996 essay “Shipping Out,” about the week he spent on a Caribbean cruise. A Dance Show on a Cruise Ship? It’s Not What You Think. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Food writing is a literary activity, built upon words, sentences and paragraphs rather than flour, butter and eggs. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z “My first paragraph was bubbling over with how fun it was to be hated by liberals,” she said. Not Done Yet 2010-10-08T21:40:00Z Toby Litt's single, almost unreadable, six-page-long paragraph is worth persevering with, an existentialist cry of despair: thinking too hard about what we've done to the planet, to ourselves, will send us all mad. Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future – review 2013-05-24T17:08:01Z In the space of a single paragraph, "those flowers" and "them flowers" coexist. Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z Using only their first names and sometimes no names at all, Calhoun introduces us to a blur of agitated women in their 40s, most of whom we meet for a paragraph or two. Review | Why are Gen X women struggling? A new book explores the many possible reasons. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z He claimed that he could "read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not." Why we still need the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z So maybe my previous paragraph was for naught. The Music Biographer Peter Guralnick’s New Book Covers Many Subjects — Including Himself 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z “One evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue,” author Tony Schwartz wrote. The Internet is scrambling our brains: We spend more time online than sleeping — and here’s how it’s messing us up 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z In the main work here, the B minor Sonata, though, Hamelin doesn't always project the music in the long paragraphs it needs. Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, etc - review 2011-03-24T22:00:00Z An example is "One Summer," a set of fragments in which each paragraph starts with "One summer ... " and goes on to relate, with puzzling diffidence, a series of inconsequential remarks. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z A key paragraph in May We Be Forgiven addresses the growth of technology, stating that "there is a world out there, so new, so random and dissociated that it puts us all in danger". AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z Place special emphasis on the word “helps” in that previous paragraph. Powerful crime drama “The Night Of” could be the hit HBO needs 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z In just three short paragraphs, she follows her friend from “an unhappy, nomadic childhood” to “master of any literary form he chose to employ.” What Two Forgotten Pieces Tell Us About Harper Lee 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Charismatic and epigrammatic, Dr. Oxman speaks as if in capital letters and long, enticing, musical paragraphs. Who Is Neri Oxman? 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z “The way you phrase your paragraph affects the responses you get,” he said. Forget Love. I’m Looking for Great Soup Dumplings. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It can soundtrack a scene, create an atmosphere in a few sentences where whole paragraphs would have to be used otherwise. Music to murder to: crime writers on their killer soundtracks 2013-05-08T06:30:00Z Even prose unfolds in clauses, sentences and paragraphs. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Yeah that was probably my most written paragraph about the act of writing. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z Here are two paragraphs from the film's plot summary on Wikipedia, early in the entry. Good fun is now a key plot point 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z On the third page, there was a paragraph that went like this: “What a Pair of Lungs!”: Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Yet, as the symphony unfolded, one was also conscious of something that is occasionally characteristic of Rattle's recent work: his insightful handling of detail and paragraphs did not quite translate into a fullness of interpretation. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Rattle – review 2013-01-30T18:44:44Z Every paragraph in the story is made up of a single sentence. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Gravity of Friendships 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Next paragraph: We are families of the vaccine injured. After a bumpy ride, Donald Trump Jr.’s book tour arrives at a safe space 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Academic Honesty Please note that Scott is excellent at ferreting out plagiarism, particularly the incompetent, undergraduate variety in which the writing style veers from Late Caveman to Deconstructivist within a single paragraph. My fake college syllabus 2013-01-26T00:30:00Z Advance reading copies of books – uncorrected proofs distributed to booksellers, editors and other interested parties before publication – usually contain little mistakes: stray typos, misspelled words, oddly formatted paragraphs. Capitalized Clues to a Glitch 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z He was 20 minutes late and slid into the booth with such a perfectly casual nonchalance that it took a paragraph just to describe it. Perspective | Luke Perry came full circle, from heartthrob rebel to sensitive dad 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z In just three or four paragraphs, she brilliantly parses something you might have felt about dozens of memoirs without ever putting it quite this way. A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In anger, I wrote a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page. Portrait of the artist: DBC Pierre, writer 2011-01-17T22:00:03Z I mean, a paragraph of someone just giving their unwanted opinion. In Netflix's "Dark City Beneath the Beat," TT The Artist captures the Baltimore club sound and scene 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Instead of talking in paragraphs, the characters now lob one-liners at one another. | 'The New York Idea': Love in City of Intemperate Mores 2011-01-27T03:01:13Z Did Larsen cut the final paragraph because she was dissatisfied with her book’s ending? The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z In one curt, economical paragraph, the artist acknowledges her commercial decline in the ’90s and dismisses the “professional friendships” that fell away with it. Review | Rickie Lee Jones offers a raw and roving account of her life in ‘Last Chance Texaco’ 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Brooklyn: Your three paragraphs consist of the following: facts, speculation, fact. Carolyn Hax: Choosing pragmatism or principle when Dad goes on a rant 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Wallace’s writing, particularly in the journalistic essays from which most of the show is drawn, has a supercharged intensity that can ricochet from high to low in the course of a paragraph. Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z But I think you can tell a lot from the first paragraph, even the first sentence. One shade of grey: how Nicola Beauman made an unlikely success of Persephone Books 2012-11-25T00:05:20Z Rereading Woolf newly attuned to color, I notice that precise tints and hues daub nearly every paragraph: birds' breasts are "specked canary and rose," morning air is "grey-blue," brooches "sea-green." Confessions of a synesthete: What it's like experiencing the alphabet in full color 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The punch line drops in the next paragraph: “Just for a few days.” Motherlode Blog: The Daddy Business Trip 2013-05-15T13:57:19Z “Pink Cloud,” for instance, seems an oversweet depiction of two recovering alcoholics watching the sun descend, until, in the story’s final paragraph, “his eyes flicked toward a kitchen cupboard.” Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z There are also some that go into the trauma and then the next paragraph will give you like the funniest moments. "#MeToo was our rehearsal space": An interview with Shelly Oria 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z This is among the most upsetting paragraphs in the book. ‘Consent,’ a Memoir That Shook France, Recalls Living a ‘Perverse Nightmare’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z He could also convey a range of emotions within the deceptively simple language contained in just one paragraph. Perspective | Nobody wrote songs like Billy Joe Shaver 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The penultimate paragraph concludes with one of the most notorious epigrams of American law: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z “Don would stop you after your first paragraph and ask, ‘Does this get better?’ ” Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Neither narrator seems entirely reliable, and something is off-kilter from the first paragraph. Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny 2013-05-01T18:14:56Z Here was the first paragraph of his front-page story in Wednesday’s paper, written from his Washington home, which doubles as the paper’s bureau: Perspective | Washington-based regional journalism is crucial. It’s also in serious trouble. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The paragraphs seem to be a reasonably fair description of what was inflicted upon much of the South Vietnamese peasantry by the United States. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Here is the first paragraph of “Because You Have To”: Four Books That Deserved More Attention in 2018 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Early in the book, there’s a paragraph about the history of rehab centers and why there are so many in Minnesota. Your new Replacements bible: “Trouble Boys” tells the truth about the Replacements — if you can handle it 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But this contextualizing can be tricky when, from one paragraph to the next, we don’t know whose words we’re reading until we get to the end of the paragraph where a bracketed name might appear. Review | ‘The Trouble With Men’ offers an intimate look at its subject 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Conversations flow into one another in long paragraphs devoid of quotation marks and even punctuation to differentiate one speaker from another. In ‘Labyrinth,’ a Musician With Amnesia Loses Life’s Rhythm 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Nobody wants to read paragraphs of mushy gushing. Perspective | Adolescence is temporary. ‘It’s Me, Margaret’ is forever. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z He has a prepared paragraph and it's still . . . even with a prepared paragraph, it never won't be rough. "It's a tool, it's a Swiss Army knife": Aimee Mann on how individuals deal with trauma through art 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The job — her first attempt at being a “purposefully public” person — is not mentioned in any foundation-approved paragraph about her career. Chelsea Clinton steps into the spotlight — on her own terms 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Did the first paragraph of this review call the program inconsequential? BodyTraffic brings a light touch — perhaps too light — to the Broad Stage 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The reader moves through the text in short chunks, every few paragraphs given a choice of what to read next, and which questions to pose to Victor, from "Who is Elizabeth?" Frankenstein by Dave Morris ? review 2012-05-17T08:00:02Z Its handling of time, its elliptical wisdom, and its occasional chest-tightening cruelties are masterful; every paragraph is quietly, carefully good. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z He speaks rapidly, mutteringly, in great long paragraphs full of observation and introspection and drollery and doubt, generally frowning at the floor while he does so. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Every one of my keynotes talks about that in the first paragraph. ‘Maid’ author Stephanie Land on what it feels like to be shamed for being poor 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The ending of “Starlight” is spectacular, the kind of ending that leaves the reader breathless, eager to read the final paragraph again slowly. Denis Johnson' posthumous collection 'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden' is a poetic argument against toxic masculinity 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Eden combines the most irritating characteristics of Bella Swan and Anastasia Steele with a predilection for dropping the full Latin names of bird and animal species once every paragraph; informative, but not engaging. Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle 2012-08-23T09:55:46Z I was a sixth-grade dyslexic; words were not my forte, they were my downfall, and I could hardly read a paragraph without bursting into frustrated tears. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z You see, most people will read a headline and the first two paragraphs to get the gist of a story or blog. 'American Idol' Top 10 is Timmy's World, and the rest of them are just living in it. 2010-03-31T16:02:00Z There's a lightness in the overall approach, and a deft hovering over telling moments and asides; these do the work of many a paragraph that's been omitted. Radio review: Woman's Hour drama ? Wives and Daughters 2010-12-02T08:00:00Z I can barely get away with the last paragraph, but I’m not on TV, so it’s easier. Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Yes, I got the parts about yacht-selling and don't-buy-the- house being bad, but long fast sentences and paragraphs talking about the nuts and bolts go right over my head. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z “Even if Friedman doesn’t manage to tell the whole story . . . ” Wells begins his final paragraph on “Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll.” New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells reviewed my book; now I know why so many chefs hate him 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Further reworking the opening paragraph, to draw out its theme of impending death, Updike made subtly significant improvements. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z When an author warns in the third paragraph “I’m not a reflective person by nature,” grab your blankie — you’re in for a soporific ride. Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Of a paragraph by Herman Wouk: 'This is not at all bad, except as prose.' ArtsBeat: Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring 2012-08-01T13:26:33Z In fact, Tapper wrote that paragraph in the publication you’re reading right now, 20 years ago. Pat Buchanan back on PBS, really? Why we don't need a "McLaughlin Group" revival now 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z For example, Sandy would despise my paragraph, just above, in which I suggest some similarities between author and hero. Review: In ‘The Fugitives,’ Looking for His Muse in All the Wrong Places 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z There is an inviting degree of mystery to this paragraph full of foreshadowing. Books of The Times: ‘Live by Night’ by Dennis Lehane 2012-10-03T20:03:23Z Even in the solo cello's most rhetorically longing paragraphs, the orchestra was always a benign but discreet companion, the soloist's unconscious mind perhaps, which deepened the reflectiveness of the concerto even further. LSO/Sado – review 2013-01-15T18:29:01Z I wrote those paragraphs down and put them in the drawer of my desk and forgot about them. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The spread he copied includes two paragraphs titled “Make a Commitment.” I didn’t make the Olympics. Now what? 2012-07-11T00:01:00Z TJ's went to town in its online description of this product, waxing poetic for nearly five paragraphs about the ingredients, the flavor and even ideal drink pairings. Trader Joe's 10 best frozen breakfast items to add to your cart right now 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z To see the words rushing past without registering them, a whole paragraph blurring by like a subway? The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z But as Virginia Woolf wrote, novels are composed of paragraphs, not sentences. After Disaster, Japan Seals Itself Off From the World in ‘The Emissary’ 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo authorities are telling teachers and students to ignore a paragraph in a high school textbook that labels rock music as criminal. Kosovo schools to ignore 'rock is criminal' lesson 2013-03-20T10:54:08Z The point is, pace that previous paragraph, you don't actually require any of the baggage of Lachenmann's ideas or ideologies to appreciate the thrill of his music. A guide to Helmut Lachenmann's music 2012-06-12T08:44:17Z Yet it merits only one rather barbed paragraph. The shredding of Tony Blair 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It was all a big enough, world-altering-enough deal to me that I cried through writing that entire paragraph. The straight cis men at a corporate gym helped save my trans soul 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Whether she's aware of the passages written in invisible ink in the margins and paragraph breaks is not for me to know or decode for my entertainment. Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Your subject's non-eventful schooling or the long holidays by the sea can be compressed into a few terse paragraphs so that you can spend more time on the bits that matter. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z I carried the fast-paced best-selling thriller around for weeks “not” reading the same paragraph over and over. My aging parents smuggle medical marijuana 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z That “the woman died two weeks after the attack” was mentioned in the third paragraph. What the media gets wrong about a woman’s murder 2013-09-12T17:41:00Z Another figure appeared in the article’s closing paragraph: The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Self's Umbrella was described by Stothard as "both moving and draining", a reference to some 400 pages without paragraph breaks or chapter divisions. Mantel could make history with Booker Prize double 2012-10-12T10:32:48Z But no need to be cup-half-empty in your last two paragraphs. Review: ‘Blueprint Specials’: What the Soldiers and Sailors May Have Seen in World War II Shows 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Pupils now work in all they have learnt into an analytical paragraph and then peer assess one anothers' work using a set of criteria. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z “And so many others died,” the director says in the final paragraph of the book. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z I’m going to do that in the next paragraph, so consider yourself warned. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z He closes the book with fifty-seven numbered paragraphs that comprise, he writes, a “relationalist manifesto” that explains how we might live not with ourselves in mind but others. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z That's just the first paragraph, and things don't get better for "Five Armies" from there. 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' a flawed finale, reviews say 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z If some of the parenthetical names in that paragraph make you nostalgic — or make you a little curious about what all those once-fresh young stars have been up to lately — here are some more. Movie Review: ?American Reunion,? With Jason Biggs and Eugene Levy 2012-04-05T22:22:57Z I’m also a sucker for the magic of opening paragraphs. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z With most, that means slowing down — even stopping and rereading a page or paragraph if it doesn't sink in — to really capture what the author is trying to say. Is deep reading becoming a thing of the past? 2011-01-10T16:46:04Z Williams poem to make the case that a stanza without the intentional carriage returns is merely a paragraph. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z This slim volume of practical advice — each of the 89 new “rules” is just a few paragraphs — headlines this holiday season’s books for the wine lovers on your gift list. The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z After consulting several guidebooks to Turkey, I became more interested — no guidebook devoted more than a page, and some only a paragraph, to the area. Imprint: On Turkey?s Datca Peninsula 2010-08-13T21:34:00Z “After I finished reading the first paragraph, I knew this was a book I wanted to share with the world,” Winfrey said in a statement Thursday. Winfrey picks Viola Davis memoir for her book club 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes there is a good flow running through a whole paragraph, but there isn't really a whole piece that's playing the same tune throughout in a happy way. AL Kennedy on her first book, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains 2013-01-01T17:00:09Z Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But by paragraph’s end, Williams has dismissed the possibility, “because … I am a Negro.” A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z I'm not sure what that term means, exactly, but I have a reasonable idea about the sentences and paragraphs that are actually present in the book. Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith' 2013-05-19T19:00:07Z Reading the final paragraphs, the reader imagines a helicopter shot pulling the camera up and away from the storm-tossed island as the melodramatic theme music soars. Review: S.K. Tremayne’s cinematic thriller ‘The Ice Twins’ 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Here it is, in the very first paragraph: “You never told me it felt this good.” Leslie Jamison's 'The Recovering' finds her truth in a failed love affair with drinking 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Explain how a single paragraph of medical literature propelled the Oxycontin epidemic. Sam Quinones outlines the path of addiction from painkiller to heroin 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Here are some selections: • "Frugal and Norway do not usually appear in the same sentence, or even paragraph." Frugal Traveler: The Ultimate Frugal Challenge? 2012-06-05T15:50:50Z Limning the work’s structure in long, lucid paragraphs, she led a reading of consistent tempos and subtly calibrated internal balances, allowing dramatic events to organically unfold. A Mahler under control 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z She conveys her beliefs and suspicions in discrete paragraphs of text, quoting lines of poetry, personal correspondence, psychological studies. ‘The Crying Book’ Follows the Many Tracks of Our Tears 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Her wit was savage and unrehearsed, and elegant: she spoke in spontaneous paragraphs that were also arias, and at some point I realized this was just part of how she thought her way through life. Alexander Chee on the life, work and loss of his mentor, Kit Reed 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Sometimes he chooses two different health stars to voice differing opinions on the same subject, but no other author’s work warrants more than a paragraph or two. Books of The Times : In ?Drop Dead Healthy,? A. J. Jacobs Gets Relentlessly Fit 2012-04-15T20:58:30Z A paragraph from his novel “Loosing My Espanish” has special resonance today. Perspective | When writer Hache Carrillo died, the world discovered his true identity. What does that mean for his legacy? 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Here are some selections: • “Frugal and Norway do not usually appear in the same sentence, or even paragraph.” Frugal Traveler Blog: A Scandinavian Summer: The Ultimate Frugal Challenge? 2012-06-05T15:50:50Z It hard to imagine, oh, Henry James writing such a paragraph. Colm Toibin's new novel may not be a beauty, but greatness abounds 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Seven paragraphs describing the bare bones of these materials were eliminated from the judges' original opinion based on the vehement objection of the British government. Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain - review 2012-11-23T08:00:01Z For paragraphs on end we’re stuck in her mind, her internal search for answers and clues. Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z That is, the movie works very hard to provoke a reaction like the one in the previous two paragraphs to justify the inevitable counter-reaction. ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z From the book’s very first paragraph VanderMeer conveys a strong sense of unease. ‘Annihilation’: explorers without identity or memory 2014-01-30T21:00:34Z By the end of the next paragraph, he takes aim at the type of young women “who mistake People magazine for news and a Japanese symbol on their backs as a sign of rebellion.” A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Memorise this last paragraph, because it will definitely come true. Strangerer things: what's next for the Netflix smash? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z They blend and blur, sometimes within a single paragraph, to create a kind of intelligence or point of view that is universal and particular at once. Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with 'The Years' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z I wouldn't do my work because all you do is sit in your chair all day and read paragraphs on the computer. Hip Hop High' charter school closing 2010-06-21T18:48:00Z “I threw the thing across the room, I was so astounded,” he recalled recently, “because I ran across a paragraph on the American Revolution, and it was just factually wrong.” How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z She is one of those people who will say something like, “I was living in China studying calligraphy in pagodas,” and then somehow end the paragraph amid Medieval stone ruins north of Milan. In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z Then he noticed something else, something beside the forced melodrama of the paragraphs he was reading and the strained, almost infantile efforts to replicate good writing. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: You. Won’t. Believe. What. Happened. Next. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z I was at Outside magazine and suggested that his lede on a piece about Key West was really the second paragraph and that the first paragraph should be the kicker. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z A paragraph in it began as follows: “The world envies success.” Barbra Streisand, a Voice to Be Reckoned With 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z This sense of dislocation is enhanced by a narrative that toggles back and forth in time, often within the space of a paragraph or two. Books of The Times: ‘Mountains of the Moon,’ by I. J. Kay 2012-07-10T13:31:36Z Yet it is difficult to assess a book that admits within its first two paragraphs that it has no idea what it is. A New Biography of a Brilliant Playwright Who Died Too Young 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z He signed his name next to this paragraph and requested a copy for the museum. Ralph Nader's Tort Museum 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z I am drafting my thesis statement and outlining three supporting paragraphs. Kill the Bookends column: Why the New York Times Book Review’s most frustrating feature has to go 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z And in July, seven of the nine paragraphs in Pinault’s story about a dispute between France and Turkey matched in whole or part a previously published report by AFP, simply changing their order. When plagiarism was reported to Voice of America, managers delayed action for months 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z In those situations, it's always best to start writing the second paragraph, and work backwards. Jacob Aron on science writing: 'Analogies are like forklift trucks' 2013-04-15T06:29:00Z The previous eight paragraphs weren’t especially fun to type. Book Review: Amy Poehler’s ‘Yes Please’ 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Indents have more to do with the relationships between paragraphs, at least in the way I think about them. Deep book, flat subject 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z The deal between Epstein and Virginia Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, contained a paragraph that said it protects anyone “who could have been included as a potential defendant” from lawsuits filed by Giuffre. Settlement between Epstein, Prince Andrew accuser now public 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z He repeats “Marvel” in the second paragraph, and then, in the third paragraph, specifies what he’s talking about: “franchise films.” Martin Scorsese Avenges the Auteur 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Could that be a real paragraph published in the Post? There is so much wrong with this cop’s victim-blaming screed 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z I managed to slip it into the fourth paragraph. “Spotlight” and Its Revelations 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z They're allowed to get away with far more than he could because they're considered heroes while officers like him will be lucky to get a few paragraphs in the organization's record books. A grand finale for "Star Trek: Picard" establishes why this crew is the greatest generation 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z And though the book is more than 500 pages, the chapters are short, sometimes only one paragraph long, so the story moves quickly. Three Y.A. Novels About the Challenges and Charms of Growing Up 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z In a Twitter thread, Arielle Duhaime-Ross, a correspondent for Vice News, claimed that in a single paragraph on her identity and qualifications in "Merchants of Truth," there were six factual errors. Jill Abramson's "Merchants of Truth": A "fight for facts" marred by plagiarism allegations 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z For the study each story was read by up to 30 people and presented in two formats -- in the original version and with a spoiling paragraph inserted in the story. Spoilers don't ruin stories or films: study 2011-08-12T16:08:44Z The athletic handbook of the local junior high school even includes a paragraph banning visits to barn dances the night before games. Johnson’s Barn, a North Dakota Institution, Plans Its Last Dance 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z If you are Theodore Dreiser, no paragraph needs to shine at all. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z In the next paragraph Johnson referred to African migrants, writing: "they too are here essentially searching for food". Writers and academics protest over 'racist' LRB blogpost 2010-07-21T16:17:00Z "In my first tutorial I got two paragraphs into my essay and the tutor said, 'I'm sorry dear, but I haven't understood a word you've said.'" Edinburgh international book festival diary 2011-08-19T17:57:03Z “I always tell people, the reason Terry is such a good lyric writer,” Jam said, “is because what it takes me a paragraph to say he can say in a sentence.” Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Estevez, by contrast, strolls in on his own and talks in eloquent, focused paragraphs. Emilio Estevez: ‘Brat Pack will be on my tombstone’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Its literature will not elucidate: There was not a name of a single musical genre in the opening paragraphs of the About page on its website this year. Music Review: The Big Ears Festival Returns in Knoxville 2014-03-31T22:12:05Z Nabokov moves this to the beginning and expands it into a long, strikingly visual paragraph about an animated Bruegel that sweeps the reader into the story. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "I went back to things I had written, many of the things I had written in the 90s, and there was only one paragraph that I really liked." Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z Sometimes it can be a single bogus paragraph inserted into an otherwise genuine document. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Relaxed tempos allowed room for phrases and paragraphs to breathe, which is a prerequisite in this music. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Central Park 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z It is only the later developments and twists that make this love triangle acceptable and prevent make me from ranting about it for more than one paragraph. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare - review 2013-05-04T11:00:00Z In one bit, he looks at someone in the front rows and says each sentence like a separate paragraph: “Oh hello, Mr. White Face. I mean you no harm. So please don’t come at me.” Ron Funches Works a Crowd, and Its Assumptions 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z As you did just a few paragraphs prior, with “perfect.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The ‘dream job’ vs. the most important job in the world — parenting 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z And there is nothing wrong with your paragraph structure.” Modern Love: Modern Love: A Spanking Fetish Is Not Revealed Easily 2012-11-09T17:47:12Z But it's a shame to see such an otherwise excellent piece of writing marred by the penultimate paragraph about the Keystone XL pipeline. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z He tells his story in short, atmospheric paragraphs, each separated by white space, each its own strobe-lighted snapshot of decadent poetic memory. Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z Fantastically written paragraph, and I think it captures the experience of many women. To Stay Married, Embrace Change 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z For this paragraph alone “Money” should be required reading for every financial regulator. The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Suddenly, for five or six paragraphs, you are eating a lukewarm nut cutlet. In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z On the back flap, Ms. Alexander’s paragraph of biographical details is longer than the author’s. Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z A paragraph in Elizabeth Hardwick is “certainly ‘well written,’ which means: quite oddly written, but subtly so.” A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z I opened it, and the very first paragraph said something like, "I didn't mean to work for the royal family. I wanted to work with poor children in the slums of Edinburgh." Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z “Thoughts and images, sometimes whole paragraphs,” occur to him, and he must swim back to shore to hastily write them down. Swimming with Oliver Sacks 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Onstage the designer may speak in paragraphs and think in chapters, but Mau broke down the page itself into sound bites, headlines and blocks. Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Line-for-line it's rarely less than laconically funny, and hardly a paragraph goes by without a poetic perception worthy of a latter-day Huck Finn. Edisto by Padgett Powell – review 2012-11-06T12:45:01Z His paragraphs unfurl like parades, notations on life’s sick pageant. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The biggest logical problems — how come Jen isn’t altering the future every time she does anything, and how will she eventually return to the present — are explained away in a few interesting but leap-of-faith paragraphs. ‘Dangerous Road. No Cell Service. Drive at Own Risk.’ 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z All these ideas occur in Sage's dense, but not especially long, first paragraph. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z Ignore what I said at the start of this paragraph. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z But the difficulty doesn’t show: Dr. Kalanithi knows how to make a paragraph fly. Review: In ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ Dr. Paul Kalanithi Confronts an Early Death 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z “Dead Souls,” by the English writer Sam Riviere, is hard to stop reading because it’s written as a single paragraph almost 300 pages long. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The entire missing back story, with historical context and significance, rolled up in one easy-to-digest paragraph: ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 11: Is Quinn Just a Natural Killer? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z She writes throughout with measured restraint; but in her last paragraph she allows her feelings to show. Boys’ own 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “I don’t think there was a paragraph of sentences spoken between us that night.” From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z That's a group that gets the blame in the second paragraph of one of The Guardian's stories about the edits made to Dahl's writing too. "I have no particular power": Don't blame sensitivity readers for the latest censored books 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Cora remains center stage, and Ms. Moriarty summarizes her favorite chameleon’s many changes in the last paragraph. Books of The Times: ‘The Chaperone’ by Laura Moriarty 2012-06-14T21:43:56Z For the next two weeks, Dylan said nothing in public, while the committee fretted and old school writers of paragraphs fumed. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z I do know that it’s taken me more than an hour to solve this paragraph. Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z What raced out was a rush of unfiltered, fully formed paragraphs that hummed with keen authority and insight. Comic Eddie Izzard, at Hollywood Bowl, generates hysterics and more 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z OK, it’s true that when I say “you” in the above paragraph I really mean me. “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”: The black-and-white, feminist Iranian vampire western you’ve been waiting for 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “Also, I’m worried that my paragraph structure is confusing.” Modern Love: Modern Love: A Spanking Fetish Is Not Revealed Easily 2012-11-09T17:47:12Z Places I had forgotten suddenly alive again in a single paragraph, as if written under hypnosis — the aging Marlowe, stumbling and melancholic, wandering through rooms and streets that only I had stumbled through. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z When I read the version she wanted me to use, I saw that her document actually was the document I sent her with a few added paragraphs. @Work Advice: No good way to say it. Deflecting—or not firing—casual insults. Mr. Porter’s paragraph continues for about four times again the length of the extract quoted here. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Now I can’t remember the last time I wrote or read an email of more than four or five meaty, intimate paragraphs. A Eulogy for the Long, Intimate Email 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z At the same time, the author’s penchant for short paragraphs, some of only a single sentence, adds an air of portentousness. Review | Neil Gaiman’s suspenseful and surprising ‘Norse Mythology’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Her conversations and interior monologues are embedded in lean, no-nonsense paragraphs. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Every paragraph, every sentence, seems custom-built to illustrate the conviction of his old creative writing teacher, Grace Paley, that "fiction must always be true". David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z Here is where, if I wanted to, I might include a detailed paragraph about the caretaking I already do. More women like me are choosing to be childfree. Is this the age of opting out? 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Your second paragraph is exactly what is jumbling up in my mind. Carolyn Hax: Bring the teen son, ditch the manipulative, abusive boyfriend 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z In the closing paragraph of her letter, Child wrote that she not only refused to accede to Heath’s demand that alumnae withhold donations from Smith but that she would be sending an additional check. The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Without naming names, Tom occasionally shares with me a particularly egregious paragraph or two from his inbox. Gene Weingarten has the trite stuff 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z I whined for several detailed paragraphs about the cancellation of something that was plainly trivial relative to everything else going on, but very important to me. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When others had it so much worse, it can feel bad to feel bad about loss 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z And I have personally witnessed him read, and seemingly comprehend, entire paragraphs. Perspective | Who would be a better president than the current one? For starters, my cat. 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z But of all the arresting paragraphs in that book, this one actually cuffed me. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Adjacent to a paragraph explaining the importance of matzo, ben Simeon shows a grim yellow chimp, shaking a tambourine that appears to be — a matzo! Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z |
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