| 单词 | punctuation |
| 例句 | Many of the silliest ambiguities in the Internet memes come from newspaper headlines and magazine tag lines precisely because they have been stripped of all punctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This is the punctuation mark that has many sign painters mystified. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is in the nature of punctuation lovers to care about such things, and I applaud all those who seek to protect the apostrophe from misuse. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the world of text messages, ignorance of grammar and punctuation obviously doesn’t affect a person’s ability to communicate messages such as “C U later”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z There are no rules for graceful writing, at least not in the sense that there are rules for grammar and punctuation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Babulya declared the rain lucky, an answer to the prayer they hadn’t even said yet, but to Anya it felt like a punctuation mark to her utter failure. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z But best of all, I think, is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper: that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a rhythm to it, and an accompanying punctuation of slaps or blows. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s tough being a stickler for punctuation these days. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Even as a book about punctuation, it will not give all the answers. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Behind him, Ewell nodded in punctuation, his head twitching, his fingers fluttering. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When he sent her a telegram for their “Sixteenth Monthiversary,” he joked that each letter and punctuation mark was a code standing for “I love you!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “You may call me Aunt Faintly. Here, have a punctuation mark.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course people will always argue over levels of punctuation, accusing texts of having too much or too little. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z My own position is simple: in some matters of punctuation there are simple rights and wrongs; in others, one must apply a good ear to good sense. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “You can pick any assortment you like or buy a special box complete with all letters, punctuation marks, and a book of instructions. Here, taste an A; they’re very good.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z And while I am very much in favour of forming an army of well- informed punctuation vigilantes, I can foresee problems getting everyone to pull in the same direc-tion. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z This one gives you permission to love punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z As I was preparing for this book, I wrote an article for The Daily Telegraph, hoping to elicit a few punctuation horror stories, and it was like detonating a dam. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z It is pleasant to picture the scene: two hard-drinking alpha males in serious trilbies smacking a big desk and barking at each other over the niceties of punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z In Mind the Stop Carey defines punctuation as being governed “two-thirds by rule and one- third by personal taste”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Yes, some of us were born to be punctuation vigilantes. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else - yet we see it all the time. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Taking our previous analogies for punctuation, what happens when it isn’t used? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Miss Kinnian says a period is punctuation too, and there are lots of other marks to learn. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z A Chinese-American, somebody’s son, was playing Chopin, which has no punctuation, no cymbals, no gongs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, punctuation keeps sense on the rails. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z More than any other mark, the comma draws our attention to the mixed origins of modern punctuation, and its consequent mingling of two quite distinct functions: 1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Emoticons are combinations of punctuation marks people frequently use when they don’t really know how to express themselves with real words. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z By the time the sun reached center stage, a punctuation mark in the cloud-lined sky, I was miles into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z After I figured out how punctuation worked, I read over all my old progress reports from the beginning. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The difficulty comes in trying to separate my eyes from my eyebrows, which alter my face much the way that varying punctuation marks can change the meaning of a sentence. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Literate readers rely on punctuation to guide them through a sentence, and mastering the basics is a nonnegotiable requirement for anyone who writes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He wrote his reminder to himself in a heavy and decisive hand, amplifying it sharply with a series of coded punctuation marks and underlining the whole message twice, so that it read: Yossarian! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The goal of this chapter is to allow you to reason your way to avoiding the major errors of grammar, word choice, and punctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Do you know of the Jameson Raid, described as a “fiasco”? Marvellous punctuation story. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, even the most punctilious punctuation is not informative enough to eliminate all garden paths. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Examples include the rules that govern punctuation, complex forms of agreement, and fine semantic distinctions between uncommon words like militate and mitigate and credible and credulous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I divide the hundred usage issues into points of grammar, the expression of quantity and quality, word choice, and punctuation. adjectives and adverbs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Outside, like punctuation, there’s a flash of lightning; almost no pause and then the thunder. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know much about the sign-painting business—maybe they get paid extra for punctuation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Boy, did I have crazy spelling and punctuation! Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The words were a quiet punctuation to the larger sounds of the ocean and coast outside: gulls calling, the surf, the creak and shift of the wrecked ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They were a violent punctuation to all those undistinguishable sentences, as if Shmuel wanted to shake his fist in the Nazi’s face but didn’t dare. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If punctuation provides the traffic signals, words bang into each other and everyone ends up in Minehead. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize their point. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The tricky part is determining where the other punctuation marks go: inside or outside the closing parenthesis. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just some punctuation and stuff,” he said, sliding it over to her. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z His arguments were pointed with specie—we doing the punctuation—and with a little bargaining he told us what he knew. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But there was no punctuation in those ancient texts and that’s all there is to it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z How long before the last few punctuation sticklers are obliged to take refuge together in caves? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z His punctuation began to improve, and he was careful to use his spell-checker, plus various online dictionaries and style guides. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The writing was hurried and cramped, the margins overflowing with questions and hastily jotted notes, but she could have recited every phrase and placed every punctuation mark with her eyes closed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Generous punctuation would also take the fun out of some of the psycholinguists’ garden path sentences, such as When Fred eats food gets thrown. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The entry ended there, in midair, without punctuation, after a sketch of a circle with squiggly lines extending out from it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In case my friends’ grammar and punctuation weren’t upsetting enough, the fact that nobody thought there might be a problem with ME was enough to blacken my mood pretty thoroughly. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t torture, Shadow thought, just punctuation: I'm the bad cop. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I know punctuation, and I can spell good. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 We would nod our heads as punctuation to each other’s voices, signaling that yes, we know’ all about it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z By giving me pairs of hex digits, they can send any character they like, including numbers, punctuation, etc. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood managed the accounting and worked as Woodhull’s secretary, often writing documents for her, because she had never learned elegant penmanship or proper punctuation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In his right hand he carried a swagger stick which occasionally he slapped against his left palm, punctuation marks for the thoughts that crowded and strutted invisibly within him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, like punctuation, a gunshot poked a hole in the day and all the air ran out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z His scrawny stomach bowed right over it and his sharp black elbows pointed down toward us like punctuation marks. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Words strung together without punctuation recall those murky murals Rolf Harris used to paint, where you kept tilting your head and wondering what it was. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z I opened the book with some apprehension, wondering what archaic spelling and punctuation I would face. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I am told there are writers who can tap out a coherent essay in a single pass, at most checking for typos and touching up the punctuation before sending it off for publication. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z No one saw the pity of its position, hanging there in eternal meaninglessness, silently signalling to those with eyes to see, “I’m a legitimate punctuation mark, get me out of here.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He forgave this punctuation only in his mother’s letters where a row of five indicated a jolly good joke. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I have preserved original spelling and punctuation in quotations, except that I have regularized ‘u’ and ‘v’, and ‘i’ and ‘j’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The semicolon is one of the most useful but least used punctuation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z There are diagrams, numbers, lines and charts—strings of words with terminal punctuation at the end—some are periods, some question marks, and none of it makes sense. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Well, he would be ill-advised to repeat this ploy once my punctuation vigilantes are on the loose. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z 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 And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z She told me about commas, for instance, long before I took punctuation seriously. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, that writer understood the gift of punctuation! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a list of legitimate apostrophe jobs certainly brings home to us the imbalance of responsibility that exists in the world of punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z To be fair, many people who couldn’t punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Well, if punctuation is the stitching of language, language comes apart, obviously, and all the buttons fall off. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Francie, shaky enough regarding English grammar, spelling, and punctuation, didn’t stand a chance with the French language. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One of many missteps that landed Albert Perez on Pennsylvania’s death row for murder six years ago was his punctuation, Fitzgerald says. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Meter and punctuation were discarded, replaced by swift line breaks and urgent subjects, whether “The Herds” or “The Asians Dying.” When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Harsh, vivid phrases – the "hideously charred corpses of murdered infants"; bodies "writhing in agony" – unspool until they become almost a form of punctuation. Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' 2013-03-22T19:08:27Z He waits a full two minutes before tolling a chord at the piano, as punctuation for the first line of the bridge: “And I dreamed I was dying.” Review: Allen Toussaint’s Last Album, ‘American Tunes’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The cast members do a fine job of defining their assorted roles with distinguishing tics and punctuation marks, riffing a bit like the amiable jazz musicians with whom they share the stage. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z “I love how deeply he lives inside of language and how he explores every nook and cranny and asks questions about punctuation and pauses.” Andrew Garfield contains multitudes 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z These punctuation marks continue through the day, and each time a similar sort of longing flares up in me. Drinking is a huge part of Thanksgiving — here's why I'm avoiding it 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z West also included several tweets that would seem to acknowledge his apparent fondness for Kardashian’s breasts, with some fun punctuation to indicate his excitement level. “I’M SO LUCKY”: Kanye West plays proud husband, tweets naked photos of Kim Kardashian 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z A mood that was rather broken the moment Anderson added her own spoken narrative, some of which was back-projected on to a screen in a series of random text and fonts devoid of any punctuation. Landfall - review 2013-03-03T02:23:23Z In its earliest editions, “Chicago” focused almost entirely on matters of style, punctuation and typography, though starting with its 15th edition, “Chicago” finally joined the fray and included sections on grammar and usage. Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters? You should. 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Precision was the thing with Pat, from her couture to the punctuation of her emails and so too with Barnes. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z Live favourite Oxford Comma finds thousands singing along to lyrics about social one-upmanship, contentious punctuation, crunk music and the Dalai Lama. Vampire Weekend and?Janelle?Mon?e ? review 2010-12-05T21:31:00Z Brunch provides nice punctuation between reading the papers and a Sunday night date with HBO. A world of D.C. brunch options, no passport required The first album he recorded, for the small Los Angeles label Contemporary Records in 1958, was titled “Something Else!!!!,” and the punctuation was superfluous; Coleman’s music was conceptually exclamatory. Lighting Out for the Territories With Ornette Coleman 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z She sang a solo in her distinctive style, a kind of vowel-dominant scatting, all open, airy sounds; for punctuation, she uses a hard “e,” not a “p” or a “k.” Newport Jazz Festival Begins a New Era, With History as a Guide 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Quite a few online sites—most of the Web, and many bloggers and social networkers—remain faithful to traditional punctuation norms.” A History of Punctuation for the Internet Age 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In 2003, this British writer turned a hectoring punctuation guide into a hilarious bestseller called “Eats, Shoots & Leaves.” The fur flies in Lynne Truss’s witty novel ‘Cat Out of Hell’ 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Most people take punctuation to be something obvious and settled. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z And, now and then, as a kind of punctuation to all that chat, guys being beaten bloody and shot dead That’s the George Higgins way. ‘Killing Them Softly’: Hard-boiled dialogue hits the mark 2012-11-30T03:38:23Z 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 In her introductory notes for the play Ms. Anyanwu says of its structure, “If there is any, then this is how it goes,” before explaining how punctuation in the script should inform line readings. Review: Remembering What Was and Wasn’t in ‘Good Grief’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z And it was the punctuation mark, so enthusiastic, so eager, so cravenly endearing, that brought on the pummeling. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z McGee’s writing is riotous and alive; the dialogue ricochets like a pinball and uses curse words like punctuation. ‘Derry Girls’: And Now Their Troubles Are Ended 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Use minimal punctuation, but maximum capitalization in odd places for Emphasis. Read this before it’s too late: How to survive Snowpocalypse 2015 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Without punctuation/grammar the sentence makes no sense. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Yankovic's song takes aim at people who make errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. Got writer's block? Lin-Manuel Miranda has a playlist for you 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z On the stage without backing group in Geneva, the first leg of a solo European tour to promote the disc from his own record company, "God" trips off his lips like a punctuation mark. Country singer Kristofferson looks to end of road 2012-11-21T13:27:47Z As in actual thoroughbred racing, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, but those characters may include punctuation and numerals. Style Invitational Week 1430: Back to racing speed with our annual foal contest 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Communication, pronunciation, elocution, writing of all forms, grammar, punctuation, public speaking, whatever the students needed in this broad area, I was to help them with it. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z We met up late and walked home, stopping at pubs along the way, putting a little punctuation mark on the night, before it was time to head into the hills. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z I looked for handsome faces, some semblance of professional success, and proper grammar/punctuation. I’m the woman you met on Ashley Madison: How the rush of infidelity led to affairs online 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z And the game begins to display primitive graphics: a map entirely illustrated by capital letters, punctuation marks and typographical symbols. To a Gamer, Minimalism Is a Virtue 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z I feel that I want to make my work clean – the fewer apostrophes and uses of punctuation the better. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Dubious of art’s ability to communicate, he made paintings that reduced specific phrases to indecipherable geometric shapes of color interrupted by intermittent spacing and punctuation. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The first published collection of her poems, from 1890, cleaned up her eccentric punctuation and spelling, cut stanzas and created titles, presenting her as a more conventional poet than she was. A Very Modern Emily Dickinson (Twerking Included) 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “I came to feel that punctuation was like nailing the words onto the page,” he once explained. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z In take after take over the course of a long night of shooting, Mr. Cranston’s turn to the camera and his growly, chilling delivery puts a charged punctuation mark on the end of the film. Bryan Cranston takes his L.B.J. to TV in ‘All the Way’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And she’s funnier—the timing and her voices and her punctuation of things is funnier than any comedian I’ve ever heard. Mitch Hurwitz digs deep on “Lady Dynamite” — and gives “Arrested Development” details: “We’re ready to go at a moment’s notice” 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Quicker bathing meant more sleep; more texting; more listening to indie bands with names unfathomably made up of punctuation. Running the perfect bath is an art – get it right and the day’s woes melt away | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z An occasional blast from the whistle of a tiny boat added punctuation. Cultured Traveler: Drawing Yourself Into the Scene 2013-12-12T16:43:08Z Her weird punctuation was standardized, her emphatic capitalization tamed. No way to treat an author: How Harper Lee lost control of her legacy. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A picnic dinner is also a punctuation mark in the week or the month. Picnic dinners are the one thing I’m keeping from last year 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Her message is that punctuation is not about limits; it’s about making language richer. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Incorrect usage of punctuation wasn’t found to be too offensive, but when combined with spelling errors and improper forms of tenses produced many an eyeroll and reduced the likeliness of the person receiving a response. It’s why UR still single: Millennials aren’t impressed by suitors with bad grammar and spelling 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z He left out her heterodox Christianity, love for animals and a penchant for minimal punctuation. Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Clumsy as nineteenth-century punctuation may seem to a modern reader, Melville’s semicolons, she writes, act like “sturdy little nails,” holding his wide-ranging narrative together. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Unless they’re all too busy talking about themselves without prompting or punctuation. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Expecting him to build you the Brooklyn Bridge 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z These photographers also use imagery culled from other sources, which they alter as a kind of punctuation mixed in with their own work. Inside Art: ?New Photography 2010? Coming to MoMA 2010-07-29T20:43:00Z As in the racing world, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, but one or more of the characters may be punctuation marks or numerals. Style Invitational Week 1170: Derby or not Derby — our famous ‘foal’ contest 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Even his punctuation is passionate, she pointed out recently. Tony Kushner, at Peace? Not Exactly. But Close. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z What a person is thinking, why they said what they did, why they chose that exact punctuation, what their hope was for this small bit of output. Confessions of an Internet Addict 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “When you play the punctuation right, everybody finally gets it,” she said. Gillian Anderson as a Fashion Inspiration 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z He softened the stair railing with a climbing hydrangea and added punctuation points of Italian cypress to reflect the style of the home. A European country garden on a Seattle city lot (and a half) 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z “The dressing up is more like a nice punctuation.” A Gym Where Comic-Con Is the Reigning Spirit 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z His favorite means of punctuation is to grunt, and, though his arms cross and his legs stomp, Hart’s most violent physical move is the furrowing of his brow. “Irresponsible,” Reviewed: Kevin Hart’s Family Values 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Here, they’re largely interstitial, a sort of imaginative cinematic punctuation of sequences, by means of glances and gazes, that also reflects a quasi-documentary ardor for settings and their influence on characters’ thought and action. The Compromises of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z I gave up on Wolf Hall when the lack of punctuation made it impossible to tell who was saying what and to whom. Mantel sequel scoops Man Booker 2012-10-16T21:29:05Z There are punctuation symbols that have largely gone the way of the dodo. Why You’re Still Using Periods in Texts 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z You must use every letter in your original exactly once; you may add any punctuation or capitalization you like. Style Invitational Week 1318: Love the tiny tail stain* — an anagram contest 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “Surely not! Not a chance in hell. It’s a moment of punctuation in the madness,” she said. Lena Headey on How Cersei's Power Move Will Affect Game of Thrones 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The poem's rhythm is the rhythm of talk, and the punctuation is similarly light and informal. Poem of the week: Legacies by Peter Sirr 2012-07-16T10:02:27Z As in actual Thoroughbred racing, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, but one or more of the characters may be punctuation marks or numerals. Style Invitational Week 1222: Foaling around 23 times over 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z I stared for a while at Alice’s message, so plaintive and weightless, without even the anchor of punctuation. Are You There, Dad? It’s Me, Alice 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z In my three years at the agency, I received about two dozen emails from the executive director, all of which were addressed to the entire staff and contained grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors. Policing the police 2012-08-29T18:11:00Z The rich meat, seasoned with Himalayan sea salt and cooked over Japanese charcoal, is so tender, you barely need to chew; wedges of grill-kissed Japanese baby potato are a nice punctuation. Review | There’s no reason to gamble on Vegas restaurants. Here are your best bets. 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z If the exclamation point is the adverb of punctuation, then italics are the Ambien of typography. Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z When Mozart shifted gears — moving from gracefully flowing themes to grand, chordal punctuation — Mr. Pappano expanded the dynamics to magnify the effect. | New York Philharmonic: New York Philharmonic Unleashes Operatics Hidden in Brahms 2010-04-10T00:10:00Z Certainly, punctuation – like language overall – is typically used in less radical ways. How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Our friend Angela Burr is always a welcome presence on screen: crisp, funny, and understated, keeping us off balance with sentences that seem to lack standard punctuation. ‘The Night Manager’ Episode 4: Searching Looks and Alleged Drum Beats of Tension 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Tantalizing recipes provide punctuation to the career twists and turns. Ruth Reichl Dishes on the Last Days of Gourmet Magazine 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s like reading the prose of a bore who thinks that good style resides principally in long words and correct punctuation. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z Other videos hinge on monologues and dialogues spoken by eerily familiar automated voices that ruminate on punctuation and abstract, philosophical ideas of language. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In "Soundtrack," songs are largely emotional punctuation in a story still very difficult to confront so many decades later. 'Soundtrack for a Revolution': a powerful mix of music, civil-rights history 2010-04-29T21:50:00Z “Morals clause” is an absurdity in the universe of “Perry Mason” — the morals of most of the characters could be contained in a punctuation mark. Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Shannon Ebner’s photographs of electronic letters and punctuation highlight how language is a shifting message system. Review: ‘All Watched Over’ Contemplates Art’s Relationship to Technology 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z We will correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and length where necessary but we won't change what contributors want to say. Guardian children's books: Frequently asked questions 2011-03-02T12:27:59Z Watson writes, sounding like the “punctuation therapist” she sometimes plays, “Ambiguity can be useful and productive, and it can make some room for new ideas.” Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z With timpani adding definition as well as punctuation, the progress towards the arrival of the three trombones in the finale was logically charted to bring the ultimate blaze of colour. ACO/Tognetti 2010-08-31T22:00:00Z That party proceeds into a meal which often starts with toasts, which are the most obvious way in which alcohol is a punctuation mark, obligatory and superstitious. Drinking is a huge part of Thanksgiving — here's why I'm avoiding it 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z But she’s using that material almost as context or punctuation to the complicated and difficult story of one woman’s intellectual odyssey, not as the central focus. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The punctuation marks as part of the title are a self-aware nod to the incongruity of marrying the location, known for its allegiance to hoodies, Tevas and T-shirts, to a fashion event. Silicon Valley Fashion Week Is No Joke 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He was tweeting at dawn, setting the day’s frantic tone with capital letters and hysterical punctuation. Perspective | Was 2017 the end of something or just the beginning? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z A home without them, he added, “would be like a sentence without punctuation.” How Low Will Market for Antiques Actually Go? 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Chillingly, the council went so far as to propose, “All punctuation, including apostrophes, shall be avoided.” Not without our apostrophes! 2013-03-29T19:50:00Z Watching her sweat the punctuation of a legal document on her computer, switching from semicolon, to period, back to semicolon? ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Premiere: Danglin’ Jimmy 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Here the question mark seems a more appropriate punctuation mark, than, say, a dash or a colon. Azed slip No. 2,109 2012-11-25T11:00:00Z Others are placed, like punctuation marks, between the larger abstractions. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Just as for the Week 1118, the names are limited to 18 characters including spaces and punctuation marks. Style Invitational: Maters gonna mate — it’s the ‘foals’ and now ‘grandfoals’ 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Computer science is an art form of words and punctuation, thoughtfully placed and goal-oriented, even if not necessarily deployed to evoke surprise or longing. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “Pay attention to the punctuation and breathe,” he instructed another student. Inside a Master Class: Breathe, Punctuate, Forget Led Zeppelin 2011-07-21T20:24:06Z What the bloggers do today, the journalists will do tomorrow, so it’s no surprise to see even the best newspapers – except, of course, this one – scrambling their punctuation. Clive James: ‘As my immune system underwent one of its regular replacements, I thought of Keats’ 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, he never imagined that the computer-generated punctuation marks that originated in Japan in the 1980s would become Hollywood stars. Smiley faces to rolling eyes: Where do all those emojis come from? 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It's most common manifestation is as punctuation; short songs – usually on the acoustic guitar – to break up an hour of standup. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: rock'n'roll is the new comedy 2010-08-24T12:47:00Z For instance, there’s a new solo in which Ms. Tomás will transform the traditional Spanish fan into a percussion instrument and use it to give visual punctuation to her dance phrases. The Week Ahead: Jan. 23 ? 29 2011-01-21T16:42:50Z After triumphantly affixing the squiggle to a wall display of diacritical and punctuation marks, she trots back to a stash of symbols and draws out a new treasure. A lesson in geography, typography and stenography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z His prose was now rich but austere, shorn of most punctuation. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z These ornaments function like punctuation at the level of the full text, rather than the phrase or the sentence. How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z He earned a reputation for balancing discretion in altering an author’s language with a distaste for the most minute mistakes, including punctuation. Ashbel Green, Longtime Editor at Knopf, Dies at 84 2012-09-20T01:55:13Z But 10 minutes into an episode of “The Sopranos” or an Eminem album, the incessant profanity becomes little more than punctuation. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z So feel free to pursue your own independent study online, but be warned that the rabbit holes are dark and full of terrible punctuation. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Full Targaryen 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z This abbreviation's only redeeming feature is that it contains that murmuring under-butler of punctuation marks, the semicolon. Sam Leith's most hated online abbreviations 2013-06-06T14:00:05Z Patterns — including yards of circles, dancing squiggles and twinned images — fill “Paterson,” creating a vibrant visual punctuation to the otherwise relaxed storytelling. Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson,’ a Meditative Flow of Words Into Poetry 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z His Twitter feed is an absolute minefield that, when it isn’t just a random jumble of spaces, misspellings and errant punctuation, takes a hammer to the notion of impartiality. There’s no need to watch The Apprentice. We are living it now 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The ways we discuss punctuation, she explains, “offer a neat little laboratory for viewing the possible fates of migrating words.” You Say ‘To-may-to,’ I Say ‘To-mah-to’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z A typical tweet will list the star signs as emoji, or punctuation marks. How the Astro Poets Lit Up the Internet 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “His weird punctuation and capitalisation – and then what he was saying.” Bittersweet home Alabama: S-Town, the next podcast from the makers of Serial 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The real mystery, however, remains: why is there no punctuation in the movie’s title? Today’s Movie Trailer: Star Trek Into Darkness Arrives…Sort Of 2012-12-06T15:42:29Z We believe so much about novel writing because it suits our purposes, from what constitutes literature to style to punctuation. Can Walking on Eggshells Have a Healing Effect? Maybe. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z He added that he put his playful stamp on several Temptations’ standards as well as more recent material “with his tricky punctuation, sassy humor and inventive acrobatics.” Ali Ollie Woodson, Singer in Temptations, Dies at 58 2010-06-01T04:16:00Z I don't care if you join the Big Sisters and torture inner city girls about punctuation. As Tina Fey and 30 Rock sign off, revisiting the funniest 'feminist' scenes 2013-01-31T17:45:00Z And minimal punctuation suggests anything further would be a bossy imposition. Red Doc› by Anne Carson – review 2013-06-30T15:00:00Z The encore returned to Bach with the Sarabande from the fourth partita, in D — a small punctuation mark on an afternoon full of them. Review | A pianist’s personal meditation: Richard Goode plays Bach, Chopin 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Schmidt violates the rules of orthography and punctuation throughout the book, and its sprawling conversations cover James Joyce, trees, magic, the moon, and Xerxes, among many other things. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He’s the kind of person for whom giggling is punctuation. The time the homeless wrote poetry 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Dugdale sometimes avoids punctuation, letting the natural break at the end of the line do the work, or leaving the syntactic units connectively open. Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale 2013-01-14T10:31:49Z “Now you have Twitter and email taking older marks and giving them new life as emoticons,” says Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters, a history of punctuation marks. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z On the palate it was bright and lively, if a bit understated, with a refreshingly bitter punctuation setting up the next sip. When Thin and Bitter Are Welcome Wine Words 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z He painted riotous geometric abstracts, reminiscent of Miró or Kandinsky, and made often humorous conceptual works, like an Ernest Hemingway story with everything but punctuation marks removed. Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Known for Knotted-Gun Sculpture, Dies at 81 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Standard English punctuation is still alive and well; in the online world, nonstandard punctuation is alive and well.… A History of Punctuation for the Internet Age 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The weightier punctuation would prevent the momentary confusion of “the goddess Athena” with a “muscled body.” Should the Parthenon Marbles Be Returned to Greece? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Over time, Merwin’s writing became looser and more experimental, eventually dropping all punctuation. Why W.S. Merwin endures, and other best poetry to read this month 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z For many viewers, though, the frequent deaths are the only comprehensible punctuations in a plot that often may as well be written in Enigma code. Spooks final series: time for a glorious death? 2011-08-11T13:29:34Z Nevertheless, he never imagined that the computer-generated punctuation marks that originated in Japan in the 1980s would become Hollywood stars. Smiley faces to rolling eyes: Where do all those emojis come from? 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Then a horn lingers indefinitely, a looming punctuation mark and a subtle bridge to the first bar of the Beethoven. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Schultz captures the rhythms of daily life in this blue-collar community, weaving in standard historical punctuation marks: the 1963 Kennedy assassination, the 1970 shootings at Kent State University and the burgeoning women’s movement. Review | Connie Schultz’s ‘The Daughters of Erietown’ captures four generations of women in a hardscrabble Ohio town 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Over lunch in Atlanta the next day, Mr. Brock said he hoped the intervention was a final piece of punctuation on years of extreme highs and lows. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z As Krapp plays tapes from yesteryear, he uses the off switch as punctuation, reacting to memories of women with "incomparable" eyes and bosoms. Krapp's Last Tape: Duchess, London 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z With all this flux, many people worry that skill with punctuation is disappearing: witness, after all, the way teens text and tweet not bothering to capitalise or punctuate at all. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Sometimes the rushed nature of emails creates sentences that are beautiful precisely because of the poor punctuation, spelling and grammar that email encourages. What You Can Learn By Reading Lena Dunham’s Email 2013-11-11T10:45:24Z As in actual thoroughbred racing, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, but may include punctuation and numerals. Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Of course, King’s letter is about much more than punctuation, but here is an instance in which the semicolon did its small part for civil rights. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But the awards felt like an afterthought — punctuation marks between performances meant to chase higher ratings than the act of doling out golden gramophones is capable of generating. Grammy Awards 2015 Recap 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z While you may not add or omit letters in your anagram, you may use capitalization and punctuation however you like. Style Invitational Week 1423: Muddled heads — anagram a headline 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z “By the late 1960s,” Mr. Maslon said, such effusive punctuation “became shorthand for a title promising a sort of excitement that the material itself didn’t provide.” Broadway Shows Get the Point! Again! 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z All that sweetness would have seemed out of place were it not for Charlie Wilson, who slices through West’s slurry cheer with a melancholy chorus so fragmented you can practically hear the punctuation marks. 10 of Kanye West's Most Inspired Collaborations 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The tethers of punctuation disappear as the memory lifts into the lyrical and mythic, gliding into another register. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z Holt had edited Congress’s original text by adding a statement from New York politicians and changing some punctuation marks. Newly Discovered Copy of Declaration of Independence Will be Auctioned 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I was no longer a writer but an orthodontist; word choices became cosmetic, punctuation like a tightening of wires. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z “We’re standing in the middle of this whole history of private libraries,” he said, opening his eyes wide as punctuation. Robin Sloan, Author and More, and His ’24-Hour Bookstore’ 2012-10-03T21:50:31Z A melodrama with comic punctuation, “Nora’s Will” is about secrets and lies and a narrative imperative that every unhappy life must end not only with death but with closure too. | 'Nora?s Will': After a Death, Friendships and Secrets 2010-10-14T23:58:00Z And history favors the bold colon, punctuation that makes us look ever forward into the yet-to-be. Poet Elizabeth Alexander celebrates the power of a people’s voice 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z As punctuation following Ishiuchi's show, "The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography" is as open-ended as an ellipsis and as emphatic as an exclamation point. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z These punctuation marks denote the length of a pause between utterances. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z Any fan of the show knows to read that passage in Ray’s practical-sounding, higher-pitched voice and that the proper punctuation is Tom’s uncontrollable laughter. Tom Magliozzi and “Car Talk” America 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z But five years later, Mr. Nicholson, who leaves no immediate survivors, closed it, putting the final punctuation mark on a vanished age. Johnny Nicholson, Whose Manhattan Cafe Attracted ‘New Bohemian’ Crowd, Dies at 99 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z At The New Yorker, it is a copy editor’s duty to deploy the serial comma, along with lots of other lip-smacking bits of punctuation, as a bulwark against barbarianism. A Few Words About That Ten-Million-Dollar Serial Comma 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The expletive that the ordinarily chaste Michael blurts out puts the perfect punctuation mark on this head trip, saying what many viewers have probably been thinking the entire time they were watching it. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 8: Stop Thinking in Straight Lines 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z They seemed to have been delivered unto Merwin, who transcribed them by lightning flash: this effect of transcribed prophecy is achieved by their almost total lack of punctuation. The Final Prophecy of W. S. Merwin 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Whatever the case, between them the punctuation is not always exactly right. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The lesson here: punctuation out, bathroom humor in. Golden Globe Nominations Prove Personality Matters Just as Much as Prestige 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Most writers will tell you, though, that the most telling signs of influence come from punctuation, rhythm and structure. Do you write like Kurt Vonnegut or Judy Blume? Website analyzes text 2010-07-16T23:10:00Z In the old days, punctuation simply indicated a pause. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “It’s this great piece of punctuation that gets at the emphasis of how people really talk,” said Rachel Holliday Smith, a reporter for The City and an active participant in em dash Twitter. The Em Dash Divides 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z You can’t change the spelling of the original; I’m not going to ban tinkering with capitalization, punctuation and spacing, but I think they might weaken the joke. Style Invitational Week 1355: The inside word — our ‘air quotes’ contest 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Well, actually it’s just the North American division, and it also includes punctuation pedantry. Style Invitational Week 1412: Jumble bells 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It is also a pleasure to hear Mr. Rickman pronounce “semicolon” with a pinching nasality that turns a punctuation mark into a symptom of terminal constipation. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z “A lot of times misplaced punctuation or all lowercase or all caps might stop you in a good way because you’re not used to seeing it,” Tabin said. The Curious Case of the Strangely Similar Movie Titles 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The sign’s message is so urgent, no time or plastic could be spared for punctuation: “A true marriage male and female and god.” 9 spectacularly homophobic church signs 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z One guy’s message, “not much just watching hulu,” earns a column of zeros; it contains no capitalization, no punctuation and “literally no thought,” Jenny says, deeming the sender unworthy of a reply. Review: In ‘The Power of Punctuation,’ Judging Potential Mates by Their Texts 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z “We’re guided by the same force, with similar impulses to rhythmic punctuations and melodic intonations,” Ms. Satpathy said in an email from India, where they were preparing to go on tour. How Dance Partners Create Chemistry Onstage 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z As for McCarthy’s notorious resistance to punctuation, you soon learn to skate over this affected bad-boyism. Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z “I tend to see them as punctuations within the production of the big events,” Mr. Alÿs said. Shifting Sands of Societies and Politics 2011-04-28T16:06:17Z But an offhand remark that Nabokov was interested in quirks of punctuation such as the titular comma after "Go" licenses a final frame boasting that Eggers called the novel "a Nabokovian comic masterpiece". The week in books 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z As always, the names may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, but one or more characters may be numerals, punctuation marks or other symbols. Style Invitational Week 1278: Colt following 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Within the orchestra they provided blasts of explosive punctuation that drove the arrangements like whiplashes. Music Review: Jon Hendricks and Jimmy Heath at Rose Hall - Review 2011-09-25T22:00:26Z No matter your choice, it’s finished with wavy white chips produced from cooked, chilled, sliced, dehydrated and fried beef tendon: nice punctuation on the plate. Review | Voltaggio Brothers Steak House review: Together at last, this tag team antes up 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Applauding was an unremarkable reflex: the punctuation between one song and the next, a wordless expression of approval, clearing the air for the next organized vibrations. All Alone With a Microphone 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z What's harder to reconcile are the increasingly broad strokes, surfeit of ignored punctuation -- where half the play's humor resides -- and self-aware line readings, less Wilde than Billy Wilder. Taking liberties with 'Earnest' at A Noise Within 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Text in this trash heap had been stripped of punctuation and capitalization after being disposed. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It isn’t a happy ending, just punctuation between sentences, a triumphant pause before life rolls onward in uncontrollable directions. How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z There are no long, mesmerizing passages here, no quirky punctuation, no nimble leaps between grim reality and zany comedy that are Saramago’s hallmark. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Sharp melodic figures dart through spacious openings, dual-guitar harmonies soar and percussive rejoinders crackle, functioning as punctuation marks on a wide-ranging two-hour set. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z And given the continuing story of Mr. Threadgill’s career, it felt only appropriate that the evening’s finale ended in irresolution, with no punctuation mark beyond the applause. Henry Threadgill Festival at Harlem Stage 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Drew's other significant innovation is to use his own rap numbers about the state of Britain and its troubled young outsiders as a form of dramatic punctuation and a commentary on the characters' lives. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z The class worked together to transcribe one document, which culminated in a four-minute debate over a single punctuation mark. The National Archives has billions of handwritten documents. With cursive skills declining, how will we read them? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z But these examples of early 20th century Black writers, activists and journalists point to punctuation's possibilities in questioning entrenched power structures and laying claim to alternative futures. How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Fortunately, now I don’t have to, because Cecelia Watson, a self-identified “punctuation theorist” who teaches at Bard College, has written a whole book about them: “Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.” Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Everything about this feels lazy and half-hearted: Even the subtitles have erratic and inaccurate punctuation, a little detail that is symptomatic of the bigger problems. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But the rip entry is just the punctuation to a dive that ought to be clear and elegant. Hitting the water without a splash gets big cheers, but has Olympic diving gotten too dry? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Here are five modern examples of how punctuation is evolving, with no certain conclusion and whether the traditionalists like it or not. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In the second notebook especially, the punctuation gets noticeably idiosyncratic. Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It has, though, a great deal to say on the order and punctuation and capitalization of the words you use. Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters? You should. 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z I did find a few minor typos—like misplaced commas, some strange punctuation—but it does say in the agreement that they are not responsible for typographical errors. Eyeball Kicks: iTunes Terms and Conditions—The Graphic Novel 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z We made absolutely clear we wouldn’t accept any policy that does away with apostrophes or indeed any other punctuation marks. Not without our apostrophes! 2013-03-29T19:50:00Z For me, it’s the punctuation that ends the part we sing. Is the National Anthem Racist? Beyond the Debate Over Colin Kaepernick. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Early in this set, Mr. Garchik took full advantage of his cohort, barking like the M.C. at a soul revue, with response punctuation from the horns: "We are the Atheist!" ArtsBeat: Winter Jazzfest: Nine-Man Band Fleshes Out a One-Man Show 2013-01-12T03:00:31Z There was sequencer to it but I found the use of the electronics there, the punctuation that just flies out all over the record, is very, very musical. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z Rising from the plate is a cracker made from tapioca that’s cooked in shrimp stock, then dried and fried — in the end, perfect punctuation for the soft shrimp. Review | Quattro Osteria puts fun on the plate and in the room 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Gross adds some needed punctuation to the evening in “One,” in which she places seven sheets of paper on the floor. Dance in Review 2011-06-17T22:48:58Z Life, rather, is open-ended, without the neat punctuation of narrative. Has Jack the Ripper been identified? 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z You can’t change the order of the consonants, but you may add spaces or punctuation as above. The Style Invitational: A bug’s laugh — cicada ‘art’ winners 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Hysterical punctuation and capital letters were the logs on the fire of his persecution. ‘THIS IS AN ASSAULT’: History collides with Trump 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Ashton's English style, its elegant lyricism and quirky punctuation, is not a natural fit for the bombastic Bolshoi dancers and they imbue it with some Russian panache – Osipova, in particular, relishing the endless ecstatic backbends. Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo & Juliet ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:38Z 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 Isolated moments hinted at more dangerous entertainment: the dark cloud of a chord near the end of Ravel’s “Beauty and the Beast” was ravishingly ominous, and the punctuations of Stravinsky’s “Infernal Dance” detonated with force. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Parties used enthusiastic punctuation and party mottos to get the attention of voters. This Is What Democracy Looked Like 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Case in point, the new Star Trek, whose title omits a punctuation mark that not-so-subtly changes the meaning of the words. Writing Wrongs: 10 Movie Titles with Bad Grammar 2013-05-24T09:45:21Z This huckstering punctuation becomes an issue not just in writing but also during shooting. TV matters: Ad breaks - they're not just natural 2011-02-24T07:59:01Z Nearly all the editions modernized the plays’ spelling and punctuation; some went further. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z True, the recitative was accompanied by full orchestra, sometimes ingeniously but more often in short-breathed bursts of punctuation. Review: Thomas Crawford and the American Classical Orchestra Perform a Haydn Opera 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Same words, same lack of punctuation, but this time Morrison destroys the spaces between words, collapsing them together: Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “There’s a case to be made that the exclamation point is the adverb of punctuation; if you have to put it in, then maybe the sentence didn’t do its job,” she said. Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z One of the reasons my current beau and I fell in love is over our use of full sentences, actual words, and proper punctuation in our text messages. Language Rules for the Digital Age 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The title, apart from the curious absence of punctuation, sounds like a category error, since the White House, as of this writing, is still standing. Review: In ‘Mark Felt,’ Liam Neeson Is the Man Known as Deep Throat 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Written in 1979, her Symphony No. 2 begins with a pianist traversing the length of the keyboard, hammering tone clusters, with punctuation coming in the form of massive bass drum hits. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s a poker game, a schmoozefest, a knife fight over technicalities and punctuation. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z The gently appealing Mr. Fischer plays Dottie, a lonely-hearts columnist, whose letters from readers offer punctuation between the production numbers, light parodies of rap, Weimar cabaret and vaudeville, among many other idioms. Theater Review: ‘Til Divorce Do Us Part,’ a Musical Based on Real Life 2014-02-20T23:44:04Z It wouldn’t be a Greek restaurant without baklava, which pastry chef Ryan Westover serves by the slice with mandarin orange ice cream and uses, crushed, for punctuation in his fun Greek sundae. Kapnos Taverna review: Why the Arlington version is better than D.C.’s 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z There’s no punctuation for direct speech, challenging the division between what is said and what is done. Review: ‘Quartet for the End of Time,’ by Johanna Skibsrud 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Van Gogh’s much smaller landscapes appear here and there on pillars, somewhat like punctuation marks to Hockney’s effusive sentences. David Hockney Loves Van Gogh. This Exhibition Shows Why. 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z And those who prefer not to follow fads at all need only wait a while: much of today’s playful punctuation will soon become unfashionable, dead as the diastole and the diple. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The musicians’ hands, when free, bat at the air, adding little punctuation marks to songs that already tumble forth like run-on sentences. Jonny Greenwood Surrenders to the Drone 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Sensing that by Friday I will want to put some celebratory punctuation on the week gone by, I weigh two unalike though equally tempting options. A Scented Diary of a Lockdown 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The films are great punctuation for the heavy emotional beats, but the dazzling ships, zippy one-liners and form-fitting, colourful costumes don’t necessarily require the silver screen treatment. Star Trek to boldly go where it has gone before: television 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Secondly that one of the most successful story tellers of our age is as empowered and fuelled by his imagination from childhood playing as he is from a scholastic digestion of letters and punctuation. Authors dress up as their favourite characters 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z "Beautiful apostrophe," I said, admiring the curly punctuation mark in Katz's name. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z But before we get to the dance-floor action, this post owes a debt of gratitude to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 for illustrating the proper punctuation for a two-part finale. 'Dancing With Stars' Watch: The Finale — Part 1 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Wrote a BuzzFeed Community author, dripping equal amounts disdain, compassion and bad punctuation: Ratsie’s in College Park is closing, and a slice of life is slipping away 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z It was marketed as “the official, easy-to-use punctuation mark to emphasize a sarcastic phrase.” Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z If you exit “Legally Blonde” cheered by its giddy finale, this “Oklahoma!,” to its credit, makes you question those worrying recesses of human behavior that are beyond the realm of punctuation. Elle Woods Returns to London in a Revamped ‘Legally Blonde’ 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z As if its length weren’t enough, this last title also toys with marks, punctuation and capitalization. So, You’re Going to Call Your Play _____? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z In all of these instances, I do start to hear the punctuation, much more than I usually hear it. How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Smith shortens the letters, preserves the original spelling and punctuation, then titles and resets them so they look like poems. In Her New Work, a Public Poet Balances the Personal and Political 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Certain creepily comprehensive Internet sites suggest that she has at least 55 tattoos in total, many as small as punctuation. Sooner or Later, Zoë Kravitz Was Going to Be a Star 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z As in actual thoroughbred racing, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, but one or more of the characters may be punctuation marks or numerals. Style Invitational Week 1274: Heading for a foal—our horse name contest 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s unusual for a punctuation mark to carry such infamy. Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z The untitled story takes up about 14 pages of the notebook, which also includes bits of poetry and notes on grammar, including rules for capitalization and punctuation. Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Especially on platforms like Twitter, emoji are being used to serve the same key purpose of punctuation: aiding understanding by providing clues to how the surrounding words should be interpreted. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z To enact this shift in character solely by taking out punctuation struck me as sorcery. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Many stories here, about their fights over punctuation or about how they chose Johnson as a subject, have surfaced before, including in Charles McGrath’s 2012 look at both men for The New York Times Magazine. ‘Turn Every Page’ Review: It’s Not Done Yet 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z They are almost entirely black, with the rare shade of white for punctuation. How Memory Maps Fashion’s Future 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The staff barely touches the prose; they will fix the author’s spelling, grammar and punctuation or redact a name, but they will not correct facts. She broke your heart. He left you. An L.A. museum wants to know all about it. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z In fewer than 140 characters, I count one error in punctuation, one in spelling, one in grammar and one in word usage. ‘I am a genious’ and other cluelessly ironic spelling errors 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z But the rare cuts — both to hide the ends of film reels and for dramatic punctuation — occur at significant moments; pay attention, too, to the occasions when the camera crosses the stage line. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z An inserted fragment of “Hit the Road, Jack” adds a note of tough punctuation. Music Review | Marilyn Maye: Optimism to Pierce Any and All Winter Blues 2010-03-04T22:01:00Z Death was not a punctuation but a hyphen or em dash in the continuum of life. An Untamed Island Meets Its Match 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Kelman rejects the whole convention of punctuation devices as signposts for the reader, "because otherwise I couldn't operate." James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Late-night hosts did their monologues from home, but the format and rhythms of the material stayed the same, and their jokes hung in empty air, sentences with no punctuation. How a TV Critic Turned to Podcasts During a Pandemic 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The film’s conclusion, the literal opening of New Hollywood’s gates, make perfect punctuation to the end of a career. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Tarantino's last word? Discuss with spoilers 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Clad in black, he twists and bends and wrenches and reaches — his body becoming a string of punctuation marks. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z They used to be colorful, both literally and figuratively, with vivid iconography, ostentatious embellishments and, on occasion, ridiculous punctuation. A look back at the wacky, colorful history of election ballot design 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In the second paragraph, Morrison just hacks out the first paragraph’s punctuation. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “It’s like a period or some sort of punctuation mark,” he explains, adding a click at the end of the sentence for emphasis. Michael Luwoye: Once a theater outsider, now he's Alexander Hamilton — in L.A., and soon on Broadway 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The same quote, but with different punctuation, was the conclusion to Faulkner's essay criticizing the South's response to school integration. Faulkner estate settles lawsuit over newspaper ad 2013-01-10T15:31:09Z A name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, as in the real racehorse world, but one or more of the characters may be punctuation marks or numerals. Style Invitational Week 1118: Breed ’em and weep — our annual foal classic 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Beth: Pay careful consideration to your spelling, punctuation and nomenclature! Disney introduces its panel of experts . . . moms and dads with plenty of park time 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z A writer uses chapters as a form of punctuation, guiding the reader in the pace and cadences of the work. Small is beautiful: the joy of short and micro-fiction 2013-07-17T05:56:21Z When dealing with living or even dead languages, the encoding process—the assignment of code points to characters—consisted of observation and research: How does the punctuation behave? Should There Be an Emoji for Everything? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Another is to make your own punctuation cocktails, offered during London Design Week this year: The Type Ice Tea, Ampersand Fizz and Pilcrow Fashioned. Happy? (National) Punctuation Day! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Re-reading Psalm 23 in the Authorised Version, I've been as struck by its wonderful punctuation as by its imagery and rhythm. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z “It’s the end of a sentence, and it needs only one piece of terminal punctuation.” Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Norris shares her views on spelling, punctuation, dangling participles and troublesome pronouns, providing apt illustrations from an editing life. ‘Between You & Me,’ by Mary Norris 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The first task is to get pupils to read the extract and identify key language and punctuation features and relate this to themes, characters, conflicts and tone. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z Yet when you read them as momentary punctuations of his undeniably inventive storytelling they do add an extra intense air of hallucinatory clarity. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z His pianistic punctuation helped shape each song into a statement. Music Review: Looking Back on Love and Loss, With an Eye on More to Come 2011-06-10T23:00:10Z The walk itself becomes a kind of sentence for which Mirra’s photos and short, poetic texts serve as punctuation. For Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, the message is woven into the art 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The sacks of Rome provide punctuation marks in a long story. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Performing just down the path at the same time is Bereishit Dance Company from Seoul, making their Pillow debut with an intriguing fusion of cool, contemporary moves and the sharp, physical punctuation of break dancing. Dance Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The dings as my hard hat hits the metal provide a percussion punctuation to the day. Lending a Library a Hand in Colorado 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z In his new novel, “Beast,” Kingsnorth strips out nearly all punctuation and grammatical cues and assigns the telling to a narrator who seems, at best, only intermittently reliable. ‘Beast’ cements Paul Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z It was dark and deeply dysfunctional, with the occasional punctuation mark of: “That gig was amazing!” I Quit a Famous Rock Band 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Shorn of punctuation, they are usually short, and in recent years free of capital letters except at the start. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z That leaves a piece of punctuation looming over the life stories of people convicted based, at least in part, on clues found in their written words. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Cachay’s response was, as usual, full of encouragement, humor and expressive punctuation. Death at Soho House 2011-02-04T23:13:13Z At that time I still took his swearing personally, not yet aware that for him it was simply punctuation. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Not only does she seem endowed with more senses than the allotted five, she bends syntax and punctuation to her will. ‘The Chandelier’ Offers an Early Glimpse of Clarice Lispector’s Power 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Mortality — whether arriving in the form of an accident or illness or as the punctuation point at the end of a long life — looms large in these stories. Review: Graham Swift’s ‘England and Other Stories,’ a Darkness Across Time and Fates 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Even their name came with a showy burst of punctuation. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z You may add or change punctuation at the end of a line. OpenSourceShakespeare.org has Will’s whole output. Style Invitational Week 1329: Shakespeare + Thee: A tailgater contest 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The apology is the punctuation to the female sentence. I’m sorry, but women on TV apologize too much 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z He's much the same in his book except he's now free to curse, which he does almost as punctuation. Review: Restaurateur's book has bitter aftertaste 2012-05-10T15:53:08Z I am going to type with ill intent, use all the wicked prepositions and strident punctuation I know, and give these people a piece of my mind. Southern Journal: The Impossible Turkey 2011-10-06T19:20:01.660Z I studied his punctuation, his cadence, his vocabulary and his endearments. Are You There, Dad? It’s Me, Alice 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z This is also the day to celebrate obscure punctuation marks. Happy? (National) Punctuation Day! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In addition, Albert Ostermaier’s libretto appears to adopt a deliberately obfuscatory style, even to the point of dispensing with punctuation and uppercase letters in the printed text and supertitles. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z Tropical foliage started to bloom in his poems, and punctuation began to vanish from them. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z We can only wonder what tricksy technology is going to do to punctuation between now and next year’s National Punctuation Day. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Something I still do, even if only to revise grammar, syntax, and punctuation. When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Also, you may change capitalization and punctuation however you like. Style Invitational Week 1358: What to your wondering eyes will appear? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z He texts like a grandma, with correct capitalization and punctuation. Lucy Moss Unwinds With Songwriting and TikTok Cleaning Tutorials 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Take them away and a score becomes like a novel by James Joyce, pages and pages of prose without punctuation. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But sometimes he used cuts as a kind of punctuation, like a medium shot of Whip's character that punches into a close-up. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Editing the Crash in 'Flight' 2012-12-05T17:30:06Z In Week 1195 we asked you to alter a movie title — without changing or rearranging any letters: The changes had to result from changing punctuation, adding or deleting spaces, etc. Style Invitational: Make some bad choices — ‘questions for terrible people’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Like Ms. Crothers before her, she isn’t interested in rhythmic punctuation as a way to assert command, or to keep things moving in a given direction; her grip on the controls is loose, permissive, catalytic. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Asked what he is currently writing about — Africa — his answer includes the punctuation on the card: “the animals comma and the changes in Africa since I was there last period.” Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z As always, the names are limited to 18 characters, but one or more of the characters may be punctuation marks or numerals. Style Invitational: Colt Following — the winning foals, and now time for grandfoals 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z “Take your punctuation out. Let it be a flirt.” The Choreographer Kyle Abraham Mixes Things Up at City Ballet 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Each artist was asked to design a poster using a different punctuation mark. Carin Goldberg, Who Transformed Book and Album Cover Design, Dies at 69 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The role has become a nice punctuation mark in her life in recent years, she suggests, and of course "great fun". Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z And they are inclined to omit punctuation, which requires the user to switch keyboard screens. Future Tense: On Internet Slang, IMHO 2014-03-28T19:52:44Z What to do with punctuation in and around parentheses? Comma Queen: (Parentheses) 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z A writer who stopped using punctuation in the 1960s and spent much of the last 30 years secluded in Hawaii will become the nation's next chief poet. William S. Merwin named 17th US poet laureate 2010-07-01T08:58:00Z Indeed, the bill’s ninth and final group was a boisterous punctuation to the evening. The Head and the Heart, Phantogram, Empire of the Sun rock The End’s Deck the Hall Ball 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Only the pronouns and punctuation are changed, from “he” in Anglund’s original to “it” on the stamp. Book author Joan Walsh Anglund says of Angelou stamp: ‘That’s my quote’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z If you’re not going to put jokes in the film, why bother with punctuation? Rogue colons, endless ellipses: the worst grammar crimes in film titles 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z There’s no guarantee, but I think you may find that your chances of getting someone to send you something with correct punctuation are dramatically increased. Dating on Tinder: how can I go beyond chit-chat and start better conversations? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “But e-mails seemed from the start to require different punctuation,” said Lynne Truss, the author of “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.” Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z And then you see "Crazy, Stupid, Love." which, despite its excessive titular punctuation, is pretty much a joy from beginning to end. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' is punctuated with all the right rom-com stuff 2011-07-28T03:09:46Z She mourns the centuries-long effort at developing punctuation for the sake of ever greater clarity, now being abandoned, day by day, in our benighted contemporary culture. A Passion for Punctuation Meets a Love for All Things Greek 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “There are a lot of clues for the actors in Shakespeare’s original texts, in terms of spelling, capitalization and punctuation,” Mr. Sugarman said. Instant Shakespeare Company?s Bare-Bones Readings 2010-07-15T22:08:00Z As they settle into their English lessons, they will be made to learn grammar, spelling and punctuation as if these were as fixed as the stars in the sky. Rue the rules 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The zesty curry sauce is my punctuation of choice for the fried fare, the restaurant’s top-selling dish. Review | Mattie & Eddie’s channels the Irish spirit of a veteran chef’s grandparents 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The flag, as decoration and punctuation, appears everywhere. The Perfect Children of ISIS: Lessons from Dabiq 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z A dining room free of winter gear seems to be a sign of class, and the whole process becomes a little ceremony, a punctuation point between the cold world outside and the warmth within. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z By the second installment, “7 Plus Seven,” the series had lost its excited punctuation and its first director, Paul Almond. Movie Review: ‘56 Up’ Adds to Michael Apted’s Documentary Series 2013-01-03T23:33:57Z “People would say it’s all going to be great, and I would be like,” using profanity for punctuation, “because it felt like a heavy ball and chain around me.” Scarlett Johansson in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ 2012-12-19T19:23:30Z Pity the poor semicolon, punctuation’s wallflower, wrongfully maligned and too seldom asked to dance. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The newspaper notes that "Only the pronouns and punctuation are changed, from 'he' in Anglund’s original to 'it' on the stamp." Maya Angelou's new stamp features quote that wasn't hers 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The other agued that the fact she could text, including with punctuation, undercut her claim to have been too drunk to consent. NBA star Derrick Rose and friends cleared of rape charges 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z A guy my age with a single, respectable head shot messaged “Good morning” — no verb, no punctuation, but hey, it was saliva-free. I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s not just his words — “that’s bad” — but the punctuation of his body, emphatic, agile, alive. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Karl's plan is for the author to help him write his letters: punctuation and all that. Dying To Know You by Aidan Chambers - review 2013-07-12T11:00:00Z The photographs accompanying the text are dim and blotchy, and Raffles favors slabs of prose unbroken by punctuation. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Each post is given literal points “for lack of basic spelling and punctuation skills; bad sexual innuendo; reliance on cliche; terrible taste in books, music or movies; use of twelve-year-old-girl text-slang; and creep factor.” The world’s worst online daters 2012-12-06T01:00:00Z Cecelia Watson reveals punctuation, as we practice it, to be a relatively young and uneasy art. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Among my fellow punctuation nerds, I have a reputation as someone who has no use for semicolons. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z They act like punctuation, providing cues about how to understand the words that came before them, as an exclamation point might. Here Are Rules of Using Emoji You Didn't Know You Were Following 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But, after drawing acclaim for her posts about grammar and punctuation on The New Yorker’s website, she decided to write a book that would marry her life story to her life’s work. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The punctuation was unexpected, and caused us to pay closer attention. Neil Greenberg’s “This” 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z 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 But to quibble over the punctuation is to miss the point. Should the Parthenon Marbles Be Returned to Greece? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z I was travelling around the island more or less on the coast, where towns are like punctuation marks. Rachel Roddy’s Sicilian pasta with anchovy, lemon and breadcrumbs 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Just as for the first-round contest, the names are limited to 18 characters including spaces and punctuation marks. Style Invitational: On Derby weekend, the winning horse names 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z McCarthy’s spare use of punctuation, noted in the obit, helped make his writing even more powerful. ‘It Requires Genius and He Had It’: Readers on Cormac McCarthy 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Have you thought about taking remedial lessons in grammar and punctuation? The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4 1928-1929 (ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden) 2013-01-06T18:30:02Z Many tweets feature mangled syntax and weird punctuation; others appear to have been launched into cyberspace prematurely. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z "This building is very right-angled and this bridge has two beautiful, graceful curves that are just a wonderful punctuation and really soften this place," Philbin said. Courtyard bridge by Michael Maltzan to open at Hammer in February 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Shahab Fotouhi's large-scale photographs of Iranian waterfalls feature location notes in Farsi; superimposed over the images are TV transcripts of real political dialogues, the words erased and only cut-outs of punctuation marks remaining. Shulamit Nazarian's Venice gallery aims to 'build bridges' 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z It's implied that subtleties like the punctuation of "a dash", depend on transcription: the reader sees two dashes, in fact. Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z I Write Like, designed by software developers Coding Robots, lets you paste in a section of your prose and analyses your vocabulary, sentence-length and punctuation. At last! Website confirms I write like Margaret Atwood ... 2010-07-15T10:30:00Z Synthetic beats and sampled highlife guitar punctuations mix with West African rhythms. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Cameron-Weir is a writer as well, and in the text that doubles as an artist's statement and press release, she sheds the conventions of grammar and punctuation, redacts some words and invents others, like "gridbondages." Elaine Cameron-Weir at Hannah Hoffman: Unsettling beauty 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z His passagework had a hard glare, and he lined up chords neatly like punctuation marks. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Its visual prose resembles a mass-market novel with the punctuation removed. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z There’s no punctuation advice in “Cat Out of Hell,” but you might think of it as “Eats, Shoots & Pees.” The fur flies in Lynne Truss’s witty novel ‘Cat Out of Hell’ 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z If your room were a sentence, these would be the punctuation marks. 4 ways for homeowners to get the most out of trendy-but-timeless black 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z As the narrator remarks, “Of all the punctuation marks, he told me, ellipses were his favorite.” ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature Sometimes those clues will appear in the letter itself, in the form of punctuation preferences. Falling into monogamy 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “When I started to learn the dialogue for Nightcrawler, the words and the punctuation were so particular that my body started to respond to it in a certain way,” he says. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘Pushing myself is part of my life’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z You may change capitalization and punctuation however you like. Style Invitational Week 1172: Pieces of ‘Pie’ 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Vine incubated black ingenuity and creativity, allowing makers to play with structure, form, insertion, pacing and interpolation, and letting users employ the videos as punch lines, shorthand and punctuation. R.I.P. Vine: Home of Surface Humor and Underlying Culture 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Occasionally, a turf battle ensues, but more commonly the fellows amicably share responsibility for providing musical punctuation in a show that is more sketch comedy than traditional book musical. 'Murder for Two' offers exhaustingly manic music, comedy 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Louisa Guinness of London brings a suitable punctuation mark to the marriage of art and design with her jewels created by famous living artists. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z At another, Mr. Bashmet’s viola quietly but forcefully cut through in graceful punctuation. Crescendo, in Double Time 2010-09-01T11:43:00Z The punctuation issue intensifies once it collides with her personal life. Radio review: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe 2010-10-01T07:20:00Z "Every word you've changed has been an improvement," she had written before the meeting, before raising some punctuation queries about the introduction of shorter sentences. Eva Ibbotson obituary 2010-10-24T17:13:00Z 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 Its prose accretes the oracular weight of a holy text as it evokes the genesis of Little Boy’s lonely consciousness, and it exempts itself from pedestrian laws of punctuation to support the versifying rhythm. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Rhythms bustled, melodies spiraled and the churning string section made time to clap in a sort of punctuation with Sorey’s drive of bells and drums. Transcending genre labels, Vijay Iyer leads the Ojai Music Festival toward bold new territory 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z She has strong opinions about what is right and wrong in grammar and punctuation. The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Printing began the process of settling the punctuation system, but even that took four centuries. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn't exactly scream radicalism. How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Once the viewer gets past the shouty-ness of the show – contestants dictate every message down to the punctuation and emojis – "The Circle" is simultaneously tedious and engrossing. From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Modern metal flutes coexisted with the antique sound of a bamboo flute; traditional taiko drums crashed as punctuation on the action. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z So what we’re left with is effectively an empty canvas, relieved by the punctuation of ropes, wires, poles and pulleys. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z Writing tweets requires a discipline not unlike writing poetry, where each word, even each punctuation mark counts. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z His was imagistic and oracular, crafty and stylized, delivered almost as an ancient song, with shifts in his face and body acting as punctuation. Village Vanguard Celebrates Its 80th, Adding Poetry and Comedy to Jazz 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Lehman is also a stickler for punctuation, which can be torture for someone who runs a crowd-sourced hip-hop Web site. Yale Graduates Seek a Degree in Hip-Hop 2012-11-09T23:36:49Z Supplied by performers standing near a puppet theater, the acoustic punctuation adds zest to the cheerfully violent and ribald escapades of the eponymous puppet, a truncheon-wielding antihero. Review | Pointless Theatre’s slapdash ‘Don Cristóbal’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z In the 1960s he began writing poems without any punctuation, and later, without capital letters, except for the beginning. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z Lines like that really only work in a multicamera format, a structure that relies on present laughter as part of its punctuation. Review: The Euphoria of ‘One Day at a Time’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In Showtime’s “Masters of Sex,” perhaps that’s natural punctuation for a doctor whose profession is obstetrics and gynecology, with a medical case informing each hour of the series. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Of Might and Men 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Few errors of punctuation so succinctly reveal the utter illiteracy of the perpetrators. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Pickin’ up where the Apostrophe Protection Society left off 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The gloss of youthful vitality can persuade us that life is for the living, but life is also for the dying, and repudiating that ultimate punctuation escalates our anxiety and deprives us of final dignity. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z As a summary statement, the book, like the show, is a form of punctuation, though, graphically speaking, which one: an exclamation point, a question mark, an ellipsis? A Gathering of Greats in a Trove of Drawings at the Morgan 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z As in actual thoroughbred racing, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces, but the characters may include punctuation and numerals. Style Invitational Week 1382: For us, it’s still Post Time — it’s our annual foal name contest 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z “Those little tunes are crafted down to the punctuation,” Loggins said. How to Get to ‘Sesame Street’? These Days, It’s by Video Conference 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In a way, the cartoon aspect of this emphatic spatter of punctuation has stayed with me. Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z Many of Mr. Gottlieb’s fights with authors over the years seem to have involved punctuation. Robert Gottlieb: Avid Reader, Reluctant Writer 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z “There are far, far better, things to debase, like his flabby punctuation, comb-over obfuscation. It’s his shameful bigotries that look so dumpy in his khakis.” A Broadway Bigwig Lampoons Trump, Despite Family Ties 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s contemporary, with buttermilk biscuit crumbles adding punctuation to a salad featuring a goat cheese gateau and a burnt-onion soubise, or sauce, enhancing the main course. Analysis | The state dinner menu: Seasonal and modern, with no Trump wines in sight 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Legal cases are often built on precedent, and a judgment based on flawed punctuation sets a bad precedent, which can perpetuate injustice. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z That this final visual punctuation mark needs explaining goes to what might make this book difficult for some children. What Does War Feel Like to a Child? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Periodic earth tremors freeze and then redirect the action, acting as punctuation in Old Dolio’s growing suspicion that maybe raising her was her parents’ longest con of all. ‘Kajillionaire’ Review: California Scheming 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s an impotent rhetorical flourish inherited from your forefathers, a piece of indignant punctuation when your child has just told you, for instance, with a straight face, that they “don’t know” where their phone is. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z "In particular, the high degree of polished punctuation and epigrammatic style we see in 'Emma' and 'Persuasion' is simply not there," Sutherland said. Academic: Jane Austen had helping hand from editor 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z The fascinating blog Shady Characters is the source for the last two of these, and has an abundance of punctuation fun. Happy? (National) Punctuation Day! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Do “whatever makes you happy, people,” she declares, allowing that phantom punctuation mark to communicate an impossible, intensifying swirl of alienation and hope. Review | Hailey Whitters made the year’s deepest country album. Just look beneath the surface. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z After all, bongo punctuations and various satiric percussive pops border on Spike Jones, the wacky 1950s bandleader. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla brings her magic back to the Bowl 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z In the 1960s Merwin decided to stop using punctuation in his poems. WS Merwin is America's new poet laureate ? at 82 2010-07-05T10:47:00Z It didn’t matter that every hundredth word was misspelled and that the punctuation was all over the place. The glory of porn without pictures 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Yang also follows Liu's practice of using minimal punctuation: no full stops, and just a comma here or there when absolutely necessary. June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo – review 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z “Girls will sit there with their friends for 15 minutes trying to figure out what punctuation to use in a text message.” 2010-02-06T03:40:00Z Sure, a complete absence of punctuation could serve the same purpose. Why You’re Still Using Periods in Texts 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Viewer and confidante become one as the actors recite their lines directly to the camera, their bodies positioned and lighted to form visual punctuation that pierces more deeply than any faithful re-enactment. | 'The Arbor': A Playwright?s Legacy, Kindled by Addiction and Neglect 2011-04-26T22:56:00Z Social justice warriors tend to get it all wrong about punctuation, which is not an apparatus of elitist repression, but a system of information, at the disposal of all. Clive James: ‘As my immune system underwent one of its regular replacements, I thought of Keats’ 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Today, we’re kicking off a video series devoted to language in all its facets: grammar, syntax, vocabulary, spelling, usage, and punctuation. The Comma Queen: Series Première 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. Cannes 2012: Abbas Kiarostami: 'The world is my workshop' 2012-05-28T17:32:06Z For extra punctuation, Jay Z joined his wife to complete the power-couple opener. Daft Punk take Album and Record of the Year Grammy Awards 2014-01-27T04:47:00Z Stating the melody, he rounds off some of Powell’s punctuation marks and, on his extended solo, verges toward the seraphic. The Playlist: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Unite, and 12 More New Songs 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Longer text messages, like news articles and novels and legal filings, need more punctuation and will continue to need it “because people would get lost without it,” as Schnoebelen puts it. Why You’re Still Using Periods in Texts 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Contestants blinked at the "punctuation marks" of the game -- at the start of each question and at the start of their response. Blinking on a quiz show offers clues to human response under stress 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z "Someone wise once said that the correct punctuation for a scientific advance is not an exclamation mark, but a semicolon," said Meyer. New way to count microbes speeds research, cuts waste, could lead to new antibiotics 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z A punctuation mark in an autumn of familiar political sentences. Chris Mason: Will the measures in the King's Speech be enough? 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z “I never know where to put the commas and other punctuation.” At 15, he is defending his home and parenting his sister. One young man’s struggle to stay in school 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Too many children in Wales continue to make basic errors in punctuation and grammar that are not addressed well enough through teacher feedback, a report says. Schools in Wales not addressing grammar issues - report 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z One key finding from the lab is that blinking acts like a "punctuation of thought," Wilson said, and this result held true on TV. Blinking on a quiz show offers clues to human response under stress 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z An incident report should be written with proper grammar, spelling and punctuation. Writing A Good Incident Report 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z And among the early reading and writing skills that the series incorporates over the course of 20 episodes will be letter-sound identification and decoding words, blending sounds, alliteration, spelling and punctuation. Y-E-S, yes, the new ‘Super Why!’ musical shorts will premiere on PBS Kids Oct. 18 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Watch Weymouth’s perfect, tiny pointed-toe prances, adding soft punctuation to the beat. ‘Stop Making Sense’ review: Talking Heads concert doc hasn’t aged a day 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Throughout, Murray employs linguistic choices to distinguish the perspectives, most notably in Imelda’s section, where Murray eschews punctuation: no periods, no commas, no dashes, no semicolons — only the occasional question mark. The epic family novel is alive and well in the masterful hands of Paul Murray 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The beauty of language is that it’s an ever-evolving art form that can alter by era or speaker, and by inflection and punctuation. Opinion: Why my son’s Koreatown school changed their mascot from a patriot to a panther 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z It includes the outlet’s logo and a tag above the headline that reads, “Research,” but the text is also full of grammar and punctuation errors. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z That includes wiping out numbers, punctuation and words in spending bills to sometimes create new law that wasn’t the intention of the Legislature. Wisconsin governor’s 400-year veto angers opponents in state with long history of creative cuts 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z This coverage is republished here in full, with changes only to capitalization and punctuation for ease of readability. He took an OceanGate trip to the Titanic. Now he has 'survivor's guilt' 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z What follows is the president’s exact prayer, original punctuation intact: It’s debatable: Who will participate in GOP presidential debates? 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Constructed out of loose, brisk chapters with little punctuation or capitalization — the cat is plainly an alumnus of the Archy and Mehitabel school of talking-animal prose — the plot is effectively a series of trials. P-22 speaks! A lonely cougar narrates a new novel about the feral side of L.A. 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z It is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, vowels and accents. Oldest most complete Hebrew Bible sells for $38m at auction 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z They are national curriculum assessments in English grammar, punctuation and spelling, English reading and maths. Sats reading paper: Government defends 'challenging' tests 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z We need to rewrite the amendment, dispensing with the oddball capitalization and punctuation, to fit the times: The Second Amendment is a ludicrous historical antique: Time for it to go 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Others lack punctuation and capitalization and have misspellings throughout. ‘Too much to learn’: Schools race to catch up kids’ reading 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z It is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, vowels, and accents. Oldest most complete Hebrew Bible goes on display in Israel before sale 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z |
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