Sentence examples for a footnote to explain from inspiring English sources
They are not necessarily those of its chapter headings: when Mr. Taleb titles a chapter "The Ludic Fallacy and Domain Dependence" he needs a footnote to explain what both terms mean.
In "Christmas Eve," Irving specifically mentions the curious practice of hanging mistletoe, so odd that it required a footnote to explain to his American readers: "The mistletoe is still hung up in farmhouses and kitchens at Christmas; and the young men have the privilege of kissing the girls under it, plucking each time a berry from the bush.
Despite official reluctance, "natural disaster" is no longer utilized in the HFA document, except in a footnote to explain why it should not be used.
Just as Elton John and his turgid Diana record sits as a stain on the list of biggest selling singles, so too the Christmas Number One of 2009 forever requires a footnote to explain the reasons behind it.
In its marketing materials, Uber repeatedly presents gross pay data with language saying it shows how much drivers "take home (after deductions)," and then leaves it to a footnote to explain that those deductions do not include any of the most obvious costs of driving a car for money.
Although we decided not to include ELF MFs in our tables of occupational carcinogens (Siemiatycki et al. 2004), we could have done so with a footnote to explain that the evidence supporting that evaluation was based on children.
This is, after all, a Yankee who "came of age in Britain," had never heard of a pimento cheese sandwich or a hush puppy, and who includes a long footnote to explain that for mountaineers "holler" is a geographic term.
Cooling a debate about using "concentration camps" in the title of an exhibition about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in World War II, curators of the show and their critics agreed yesterday to display a prominent footnote to explain the term's origins and its shades of meaning.
When Polish dissident Stanislaw Jerzy Lec wrote, "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible," Lec didn't provide any footnotes to explain what he meant.
A writer can weigh opinions as he moves on, use footnotes to explain or to clarify, and give a balanced judgment in his conclusion.
Ms. Sneed's script, the season opener for Abingdon Theater Company, has its rough edges, including pop-psychology tropes and frequent verbal footnotes to explain the many historical and literary allusions.
