Sentence examples for a good essay from inspiring English sources

I was writing a good essay.

"He taught me how to write a good essay".

A good essay is like a good cocktail.

But, Ms Schafer admits, a good essay might win an otherwise marginal student admission.

That trip would have made for a good essay but I wasn't taking notes.

A good essay, Wason noted, might shift the curtains just once.

It is also a very good essay on sovereignty.

"She wrote a very good essay on 'The Shadow of Night,' " Sir Harrison said.

And yet: there is a ferociously good essay – at once thoughtful and really funny and offhand – on the technical challenges to the novelist of rendering your characters' thoughts.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard sends us to a very good essay (pdf) by the Centre for European Reform warning of the consequences of relying on the "North European interpretation" of the eurozone crisis, which essentially sees the crisis as a morality tale, pitting those who sinned against those who stuck to the path of virtue.

There's a very good essay in it about the worldwide prospects for democracy, and an eye-catching paragraph about how much the EU has let people down on that score: "The decision to introduce the euro in 1999 was taken largely by technocrats; only two countries, Denmark and Sweden, held referendums on the matter (both said no).