Sentence examples for a long footnote from inspiring English sources

(A digression follows — a long footnote on the history of Lake James, followed by commentary about the confusion of having an I.R.S. office whose mailing address and building address are in separate towns).

When you don't know these things, you question whether you were ever fluent as you thought.So now, when people ask me how well I speak a language, I try to tack on a long footnote.

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.

And now the British and American "editors" of Amazon have generously supplied two lists of "100 Books to Read in a Lifetime" to provide, as it were, a long footnote to Shaw's witticism.

With the perspective of hindsight, much of Galbraith reads like a long footnote to the great American claim that the true goal of a free society should be "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

And in a long footnote, he expressed anger that the government "seems to have procrastinated in removing unduly onerous conditions of confinement" that he had asked be eased at the beginning of this year.

It's a raw, unsettling book with flashes of brilliance, a roman à clef that's also a long, tormented footnote to Plath's tormented poetry.

He does give a table, with a long supporting footnote that failed to make clear to me how he could have possibly decided that 90,000,000 Americans are now living on less than $4,500 a year; I suspect some confusion between a "maintenance" and a "minimum-comfort" budget.

He also says in his long footnote about Spencer that this principle "may be more correctly described as supposing that equal amounts of happiness are equally desirable, whether felt by the same or by different persons".

There is a long, exhaustively footnoted epistle about the psychopathology of dogshit management, a mysterious Congolese whittling African fetishes that make their way into the local church, and an interior designer vampirically feeding off the creative juices of the eccentric sisters who live at Threadbare Cottage.

Thus, the geography of the book circles and doubles, with long footnotes to take the spread.