Sentence examples for a personal aside from inspiring English sources
We're good friends, so I know it's not a personal aside at me.
"My mom had me when she was forty," Fey said in a personal aside one night on "Update".
Honestly, nothing calls out for a personal aside like "highly conserved noncoding elements (HCNEs) in mammalian genomes".
(A personal aside: My attempt to use a ball chair ended after my dog ferried a thorn into my home office and the thorn lodged beneath the ball. I still haven't gotten the coffee stains off of the ceiling).
(Allow me a personal aside here: One of my biggest efforts 20 years ago was to ensure that there was as much distance as possible in time between the recovery of Baltic independence and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
(As a personal aside, I would hazard that my own experience is probably fairly typical: My parents' home was burglarized when I was a teenager, I had my nose broken in Adams Morgan in the early 2000s, our car was stolen two years ago, and then I have various one or two-degrees-of-separation connecthat to involveds that involvextendedded hospitalization or worse).
(As a semi-irrelevant personal aside; I've been columnizing here for more than five years, and I get something like a dozen PR pitches a day, but this is only the second time I have ever written a piece as a direct result of a cold email pitch. I suppose the moral is: don't lose all hope, PR people, but don't harbor much, either).
Personal aside: I saw the Bluefish beat the York Paa).
(My personal aside, it probably took more paperwork to get funding for one employee at an art institution than to transfer billions to Goldman Sachs from the Fed via AIG).
But knowing he doesn't have enough Final Jeopardies on his résumé to fill a book, he fleshes things out with personal asides: a chronically ill sister, a girlfriend with cancer.
Caught in their nets is a mixture of seemingly random images and words: the headlines and newsmakers of the day, all manner of advertisements, athletes and historical figures, personal asides and not a little editorializing.
