Sentence examples for be the thing of from inspiring English sources

C. All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

"The picture began to be the thing of my life," he says.

And the winner is … C, Charles Olson: "All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing".

"They walked in here and told us that was going to be the thing of the future," Mr. Gore said.

Olson's endless tautology ("the thing be the thing of the thing"), Emerson's Transcendentalist life-hacking, Vanessa Veselka's rolling sentence about rolling.

"I think it'll be the thing of the future for some people," said Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn who was one of the sponsors of the bill.

The spokesman added, "Corruption is the thing of the past".

"BlackBerries are the thing of the Hill now".

"Believe me, it's the thing of the future, this kind of rebellion," she told me.

"This is the thing of the century.

But that's the thing of writing, too.