Sentence examples for because she noted from inspiring English sources
"She didn't parachute jump, but she loved the outdoors". She became fascinated with Krakatoa, because of the beauty of its surroundings, its relative proximity to Jakarta, where she was based, and also because, she noted in a letter home, the date of the historic eruption, Aug. 27, was the same as her birthday, 72 years later.
Shelbie had won a string of pageants in her youth but stopped competing when she was 10 because, she noted, "I am a bigger girl". She also had a big passion for music burning inside her "like a fire". Her powerhouse performance of "Here for the Party" turned all the judges except Levine.
Gillian Kendall of Holmes Beach, Fla., didn't need to deliberate for long before sending Gerald Stern's "Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye" because, she noted, "I've been carrying [it] around the world with me since it appeared in, I think, the New Yorker in about 1980".
The narrative is unobtrusively anchored in time by mentions of cultural and historical events; we know that Eleanor's circle of mothers (fathers are little mentioned) is most heavily engaged in child-rearing in the 1960s because she notes that none of them had taken thalidomide, though they knew mothers who had.
Social networks come last because, she notes, they are a wide-open forum where communications is less targeted at one individual.
The last came from Ellen Balfour of Long Island because, as she noted, "llamas are in the Camelid family".
Rudig began "She-Span" with a portrait of Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, because, as she noted, "D.C. needs to get priority at least once in a while!" From there she worked randomly to highlight that formidable 19%.
La Donadio suggests I might have been desperate because, as she notes, quoting Kaplan, Vidal wanted "to ensure his place in the pantheon of literary and cultural stars early enough so that he could see the star twinkling in the sky".
Gun$ Garcia likes to kill 'em with kindness, because, as she notes, "How are you going to punch someone in the face that's smiling at you?" LSDXOXO also opts for a verbal counter-attack rather than a physical one.
In part because of civil rights and in part because of abortion, she noted, "well-off intellectuals began migrating to the Democratic party", creating a feedback loop that drove Republicans further to the right on reproductive issues.
Books became her precious refuge but were hard to come by because the libraries, she noted, "discouraged Negro readers".
