Sentence examples for comments in parentheses from inspiring English sources

In his 1931 essay on Proust, Samuel Beckett, a pre-eminent modernist novelist-translator, quoted and translated a remark from Proust's Le temps retrouvé, adding his own comments in parentheses: "The duty and the task of a writer (not an artist, a writer) are those of a translator".

It's a difficult story for one person to read aloud given the many voices: the adult narrator's voice and Mentardy's voice as quoted by the narrator (and the narrator commenting in parentheses about what Mentardy says, and the narrator quoting in parantheses a fight between two boys), but Schroeder managed it superbly.

Usually, the comments contained in parentheses refer to the preceding sentence.

Comments or references in parentheses indicate that the information applies to an isoform of the respective miRNA or the corresponding 3p- or 5p-strand instead of the miRNA indicated in the table.

The comments were grouped into the following categories, with the frequency of comments in each category listed in parentheses: 1) Need for a timely discharge summary (n = 13), e.g. "received Aug 12 with discharge July 16 – useless!!", "needs a timely delivery" 2) Need for clarity regarding follow-up plan (medications, investigations, etc).

The text in parentheses is a comment, advising that this word expects a number on the stack and will return a possibly changed number.

Here I focus my comments especially on the YouGov polls, with numbers in parentheses from the 22-23 April YouGov/Sun poll.

Numbers in parentheses represent the total number of comments about a sub-theme.

The participant type and number are recorded in parentheses after quotations; for example, (HP1) signifies a comment made by the first health professional to be interviewed.

My main high-level comment is that the language is colloquial in many parts of this article, with lots of asides enclosed (in parentheses).

Seedings in parentheses.