Sentence examples for compressed essay from inspiring English sources
Perhaps because it comes from the very brief, if dauntingly compressed, essay on "On the Concept of History", Smith is able to give an excellent thumbnail of Walter Benjamin's angel of history, his face turned towards the past and seeing, where we see a chain of events, "one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet".
He was a synoptic and original thinker who dealt with large themes, though this is easily obscured by his concentration on the essay form and his compressed styles of thought and writing.
There's a captivatingly dreamy tone to these food reveries, and yet the essays are short, strange and compressed enough that your eyes never glaze over.
Gioia's review of Flamingo Watching compared her "strongly compressed", "magnificently didactic" work to Emily Dickinson's, and to the essays of the French Enlightenment.
Everything is extremely compressed".
(Compressed air makes that possible).
Here are centuries of compressed architectural sediment.
A compressed lung makes breathing painful.
Mark describes it as "compressed talcum powder".
'I was breathless because of compressed lungs.
