Sentence examples for compressed sentences from inspiring English sources
To address the resilience of the model to speech compression, we produced compressed sentences by applying a pitch-synchronous, overlap and add (PSOLA) procedure implemented by PRAAT, a speech analysis and modification software (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/).uva.nl/praat/
Editor Gordon Lish (who published Williams at Knopf early in her career) and his message are very much present: first-person, minimal, intimate, compressed sentences, his idea of "torque," which he defines as a sense of mystery but not confusion, surprises at the sentence level.
His worldview also compressed time.
This is why at midnight, in any political office, you find writers adding detail to a paragraph, compressing a sentence and trying to create the runs of antithesis that bring crowds to their feet.
His description of the negotiations is compressed into a few sentences that are so bland as to be laughable: "Building a consensus was very hard.
A lifetime is compressed to a few sentences, or a single moment expands into a lifetime.
Dates are indeterminate ("The calendar of sentiments knows no certainties"); entire lifetimes are compressed into a single sentence.
My greatest fears compressed into one short sentence, one fleeting moment.
Far more is made of Lincoln's long arms and legs than of his political career, which is compressed to a few unsatisfying sentences: "Now look at Abraham, all dressed up and on his way to the White House.
A great deal is compressed into that wry, arid sentence.
