Sentence examples for concise footnotes from inspiring English sources
Her concise footnotes help the reader unpack Portuguese literary references and wordplay, while also supplying necessary historical background.
Pottle deserves a special word - he is the Jeeves of editors, ever ready with a concise but helpful footnote, the master of the informative appendix.
"I love this kind of footnote to history, a concise event that allows you to paint a picture of a moment in time," said Catherine J. Morris, the museum's curator of feminist art.
As this is an edition primarily for general readers, Lansdown's footnotes are informative and appropriately concise.
On every page, two or three words are footnoted and explained by means of a concise English definition or an Arabic synonym.
Each page also includes a concise textual description of the rationale behind the technique under analysis and, almost as a footnote, the most pertinent bibliographic reference (in rare occasions, a handful of them).
His "concise summary of a nonexistent treatise, which its potential readers will in all probability be spared" thus does not bother with footnotes, quotations or documentation, and it announces more than argues for its theses.
("The footnotes! The footnotes!").
