Sentence examples for constructed essays from inspiring English sources

In one of the three fluid and deftly constructed essays that make up "Normal," Luis, a female-to-male transsexual, admits that although he has undergone surgery so that his outside "matches" his inside, he is less sure than ever what it means to be a man or a woman.

It became apparent to me I'm [like] Richard Pryor, letting his guts spill out on stage, more than my father, whose highly perfected, highly constructed essays [were] memorized and presented to the audience.

The program is a carefully constructed essay on Central Europe: in addition to Dvorak, it features music by Bartok, Smetana and Boulanger -- George, not Nadia.

Most, indeed, of this elegantly constructed essay is about why an unrivalled military and economic power still needs allies or partners, and why, as world leader, America should rely also on the soft, persuasive kind of power: the appeal of its values and culture.

Thus are books constructed from essays.

While some of Mr. Allen's advice about constructing admissions essays is particular to our readers abroad (the last of his seven tips is "When applying to schools in the United States, don't try to 'Americanize' your application by focusing on your trip to the United States"), most of what he suggests is entirely relevant to American readers.

There is a whole essay constructed around the argument that while black Britons riot, they do not demonstrate on a national scale, which makes no mention of the Black People's Day of Action in response to the 1981 New Cross fire - about which Linton Kwesi Johnson has written poems.

The answer to the angry Amazon reviewer who mangles sentences in an effort to berate or praise an author is the perfectly constructed old-fashioned essay that holds within its well-formed sentences and graceful rhetoric the values it protects and projects.

The first version (the one that appears in the book, published in 1982) is a short, lyrical essay constructed on a single Blakean theme — the theme of a "real self" that finally emerged from among Plath's warring "false selves" and found triumphant expression in the "Ariel" poems, which were written in the last half year of her life and are the whole reason for her poetical reputation.

Don't you think introducing a constructed response and/or essay section introduces subjectivity?

What you have is a visual essay rather than an epic, and a fine and absorbing essay: tightly constructed, intelligently thought out, stylishly presented.