Once, over the course of several paragraphs, Vidal appeared to be labouring under the impression "that Hilton Kramer was a hotel in the Catskills".
In the course of seven paragraphs, he accused the Times of an ad-hominem vendetta, assailed Bruni's credentials — "Mr. Bruni comes to us from Rome where he was not the local 'expert' on Italian cuisine; he wrote about politics" — and announced the launch of a personal blog, which would include a feature entitled "Following Frank".
That letter is the story of your life, all the stuff of which you are made, so that reading it again, a year later, you are amazed to see how carefully your character has been described in the course of those paragraphs.
Wallace's writing, particularly in the journalistic essays from which most of the show is drawn, has a supercharged intensity that can ricochet from high to low in the course of a paragraph.
The subject of the images is time, in exactly the same way that a writer can describe a single moment of feeling, an instant of vision, or a flicker of memory through the course of sentences and paragraphs.
Over the course of a few paragraphs, he looked back on what he aptly described as "a pretty rough year," suggesting that 2016's closure might have marked the end of a long period of societal decline, rather than its beginning.
But in the course of Sifton's paragraph the terrorists vanish.
Bridget-the-parent is like a character in a Russian novel, lurching constantly from ecstasy to despair, sometimes in the course of a single paragraph.
Over the course of writing this paragraph I've become extremely persuaded that he deserves more sympathy than he has received thus far.
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