The Housewife could have been a dull litany: that it's not owes something to its metrical variation, its rhetorical anger, and, not least, the use of the dash as punctuation.
We thought of the dash as punctuation for moving forward, or what comes next.
He has written his books without a ghostwriter, he said proudly in a recent interview in his estatelike home in Smithtown, N.Y., although he admits to using dashes for punctuation.
Even then, she first became known only in cleaned-up versions: her homegrown punctuation (dashes mostly), odd spellings and funny way with apostrophes were thought too crazy for the gentle public.
Gene symbols should only contain ASCII characters (Latin alphabet, Arabic numerals) Punctuation (dashes, periods, slashes) should not be used unless they are part of a human or mouse gene symbol, e.g., if the human gene symbol is NKX3-1, then the Anolis gene symbol should be nkx3-1.
Dickinson went a little jiggy with it, admittedly, but in poetry and prose alike, the dash is a freewheelin' punctuation mark.
On the other hand, Siri understands formatting controls like "capital," "all caps" and "no space," as well as all kinds of punctuation — "colon," "dash," "asterisk," "ellipsis" and so on.
Process can be embodied through thick punctuation – semicolons, dashes, commas.
Whoever edited the manuscript of "Why We Go to Cabarets" for publication did a skillful job, replacing its many breathless dashes with more accurate punctuation, indenting for paragraphs in several places, but otherwise mostly leaving the piece alone.
With her use of gestural dashes and crosses as punctuation, her increasingly attenuated line lengths (nearly all the envelope poems are from late in her career) and her stylized calligraphy, she absolutely did.
2. Removal of punctuation and dashes.
