A pair of dashes are an alternative to commas or brackets for parenthesis when you want to draw the reader's attention to something surprising or unusual.
The block's innocuous location does not need underlining with dashes.
A man dashes in and pours the drink, his AK47 bumping against his thigh.
Surprisingly this message, which flashed over the airwaves in the dots and dashes of Morse code on January 31st 1997, was not a desperate transmission by a radio operator on a sinking ship.
This, drawn with 11 dashes, was the basis of the line the KMT claimed.
Already the new intake have had conference calls with these companies, ranging from the Brazilian soapmaker to a Chinese property firm, and gone off-campus to conduct product-development "dashes" like the one in Copley Mall.
The advantage of this approach was that Baudot codes could be teleprinted by machinery at the other end, rather than relying on a human operator to receive and transcribe messages in the dots and dashes of Morse code.
Except maybe one of Berlusconi's bunga-bunga parties".In this section The empire strikes back What a ride Edging closer A shot across the bow Stalemate Charming, disarming Closing down Joining the dashes ReprintsIndia and America have had often prickly relations since Mr Nehru's era.
South Koreans were mobilised to watch state-sponsored films on his life.In this section The empire strikes back What a ride Edging closer A shot across the bow Stalemate Charming, disarming Closing down Joining the dashes Reprints"Roaring Currents", a new blockbuster on the victory of 1597, has none of their stodgy didacticism.
But that can be hard the pop-up ad for one major car producer dashes off across the screen as soon as a mouse-pointer comes near it.Related items Power in your handApr 11th 2002 The lights flicker on Madison AvenueMar 27th 2002 The Oscars get NapsterisedMar 25th 2002A more subtle version is "pop-under" advertising.
Once the ticket collector is satisfied with attendance, he dashes to the control area, and replaces the music DVD that was playing with that of the film advertised on the small blackboard hanging at the entrance.
