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The semicolon separates two sentences, as does a period, but it signals a closer relationship between the two thoughts than a period would, more like the pause of a comma.
Just as the experience of reading changes your perception of your immediate environment – when you look up from the page there's a small adjustment to be made – so does a period of writing.
Does a period of cool, festering hatred that lasted for decades sound like a good basis for your love life?
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K.P.: I've been dying to do a period piece!
"With hindsight, it would've been dull had we just done a period drama," she says.
So shouldn't every civil servant have to do a period of community service?
"And to do a period piece and a play that I loved.
I'd really love to do a period drama, I really would.
It said only that he had undergone, as Catholic converts usually do, a period of "spiritual preparation".
The beauty of doing a period piece is it gives us a period through the vision of a director and through the characterisation of actors.
"I didn't want to do a period piece," she says, explaining why she hooked up with Sitek rather than a more conventional producer.
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