Sentence examples for dramatic sentencing from inspiring English sources

Bernard Madoff got sent away for 150 years for his massive $65 billion swindle in a dramatic sentencing hearing in New York federal court Monday morning.

"We've seen very dramatic sentence inflation," said Mr Lamb.

(Jill Lepore, its author, is addicted to short, dramatic sentences and occasional contradictions).

It has also moved beyond the geographic borders of Judaism, as the dramatic sentence of the closing chapter announces: "And thus we came to Rome" (Acts 28 14).

They ordered an advertising agency to create a blaring message to replace the ABC signal, the dramatic sentence "Disney has taken ABC away from you".

Edmund White Much of the most successfully daring postwar fiction has been by writers committed to the long dramatic sentence (Bohumil Hrabal, Thomas Bernhard, WG Sebald, José Saramago).

An extra dramatic sentence you could say is, "I'm crying in real life".

Long, dramatic Manchesterian sentences were jettisoned.

And in the dramatic final sentence of the first volume, "et les maisons, les routes, les avenues, sont fugitives, hélas!

And in fact both computer and human quickly produce quite similar work: Both Steinberg and Wordsmith deliver dramatic first sentences.

Nico Muhly performs his Twitchy Organs at the Union Chapel, London on 20 February, (details here); the world premiere of his dramatic monologue Sentences is the Barbican, London, on 6 June.