Mr Chaudhuri's quest for precision, expressed in endless sentences, linking clause upon qualifying clause, may be admirable.
Like Henry James's or Marcel Proust's, his sinuous, flattering, seemingly endless sentences presume -- even insist -- that we are as subtle and intelligent as the author.
With its pompous paradoxes and its plagues of adverbs, its endless sentences and its strained rebellious poses, much of this promotional writing serves mainly, it seems, as ammunition for those who still insist contemporary art is a fraud.
I suspect this paragraph started out as one endless sentence.
Énard describes Pound's "Cantos" as "magical," and it seems significant that in a canto beginning with an invocation to "poor old Homer," Pound reflects on a voice "weaving an endless sentence," because in "Zone" — aside from three excerpts from an imagined Palestinian fiction — Énard takes up the challenge of writing an endless sentence by including only one period in his long novel.
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity — not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle's diameter into its circumference.
And so, to really understand the two veils, and to really gain strong foundation in penetrating both of them, we also need to understand that our incarnation is like a lacuna, or the space between parentheses in an endless sentence.
12 - To obtain a reprieve from an endless sentence of imbedded patterns, it is imperative that we assume total responsibility for our errors, have real regret, ask for forgiveness from others, forgive ourselves, give thanks nonstop for our many blessings and place our lives in alignment with Love.
He is a considerable stylist, with a quick and imaginative eye (huge Hackney street trees have "hawser roots") and endless wiry sentences.
Saramago, playfully stretching his chatty late style, pokes holes in the stated logic of the Biblical God throughout the novel, and the author's anger and despair at the deity's cruelty cuts through his endless uninflected sentences.
Emma's realisation that she is a character, not a person, is pitiful – an endless life sentence – and her prospects become ever more imperilled.
