Sentence examples for essays before from inspiring English sources

Camby had read 150 essays before deciding on the final 20.

It was published in 1920, together with Ives's pamphlet Essays Before a Sonata.

The timing couldn't be more ideal for juniors, who are often encouraged to start thinking about their college application essays before senior year begins.

Percy, a scion of the Southern planter aristocracy, a nonpracticing pathologist, spent years churning out turgid existentialist essays before finding his voice (or his version of Camus's voice) with his novel "The Moviegoer".

Meanwhile, equally predictably, nowhere in the Philharmonic programs is any music by the composers whom Ives revered and to whom he felt himself most directly comparable: "César Franck, Brahms, d'Indy or even Elgar," as he listed them in "Essays Before a Sonata," a book that accompanied the piece that elicited Gilman's legend-making praise.

I sat in a hall with 150 other students to learn about enhanced study skills, which involved, among other things, reading and listening to recordings of notes and rote-learned essays before sleep and in the early morning, "when the mind was most receptive".

Why weren't these essays collected before?

There are exceptions, of course; Weinberger pointed to Guy Davenport among the writers who experimented with the essay before him.

The general has also been criticized for writing an op-ed essay before the 2004 election that a number of commentators said far overstated progress in Iraq.

But her special code was lost on some students, like Davvon, who scrawled a much blunter message across a classmate's essay before handing it back: "cant reaD".

"I had once thought there were no second acts in American lives," the writer remarked in an earlier essay, before exploring how life was always transforming.