Sentence examples for extraordinary sentences from inspiring English sources

These books would be baldly essayistic were it not for Saramago's extraordinary sentences, and the subtlety of their narration.

The cases described on Friday are a reminder of the activism that briefly flowered and the extraordinary sentences that were given to those labeled troublemakers.

On March 4 , 2012 in a speech at Northwestern University, Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed the issue with two extraordinary sentences justifying the administration's refusal to even consider the idea that judicial review of those kill orders might be necessary: "'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

Great stuff, right?' While Franzen has, since the 2001 publication of The Corrections, been hailed for his extraordinary sentences and ability to capture the American zeitgeist, as well as reviled for ostensible arrogance and sexism (more on those in a bit), his fiction had never struck me as overtly self-referential.

For all of Amis's testimonies about the transformative impact of Sept. 11 — which "will perhaps never be wholly assimilable," whatever that means — there is at least one way in which he has been thoroughly untouched by the atrocity: he is still busy with the glamorous pursuit of extraordinary sentences.

But Keegan was a "hang em high" judge, part of a tightly knit crew of upstate judges that dished out extraordinary sentences for drug offenders.

It is the most extraordinary sentence I have heard.

"TThis is an extraordinary sentence I am about to utter," says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in a voice charged with significance.

And finally she flares into full loquacious life; squiffy but skewering, hardly able to open her mouth without an extraordinary sentence rasping out of it.

Xenophon outlined his appeal in this rather extraordinary sentence: Because I think people are fed up with the cosy Coles-Woolies duopoly of the major parties; that they feel it is a case of Tweedledum and Tweedledee; that after seeing the so-called leaders' debate a couple of Sundays ago, it almost felt like the Seinfeld election – an election about not much at all.

Around the time of his fundraising dinner he wrote a column in the Spectator magazine, and it contained a rather extraordinary sentence: "Most of all we've shown people that the hedge fund industry is a force for good in the world".