This book is filled with sentences like these, from Trevor-Roper's time at Oxford: "During the fish course, a trout, thrown from a distance, disintegrated in midair, and struck Hugh a glancing blow.
Instead, the review was filled with sentences like the following: "Depicting slavery as a horror show, McQueen has made the most unpleasant American movie since William Friedkin's 1973 The Exorcist.
"The Male Brain" is filled with sentences like "Boys are programmed to move" and, about the older man drawn to the younger woman, "He was being biologically bewitched to bond with her".
The story is a long lament, a portrait of a mind hating itself, filled with sentences like this: "What terms might be used to describe such a solipsistic, self-consumed, bottomless emotional vacuum and sponge as she now appeared to herself to be?" The dark thoughts of "The Depressed Person" soon grow tedious and trying, but that's precisely Wallace's point.
And then the graffiti, in overlapping triplicate: in my station; in hers; and in what was in effect both, scrawled by my fellow passengers on the poster's tiles peoples' names that took no notice of what they were written on, crude addenda, thought bubbles filled with sentences that made the title of the play sound tame.
The next act, "Accident," is backed by jungle/drum'n'bass and filled with sentences that show up like flashes, such as "fabelado também tem iutubi" ("slum dwellers also got YouTube").
As Beard talks about Oswalt, he fills each sentence with superlatives.
A lot has already disappeared from this fictional world, and the writer concentrates on filling the sentence, using it to notate and reproduce the tiniest qualifications, hesitations, intermittences, affirmations and negations of being alive.
Probably those would be great sentences – soaring sentences, filled with inspirational rhetoric and time-tested quips hinting here and there that actually what I was talking about was life itself, and not hockey after all.
In a "thrilling grand finale," as he put it, he recited a sentence filled with 15 puns — a world record, he claimed — including "kick everyone's buns" and "wiener of the contest".
For example, in one study scientists asked people to fill out this sentence: "During the next week, I will partake in at least 20 minutes of vigorous exercise on [DAY] at [TIME OF DAY] at/in [PLACE]." Researchers found that people who filled out this sentence were 2x to 3x more likely to actually exercise compared to a control group who did not make plans for their future behavior.
