Sentence examples for footnotes one from inspiring English sources

The work was often accompanied by harrowing footnotes – one, for instance, revealing that Yasusada's granddaughter had died of radiation poisoning.

Gannibal was kidnapped as a child and taken to Constantinople, where, in one of those confounding literary footnotes, one of Tolstoy's ancestors "rescued" him (this is Pushkin's own word – vïruchiv – in a 1824 note) and presented him to Peter the Great.

Schumann's story is told as a semi-formal biography, filled with footnotes (one of which manages to tie together Franz Liszt, Artur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Billie Holiday), nicely constructed pseudo-academic digressions and some provocative asides about art and creativity.

Two footnotes — one melancholy, one consoling.

"What's the big deal about the footnotes?" one novelist friend groused to me.

The novel contains only two footnotes: one points readers to a glossary of "unusual Negro words and phrases"; the other explains that the word "nigger" is "freely used by Negroes among themselves," but that "its employment by a white person is always fiercely resented".

A footnote: One of the things that people got to vote on on Tuesday was a proposal to align city elections with state ones; in other words, to move away from the off-year cycle.

"Long live the United States," he said, before adding the important footnote, one every marine knows.

A footnote: One of Mr. Jeffords' colleagues, Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, also has returned some money -- his $600 rebate that resulted from President Bush's tax cut.

They appear in a tantalizing footnote, one of the many that help turn this book into such a robust succotash of history, law and popular culture.

"We're putting out information that's documented and footnoted," one Bush aide said last week, "and Clinton's out there throwing spitballs at us with nothing to back it up.