Sentence examples for footnotes to explain from inspiring English sources

A writer can weigh opinions as he moves on, use footnotes to explain or to clarify, and give a balanced judgment in his conclusion.

Ms. Sneed's script, the season opener for Abingdon Theater Company, has its rough edges, including pop-psychology tropes and frequent verbal footnotes to explain the many historical and literary allusions.

When Polish dissident Stanislaw Jerzy Lec wrote, "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible," Lec didn't provide any footnotes to explain what he meant.

They are not necessarily those of its chapter headings: when Mr. Taleb titles a chapter "The Ludic Fallacy and Domain Dependence" he needs a footnote to explain what both terms mean.

This is, after all, a Yankee who "came of age in Britain," had never heard of a pimento cheese sandwich or a hush puppy, and who includes a long footnote to explain that for mountaineers "holler" is a geographic term.

In "Christmas Eve," Irving specifically mentions the curious practice of hanging mistletoe, so odd that it required a footnote to explain to his American readers: "The mistletoe is still hung up in farmhouses and kitchens at Christmas; and the young men have the privilege of kissing the girls under it, plucking each time a berry from the bush.

Despite official reluctance, "natural disaster" is no longer utilized in the HFA document, except in a footnote to explain why it should not be used.

Just as Elton John and his turgid Diana record sits as a stain on the list of biggest selling singles, so too the Christmas Number One of 2009 forever requires a footnote to explain the reasons behind it.

Although we decided not to include ELF MFs in our tables of occupational carcinogens (Siemiatycki et al. 2004), we could have done so with a footnote to explain that the evidence supporting that evaluation was based on children.

Some readers may be offended by the book's footnotes, there to explain the book's many too-British references.

The article — similarly detailed with 299 footnotes purporting to explain accusations of faked video footage or controlled demolition of the two buildings — had 400,000 page views last September, and is on pace to have more than a million views this year.