Though the book has a genteel tone and its chapter headings take the form of invitations ("Please Come to a Private Memorial Service for Jeffrey Finelli" says one), it makes a bare-knuckled assault on the kind of arriviste culture vulture who can invite visitors to tour her pricey, noxious collection by saying that "everything in this apartment is something".
However, there is something further which, across the variations in their specific lexico-grammatical design, these designs tend to have in common – that is, that they are variations of equivocal forms of invitation (in contrast to grammatically 'assertive' forms); that is there is an uncertainty, a tentativeness in asking, amounting to a kind of cautiousness.
Older people who received an invitational letter with a proposed date for the visits accepted the visits more often than those who received other forms of invitations.
Summarize the interview in the form of an invitation for your peers to visit the garden.
His first introduction to Columbia came in the form of an invitation to campus to speak about his experiences and human rights advocacy.
Honored with EJI's Equal Justice Champion award in 2009, Frazier received another honor recently in the form of an invitation.
They are written in the form of an invitation, which asks one to come and join "the dance of life".
The Grace of Whomever had handed me a lottery ticket in the form of an invitation to study at the legendary, preposterously intimidating Curtis Institute of Music.
In explaining "our" peccadilloes to my female friend, I was forced to face what I and other men dedicated to the cultivation of their online lives have become: we are shy people lashing out at perceived threats, be it mildly in the form of refusing invitations or virulently in the form of online retribution.
They stand, in other words, less as justifications for their authors' existential and political commitments than as themselves a form of politics: invitations to others to see things as the author sees them, so that the author's commitment to going on in a certain way will come to be shared.
