Metaphors slide out of clipped fragments, torque themselves from sentences pell-mell and complex.
Single words separated from sentences are being described as nouns and verbs.
With two new members among the 11 justices, acquittal on those charges is possible, shaving several years from sentences.
But then I focus on words that can be carved from sentences and how paragraphs and chapters can move with hints rather than divulgences.
The singsong cadence of this book is artfully achieved, from sentences that begin "For whatever reason...". to an ominous counting refrain.
Shards of jargon – a detective is a "D", a victim a "vic" and random killings "randos" – glint from sentences with a Chandleresque quality of poetic-depressive.
Actually, though, the lure of a Bennett play doesn't lie in historical themes; it comes from sentences, riffs and free-standing blasts.
Such words remind us that Fitzgerald drew his faith not from camera angles or even plotlines but from sentences; and what draws us powerfully to his work is the sensitive handling of emotional yearning and regret.
Figures released by the MoJ show around 86,000 further crimes were committed by offenders released from sentences of less than a year in 2012, including more than 600 violent offences, just one month after release.
This love story cannot be told naturally, only unnaturally, with much interruption and self-consciousness: "Exactly a year before the political demonstration I told you about, on a spring day — and in old Iranian love stories there is a beautiful spring day with the song of nightingales and other pleasant-sounding birds resonating from sentences — Sara appears at the public library".
The characters live in the author's understanding approach to them, more than in his description of their physical realities or idiosyncratic traits; but by constructing (or reconstructing) dialogue from sentences used in their letters, he gives authentic voice to their different temperaments and a convincing quality to their repartee.
