Sentence examples for idiosyncratic punctuation from inspiring English sources
Her idiosyncratic punctuation sometimes feels like triage for the emergency conditions of her muse.
Austen's idiosyncratic punctuation, that system of exclamation marks and dashes, allows for a kind of dramatised thought process.
His determination to defy expectations shows up in everything from idiosyncratic punctuation to personal risk-taking to the near-random order in which the book's photographs appear.
A snob and proud of it, Mrs. Kenward composed numbingly undramatic accounts of parties, with long lists of names preceded by unfailingly complimentary adjectives and with their relative importance encoded for her privileged readership by idiosyncratic punctuation.
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but even Altenberg's notoriously idiosyncratic punctuation (" 'Do you recognize that stack of empty slivovitz bottles?!?' 'Indeed I do, they're mine — ' ") can seem to foreshadow our own free-for-all of exclamation marks and ellipses in e-mail.
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but even Altenberg's notoriously idiosyncratic punctuation (" 'Do you recognize that stack of empty slivovitz bottles?!?' 'Indeed I do, they're mine—' ") can seem to foreshadow our own free-for-all of exclamation marks and ellipses in e-mail.
Of course, idiosyncratic grammar and punctuation, of themselves, are hardly automatic signs of derangement.
True to Cummings' idiosyncratic taste in punctuation, it is called "it may not always be so; and i say".
In Old English manuscripts, punctuation is idiosyncratic; to denote word divisions, writers tried a variety of strategies: dots, spaces, "camel case" (that is, using capital letters rather than spaces ToMarkTheBeginningsOfNewWords).
People are idiosyncratic.
