Consider, for instance, a passage from the title essay, which first appeared in Esquire in 1966 and which some insist is the best piece of sportswriting in history.
Broken wrist, concussion, sore bollocks.' Yet when questioned on the details of the day, the court martial was told by the witness who had allegedly written the diary: 'Like I said, I cannot remember.' In another instance, a passage records how one of the unit was punched by an Iraqi.
Take, for instance, the passage quoted approvingly by Lewens: "population thinking, not natural selection, is the key to conceptualizing culture in terms of material causes" (Boyd and Richerson 2000, p.421; emphasis added).
For instance, the passage "And who guard their private parts, except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not to blame, but whoever seeks to go beyond that, these are they that exceed the limits" (23:5-6-7) was used to argue that masturbation is prohibited by the Qur'an as well as to argue that it is not explicitly mentioned and thus not prohibited.
There are worse things to plow into, and they are here too — for instance, erotic passages almost Victorian in their prim tone: "Eva sat down next to him and ran her fingers over his sex".
For instance, "Time Passages" was written around an electric piano riff.
For instance, multiple passages of the cell lines IMR90 (human fetal lung fibroblast) and H1 (human embryonic stem cells) showed high concordance [ 17].
His poems are also prefaced in many instances by passages in Chinese stating the circumstances of the poems or citing Buddhist parallels.
In some instances, forged passages – designed to prove Mary's part in Darnley's murder – had been interpolated into genuine letters in Mary's handwriting.
(The movement from the general idea to the specific instance in this passage is characteristic of Carson's writing and a source of much of its power).
