Sentence examples for lines stand from inspiring English sources

Some of the plot's contrivances are more apparent, and a few clunker lines stand out.

Stripped of its plush carpet of strings, the work's underlying architecture is revealed, and melodic lines stand out more clearly.

These lines stand out because, like a struck match, they throw sparks and cast some angular light.

It often seems as if the individual lines stand largely on their own, and the internal unity of the ghazals and their themes are difficult to determine.

Although the poem risks a cliché mood of bittersweet reflection (contemporary poetry's default mode), Ponsot's lines stand out for their craftsmanship.

A nifty passage finds Sydney sharing with Uta the secret of the Lunts' famous flair for overlapping dialogue: the key is to let the telling lines stand alone, and overlap only on unnecessary words and phrases.

Two lines stood out in Ronan Bennett's piece on the film Hunger (G2, October 22).

He stood just behind the front lines – stood, when most of us hugged the ground".

If two or three lines stood out for good description, put them all in because this will encourage the writer.

McCarthy, though, called the goal-line stand a great adversity play for his defense.

Stranger things have happened, and the strength of Vivendi's goal line stand certainly surprised top dealmakers at both Comcast and GE.