Sentence examples for long footnotes from inspiring English sources

Thus, the geography of the book circles and doubles, with long footnotes to take the spread.

This history is complex enough for the book to warrant many long footnotes, enough to indicate organizational difficulties.

In the memoir, Isherwood writes in the third person, and then slips into first in commentary or the long footnotes that fuss over recollection.

(A digression follows — a long footnote on the history of Lake James, followed by commentary about the confusion of having an I.R.S. office whose mailing address and building address are in separate towns).

When you don't know these things, you question whether you were ever fluent as you thought.So now, when people ask me how well I speak a language, I try to tack on a long footnote.

This is, after all, a Yankee who "came of age in Britain," had never heard of a pimento cheese sandwich or a hush puppy, and who includes a long footnote to explain that for mountaineers "holler" is a geographic term.

With the perspective of hindsight, much of Galbraith reads like a long footnote to the great American claim that the true goal of a free society should be "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

And now the British and American "editors" of Amazon have generously supplied two lists of "100 Books to Read in a Lifetime" to provide, as it were, a long footnote to Shaw's witticism.

In that sense, one of the most stimulating and provocative passages in the entire book comes when the mathematicians Robert Kaplan and George Gheverghese Joseph go toe to toe in a long footnote, arguing whether the ancient Egyptians truly "understood" irrational numbers.

And in a long footnote, he expressed anger that the government "seems to have procrastinated in removing unduly onerous conditions of confinement" that he had asked be eased at the beginning of this year.

He used the example of the mosaic of the word "Imagine" in New York City's Central Park, donated in memory of John Lennon, and he quoted the lyrics to that Lennon song in a long footnote.