Sentence examples for need footnotes from inspiring English sources

You don't need footnotes to understand why it's so funny".

But I guess you don't need footnotes for a rant.

Today most new Yorkers would need footnotes to understand the opening number of "Guys and Dolls," with its arcane references to the "morning line," "the horse likes mud," "The Telegraph" and "five to nine".

Barack Obama attended both Harvard Law School and the Trinity United Church of Christ, and he knows that there are circles where most people know the Sermon on the Mount and others where most people need footnotes.

ES had difficulty writing about herself, often hiding behind third-person pronouns, and some of her anecdotes need footnotes; but as a sketch of a limited, intelligent world of couture this retains its magic.

For all that, it's nice to see that Hill has stayed parochial – references to Megabuses, Nick Knowles and barbecue beef Hula Hoops ensure that the film will need footnotes if it ever plays outside the UK.

This is the sort of menu that needs footnotes.

Stylistically, yes: in its clarity and in a learning so deeply digested it barely needs footnotes.

It is an important axiom of the Bush administration that Saddam has used weapons of mass destruction "against his own people"; but the concept of "own people" in Arabia needs footnoting, as the Hama massacre illustrates.

It's as if his editor said, "I need 100 footnotes by Saturday".

Their unquestioning acceptance of a hardboiled ethos was a vestige of a departed way of life, as much in need of footnotes as Quixotic chivalry or Victorian chastity.