Sentence examples for opening passage from inspiring English sources

Only a fragment of the three-day oration — its dramatic opening passage — survives.

After a slow, mysterious opening passage the score becomes a mercurial scherzando.

So Bouillier presents her in the book's wry opening passage: "I had a happy childhood.

In an eloquent personal opening passage he admits that the very words "industrial strategy" are controversial.

Invoking the opening passage of the US Constitution, she continued, "Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed.

The following is the opening passage of "This Child's Gonna Live," by Sarah E. Wright, first published in 1969.

In that opening passage alone, Mr. Rioult has set a tone of ebbing and waning movement pricked with small surprises.

Proceedings were kicked off by the Australian writer DBC Pierre who read the opening passage from Charles Dickens's Bleak House.

In "The Ballad of the Sad Café," heat is boredom, lifelessness — and, in the opening passage, lovelessness, sexlessness.

The opening passage of dresses in beige colors or black and white gave Saab credibility in day wear.

The theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes signaled this key quality in the opening passage of his famous attempt at a new "history of looking," Camera Lucida (1980).