The pauses between sentences, the silences separating short, packed paragraphs, were themselves a feature.
Two pages of easy-to-read and visually appealing text is preferable to one page of densely packed paragraphs with key information buried.
This particular email went on for more than a dozen densely packed paragraphs, referencing everything from psychiatry to the child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and never referring to the president as anything but a clown.
Haddon has a restless sense of the absurd and a genius for shorthand, for packing paragraphs full (take the ground-gobbling opening paragraph about the train journey to Wales).
It would take another whole article to debunk the racist assumptions packed into that paragraph.
The story hooks you with the first paragraph and is packed with memorable lines for Caps fans who've waited a lifetime for the celebration.
Microblogging works well in China because it can be done on mobile phones, which are widespread, and Chinese characters allow an entire paragraph to be packed into a short message.
In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London with single-paragraph excerpts from the author's works.
I would often spend ages rereading the same paragraphs, in awe of how anyone could construct sentences so densely packed with humour.
These are the two paragraphs to which she was objecting: "At first, the patrons of a packed Court Philippe Chatrier were not sure which of the two ladies in pink might win their affection on this blessedly sunny day.
But after a couple of paragraphs of ironic motivational talk, each chapter moves into a narrative mode: "you" are a poor village boy, first seen "huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold, dewy morning".
