The format also included a simulated prescription pad, free text sections to note the diagnosis and management.
Marginally relevant filler — like a chart of Google's top queries from 2001 to 2005, a list of Howard Hughes's lovers, and a rundown of reality TV shows and their earlier televised sources — pads the text, seemingly to generate book-length proportions.
He pads his text with truisms, prosily stated: "Writing a good song is devilishly hard, but even doing so doesn't guarantee success, because the right person has to be found to sing the song".
"In spite of these clear directives," Mr. Fjelde said, "Ibsen translation, even down to the present day, has too frequently suffered from a stiff and hobbled diction -- or, certainly no better, a cavalier freedom that has cut or padded the text".
The way Posner shamelessly jams in his old book reviews to pad out his text -- he has an extraneous chapter on the depiction of technology in the works of Orwell and Huxley -- will leave journalist hacks like me gaping and applauding.
Sixteen male participants used both a wearable mouse and touch pad to enter text.
Every time they stock the shelves with a new color Moleskine or a spiral-bound pad with inspirational/witty text, one falls into my cart.
Keep it concise and don't stuff your sentence with unnecessary, superfluous, gratuitous content that smothers your prose, muddies your intentions, confuses the reader, clogs up the page with excess text, pads out the work with inelegant drivels, irritates the eye, examines giraffes, and renders your point unclear.
It sounds dry, but the theme is evidently irresistible to British readers: brainy men with debs for secretaries have to solve a giant mystery (German cyphers) at a country-house weekend lasting several years.Crime thrillers and cookery books, romances and self-help texts pad out, as normal, the rest of the lists.
Furthermore, we choose l to be defined by the longest document in our data (182 for experiments on embedding, 374 for experiments with padding), since our text is short.
