Sentence examples for paragraph like from inspiring English sources

But an old girlfriend, Joyce Johnson, recently told the Observer he'd actually spent years revising the work, carefully crafting each paragraph "like a poem".

Such a remark can take its place for me in a paragraph like a board nailed to a stud.

You are now reading this, though after a paragraph like the above you may be fewer in number.

The greater part of it, however, will go to defend an idea, which, among other things, makes a paragraph like this possible.

But perhaps we want to be guided rather than shoved, and the novel's final paragraph — like the passage above — creates such a swell of nostalgia and strong-feeling that it might be called sentimental, to use Franklin's word.

(Or maybe they just want to distance themselves from a Nightingale graduate who can write a paragraph like this: "There was a box of orange Tic Tacs in her pocket with only one Tic Tac left. Serena fished the Tic Tac out and put it on her tongue, but she was so worried about her future, she could barely taste it").

If a little blossom of Melvillean prose pops out in the middle of one of my paragraphs, I like to stand back and admire it.

Anderson is very good at paragraphs like this — with its reassuring arc from "bloodbath" to "salvation".

Katarina Dalayman sang Marie in grand lyrical paragraphs, like a creature of Wozzeck's better dreams.

In "Légendes de Catherine M.," he writes concise paragraphs like: "A photo is in the present.

Occasionally there are whole shrug-or-shriek paragraphs, like: "And then".