If this last paragraph sounds about right, please stand up and identify yourself.
Actually, the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Big and Small (Gross und Klein), from the acclaimed original by Botho Strauss, is much better than the above paragraph sounds.
As ridiculous as the preceding paragraph sounds, believe me, it is no more so than the final version of a spending bill released late Monday, which would nix USDA school lunch standards proposed earlier in 2011 and let pizza count as a vegetable.
If that last paragraph sounds defeatist, note that the downbeat assessment hinges on three little words: "on its own".
Authors' response: Clearly it was the authors' fault that this paragraph sounded confusing.
But Barry's long, ebullient paragraphs sound natural in the classroom.
If you're nodding your head in agreement, and the opening paragraphs sound familiar, odds are you are sleeping with a narcissist!
Now, if no aspect of the previous two paragraphs sounded remotely interesting to you, there's a good chance that watching modern hoop ball is not among your hobbies.
They accuse the news media of wanting to retry last spring's Atlanta murder case, when all the poor working stiffs really want is one paragraph or sound bite that fits the headline: "Lewis feels bad about what happened".
