Sentence examples for parenthetical from inspiring English sources

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parenthetical

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A word or phrase within parentheses

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Its redacted form leaves out several disclaimers, notably the parenthetical phrase "even though there is nothing fabulous [about] me .The early testimony contained few surprises.

Tall, thin and diffident around the edges, he speaks at twice normal speed, often inserting parenthetical commentary on his thoughts as he gallops ahead.

The Economist's parenthetical suggestion (December 6th) that the "problem in Bosnia" was the simultaneous pursuit of indictments and peace talks is its own view.The United States led the effort in the Security Council to create the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in early 1993, long before the conflict ended, and ensured that the Dayton accords required co-operation with the tribunal.

These three verbs share the root √wrt(t) (parenthetical letters reflect an optional change) and are differentiated by the pattern -i-, -o-, -i-en, which determines tense.

The motivation behind these suggestions is, as indicated in the parenthetical comments, to remedy some perceived problem in the standard picture.

These three verbs share the root wr-t(t)- (parenthetical letters reflect an optional feature) and are differentiated by the patterns -i-, -o-, -i-en, which indicate tense.

Then, two-thirds of the way through, the narrative sweeps ten years into the future, and, while the setting remains the same (that summer house on the coast), the familiar cast of characters, once again assembled, has aged by a decade, except for three of them: Mrs. Ramsay and two of her children, their deaths revealed in a series of casually jolting parenthetical asides.

A pyramid can never symbolize a parenthetical aside.

Humanists have for some time derided sociologists for their tendency to cement abstract words together with a thick mortar of dependent & parenthetical clauses, producing a bulwark of impenetrable porse.

I'd be looping forward and backward in my indirect, parenthetical, self-commenting style, getting tangled up in chains of qualifiers and contradictions, when Anne Hall would suddenly realize that she had blanked out on my last reversal of all that had preceded and she'd bite her lip and unfocus her eyes and shake her head as if to free it from the cobwebs.

In a recent column, he interrupted an attack on various forms of multiculturalism to add an astringent parenthetical, sure to offend a wide range of readers: "I'll just add here that commemorating 9/11 seems to me a stupid idea in itself.

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